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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

“Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.” - Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (1870-1924)

 

"Virtually everything is under federal control nowadays except the federal budget." --Herman E. Talmadge 

Mixing Religion and Politics – Amen!      By Theresa Fritz Camoriano

This past weekend, Highview Baptist Church in Louisville, Kentucky hosted an event called “Justice Sunday”, in which many national speakers participated.  The event was intended to support the so-called “Constitutional Option”, by which the U.S. Senate would change its rules in order to prevent filibusters on judicial nominees.  Conservative Christians want President Bush to appoint judges who will exercise restraint rather than legislating from the bench, and they do not want the Democrats to continue using the filibuster to block the President’s nominees.  The “Justice Sunday” event was intended to draw attention to the harm that is caused when judges ignore the law and become unelected legislators rather than judges.  As might be imagined, Democrats are complaining about the event as being an improper mixing of church and state leading to a Theocracy.           (click to read more)

Award-winning entrepreneur to chair Bluegrass Institute

(Bowling Green, Kentucky) – Kathy Gornik, a successful entrepreneur and internationally recognized business leader, was unanimously elected Wednesday to chair the Bluegrass Institute’s board of directors.

Gornik is founder and owner of Lexington-based THIEL Audio Products, a privately held, engineering-driven organization that researches, designs and manufactures 13 models of high-performance loudspeakers for the home and office. Her company, which was started by three people in a garage in 1977, has grown to become an international leader in the consumer electronics industry with sales in 34 different countries.            (click to read more)

How to 'improve' the Endangered Species Act         by Henry Lamb

No law has done more to destroy private property rights or done less to protect endangered species than the Endangered Species Act of 1973. Enormous debate is raging between the environmental activist community and the property-rights activist community. Caught in the middle is Congress, specifically, the House Resources Committee which, has the responsibility of crafting changes to the law that will meet the demands on both sides of the issue.            (click to read more)

A tax-free day: Is it possible?         By Aaron L. Morris

The deadline for paying your taxes has come and gone again. But don’t think for a moment that you won’t be paying taxes until the next time April 15 rolls around.

Tax Day is dreaded because of the mountains of evidence that taxpayers must provide to the Internal Revenue Service and state governments. But it is a mistake to believe that we pay all of our taxes on April 15. It’s simply the due date for forms that reconcile whether we have paid too much or too little in taxes throughout the year.            (click to read more)

Jesus the Baby Killer?          By Justin Darr

“Slippery Slope” reasoning is the belief that small, seemingly harmless, decisions can set precedents for much larger, radical, and unpopular decisions to come.  Liberals hate “slippery slope” debates, largely because they have to acknowledge that leveraging small “slippery slope” issues through the activist judiciary system is their only real hope of cramming the radical heart of their agenda down America’s throat.  For example, what started as not having children pray in public schools has now led to the systematic banning of all Christian values from the public education system.  Like building a wall of intolerance and oppression toward traditional values, liberals have over the years added one brick upon another, one small decision upon another with which we might not agree but seems fair at the time, until today where our traditional faith and values are truly at risk.           (click to read more)

Education pundits ‘cherry pick’ data

(Bowling Green, Kentucky) – A big problem in evaluating what is really happening in education is finding credible data. An even greater dilemma arises when misguided advocates of Kentucky’s failing public-education system pursue an agenda to misrepresent data in support of their false assertions.

For example, a recent column by Robert Sexton, executive director of the Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence, selectively uses data from the Manhattan Institute, a New York think tank, to support his assertion that Kentucky’s public-education system is improving and deserves more funding from tapped-out taxpayers.            (click to read more)

SOCIAL SECURITY: MORE IS BETTER. MUCH BETTER.        By Rod D. Martin

Despite an enormously publicized AARP effort to discredit Social Security reform -- aided and abetted by every reactionary force the left can muster -- the good news is that George Bush is winning.  The question is whether he'll take advantage of what he's won.

Friday's Opinion Dynamics/Fox News poll tells the story.  Despite the thousand mainstream media stories you've seen to the contrary, 60 percent of Americans support private accounts.  Those most likely to benefit -- Americans under 30 -- support them the most, by a whopping 76 percent; but the people AARP purports to represent -- 56 percent of all Americans over age 55 -- prefer them too.           (click to read more)

SMOKING BANS ARE THE REAL THREAT TO DEMOCRACY!!

The bandwagon of local smoking bans now steamrolling across the nation -from sea to sea- has nothing to do with protecting people from the supposed threat of "second-hand" smoke.

Indeed, the bans themselves are symptoms of a far more grievous threat; a cancer that has been spreading for decades and has now metastasized
throughout the body politic, spreading even to the tiniest organs of local government. This cancer is the only real hazard involved - the cancer of unlimited government power.           (click to read more)

Our National Pastime?        By Jonathan David Morris

On Thursday, April 14, 2005, the Washington Nationals (nee Montreal Expos) defeated the Arizona Diamondbacks, 5-3, in the first baseball game in D.C. since 1971. Wherever you look, people are hailing the return of the national pastime to our nation’s capital. Me? I think it’s nice that the Expos finally found a new home. I also think it’s nice that Washington baseball fans finally have a team. But is baseball still America’s pastime? Or has football—as some suggest—surpassed it? Let’s take a look.            (click to read more)

What was once unthinkable is now on national television
by Kurt St. Angelo

Where have I been?

I follow college basketball on television and watch almost every I.U. game.   I'm also an avid Notre Dame football fan. I'll even set my VCR to catch college-wrestling matches. But the idea of paying college athletes to play college football and basketball hit me unaware and in the worst way.

About a month ago, just preceding the NCAA basketball tournament, ESPNU held a nationally televised forum on the issue of paying college athletes.           (click to read more)

Is secondary smoke actually a health threat?

To put it simply, in any real sense of the word “threat,” the answer is no. 

“How can that be?” you might ask….  “How can everything I’ve seen on TV be wrong?”           (click to read more)

Terry’s Tidbits      By Terry Gray  Like Freedom?  Make Noise.

Appleton Wisconsin

          A new ordinance in this sleepy little town will make it illegal to carry tobacco paraphernalia in restaurants, bars, and etc.  Carrying matches will cost a “criminal” $125.00.  How’s that for constitutional America?           (click to read more)

"The outraged-at-Bolton caucus has a problem, which is that anything Bolton has said about the UN appears mild given recent UN malfeasance. He never said that UN peacekeepers would rape children in the Congo.

He never said the UN would engage in insider dealing to rip off its own Oil-for-Food program in Iraq.  He never said the UN would institute what appears to be a cover-up of its Oil-for-Food wrongdoing.  But this all happened, which is why even Kofi Annan says the UN needs a thorough overhaul.  Democrats who oppose Bolton are in effect more deliriously pro-UN than even the secretary general." --Rich Lowry

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