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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

“Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare but only those specifically enumerated.”

– Thomas Jefferson

It’s All About The Children – Part 2        By Theresa Fritz Camoriano

Children have the best chance for success in a stable, traditional family, including both a mother and father.  This fact has been supported by numerous studies http://www.townhall.com/columnists/larryelder/le20041223.shtml, and it makes sense.  It takes both a mother and a father to create a child, and children need the skills and talents of both parents as well as the economic security provided by the traditional family unit, in which the parents are committed to supporting each other and their children.  Indeed, thanks to Judaism’s demand that sex be confined to marriage, the traditional family has become the cradle of our strong civilization.  So why has our government done so much to try to undermine the traditional family?             (click to read more)

TAX AND SPENDING REDUCTION: There’s more than one way to vote      Bluegrass Institute For Public Policy Solutions

Anti-tax votes are not confined to hands pulling levers in booths. Voters are increasingly using their feet to abandon states with income taxes.

Between 1990 and 2003, more than three million people abandoned the 41 states that collect personal income taxes and moved to the nine states that do not punish productive citizens. Research indicates that states without a personal income tax have clearly benefited from higher employment, more job creation and increased productivity.              (click to read more)

Don't let government build an obsolete stadium          by Kurt St. Angelo   Libertarian Writers' Bureau

About 21 years ago I was one of the several thousand who publicly greeted then-owner Robert Irsay at the Hoosier Dome when he brought his Colts franchise to town.

It's hard now to believe that the city of Indianapolis, with help of a county-wide hospitality tax granted by the state General Assembly and a generous $25 million grant from the Lilly Endowment, built an $82 million, 63,000-seat professional football stadium on pure speculation, without having a team to play in it.             (click to read more)

SCHOOL CHOICE: Milwaukee, Kentucky?       Bluegrass Institute for Public Policy Solutions

The Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS) have everything Kentucky educators claim to want.

During the past 13 years, enrollment, graduation rates and test scores are up for nearly every age group. During the past six years, MPS students also have improved their national ranking in 11 of 15 areas, including math, science and reading.              (click to read more)

Manufactured rights or peace on Earth?          by Henry Lamb

All people everywhere share a common hope for peace on earth. This common hope begins to unravel when people discuss how to achieve peace on earth.

The Taliban believe peace can be achieved only when the rest of the world submits to their dictates. Communists believe peace can be achieved only when the rest of the world submits to centralized government planning and control. Far too much of the world believes that peace cannot be achieved until Israel is erased from the earth.              (click to read more)

Larry Brown Comments on Ozone Maintenance Plan For Northern Kentucky   

  This is a written submission regarding the Ozone Maintenance Plan SIP Revision for Boone, Kenton and Campbell counties in the Cincinnati-Hamilton Ozone Maintenance area and the new regulations being put forth by the Department for Environmental Protection. 

   My name is Larry Brown, 8202 Adella Florence Ky 41042 and Co founder of VETO the V.E.T.  I am pleased that we are attempting to end vehicle emission testing.  The marketplace has responded to the 1990 Clean Air Act by producing durable emission systems that allow 99% of cars built since 1994 to pass the current test. The marketplace, not cookie cutter EPA approaches, is the future of continued improvements in air quality.             (click to read more)

THAT'S OUTRAGEOUS: More students choosing means more choice is needed         Bluegrass Institute for Public Policy Solutions

Calloway County (Kentucky) School Board officials seem to be working overtime to deny parents the educational freedom they have enjoyed for 26 years.

The latest wrinkle offered by Calloway County School Superintendent Steve Hoskins is that the Murray Independent Schools failed to properly account for all students who live in the county but attend a city school. State law requires a signed transfer agreement between districts in order for designated funding to follow students to the school they attend.              (click to read more)

AMERICAN CONSTITUTIONAL RESEARCH SERVICE      By John William Kurowski

Neal Boortz supports fair tax proposal?

It is saddening to learn that radio talk show host Neal Boortz seems to support the so called fair tax proposal. Perhaps Neal simply has not had time to really study the proposal in depth and compare it to our founding father’s method of taxing consumption which is the subject of this writing.

In an article titled ANSWERING A FAIR TAX QUESTION Neal Boortz wrote:              (click to read more)

The Story of "A Christmas Story"          By Jonathan David Morris

It is impossible to be an American, and especially a child of the ‘80s, without having watched—a hundred times—the classic film, “A Christmas Story." “A Christmas Story” is narrated by the inimitable Jean Shepherd of pre-Limbaugh-Hannity-Savage radio fame. It’s based on a chapter in Shepherd’s book, “In God We Trust (All Others Pay Cash)," and it tells the story of 9-year-old Ralphie Parker’s quest for the ultimate Christmas gift: An Official Red Ryder Carbine-Action, 200-Shot, Range-Model Air Rifle.              (click to read more)

THE BEST OR WORST OF TERRY’S TIDBITS – By Terry Gray       December 27, 2004

"A most interesting fact of history is that Americans were probably the most literate people in the world before the advent of government schools and compulsory school attendance. Since the U.S. was already highly literate when parents were allowed complete freedom in educating their children, the reason behind compulsory attendance obviously had nothing to do with academics. Neither was the problem one of economics, as there was not a shortage of charity schools. If the purpose was not one of academics or to help poor children receive an education, what was the intent behind the push for government schools and more importantly, compulsory attendance laws? This is an urgent question that begs an honest answer because with ever increasing government controls and compulsory attendance, American literacy rates have steadily plummeted. With the billions of dollars spent on education can this really be an accident?"

--Debbie O'Hara

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