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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)

 

The editor will be taking a much needed break. Our next issue will be June 27.  Enjoy!

"If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand."

--Milton Friedman

Life’s Little Ironies        By Theresa Fritz Camoriano

1.       Judicial filibuster – The same people who accuse judges of being extremists when they stick to the traditional letter of the law have suddenly become staunch traditionalists when it comes to the filibuster.  Amazing!               (click to read more)

Renewing public education begins with choice       Bluegrass Institute

An increasing number of Kentucky parents apparently believe that attaining a high-quality public education for their children is no longer achievable. The U.S. Census Bureau reports that parents have been leaving Kentucky’s public-school system and opting for home schooling or private schools faster than any other state in the nation.               (click to read more)

It’s a Wonderful Retirement?       D. Eric Schansberg

In the movie It’s a Wonderful Life, an angel shows a frustrated George Bailey how life would have been different if he had never lived. Most people are equally frustrated with the Social Security system. How would life be different if we didn’t have Social Security and it was newly proposed today in all of its glory. In a word, the idea would be rejected out-of-hand as ridiculous.               (click to read more)

Tax and Spending Reduction    Hijacking TABOR with a baseball bat         By Bluegrass Institute

Attacks on policies that limit government spending bring to mind words attributed to the baseball great Yogi Berra: “This is like déjà vu all over again.”

Colorado’s Taxpayers’ Bill of Rights (TABOR) is a success because it has successfully limited the growth of spending and has returned surplus revenues to taxpayers. TABOR has refunded $3.2 billion to its taxpayers and strengthened the Centennial State’s fiscal health.                (click to read more)

Islam – Religion of Peace?           by Mario
 
No surprises here for me, but I am sure that the average sheeple in
America believes the propaganda that Islam is a "religion of peace".
 
Recently, during a weekend in Lexington, KY where that radical racist
Louis Farakhan had a satellite broadcast at the Continental Inn and
muslims traveled from outlying communities to view it together, I was
followed by a muslim fellow and his hijab-laden gal. I did a "square"
pattern with my vehicle when I "made" them to see if indeed they
were following me, and sure enough, they followed my trail.                (click to read more)

Breaking the Filibuster is Not Enough.        By Justin Darr

Once in America the liberal agenda and its radical programs advanced unopposed.  Liberals held sway over the elected branches of government, and, over the course of decades, infected the judiciary system with cadres of like minded liberals who held their goals of forcibly restructuring American society superior to the welfare and will of the people.  Faced with an uncaring and unresponsive government, America’s conservative majority turned to the only tool left for them to affect government change, the ballot box.  Now, as the Conservative Revolution has swept Republicans into majority positions in the Federal and preponderance of state governments, liberals are making their last stand to prevent the will of the people from destroying the cancer they have grown in our judiciary.               (click to read more)

Punt, pass or go to jail   (Union corruption)       Bluegrass Institute

Let’s rid Kentucky of union mischief

Sharon Rosenthal of Appleton, Wis. had a choice: Turn over her Green Bay Packers’ tickets to charity or go to jail for stealing more than $3,000 from union accounts to pay her household expenses. She chose a football-free season.                (click to read more)

What I learned on the govt. school bus       Barry Bright

As a country kid I spent two hours a day on that big yellow instrument of torture some people call a school bus.

Often through my government school career I was one of the first if not the first to have to board that diesel-snorting, cold, hot, stinking, dangerous because it was often driven too fast on narrow roads, redneck-bully-filled monstrosity. So I usually avoid thinking about my term of imprisonment there.                (click to read more)

Clueless in Corbin      Bluegrass Institute

Kentucky taxpayers are already footing the bill for construction of a $12 million monstrosity known as the Southeastern Regional Agriculture and Exhibition Center. Corbin citizens should prepare themselves for a barrage of new taxes being considered by local politicians to pay for convention center’s maintenance costs.

No need to worry, say local officials.                (click to read more)

Real ID: A License to Kill       By Jonathan David Morris

Well, congratulations, America, you finally did it. You finally collapsed into absolute tyranny.

Last week, Congress defended freedom by sneaking the Real ID Act into an $82 billion military spending bill. The Real ID Act establishes a new set of federal standards for all state driver’s licenses, creating what some call a “de facto” national ID card. Ostensibly, this measure will aid Homeland Security in the war against terrorism. Rep. James Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.), who authored the act, notes that all but one of the September 11th hijackers “deliberately used valid driver’s licenses and state IDs,” because these documents allowed them to “avoid suspicion” at the airport. “Real ID would require all states to confirm… that visas are valid for foreign visitors,” Sensenbrenner says. It would also require that “a foreign visitor’s license term ends when the visa expires.”                (click to read more)

Rx for better understanding        By Kurt St. Angelo

A May 11 Indianapolis Star headline reads innocently enough: "Anti-meth law  has cut crime in Vigo County."

The article tells how a countywide ordinance beginning January 2005, which restricts sales of ephedrine and pseudoephedrine, has led to fewer methamphetamine labs seized in the county from 71 last year to 41 this year over the same four-month period.                (click to read more)

TERRY’S TIDBITS    

Melton Melting

Councilman George Melton has introduced a smoking ban ordinance for Louisville.  It includes restaurants and child care centers.  If you have been in a child care center in the last 5 years you’ll likely not find anyone smoking inside the building.  I couldn’t find a Kentucky Law about smoking in child care centers though I’ve been told that there is one.  However, if there is such a law then we don’t need an ordinance.  If there isn’t such a law then child care centers are monitoring themselves just fine and we don’t need an ordinance.  HEY, we don’t need an ordinance!                 (click to read more)

"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling, which thinks that nothing is worth war is worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature...." – John Stuart Mill

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