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	"Your Liberty is Our Interest"	November 22, 2004
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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

"It is hostile to a democratic system to involve the judiciary in the politics of the people."

--Felix Frankfurter

The Real Thanksgiving Story by Theresa Fritz Camoriano When I was a child, I learned in school about the pilgrims, about the Indians teaching them to plant corn, and about the Thanksgiving celebration. We made turkeys out of construction paper and dressed in the hats and collars of the pilgrims; we ate turkey, corn, and cranberry sauce, but we never learned the real Thanksgiving story. Only when I began home schooling my daughter and reading history from original sources did I learn the real lessons from the Plymouth colony. (click to read more)

When will conventional public schools be as accountable as charter schools? By: Brian Carpenter Spending on public education consumes the largest piece of Kentucky’s budget pie. Yet there is little accountability for how the schools that receive that money are performing. (click to read more)

TAX AND SPENDING REDUCTION: How politicians can raise revenues and get re-elected! Even with his stunning re-election, Americans remain concerned that President Bush is not aggressive enough in addressing Washington’s pork-barrel spending.

Bush has yet to veto a spending bill. But only by controlling spending will the deficit shrink and real tax reform – an issue raised by Bush as a major goal in his second term – be attainable. (click to read more)

"AFFORDABLE-HOUSING" LAWS MAKE HOUSING MORE EXPENSIVE (from The Lighthouse) Can housing be made more affordable by requiring developers to set aside a portion of their new homes for purchase at below-market rates? (click to read more)

Positively Negative by Lady Liberty In the presidential election just past, voter turnout hovered around 60%. That was, say those who should know, the highest voter turn-out America has seen since the 1968 presidential elections. Unfortunately, Libertarians still only garnered about the same number of votes as they did in the 2000 election. Libertarians were the only major party advocating a true adherence to the Constitution and Bill of Rights—and for the record, the other third parties didn't fare well this year, either. (click to read more)

Can Indianapolis afford an NFL franchise? by Kurt St. Angelo Libertarian Writers Bureau Since at least 1997 – only 14 years after the 63,000-seat Hoosier Dome was built for $82 million – Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay was publicly lobbying for a new stadium to host his team. (click to read more)

TERRY’S TIDBITS by Terry Gray
November 22, 2004
“Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.”
Henry Louis Mencken

GEORGIA LIBERTARIANS ON THE MOVE

Ohio Slips in Friendliness to Small Business - Tax Increases Key Factor Ohio has slipped in its friendliness to small business. According to the Small Business Survival Committee, Ohio now ranks 40 out of the 50 states plus the District of Columbia on a combination of issues ranging from taxes to government regulations. Last year, Ohio was ranked 39th in the country. (click to read more)

Christmas In November By Jonathan David Morris The first Sunday in November was unseasonably warm this year. Actually, let me retract that. This is the first year—and, thus, the first November—I’m living in southeastern Pennsylvania. For all I know, every Sunday in November is unseasonably warm around here. Honestly, it wouldn’t surprise me. I’ve seen weirder things in these parts—like drivers signaling right to go left. So let’s just say it was t-shirt weather the first Sunday in November and leave it at that. (click to read more)

“The fundamental point to be made about parents and students is not that they are politically weak, but that, even in a perfectly functioning democratic system, the public schools are not meant to be theirs to control and are literally not supposed to provide them with the kind of education they might want. The schools are agencies of society as a whole, and everyone has a right to participate in their governance. Parents and students have a right to participate too. But they have no right to win. In the end, they have to take what society gives them.”

-- John E. Chubb & Terry M. Moe, Politics, Markets and America’s Schools [1990]

“Arafat's wife was seen grieving in the West Bank. She was also in the Citibank, the Mellon Bank, the Wells Fargo Bank.” – Jay Leno

"Politicians have a field day misleading Americans who, as a result of having been dumbed down by our education system, can't think, reason or analyze." --Walter Williams

The great object is that every man be armed. . . . Everyone who is able may have a gun. . . . Are we at last brought to such a humiliating and debasing degradation that we cannot be trusted with arms for our own defense? -- Patrick Henry

"If indeed all those blue states all got together and seceded from the union, think what would be left for those red states -- nothing. There would be no educational system. You would have nothing. What would be left to you? I mean, where is all of this talent in this country? It's on both sides, the Northeast corridor." --Geraldine Ferraro (Editor’s note: I’d be willing to give it a try! Go, blue states, go!)

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