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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

"[I]f you serve a child a rotten hamburger in America, federal, state, and local agencies will investigate you, summon you, close you down, whatever.  But if you provide a child with a rotten education, nothing happens, except that you're liable to be given more money to do it with."

--Ronald Reagan

“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
 

An Old Man, Religious Outreach by Politicians, and Playing the Race Card      By Theresa Fritz Camoriano

1.       An Old Man – Because I publicly defend private property rights, I sometimes hear from people whose rights have been violated.  Last week, I received a phone call from an 88-year-old man who has lived and worked in the Louisville area all his life.     (click to read more)

Crabgrass for the Bluegrass State           By Paul J. Gessing

Republican Gov. Ernie Fletcher of Kentucky recently announced his tax-reform plan and is looking for support from state legislators across the political spectrum.  (click to read more)

Teaching The “Gaia” Religion In The Classroom       By John Riley

Please read this "newspaper" article about teaching in the outdoor classroom http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/2005 0214/NEWS0102/502140401 and allow me to put a different light on it.  While the story by itself sounds great, it is a classic example of "environmental activism" in the schools paid for by our tax dollars.  This approach is so very subtle that almost no one could argue against what appears to be such a worthy cause, but in reality this is an almost unrecognizable approach to indoctrination of kids to the "Gaia" religion.                 (click to read more)

Money spent annually on education in Kentucky:

653,248 K-12 students get $5647 (KY$) + 2303 (Fed$) for a total of $7950 each....We spend in KY $3,687,639,700.00 in K-12 schools (28% of total KY budget).                (click to read more)

Get smart about school testing         By: Mr. Richard Innes

Comedian Steven Wright once said that he got his driver’s-license photo taken out of focus on purpose. Now when he gets pulled over, Wright said the cop squints at it, shakes his head and says “Here, you can go.”

Looking at a fuzzy picture can be painful.                (click to read more)

Toxic Propaganda On Louisville Air Pollution Control District        By John Riley

The Courier Journal's political propaganda is nauseating and so obviously blatant.  The attack on Sen. Seum is a typical and predictable attempt to manipulate the facts for their political purposes rather than to stick to the facts and engage in honest debate of real issues. (click to read more)

Minimum wage, maximum harm       By Aaron Morris       

Supporters of raising Kentucky’s minimum wage are at it again. Get ready for a bombardment of sad tales about single parents striving to make ends meet by working two jobs at the current hourly minimum wage of $5.15.          (click to read more)

Whiney College Student Does Not Want to Pay for Her Own Education       By Mario, Guerilla Reporter

In a display of the success of government indoctrination through state controlled free public education, Western Kentucky University student government representative Jessica Martin spoke at a rally in the state capital recently protesting the 14.5% increase in tuition. Don’t have any coffee or food in your mouth when you read this next statement.                (click to read more)

TERRY’S TIDBITS       By Terry Gray   Strider1@insightbb.com

“No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.”  Douglas Macarthur

THE FLACK ATTACK - Eric Flack was wrong.  He made a statement on the Francene show that he was in a common area of the building when he was assaulted.  So far, so good.  However, he went on to say that a common area of a building is equivalent to being on the sidewalk.  For those of you in town, you know to what I’m referring.  To those from far away, it is a story about an “investigative reporter” making trouble and getting beat up a little.                (click to read more)

Criminals All
Will Drug Dealers Play While the Law Abiding Pay?

“Placing Over-the-Counter cold remedies behind the counter is at best a 20% solution to an 80% problem,” says Frontier’s Vice President of Policy.  “At worst, it erodes consumer choice and privacy.”  (click to read more)

Legislators, not sober drivers, are ones with impaired judgment     by Shari Conover Sharlow

Open-container bill wouldn't make roads safer, but it would make life more difficult for drivers         (click to read more)

On the 'sin' of sending kids to public school

The man who helped push the issue of public education onto the national agenda of the Southern Baptist Convention has written a new book that blows the lid off government schools, showing parents the kind of worldview and values their children are influenced by 180 days a year.  (click to read more)

Remember President's Day        By Jonathan David Morris

The best American presidents are the ones whose names you can never remember—like Rutherford Hayes, Millard Fillmore, and that other guy.           (click to read more)

THE PROFESSOR AND FREE SPEECH

“Because the comments he made shortly after September 11 have come to light, obscene comments in which he vilifies the World Trade Center victims as ‘little Eichmanns’ and lauds their killers as ‘humanitarians,’ Professor Ward Churchill has resigned as chairman of the University of Colorado’s ethnics studies department. But, with the support of other faculty, he retains his professorship.  Four members of his department have expressed ‘unconditional support’ for his ‘freedom of expression and First Amendment rights.’

“...They maintain that no matter how much the citizens who fund public universities may disagree with a professor's views, he should be able to continue to exist on the public dole.  Taxpayers are to be stripped of their right to choose which ideas their money supports. Why? So that professors can spout whatever theories happen to catch their fancy--including those that brand productive Americans as Nazis and Islamic killers as liberators--without the burden of having to seek the voluntary consent of those forced to sponsor them.  Under the guise of defending free speech, therefore, the professors are actually advocating its destruction.

“...What then is the answer? Privatize the universities.  The truth is that public education as such is antithetical to free speech. Whether leftists are forced to pay taxes to fund universities from which their academic spokesmen are barred or non-leftists are forced to pay taxes to fund professors who condemn America as a terrorist nation, someone loses the right to choose which ideas his money supports.”

- Dr. Onkar Ghate of the Ayn Rand Institute

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