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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

The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.

--- Tacitus (55-117 A.D.)  Roman Historian and Statesman

Shredding the Constitution  (Roper v. Simmons – eliminating the death penalty for minors)     By Theresa Fritz Camoriano

“The evolving personal opinion of Anthony Kennedy when it coincides with the personal opinions of at least four other justices is now our Constitution.” – Terence P. Jeffrey (see also Scalia’s dissent )

If I had written anything in law school that applied the kind of legal analysis that was used in the recent Supreme Court decision in Roper v. Simmons, I would have flunked out.  But I guess, once you become a member of the Supreme Court, you don’t have to worry about grades any longer; apparently, you can do anything you darned well please, and the country can just learn to live with it!            (click to read more)

New report makes case for privatizing state parks

Using his considerable private-sector experience, Commissioner George Ward is making progress in introducing innovative practices to stop the bleeding in the Kentucky State Parks system. Yet Kentucky’s parks continue to lose vast sums of money and are saddled with large deficits.            (click to read more)

How Much Is Enough?     John Riley to The C-J

Your editorial "Little to Cheer" regarding the Kentucky budget is correct in stating "Neither party has been willing to talk honestly, act responsibly...".  However, you go on to offer your solution is that they should "...ask Kentuckians to pay a little more in order to get something better.”

It is my understanding that there are 100 pennies in one dollar.  Assuming that to be correct even in the dismal "education" environment of what we still call schools today, can you tell your readers how many of those 100 pennies of each hard earned dollar they earn will be enough to achieve "something better".            (click to read more)

Response to a reader’s question on “subsidizing communism” –     By Theresa Fritz Camoriano

In last week’s issue of Jefferson Review, I criticized the million dollar taxpayer subsidy (from the “Bucks for Brains” program) to create an endowed chair at the University of Louisville on race, class, gender, etc., saying that it was subsidizing communism.  A reader asked why I considered this endowed chair, which would be teaching “tolerance”, to be teaching communism.  The following is my response:            (click to read more)

Why Europe is Soft on Terror.      By Justin Darr

The current negotiations between France, Germany, England and Iran regarding Iran’s nuclear power, and probably nuclear weapons program, can be summarized into one sentence:  Nothing short of war is going to stop Iran from developing a nuclear bomb. If Europe wants to pay the Iranians to lie to them about it, then the Iranians will be more than happy to oblige.            (click to read more)

Waiting For An Explanation       By Richard Lewis

Last week I received three email messages, two snail mail letters and several phone calls encouraging me to invest in a basket of foreign currencies along with some gold and silver to protect my economic future!

I can understand why it might be in my best financial interest to do what those financial advisors recommend. My hard earned dollars are devaluing rapidly! But my country is at war, and foreign countries upon whom we have relied to purchase our nation’s debt are getting cold feet about the alarming size of the U.S. Trade Deficit.             (click to read more)

AMERICAN DREAM        by Danny "Big Daddy" Calhoun        Recently I participated in a parade and ceremony at a large Veteran’s Hospital. The event was planned to honor those veterans confined to the hospital. Some who had been wounded so severely that they would spend their entire lives in the hospital. We also planned to attend a barbecue after the parade, put on by a local veteran’s organization for the veterans. The parade consisted of approximately 200 motorcycles and other vehicles plus several marching units.             (click to read more)

REAGAN’S NAVY SECY: “WHITE AMERICA…

AN ETHNIC FAIRY TALE”

In 1995, in what Time called "a legal lightening bolt," the U.S. Supreme Court all but killed racial preferences in federal government contracting in a case litigated for a decade by Mountain States Legal Foundation, Adarand

Constructors, Inc. v. Peña.  Therefore, in 1998, for the first time since it adopted racial quotas in government contracting in 1977, Congress debated the constitutionality of their use.  Nonetheless, Congress left its racial

preference language unchanged, leaving it to the courts to declare it unconstitutional.            (click to read more)

Put on the Full Armor  A Response to Coral Ridge Ministries’ Request For Money to Promote Religious Exception to Campaign Finance Laws          By Doug Lewis

You have put on part of the armor and are fighting with part of your strength, and it is a battle you will loose for us all!

Would you encourage your Christian flock to pick and choose the parts of the Bible they are comfortable with and only honor those parts?   How can you defend freedom of religion and not freedom of speech, press and assembly as well?            (click to read more)

TERRY’S TIDBITS      “Remember that the boy who cried wolf was right once.”   Strider

BOWLING FOR TOBACCO

          In Cumberland City Tennessee, a school bus driver was shot this week for telling on a kid who was using chewing tobacco.  This can go in the same folder as the lady in New York who was slashed with a razor for telling some people to put out their cigarettes, or the man abroad who was thrown from a moving train for smoking.  Also in that folder are the names of many Americans killed by Americans over tobacco, inspired to violence by tobacco Nazis in this country.  Kids have been killed in the tobacco black market, bouncers have be stabbed and shot, kids have committed suicide because they were caught smoking, and the list continues to grow.  However, it isn’t nearly as bad as it will get.            (click to read more)

BRINGING A BROTHER HOME          By Danny "Big Daddy" Calhoun

I recently attended the funeral services for SSG. Larry Gene Kier, a US Soldier killed in action while serving our country. The services were held in his hometown of Owingsville, Kentucky.

The scene is one we have seen far too often, one we will never get used to, one which rips at our hearts, automatically brings tears to our eyes, brings back memories long forgotten--- but always a part of us. A scene, which brings a terrible sense of loss, as we once again say goodbye to one of our nation’s finest. We as a free people can never ask nor expect any more noble and selfless act from one of our own.             (click to read more)

"The Passion" vs. "Fahrenheit 9/11"        Jonathan David Morris

Only two movies had a real impact on American culture last year. One was Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ. The other was Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11. Both defined whole sets of election-year social values (the former a right-wing favorite, the latter a film for the left). Yet neither was nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars this year.

So what’s up with that?             (click to read more)

EIGHT MOST CONSERVATIVE:      These senators scored 100% on the American Conservative Union's 2004 Rating of Congress. They are ranked here by lifetime ACU Rating.            (click to read more)

HOW TO DATE ANN COULTER (IF YOU MUST)      by Kenn Gividen

I've decided to go public with my intentions: I will not be asking Ann Coulter for a date. There are some good reasons.

First, I'm married. Second, there is a substantial age differential. And, third, I fear rejection.            (click to read more)

Kentucky Army Guard troops return from Kosovo   Prestonsburg unit instrumental in east European peacekeeping mission
 
FRANKFORT, KY - March 3, 2005 - More than 80 Kentucky Army National Guard Soldiers are scheduled to return Monday, March 7, after spending a year in support of peacekeeping missions in Kosovo.             (click to read more)

Kentucky Army National Guard medical unit receives mobilization order      

FRANKFORT, KY- March 3, 2005 - The following Kentucky Army National Guard unit has been selected to mobilize for Operation IRAQI FREEDOM:

Medical Platoon, 2^nd Battalion 123^rd Armor

As early as March 25, 31 members from the Medical Platoon, 2^nd Battalion 123^rd Armor, based in Bowling Green, will mobilize in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Once mobilized, this unit will depart for Camp Shelby, Miss., and conduct mission-related training in preparation for deployment to Southwest Asia. The Medical Platoon consists of a doctor, a physician's assistant, and trained medics that will provide field medical support to units in the theater of operation.             (click to read more)

U.S. OUT OF WTO

“The World Trade Organization, which the United States joined in 1994, has been disastrous for American sovereignty. . . . Make no mistake about it: WTO ministers tell Congress to change American laws, and Congress complies.  In fact, congressional leaders obediently scrambled to make sure the corporate tax bill passed before a WTO deadline.  Thousands and thousands of bills languish in committees, yet a bill ordered by the WTO was pushed to the front of the line.

“...Our membership in the WTO is unconstitutional, which is to say illegal.  The Constitution grants Congress, and Congress alone, the authority to regulate trade. . . . Fortunately, Congress has an opportunity this year to withdraw our membership in the WTO.

“When the U.S. first joined the organization in 1994, a rushed lame-duck Congress inserted a 5 year review clause to garner some last-minute votes.  This clause allows members of Congress to bring a resolution every 5 years calling for a vote on our continued membership.  I plan to join with other House colleagues this year in demanding withdrawal from the WTO.”

- Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas), Texas Straight Talk, 2/28/05   

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