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	"Your Liberty is Our Interest"	December 13, 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

“If people are free to do as they wish, they are almost certain not to do as we wish. That is why Utopian planners end up as despots, whether at the national level or at the level of the local "redevelopment" agency.”

– Thomas Sowell

My Uncle John and “Fairness” By Theresa Fritz Camoriano This past Friday, my Uncle John Maruffi celebrated his 82^nd birthday. Congratulations, Unc! We recently visited Uncle John when we went up to Connecticut to give my mother a surprise 80^th birthday party, and I was pleased to see that he is still going strong. . (click to read more)

Vehicle Emissions Testing – Testimony in Washington, D.C. By Larry Brown On December 4, I had an opportunity to address the American Legislative Exchange Council in Washington D.C. regarding vehicle emission testing within the states. Over 16 different state legislators were present and Dr Adrian Moore of the Reason Institute also presented evidence on how the air will continue to improve without further action(s) by either Washington or Frankfort. In addition, I addressed the inefficiencies and unwise public policy decision that the U. S. Congress has taken claiming Ethanol is a viable alternative and renewable energy source for the U.S. . (click to read more)

“Everyone Has A Right To Breathe Clean Air” By Michael J. McFadden

Annysa Johnson's well-written and well-balanced 12/07 article on Franklin's rejection of a restaurant smoking ban quotes Franklin Health Officer Bill Wucherer as saying "Everyone has a right to breathe clean air."

In general that is true. However it is NOT true in the case of private property where the public may choose to go or not go. For example, every evening at Disney World's Magic Kingdom there is a stupendous fireworks display. Unfortunately, as a byproduct of that display the air throughout much of the central part of the park is absolutely filled with thick smoke from the fireworks.. (click to read more)

TERRY’S TIDBITS by Terry Gray

"Facts are the enemy of truth." - Don Quixote - "Man of La Mancha"

BUYER BEWARE

Caveat Emptor is an axiom or principle in commerce that says, “…the buyer alone is responsible for assessing the quality of a purchase before buying.” Getting ripped off is the buyer’s problem, and it happens all the time - - not just in Louisville Kentucky, as our media would have us believe, but all over the world.. (click to read more)

Embattled European Politician to Receive Acton Institute Award; After Politically Correct "Borking" Rocco Buttigilione Visits U.S. WASHINGTON, DC--Rocco Buttiglione, Italy's Minister for European Affairs and nominee to the European Commission, was vociferously rejected by the EU for his views on marriage and sexuality. Buttiglione is in the United States as a guest of the Michigan-based Acton Institute for the

Study of Religion and Liberty to receive the "Faith and Freedom" Award.. (click to read more)

Regulating Commerce – Raich v. Ashcroft

By John William Kurowski , American Constitutional Research Service

To those who support our constitutionally limited “Republican Form of Government“, Raich v. Ashcroft is not about “medical Marijuana” but rather, the case presents a chance to correct a despotic decision made by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1942 concerning Congress’ power to regulate commerce in which the Court gave a new meaning to the word “commerce” in order to allow part of FDR’s NEW DEAL socialism [price controls] to pass as being constitutional, when it was not. . (click to read more)

UKRAINE'S MONEY LOCK-DOWN By Eric M. Jackson, 7 December 2004

Americans may take their ability to load up on cash from an ATM and initiate wire transfers for granted, but this simple economic right is a crucial underpinning of their liberty. The unfettered flow of money is the bane of despots and corrupt governments the world over. When money is allowed to exchange hands unimpeded, it decentralizes decision-making and empowers a society's citizens by giving them a store of value and a medium of exchange that they can employ so as to live their lives as they choose. This weakens the state's central authority by affording individuals direct control over their own destinies.. (click to read more)

The Spies Inside My Computer, or: Why Can't This Be Love? By Jonathan David Morris

I like how you can’t look up song lyrics online anymore, because whenever you do you get 69 self-installing spyware programs that pop up ads, install search “companions,” and generally kill your PC’s speed. I came to this conclusion a couple of days ago, when I tried looking up the words to Van Halen’s “Why Can’t This Be Love?” It used to be that you could get away with something like this. When I first got online back in early ‘96 (a late bloomer, I think), I was all excited because I finally had the chance to figure out the words to Weezer’s “Undone (The Sweater Song),” which had bugged me for two years. It seems quaint, I know, but it starts with a conversation that’s kind of hard to hear. I just had to know what they were saying. And once I did, I was hooked. This Net thing really was an “information superhighway.” Suddenly learning and looking stuff up was cool. . (click to read more)

“Steven Williams is a fifth grade teacher at Stevens Creek. He has filed a lawsuit against Stevens Creek principal Patricia Vidmar and other school officials claiming discrimination. Williams claims that he has been forbidden to use the Declaration of Independence in his classroom instruction. And why? Because it contains references to God and to Christianity, that's why...

“Need I say that this is a government school we're dealing with here? Is this story going to be enough to convince some of you out there to at least give some thought to sending your child somewhere other than to the government for an education? You know in your hearts that government doesn't do anything real well, few things well and most things horribly. Why, then, do you continue to entrust the most precious things in your life to government? Maybe I just heard a few heads being pulled out of the sand.”

- Talk show host Neal Boortz, 11/29/04

“People who believe in judicial activism often cite "good" policies imposed by judges and "bad" policies created by elected officials. But you could just as easily cite the reverse. It was the Supreme Court which enhanced the rights of slaveowners in the Dred Scott case and it was elected officials -- the President and Congress -- who abolished slavery.” – Thomas Sowell

“Freedom is important in order that all the different individuals can make full use of the particular circumstances of which only they know. We therefore never know what beneficial actions we prevent if we restrict their freedom to serve their fellows in whatever manner they wish. All acts of interference, however, amount to such restrictions.” -- Friedrich A. Hayek

"The propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right, which Heaven itself has ordained." --George Washington

“An Iraqi businessman was negotiating several months ago to sell a prime piece of commercial real estate in central Baghdad. He had tentatively agreed on a price with a Kuwaiti investor, who planned someday to build an electronics superstore on the 9,850-square-foot property. But after President Bush was reelected in November, the Iraqi jacked up the price 25 percent. The prospect that a reelected Bush administration would stay and fight -- and ultimately stabilize Iraq -- had instantly made his property more valuable.” --- Washington Post columnist David Ignatius

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