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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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“If you've been MISINFORMED, shame on the source. If you've been
UNINFORMED, shame on you. Think hard about it, then vote right.”--Robert Tanselle, DeBary, Florida
Thank Goodness for the Internet! By Theresa Fritz Camoriano In the past couple of
weeks, we have seen a small miracle. The news media have tried twice to drop a
bombshell that would throw the election to their candidate, and both times they
were thwarted by bloggers on the Internet. First, Dan Rather and his crew used
forged documents to try to smear President Bush’s military record, but pressure
from bloggers caused them to admit the documents were phony. Next, Dan and
his crew planned to present a major news story on the Sunday night just
before the election, saying that the U.S. military had lost over 300 tons
of munitions in Iraq due to President Bush’s incompetence, leaving no time
for the President to respond.
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THAT'S OUTSTANDING: Brave leaders challenge the status quo
Finally, some public education officials seem to be “getting it.”
Clifford Janey, the new superintendent of the abysmal Washington, D.C. school
system, is considering several options for renewing public education in his
district. Janey’s plans include closing schools with declining enrollments and
sharing the buildings with space-strapped charter schools.
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Laziness is Not Disenfranchisement.
By Justin Darr
One of the most disturbing attributes of American
Liberalism is its penchant for “victimizing” those who act
irresponsibly. While the right to do whatever you want, whenever
you want, to whomever you want, in whatever way you want is held
sacrosanct, liberals feel that there should be no accountability placed
on those who exercise their rights recklessly.
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Our Veterans Are Calling
By Gordon Francis Corbett Our veterans are calling.
On December twenty-fourth, 1776, George
Washington was on his last legs. His army was on its last legs. His men's
enlistments were expiring. Nevertheless, some remained.
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Here and Now by Lady Liberty There's nothing like death to bring home the
truth behind some old sayings. A few days ago, I attended a memorial
service for the daughter of an acquaintance of mine. She was just 27,
dead as the result of a car crash. Her parents buried her on what would have
been her 28th birthday.
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Benedict Arnold?
By Dr. Tracy Miller* of
Grove City College In a speech during the
primaries, John Kerry called companies that outsource “Benedict Arnold”
companies. If Benedict Arnold would have had his way, he would have denied
Americans what they, and all of mankind throughout history, have
sought—freedom—the unalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of
happiness. Senator Kerry’s proposal to tax companies that seek to use capital in
the most productive way, thereby raising the American standard of living, would
deny freedoms to all Americans, including American laborers.
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The Importance of Choice By Gordon Francis Corbett
You can only obtain what you want at the polls if you vote for it.
If you vote for someone you dislike, you abandon
your goal and disavow the fellow who promises to get it.
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Cruel and Unusual by Lady Liberty
Americans on both sides of the death penalty issue are looking forward
to an upcoming Supreme Court hearing on whether or not the ultimate
punishment is appropriate for those who committed their crimes before
they were 18 years old.
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Vote once a week
for Kentucky brand Kentucky is deciding on a
brand to market the state in order to attract business and tourism. You have a
voice in selecting which of the four brands will be used and can vote once a
week, with the brand that receives the fewest votes being removed each week.
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TERRY’S TIDBITS By Terry Gray
“The future ain't what it used to be." Yogi Berra
Ralph Long – A Dangerous Man
by Jeff
“Mario” Smith, Guerilla Reporter
Anyone who
attended the debate at Southern Middle School last night saw two every different
men competing for the 45th district seat in the KY House of
Representatives. Anyone who was paying attention also saw a very dangerous man.
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The
Curse of the Curse of the Bambino
By
Jonathan David Morris
It’s often said that baseball
is a metaphor for life. I’m not sure if this has ever been broken down
scientifically. I guess I’ve just always assumed that the base path is supposed
to represent life’s journey, with first, second, and third base representing
youth, middle age, and retirement, respectively.
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The Mystery of Minstrel’s Haven
By Andrea Camoriano
Andwan smiled at
the four-year-old boy and his six-year-old brother as they and their parents
disembarked from the gondola on the Ferris wheel. “You guys enjoy the ride?”
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"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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“If
the citizens neglect their duty and place unprincipled men in office, the
government will soon be corrupted; laws will be made not for the public
good so much as for the selfish or local purposes.”
--Daniel Webster
"History
does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or timid."
--President Dwight Eisenhower
"The great enemy of clear
language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's
declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and
exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink." --George Orwell
The Kerry campaign announced
today they will have "10,000 lawyers at the polls in battle ground
states."
10,000 lawyers. Well, let's
hope you don't slip and fall on the sidewalk outside a polling place. You
could be buried alive in business cards. – Jay Leno
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