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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 inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiment on journalists and politicians.”

-- Henrik Ibsen

It’s All About The Children          By Theresa Fritz Camoriano          

Eighteen-month-old Kaylynn Alicia Shelby Gaddie was murdered several days ago, and her body was dumped in Jefferson Memorial Forest.  The murderer was a man who was supposed to have been in prison since September.  Unfortunately, the police hadn’t served the warrant to put him in prison, so he was on the loose and took advantage of his freedom to murder Kaylynn.  According to the Courier-Journal, “Maj. Troy Riggs, chief of staff for Metro Police, said picking someone up on a warrant isn't as easy as ‘knocking on the door.’… Kaylynn died of head injuries but an exact time of death could not be determined.”  Since when is protecting us from the bad guys supposed to be as easy as knocking on the door?  Is that the standard the government uses?   – If it is as easy as knocking on the door, we’ll do it; if not, we won’t.              (click to read more)

Christianity’s Double Standard.         By Justin Darr         

In no case are the left’s efforts to undermine our society more apparent than in the debate over the separation of church and state.  The intent of the Establishment Clause in the First Amendment is quite clear:  The government of the United States will not establish an official state religion or inhibit the free practice of any faith.  While government may not work to influence or regulate the values and beliefs of citizens or their churches, there is no inhibition whatsoever on these same citizens and churches from working to influence their government through the democratic process.  In effect, the First Amendment and Establishment Clause are the embodiment of the entire spirit of the Constitution:  Government is subservient to the will of the people, and the people have the right to seek to influence and form their government according to their own standards, so long as they do not restrain others from holding or practicing differing ideas.                (click to read more)

Real Tax Reform:  A Century Late and a Few Trillion Dollars Short         From The Federalist

(This is the third in a series of essays on vital national-policy issues which must be addressed head-on by the second Bush administration and the Republican Congress).

The two most invasive authorities of the federal (central) government are the power of the judiciary to legislate by diktat, and the power of Congress to levy taxes -- both of which were sources of great concern to our Founders. The extra-constitutional actions of judicial activists have frequently been censured in this column. But an equally insidious threat to liberty resides in the tax code.              (click to read more)

Turn out the lights on mayor’s plan to acquire LG&E         By: Mr. George Dick

Mayor Jerry Abramson’s proposal that Metro Louisville purchase Louisville Gas & Electric (LG&E) is seriously flawed. Such an acquisition would overstep the purpose of city government and yield exactly the opposite of the results that taxpayers and energy consumers desire.              (click to read more)

Standardized tests' limitations make ISTEP's cost too high        by Sheri Conover Sharlow    Libertarian Writers' Bureau

I'm looking for a nice beach house on the Isle of Palms on the South Carolina coast. I'll easily have $2 million to spend once I rewrite the ISTEP tests.

Now that Republicans are running the Statehouse, they're ready to move the ISTEP tests to spring. That makes more sense than the teachers-union-driven law that put the tests in the fall, removing teachers' liability for failing students.               (click to read more)

100 YEARS FROM KITTY HAWK       by Rod D. Martin, 17 December 2003 

When Orville and Wilbur Wright launched their Flyer into the history books, one hundred years ago this day, they could not possibly have imagined the consequences of their act.

And neither could anyone else.              (click to read more)

TERRY’S TIDBITS        December 20, 2004      By Terry Gray

BEFORE I RANT.

          Merry Christmas to all, and it doesn’t matter to me what religion you are.  Christmas without Christ would just be mas - and meaningless.  So to all of you, Merry Christmas and a happy new year              (click to read more).

Ho-ho-hold On To Your Virginity          By Dr. Warren Throckmorton       

Given his decision making power on the matter of gifts, my girls made sure Santa Claus got some seriously good cookies most Christmas eves. Like most children, mine did not know that there is much more to the real Saint Nick than toys and cookies. The jolly fellow could easily be considered the patron saint of purity.              (click to read more)

VICTIM LACKED “PERMIT” TO DEFEND SELF, PROPERTY         (From Muth’s News and Views)

“Leonard Gamage is sore today, which is understandable since he spent more than 45 minutes fighting off an intruder late Friday.  Gamage, 87, suffered some bumps and bruises in a pair of fights with the intruder, who is an unidentified 20-year man…              (click to read more)

HELLO, OPERATOR...GIVE ME MICHAEL POWELL          From Chuck Muth      

You know, between John Kerry and Abu Musab Zarqawi, you’d think folks would have learned by now NOT TO MESS WITH American servicemen and servicewomen...active OR retired.                (click to read more)

Pennsylvania: Come for the Sights, Stay for the… Milk?         By Jonathan David Morris

You know what we don’t need? State birds. If you can convince me we need state birds, I will give you a dollar.

This dare germinates from a visit I made to “Visit PA” the other day. Visit PA is the online home of Pennsylvania’s tourism board, which can be found at visitpa.com. While there, I came across a page of “facts and interesting tidbits." I wasn’t so sure it was interesting, honestly, but I was willing to take a look. I’m trying to get into this whole moving-to-Pennsylvania thing. That’s why I visited Visit PA in the first place. Pennsylvania will never match New Jersey, for me. New Jersey’s love is like bad medicine. But I’d like to believe you can love two states at one time.               (click to read more)

So-Called 'Junk Fax Prevention Act" Should Be TKO'd     by Keith W. Kimmel     Libertarian Writers' Bureau

In Indiana, there are tens of thousands of fax machines. They can be found in the offices of nearly every doctor, pharmacist or financial institution and countless other small businesses and even some homes. They provide a convenient, low cost way to send documents from one location to another almost instantly, making them a popular method of communication.

Unfortunately, the very factors that have made fax machines a staple in countless offices of businesses large and small have also made them a target for unscrupulous businesses that wish to peddle their wares at the expense of others.              (click to read more)

“The purpose of all modern political and judicial institutions is to safeguard the individual's freedom against encroachments on the part of the government. Representative government and the rule of law, the independence of courts and tribunals from interference on the part of administrative agencies, habeas corpus, judicial examination and redress of acts of the administration, freedom of speech and the press, separation of state and church, and many other institutions aimed at one end only: to restrain the discretion of the officeholders and to render the individuals free from their arbitrariness.”

-- Ludwig von Mises

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