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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

Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.

-- Frederic Bastiat, French
Economist (1801-1850)
 

Economic Justice in Sri Lanka?     By D. Eric Schansberg, Ph.D.    Professor of Economics  Indiana University Southeast  author of Turn Neither to the Right nor to the Left: A Thinking Christian’s Guide to Politics and Public Policy

Last Thursday, I was heartened to read the news that my church, Southeast Christian Church in Louisville, KY, had collected $732,000 from its members (beyond its weekly giving) for tsunami relief in Southeast Asia. That partially offset the news I had read the previous Thursday-- as reported in the Wall Street Journal-- that tariffs imposed on Sri Lanka were nearly $250,000,000 in 2003.         (click to read more)

Schwarzenegger to Fletcher: What it means to govern      By: Mr. Christopher J. Derry

We suspect Gov. Ernie Fletcher is busy crafting the State of the State speech he will deliver to Kentuckians on Feb. 2.   (click to read more)

Let 'em all be Independent!     By John Riley

Republicans upset with Republicans! Democrats upset with Democrats!  How about all of them being Independent and maybe the citizens and taxpayers could hear more honest debate on ideas and solutions instead of bickering and political party posturing. (click to read more)

“The Arrogance of Power”—in Kentucky today and about Indiana 20 years ago   By D. Eric Schansberg   Professor of Economics  Indiana University Southeast  Author of Turn Neither to the Right nor to the Left: A Thinking Christian’s Guide to Politics and Public Policy   The Kentucky State Senate seat representing the 37^th District. What a strange tale! And so many questions remain. Why would Dana Seum Stephenson file for the seat if she didn’t think that her candidacy was legitimate? (click to read more)

City A$k$ for Help With $750,000.00 Loan       by Jeff Mario Smith, Guerilla Reporter  Yesterday, the LEFTington city council authorized a letter to FLOW, the organization that is trying its mightiest to force water company condemnation on us.   (click to read more)

The golden calf of democracy      By: Lawrence W. Reed No one knew better how to deflate the inflated than the late political satirist and commentator H. L. Mencken. “Democracy,” he once said, “is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.” He also famously defined an election as “an advance auction of stolen goods.”  (click to read more)

Colts' stadium short on horse sense         by Kurt St. Angelo    http://www/writersbureau.org

The predominant discussion in the Indianapolis media over the proposed $500 million Colts stadium is how to fund it, not over the wisdom and propriety of taxpayers going into debt to build it.
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Government IDs and Identity Theft         by Rep. Ron Paul, MD     Before the US House of Representatives International Relations Committee (click to read more)
 

Ending the VET      By John Riley  Did you ever wonder what the fight to end VET (vehicle emissions testing) was really all about?      (click to read more)

Is it time for a divorce in Kentucky state parks?      By: Joel Peyton          (click to read more)

FLOW [Foolish Liberals Overly Wailing], Mounts Assault Against Council       by Jeff "Mario" Smith, Guerilla Reporter       (click to read more)

THE WAY OUT OF IRAQ: Decentralizing the Iraqi Government      Oakland, CA.--With elections in Iraq only days away, U.S. military officials admit the insurgent attacks will continue unabated on election day and beyond, and many predict the aftermath will lead to even more factional unrest and perhaps civil war. Is it possible to have a democracy in war-torn Iraq? (click to read more)

TERRY’S TIDBITS     By Terry Gray   www.forces-kentucky.us    Did you know that we are on the verge of having working machines small enough to be injected into us?  These machines are the size of 4 molecules.  Their primary use would be to run routine maintenance on our bodies, doing such things as cleaning plaque from our arteries and sweeping our bowels clean of all the red meat buildup.            (click to read more)

KENTUCKY RIGHT TO LIFE ASSOCIATION HOLDS STATE-WIDE RALLY FOR LIFE        FRANKFORT, KY. – On February 2, at noon, the Kentucky Right to Life Association will hold its annual “Rally for Life” at the State Capitol in Frankfort, KY (click to read more)

More Kentucky freedoms going up in smoke       The Bluegrass Institute  Twenty states raised cigarette taxes in 2002 in hopes of increasing government revenues. Nationally, the average cigarette tax rate increased 64 percent from 1992 to 2000. Yet state tax revenues grew only 35 percent.           (click to read more)

Propagandist For Hire       By Jonathan David Morris

In his syndicated column last week, Armstrong Williams wrote: “In 2003, I agreed to run a paid ad on my syndicated television show, promoting the Department of Education’s No Child Left Behind Act.     (click to read more)

CRYING ON BUSH'S PARADE      By Rod D. Martin,   (click to read more)

Charter schools provide a rising tide      The Bluegrass Institute    (click to read more)

“Mitch Daniels, who served as President Bush's first budget director, has always been a genius with numbers. But now that he's the newly elected governor of Indiana, he seems to think the answer to the state's $645 million budget hole includes a ‘temporary’ 1% surtax on families earning more than $100,000 a year. He claims the new tax would chop the state's deficit almost in half if combined with freezes on spending. . . . There's a good chance that Daniels has already lost the votes of 27 lawmakers, including 25 of his own party, who have taken the Americans for Tax Reform pledge not to raise taxes. They include Jeff Espich, who is chairman of the state House Ways and Means Committee, and Sen. Bob Meeks, who heads the Senate Appropriations Committee.” - John Fund, Political Diary, 1/21/05   

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