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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

 

Winners and Losers, Drugs, and Education –        By Theresa Fritz Camoriano

Winners and Losers -  Our local newspaper likes to analyze proposed budgets and tax plans in terms of who wins and who loses.  Unfortunately, it fails to look at the big picture.  If we continue to have high taxes that punish hard work and productivity, then we will continue to discourage businesses and workers from coming to Kentucky and from developing in Kentucky.  The result is that we all end up losing.  The web-master for Jefferson Review recently took a job in Nashville and has been very pleased to find that he has a lot more take-home pay than he had in Kentucky, because Tennessee does not have an income tax.  Until the Kentucky legislature gets its act together and cuts taxes, people will continue to vote with their feet and leave the state, especially young “knowledge workers” like our web-master.                (click to read more)

Condemnation-Gate Has New Smoking Gun in Lexington Kentucky         by Mario, Guerilla Reporter

January 31, 2005

Yet another smoking gun has been found in Mayor Teresa Isaac’s ongoing battle against the well run and privately owned water utility known as Kentucky American Water (KAWC). If citizens weren’t in an uproar over four female members of the LEFTington Urban County Council starting a radical anti-property rights group known as FLOW (For Local Ownership of Water) over tea and crumpets, now they have a $160,000.00 fraud scandal to fire them up. Since Watergate, such a perfect name, is taken, we will have to settle for “Condemnation-gate”.                (click to read more)

The United Nations – can it get much worse?        by Henry Lamb

Incompetence and corruption at the U.N. appears to be swirling around and around in ever-widening circles. The oil-for-food scandal continues to grow, which the U.N. insists is under investigation, led by Paul Volcker, who now, it has been revealed, has substantial business ties with several central figures in the investigation. Then there are the sexcapade scandals that seem to follow U.N. peacekeepers wherever they go. The peacekeepers didn't go to Rwanda or Sudan, while government-backed savages hacked to death nearly a million helpless people.

And now, a top researcher for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has resigned, charging that the IPCC leadership is hyping a pre-conceived global-warming agenda that is contrary to established scientific fact.                 (click to read more)

Glorious acts of our legislature demand review        By Mike Kole     Libertarian Writers' Bureau

I always have to remember to take a deep breath when examining the laws being proposed by our grand Legislature. I detest most of the new legislation on the table but have to forgive our representatives in the House and Senate for it. After all, writing laws is what a Legislature does, and if they don't write enough laws, it can begin to look like they've been loafing.

Call me strange, but I rather prefer a Legislature that goofs off and under-produces new laws. I'm convinced we have enough of them already and agree with Mark Twain, who famously said that no man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the Legislature is in session.                (click to read more)
 

TERRY’S TIDBITS       by Terry Gray 

KIDS ARE IMMATURE

          Hey, you know all this hype we hear about training kids not to use drugs, not to drink alcohol, not to use tobacco, not to drive fast, to wear condoms, and all the other things we do to keep kids healthy and safe?  It doesn’t work.

          A new study, which like most studies, is not new, is telling us that kids will do things that puts them at risk because their brains haven’t matured.  This doesn’t have to do with what our schools attempt to instill in our youth, thank God, or what parents try to teach them; it has to do with the chemicals that go into making us mature.                (click to read more)

LEFTington’s Extortion Continues         By Mario, Guerilla Reporter  

Not being one who has time to waste reading the left wing vitriol and mind control emanating from the editorial page of the Heraldo-Liberal, I almost lost my breakfast this morning when I made the mistake of doing that. I read one sentence, that’s right - one sentence of the editorial starring, complete with a picture, none other than vindictive grandstander and obstructionist Jacques Wiggington.                 (click to read more)

The Psychology of Eagles Fans        By Jonathan David Morris

Regular readers (hi mom, hi dad!) know I have been pretty relentless in my attacks on Pennsylvanians since moving to southeastern Pennsylvania last summer. Mostly, it’s been in self-defense. I’m a defensive driver. And Pennsylvanians can’t drive. But it occurs to me now, with the Super Bowl-bound Philadelphia Eagles in the national spotlight, that I’ve rarely, if ever, had anything nice to say about my new neighbors. This just isn’t fair. I mean, sure, they drive slow, fail to signal, and show a general disregard for the fact that, usually, if I’m on the road, it means I need to get somewhere. But this doesn’t make them bad people. And even if it does, there are still many nice things to say about them. Take Eagles football, for instance. Philly’s a town that does football right.                 (click to read more)

TRIUMPH OF THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE       By Rod D. Martin   

It has been almost exactly seventy years since Leni Riefenstahl directed what is still the singular masterpiece of documentary and propaganda filmmaking, Triumph of the Will.  Her film glorified Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party at the beginning of their run, at a time when many the world over were speaking hopefully of the "new German renaissance," and helped convince both Germany and much of the globe that the new world order was and ought to be totalitarian.                (click to read more)

“How can parents not understand that turning over their children to the state to be educated will have consequences?  Can anyone truly expect that their child will survive such an experience with even the most shallow understanding of the dangers of too much government?

“If your child is educated in a Catholic private school you would reasonably expect that your child will come away believing that the Catholic way of looking at things is pretty much on mark.  Ditto for a Baptist or a Hebrew school.  And you somehow think that government schools don't work the same magic?  Doesn't it stand to reason that if you send your child to a government school that your child will ‘learn,’ if that's the word, that government is the answer to most of the problems they will face in their lives?”

- Neal Boortz, Nealz Nuze, 2/1/05

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