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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

“The function of the state is to make sure that all men are free to use the powers which nature has given them and which they have improved. The methods perfected by free societies to fulfill this function are the principles of private property and freedom of contract -- the basic and most important working principles of any free society.”-- Sylvester Petro

The Election, Historic Preservation, and School Choice      By Theresa Fritz Camoriano          The Election – The 10,000 lawyers who are not needed to fight over the election now have a golden opportunity.  Apparently, there are lots of people who live together in non-traditional arrangements, other than as husband and wife, who are concerned about being able to pass on their property on to loved ones, visit loved ones in the hospital, and so forth.  The 10,000 lawyers, who now have some time on their hands, should go home and put together a “next of kin” package, including wills, powers of attorney, and so forth, that can be used by people in non-traditional living arrangements to solve this problem.                  (click to read more)

Sold out: Lawmakers abandon taxpayers         By: Jim Paxton          Of many recent affronts to taxpayers by Kentucky 's lawmakers, the travesty that has recently played out in Frankfort is surely the pinnacle.

During a special session in October, the legislature poured roughly $200 million in additional taxpayer dollars – about $160 million more than the amount originally proposed by Gov. Ernie Fletcher – into a health insurance sop for state employees. This brings the one-year cost of the employee health insurance program to $700 million.                (click to read more)

Economist Richard Vedder Tells Kentucky How To Improve Its Economy           By Theresa Fritz Camoriano            On election day, Richard Vedder, an economics professor at Ohio University, spoke in Louisville about Kentucky can improve its economy.  Vedder noted that Kentucky is a poor state, having a per capita income 16% below the national average and below all its neighbors except West Virginia.  In 1970, Kentucky was ahead of Tennessee, but, by 1990 Kentucky was $1255 below Tennessee in per capita income.  By 2003, it was $2213  behind Tennessee.                  (click to read more)

Terry’s Tidbits – On Buying A Car, Recipe For Tyranny, and Creating Criminals         By Terry Gray

The Mystery of Minstrel’s Haven           By Andrea Camoriano         Chapter 2          The dragons had been introduced to Minstrel’s Haven somewhat by accident about ten, maybe fifteen years before.  No one quite knew how they’d gotten there anymore; all anyone could remember was something about a Singing One with a specialty of animation of the inanimate (which for the purposes of the Singing Ones, included dreams and words, printed or verbal) and a fascination for legends the world over.  Apparently, he’d read a few too many dragon legends and inadvertently brought some dragons to life, and it had been decided that the safest place for them was Minstrel’s Haven, which had been given that particular name precisely because it was a refuge for Singing Ones, who were also called Minstrels.  The idea was that since it was a haven, the dragons should be welcome there as well, especially given the high number of Minstrels who, it was discovered, were also fascinated by dragons.             (click to read more)

“Give no bounties, make equal laws, secure life and property, and you will not need to give alms. Open the doors of opportunity to talent and virtue, and they will do themselves justice and property will not be in bad hands. In a free and just commonwealth, property rushes from the idle and imbecile to the industrious, brave, and persevering. The level of the sea is not more surely kept than is the equilibrium of value in society by demand and supply: and artifice and legislation punish themselves by reactions, gluts, and bankruptcies.”

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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