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Confusing Conversion and Compulsion  Religious leaders need to consider carefully the call for government intervention….the task of evangelization is to be preferred to sending the censors down from Washington. http://www.acton.org/ppolicy/comment/article.php?id=197

What is the proper way to run a school? one of the most pernicious effects of State-controlled schooling is that we're reduced to such petty bickering over details. Squabbles such as this one blind us to the outrageous uniformity that the State imposes on all forms of official schooling. Even those of us who, in the abstract, favor a completely free market in education often lose sight of this, and consequently we should take a moment to seriously imagine the possibilities of an unregulated market, where innovative entrepreneurs are free to experiment with new curricula and teaching methods.  http://www.mises.org/fullstory.asp?control=1508

Up against fanaticism Let’s recap the Crusades. Muslims invaded Europe and when they reached sufficient numbers they imposed their intolerant religion upon Westerners by force. Christian monarchs drove them back and took the battle to their homeland. The fight lasted a couple of centuries, and we bottled them up for 1,000 years.  http://www.newsherald.com/viewpoint/phillucas/040404.shtml

Free Market Medicine – by Ron Paul   While many in Congress are happy to criticize HMOs today, the public never hears how the present system was imposed upon the American people by federal law….While many liberals talk endlessly about medical care for the poor, Dr. Berry actually helps uninsured people every day. His patients are largely low-income working people, who cannot afford health insurance but don’t necessarily qualify for state assistance. Some of his uninsured patients have been forced to visit hospital emergency rooms for non-emergency treatment because no doctor would see them. Others disliked the long waits and inferior treatment they endured at government clinics. For many of his patients, Dr. Berry’s clinic has been a godsend. http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul175.html

Rolling Back Government – Lessons From New Zealand  - When a reform government was elected in 1984, it identified three problems: too much spending, too much taxing and too much government. … Some of the things that government was doing simply didn’t belong in the government. So we sold off telecommunications, airlines, irrigation schemes, computing services, government printing offices, insurance companies, banks, securities, mortgages, railways, bus services, hotels, shipping lines, agricultural advisory services, etc. In the main, when we sold those things off, their productivity went up and the cost of their services went down, translating into major gains for the economy. … The government’s share of GDP dropped from 44 to 27 percent. … we did away with all sheep farming subsidies within one year… New Zealand had an education system that was failing as well… for every dollar we were spending on education, 70 cents was being swallowed up by administration.  http://www.hillsdale.edu/newimprimis/2004/april/default.htm

Competition vs. Coddling http://www.townhall.com/columnists/georgewill/gw20040509.shtml

Former military colleagues – Kerry unfit to be commander in chief "We have 19 of 23 officers who served with [Kerry]. We have every commanding officer he ever had in Vietnam. They all signed a letter that says he is unfit to be commander in chief," O'Neill said. http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2004/5/3/92240.shtml

Why is college so expensive? Title IV funds and other federal financial aid are seen by colleges and universities as money that is there for the taking. Tuition is set high enough to capture those funds and whatever else we think can be extracted from parents….The G.I. Bill, perhaps the last gasp of the New Deal, turned out to be also the first breath of the Big Steal. http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/wood200405060831.asp

The Cost of Medical Care – Thomas Sowell  Britain, which has had government-run medical care for more than half a century, has to import doctors from the Third World, where medical school standards are lower. … Making a government-run medical care system mandatory -- "universal" is the pretty word for mandatory -- means that we will all have no choice but to be caught up in that bureaucratic maze. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/ts20040504.shtml

Random Thoughts – Thomas Sowell Just as members of American teachers' unions often send their own children to private schools, so unionized workers at government-run hospitals in Britain have insurance that allows them to go to private hospitals. In both cases, those on the inside realize how bad these institutions are, regardless of what they say to those on the outside.  . During a phone conversation, I mentioned to my brother in Ohio that all the posters in my neighborhood during the Democratic Party primaries were for Dennis Kucinich. He burst out laughing and said that there were no Kucinich posters where he lived. Kucinich used to be mayor of Cleveland, where he was a disaster.  http://www.townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/ts20040505.shtml

Frequently asked questions about Education in America  - Generally, teachers earn more on an hourly basis than other educated professionals, including accountants, computer programmers, engineers, and architects.[20]http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=3637

Rich Liberals Please, rich liberals: stay away from public office. I'm not as rich as you. I can't afford having you in power!  http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=3656

Hage vs. U.S. report of ongoing trial in which rancher is suing U.S. for taking his property  http://www.stewards.us/

No-cost Decision Making – Thomas Sowell Both the commissioners and the neighbors are in a position to impose high costs on others at no cost to themselves. Self-indulgence is virtually inevitable under these condiitons. .. All this self-indulgence is taking place in northern California, where "affordable housing" is a political mantra -- and a practical impossibility, due precisely to blithely piling on costs to anything that the pols would deign to allow to be built. http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=3666

Keep the U.N. out of Iraq – Henry Lamb http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=38291

How to keep your head while President Bush is losing his http://capmag.com/article.asp?ID=3672

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