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The best kept secret these days is where Congress expects to get all of the money it appropriates to pay for things it says the people themselves could not afford to pay for. --J. Kesner Kahn
 

“There’s always free cheese in a mouse trap.”

-- Anonymous

Proposed Teacher’s Strike Offers Many Opportunities           By Theresa Fritz Camoriano           The cost of health insurance has gone up for Kentucky state workers, just as it has for everyone else.  Kentucky’s Governor Fletcher has made a great effort to limit the amount of the increase that will be passed on to the state workers, but still some part of the increase will be passed on as a deduction from their paychecks.  The teachers are very upset and are threatening to go on strike.             (click to read more)

Closing the Racial Gap in Learning         Despite historic spending levels and a multitude of educational experiments, Kentucky has failed to narrow its achievement gap. While lawmakers have approved substantial funding increases nearly every year since the Kentucky Education Reform Act (KERA) became law in 1990, the chasm between the academic performances of black and white children actually widened between 1990 and 2000.           (click to read more)

A Libertarian stance on gay marriage        By George Baumler           Some like to criticize Libertarians for their stance on gay marriage, saying that Libertarians are “pro-homosexual”.  Libertarians are not pro or anti homosexual; Libertarians are pro freedom.  Libertarians are content to let the Supreme Being hold court as to the grievous wrongs committed by sinners against him; an omnipotent being doesn’t require assistance from the civil authorities to right any transgressions against him.  Indeed, the notion smacks of idolatry.  Homosexual marriage is not an assault on marriage, as we know it today, nor is it an assault on the fabric of society.            (click to read more)

OVER SPENDING: TAxpayerBillOfRights: How to spell relief for Kentucky taxpayers    Bluegrass Institute for Public Policy Solutions    

Twenty-five states have some form of tax and expenditure limitation (TEL). Yet some are better than others.

The most productive TEL is Colorado’s Taxpayers’ Bill of Rights (TABOR), which returned $3.25 billion to taxpayers between 1997 and 2001. This measure specifically limits growth in spending to the sum of population growth and inflation and requires surplus tax funds to be returned to taxpayers.           (click to read more)

Christian Education Resolution: An interview with Bruce Shortt (*)   from _Home School Heartbeat_ Radio Program,  Vol. 55, Prg. 1-5 September 13-17, 2004              A resolution (see url link below) submitted at the Southern Baptist Convention's 2004 annual meeting called on all Southern Baptists to remove their children from the public schools. Although the Christian Education Resolution was not adopted by the convention, cosponsor Bruce Shortt still considers it imperative that Christian parents either send their children to Christian private schools or homeschool them. This week, he joins host Mike Smith to explain why.           (click to read more)

TAX POLICY: Could higher taxes in Tennessee be a windfall for Kentucky?     Bluegrass Institute for Public Policy Solutions     

The drumbeat for higher taxes continues in Tennessee, the state with which Kentucky shares the largest state border.

A group charged with studying taxation options favors invoking a new state income tax in Tennessee, one of nine states that do not collect taxes on wages.           (click to read more)

Pollyanna Politics        by Lady Liberty          I'm not a signed member of any official political party. I do, however happen to be acquainted with a number of local Republicans, and so it was that I received an invitation to an event celebrating the Party's nomination of George W. Bush as its official presidential candidate. Not one to turn down the chance to chat with politicians and candidates in a casual setting, I accepted the invite. That evening, I stood in the background with a cookie—and a large grain of salt. I listened to the speeches and saw the room respond with cheers and applause, much the same way the audience in Madison Square Garden was behaving during its own program. And that night I saw it more clearly then than ever before: this was Pollyanna politics in action.           (click to read more)

TERRY’S TIDBITS – Smoke and Porn        By Terry Gray

What's in a Name? A Whole Lot of Money     By Jonathan David Morris           It’s been so long since I’ve been to a Philadelphia Phillies game that the best I can do is tell you it was probably 15 years ago. I’m not sure who played for them back then; the only thing I remember is coming home with a souvenir batting glove. They were never my team, the Phillies. I was always a Yankee fan. When you grow up in North Jersey, being a Yankee fan is basically a birthright. Literally. My brother and I got baseball jackets from our grandparents when we were kids. I got the Yanks because I was older; he got the Mets. If I hadn’t been born four years before him, I’d be a Keith Hernandez fan.            (click to read more)

Libertarian candidate will appear on 49 ballots          Montgomery, AL - With the verification of petition signatures complete in Alabama, the Libertarian Party has once again put its presidential candidate -- Michael Badnarik, 50, of Austin, TX -- on the ballot in more states than any other "third" party: 48 of them, plus the District of Columbia.           (click to read more)

Silence Dogood, No. 5      (Ben Franklin commentary on the battle of the sexes)   Mulier Mulieri magis congruet. Ter.

To the author of the New England Courant.

“To be fair, the president demands an end to all so-called 527 groups, not just those critical of him. Mr. Kerry, by contrast, has focused objections on Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, alleging the group illegally coordinates with the Bush campaign. . . . Under Mr. Bush's approach...527s simply would disappear - a welcome development for Republicans, who have not been nearly as successful as Democrats at collecting money that way. So let's give the president his due: He is a more consistent opponent of free speech.”

- Columnist Jacob Sullum

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