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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

“We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket trying to lift himself up by its handle.”
-- Winston Churchill

Abigail Thernstrom and School Choice        By TheresaFritz Camoriano Louisville, Kentucky

Abigail Thernstrom spoke with passion to Louisville’s School Choice Scholarship group last week about the achievement gap between black and white students.  She said Americans should be outraged about the poor achievement of black students and should demand change in the system.             (click to read more)

Kentucky – Time For a Choice     By Theresa Fritz Camoriano

The Kentucky legislature is in a tough spot.  Its income simply does not meet its outgo, and there is no solution that will be politically popular.          (click to read more)

Endangering the Dream: What if? (part three of a three part series)      By: Mr. Jim Waters

If Kentucky hopes to close the academic achievement gap between its black and white students, policymakers must seriously consider school choice as a way to empower families and hold our state’s education system accountable.               (click to read more)

Warning: LOST again    by Henry Lamb

One of the first questions asked of Condoleezza Rice during her confirmation hearing came from Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Richard Lugar. He asked her if the administration would support ratification of the Law of the Sea Treaty. Her answer was an unequivocal "yes."            (click to read more)

David Horowitz Wants Conservatives to Win the Culture War      by “Mario”, Guerilla Reporter

I spent the past weekend, (1/20 – 1/22, 2005) in St. Louis, MO at the 16^th annual Education Policy Conference sponsored by the Constitutional Coalition. Although geared toward education policies in America, you would have thought it was a gathering of conservative Christian Patriots, and indeed it was, for these are the people carrying the torch for our children and, in the process, trying to save our “One Nation Under God.           (click to read more)

Green activists' deceptive 'science'      by Henry Lamb

Green activists have given "environmentalism" a bad name. Tsunami waters had barely receded before Tony Juniper, spokesman for Friends of the Earth, told the press that the tragedy was "... consistent with climate-change predictions." Hogwash! Climate-change predictions are all over the yard and all are based on computer models. None is supported by the actual scientific record.    (click to read more)

TERRY’S TIDBITS   by Terry Gray
 I just received an email from Oppression International, DBA Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids.  The want me to forward this letter to President Bush:

          “Dear Mr. President,

Don’t let Big Tobacco off the hook.  I urge your Administration to aggressively pursue the government’s lawsuit against the tobacco industry, which will stop the tobacco industry from marketing to kids.             (click to read more)

Libertarians: Defined      By Jonathan David Morris

In last week’s column, I referred to myself as a libertarian, which I defined as “nicepeoplespeak for a ‘guy who doesn’t like government.’” After that article published, I got a letter from a guy named Mike. Mike’s worried that many of his friends are becoming self-professed libertarians without really knowing what libertarianism is.      (click to read more)

Alleged Discussion at KY Theater Actually a FLOW / LUV Rally      by Jeff "Mario" Smith,

At an event billed as a "discussion" in the infamous Kentucky Theater, a venue known for pornographic and communist films as well as leftist political rallies, local leftist anti-corporation organizers showed a film called "Thirst", a Michael Mooreon type of documentary. (click to read more)

The Parable of the Spoons

 A holy man was having a conversation with the Lord one day and said, “Lord, I  would like to know what Heaven and Hell are like.” The Lord led the holy man  to two doors.  He opened  one of the doors and the holy man looked  in.   (click to read more)

Lundy’s Catering to run KY Democratic Party       by Jeff Mario Smith, Guerilla Reporter

Several years ago, we used to live across town, where we purchased our first home and started our family. Jerry Lundergan was our state government representative in Frankfort. He is from Maysville, my hometown, so I thought that was pretty neat because I dated his sister as a young teenager. I was politically naïve at the time, like most Americans still are, and had no concept of what he stood for. Now that I know what the Demonrat Party is all about, that naivete is history.             (click to read more)

The Rise of the Homosexual Super Citizen.       By Justin Darr

“All pigs are created equal, except some pigs are more equal than others”,  wrote George Orwell in his classic “Animal Farm.”  While it is always fun poking fun at Stalin being a pig, applying Orwellian metaphors to American society will usually do nothing but get a person called “paranoid” by his friends and a “ranting lunatic” by most others.  However, when reality strikes you in the face and the preponderance of evidence is undeniable, the truth is the truth no matter how insane or impossible it may sound.  The facts in America today are that homosexuals have been elevated to be America’s Super Citizens, above the law to the point where their psychological need for acceptance trounces even the most basic Constitutional rights of others.                (click to read more)

"Even under Republican leadership, primary and secondary education in America has remained essentially a socialist enterprise: Government owns the major means of production. As in all socialist regimes, this one redistributes wealth in perverse ways. ... Parents who struggle to scrape together the tuition to send their children to religious schools are now doubly taxed locally and federally -- to support government-owned schools they do not like and do not use. When 'moderate' Bob Dole was the Republican presidential candidate in 1996, he ran on a platform calling for abolition of the federal Department of Education because the Constitution does not grant the federal government a role in primary and secondary education. Conservatives in Congress should fight to kill Bush's new federal education spending plan and return to the principles of the Dole platform and the U.S. Constitution. If every American family cannot instantly be given sole ownership of their children's schooling, at least they shouldn't have to pay twice for the schools the government insists on owning." --Terence Jeffrey

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