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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)

 

"We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex -- but Congress can."

--Cullen Hightower

Mainstream, Progressive Education, and Tuition Hikes         By Theresa Fritz Camoriano

1.       Where’s the mainstream, and who’s in it? 

          The media continue to report that President Bush’s judicial nominees are extremists, who are far out of the mainstream, so I have been wondering where is this “mainstream” they keep talking about, and who is in it?  The main stream we have here in Louisville is the Ohio River, but you don’t find many people swimming or wading there, so it would not be a good place to look for judges.  Maybe the Washington media are looking for judges in the Potomac River, but I bet they won’t find any there, either.   So I am not sure where this so-called “mainstream” is, or what judges might be in it, but my test for the suitability of a judge is not what stream he is in, or even whether he can swim, but whether he plays the game by the rules.                (click to read more)

Shift the Internet sales-tax shaft      By Joel Peyton

Kentucky government officials are complaining about “lost” revenue from online sales and want to expand the state’s taxing jurisdiction through passage of the Streamlined Sales Tax Project (SSTP) next year. Instead, they should give the project the shaft.

The SSTP is a collusion of 45 states and the District of Columbia that want Internet retailers to charge – and collect – sales tax for all purchases made by online shoppers. Currently, an Internet consumer who lives in Kentucky and purchases a CD from California is not required to pay our state’s 6-percent sales tax.               (click to read more)

Follow-up To "Amber Alert Opens Can Of Illegal Worms"          by thegunnerscorner (Mike Minton)

Well, it took a little while--and many phone calls and emails--but I finally got the skinny on what is happening with the parties involved in the “Amber Alert…” story which I wrote. After making contact with several organizations, and after being given several incorrect phone numbers by DHS employees, I was finally put in touch with the man who was not only able, but also WILLING, to answer my questions.               (click to read more)

Norm Davis on Pedophiles

I got an early morning phone call from Midge over in the Lexington, KY area. She was worried about the pervert pedophile problem and all the abductions and killings of our children.

I know that this has bothered me lately wondering what can be done. When they serve their time we have to let them loose. We can’t just put them in jail forever although I would like to.              (click to read more)

GOP's Garton shows how self-preservation trumps Indiana's well-being          by Sheri Conover Sharlow

It's no surprise that the Republican General Assembly lacks the backbone to deliver the small government its party brags about.

Even their own party members must work around these political invertebrates if they hope to just slow the rate of growth.               (click to read more)

Bob "Lost in Liberalism" Dorr Says He Knows How To Celebrate Memorial Day          by Jeff "Mario" Smith, Guerilla Reporter    May 14th, in the Year of our Lord 2005

A friend whom I have the utmost respect for, a Marine Combat Viet Nam Veteran and a Police Officer, forwarded me an article from the liberal world of mainstream media, written by a wannabe American, who says he knows how to celebrate Memorial Day, but those of us who observe the Rolling Thunder POW MIA protest do not. You just have to love those mainstream liberal writers who seem to know so much more than the rest of us, don't you? Not!              (click to read more)

The Yankee September 11th        By Jonathan David Morris

In 2001, a few weeks after 9/11, the New York Yankees lost to the Arizona Diamondbacks in one of the most exciting World Series in years. A lot of people rooted for the Yankees that year—a sentimental favorite. But, my, how times have changed.

Last week, the Yanks stumbled into last place by losing a set to the Tampa Bay Devil Rays—just the latest in what’s quickly becoming a season of Yankee lows. All around the country, baseball fans are salivating. Dan Shanoff of Page 2 calls it “nationwide schadenfreud.” The Yanks have won four championships in the last ten years. And they have used their deep pockets to monopolize the free agent market in the last five. But here they are, your 2005 Yankees—with a 14-19 record as of this writing. People aren’t just happy the team is losing. They’re giddy over the chance to finally stick it to Yankee fans.               (click to read more)

"Several sections of the Constitution expressly grant Congress the authority to tax and spend money to establish military forces to defend the nation against its enemies.  Not one says anything about buying drugs for retired people. ... The president and many Republicans in Congress strongly advocate naming to the federal courts only judges who will be 'strict constructionists,' meaning they will apply the Constitution as it was written and ratified.  But do they practice 'strict construction'

themselves when it comes to creating and funding government programs?

You can search the Constitution looking for a clause that gives Congress the discretion to create a Education Department, and you will have no more luck finding it than you would finding the clause that mandates a federal prescription drug benefit." --Terence Jeffrey

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