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“[State
controlled] education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in
his hands and at whom it is aimed.” – Joseph Stalin
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“Charity is no part of the
legislative duty of the government."
- James Madison
Two Kinds of
freedom? The Creative Class, and Kentucky Teachers By Theresa Fritz
Camoriano 1.
Two Kinds of Freedom? It bothers me when I am having a conversation with
someone and feel that we are not communicating effectively. I recently had that
experience when discussing freedom. I have finally concluded that the reason
for the communication problem was the other person had a definition of freedom
that was totally different from mine..
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TAX
POLICY: Small changes pay big dividends
From the
Bluegrass Institute
While Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney’s proposal to lower his state’s income tax
rate from 5.3 percent to 5 percent may not seem like a big change, it would have
an astounding impact on the state..
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Racism and the
Freedom to Associate By Gordon Francis
Corbett According to Nazi theory, Jews, Gypsies,
Slavs, and Orientals were "Untermenschen," or, in English, "sub-humans."
Because they were supposedly less than human, the Aryans could treat them in any
way that would further the Aryan race's National Socialism. .
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Tax
me out to the ball game
From the
Bluegrass Institute
For the first time in 33 years, professional baseball is coming to Washington
D.C.
We hope that every taxpayer in D.C. is looking forward to the games because
every one of them soon will be paying for them..
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KERRY’S PLAN. . .A NEW DIRECTION -
EXPLAINED!
By John William Kurowski, founder American
Constitutional Research Service The Senator from Massachusetts, John Kerry,
has informed the American people that health care ought to be a "right". Surely,
if health care ought to be a “right” as the Senator from Massachusetts believes,
as opposed to being that which each American has a constitutional right to
“pursue” individually, then it is the duty of folks in government to tax and
spend to provide that right to all Americans, and not discriminate in the
protection of that right. .
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Kerry's
flip-flop on global warming by Henry Lamb John Kerry is now severely criticizing
President Bush for withdrawing from the Kyoto Protocol. On July 25, 1997,
however, he joined 94 other senators who voted for
Senate Resolution 98, which says that the U.S. should not ratify the Kyoto
Protocol if: 1) it did not impose restrictions on developing countries, and 2)
it would "would result in serious harm to the economy. ..." .
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Magical Science?
By
Michael J. McFadden Paul Kiser of Seven County
Services, Inc. recently wrote the City Council urging a total,
government-mandated smoking ban. As part of his argument he quoted the
statement below:.
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EVANGELICALS AND THE ELECTION OF 2004 By Rod D. Martin, 13 October 2004 The moon is full, reflecting tonight off the
forest of skyscrapers which is Manhattan. The second act of a quadrennial dance
-- the Republican National Convention -- plays out across the street in Madison
Square Garden. And as the lights blare, the horns
sound, the throngs pulsate in the night, I am struck by the immediacy, as well
as the eternity of it all..
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Answering Bob Schieffer's Big Debate Question
by Dr. Warren
Throckmorton* of Grove
City College Bob Schieffer was
not the first person to ask the contentious question concerning the origins of
homosexual feelings. Such questions are frequently asked by pollsters,
researchers and people at the water cooler. The thorny issue arising in a
presidential debate, however, was surprising. And it was enlightening to learn
how the two candidates think about one of today's most lively social issues,
even if they could have given a better answer..
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WHAT WE WOULD HAVE LIKED TO HAVE HEARD (from Chuck Muth’s news and views) Talk show host Neal Boortz tells us how he would
have answered that debate question on what he’d say to a worker who lost his or
her job to a worker overseas....
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More Than Words
by Lady Liberty Recently, I took a brief vacation to Washington, DC. I've been to the capital before, but
I try to make a point of seeing different things every time I'm there—there's
so much to see, and never enough time to visit more than a fraction of the many
sites and attractions. I admit that I did duplicate a couple of stops from
previous visits this time around. But despite that, I saw something different
anyway. Actually, it might be better put to say I saw something differently. Let
me explain..
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No,
Seriously, Watch “Wife Swap”
By Jonathan
David Morris
Last Wednesday, my wife and I
watched ABC’s new reality series, “Wife Swap.” I suppose there’s some irony in
this. But anyway, I’m sort of agnostic when it comes to reality television. I’m
not a true believer; for me, a new season of “The Bachelorette” isn’t like
falling in love all over again. But I’m not a reality TV atheist, either. I
don’t believe it’s the death knell of Western civilization. Nor do I find the
need to call it “so-called reality TV.” I understand it only rarely reflects
reality, but I’m over it. I’m willing to watch a new show before condemning it.
I’ll give it a shot. It’s just that I won’t give it the benefit of the doubt. .
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Silence Dogood, No. 10
(Ben Franklin proposes insurance for widows)
"A lot of Reagan
conservatives are threatening to cut off their noses to spite their
faces. They think that because President Bush hasn't done every single
thing they want, or has done some things they didn't want, they should
punish him by staying home on Election Day or voting for some third party
candidate who hasn't got a chance to win in November. It should be
obvious to them that they will therefore help elect the Kerry-Edwards team
that will do nothing they want and everything they don't. Somehow this
idiocy seems to make sense to them -- dump a conservative president for a
pair of socialists who, given four years in the White House, will wreck
this country's economy and in the process probably lose the War on
Terrorism, as well. What bothers me is the insistence of these dissident
conservatives that they are devoted to the legacy of Ronald Reagan, who
understood the truth of the old adage, 'Politics is the art of the
possible.' In other words, you get what you can and wait for a chance to
get the rest.
These people think that if
they don't get everything they want they are willing to accept nothing,
but that's not what my father stood for. My father would say, 'If I can
get 80 percent, or 60 percent, or 50 percent of what I'm looking for, I'll
take that and I'll go back later on for the rest of it'."
--Michael Reagan
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“I’m a liberal and proud of
it.”
- Sen. John Kerry, St. Louis
Post-Dispatch, 7/21/91
"I think we have more
machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on
the labor of the industrious." --Thomas Jefferson
"There is no maxim in my
opinion which is more liable to be misapplied, and which therefore needs
elucidation than the current one that the interest of the majority is the
political standard of right and wrong.... In fact it is only
reestablishing under another name and a more specious form, force as the
measure of right...." --James Madison
"The Columbus Day Parade was
held [Monday] in New York. [Columbus]
was the world's first Democrat. He left not knowing where he was going,
arrived not knowing where he was, went home not knowing where he had been,
and he did it all on government money." --Argus Hamilton
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