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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)

 

"One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors."

--Plato

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 It’s Good To Be Home!        By Theresa Fritz Camoriano

It has been nice to take a month off from Jefferson Review – to enjoy our daughter Nina’s high school graduation (with lots of honors and awards) and to take our family on a trip to Italy to trace our roots, see lots of interesting places, and connect with some ancient history.  I didn’t read a newspaper or write a patent application for two weeks, and it was nice to see that the world managed to go on just fine without me!  It is great to be home and to recognize the great advantages we have in the U.S. as compared with more socialist Europe, but we need to work to keep those advantages and even, with luck, to recover some that have already been lost.  I see several issues crying for some commentary, so here goes:  .....

To own or be owned: That is the question       By Lawrence W. Reed

In coming months, and probably years, President Bush’s “Ownership Society” proposals – in particular, his plans for personal accounts within Social Security, health savings accounts and more school choice – will stimulate national discussion in directions politicians have feared to tread for decades. This development should be seen as an opportunity to remind the American public of some critically important truths. .....

Louisville Air Pollution Issues       By John Riley

The Air Pollution Control District, headed by Art Williams, for far too many years ignored the air pollution complaints from the people in Rubbertown and West Louisville. There have been some very valid concerns about the toxic air pollution in that area.  Why then did Art Williams ignore it?  Why did the APCD insist on keeping the VET program while ignoring the citizens of Rubbertown and West Louisville?  .....

LOUISVILLE AIR POLLUTION MEETING       By W. Ed Parker

Primarily Environmental People and Media People attended the meeting.

Most of those above held the Viewpoint that Jefferson County does not need any Industries. As some pointed out to me, "Things would be better without them, and down the road some time everything would be fine"......

Alliance hopes school-choice petition drive will net 100,000 signatures, legislation

(Bowling Green, Kentucky) – Organizers of a new school-choice petition drive say parents, not zip codes, should determine where Kentucky’s children attend public and nonpublic schools. And when parents choose a new school, state funding should follow the child to the school of the parents’ choosing.

Kentucky Alliance for School Choice, a coalition of parents, civic organizations and business groups, is working to secure the signatures of 100,000 parents across the state by Oct. 1. .....

Homeowners Lose Eminent Domain Case     Institute for Justice Warns: Supreme Court Leaves Homeowners Vulnerable To Tax-Hungry Bureaucrats & Land-Hungry Developers

Washington, D.C.- Today, the U.S. Supreme Court delivered a blow to home and small business owners throughout the country by allowing the government to use eminent domain to take homes so that businesses can make more money off that land and possibly pay more taxes as a result.

The Institute and its clients issued the following statements after learning of today’s decision. .....

Eminent domain ruling ‘disastrous’

(Bowling Green, Kentucky) – A ruling handed down today by the Supreme Court paves the way for local governments to seize private property and hand it over to developers and other businesses. In a 5-4 decision, the court ruled that the possibility of increased tax revenues justifies the use of eminent domain to snatch homes so that businesses can make more money off that land......

A truce in the smoking wars        By Jim Waters

Instead of working toward a reasonable compromise, Kentucky’s health police have started a war on smokers with the force of government being the preferred weapon of choice. Frankfort increased the cigarette tax by nearly 1,000 percent and two cities, Lexington and Georgetown, have now passed prohibitive smoking bans. .....

Are we sick enough yet?        by Kurt St. Angelo

Users of medical marijuana took some blows recently, and not just from their vaporizers.

On June 6, the United States Supreme Court upheld federal authority over marijuana, even in states where its use for medical purposes is legal. On June 15, the U.S. House of Representatives defeated, by a vote of 161-264, an amendment that would have stopped the executive branch from arresting and prosecuting medical marijuana patients and providers......

Privatization will work well in Indiana         by Kenn Gividen

Barely five months into his term in office, and Gov. Mitch Daniels has already reneged on a key campaign promise. 'Buy Indiana," he said, and 'sell Indiana." Daniels made a commitment to voters that their tax dollars would go to Hoosier-based businesses. But the administration has signed a contract to send $258 million to Philadelphia......

Cheetos or choice?        By Jim Waters

Now that Kentucky’s legislators have passed a law demanding better nutritional options for students, will they recognize with equal fervor the need of offering parents a choice when it comes to the type of education those children receive? .....

Anti-smoking nightmare on Main Street        By Jim Waters

Like a recurring nightmare, anti-smoking extremists keep popping up in communities across Kentucky as part of a well-funded campaign that threatens the constitutional rights of private property owners. Their latest target is Georgetown, where elected officials are considering enacting Kentucky’s most oppressive smoking ban. .....

Huge Success: First Annual WV Veterans Reunion         by Jeff “Mario” Smith, Guerilla Reporter

The weather was perfect, the ceremony was well done, the food, campsites, and showers were plentiful and free, and the townspeople of Rainelle, WV, led by coordinator Monica Venable, welcomed us with open arms…again. Again? What do you mean again? Wasn’t this the First annual WV Veteran’s reunion you say? Yes, it was, but the good people of Rainelle, WV have been hosting the KY Run For The Wall group for the past 17 years on the Thursday before Memorial Day Weekend, as we traveled to DC for Rolling Thunder. .....

LEFTington KY Continues to Argue Nanny-State Smoking Ban         By Jeff “Mario” Smith, Guerilla Reporter

Yesterday evening, in front of an almost full council chamber, LEFTington’s smoking ban review panel heard from the public one last time. This was billed as a time to present recommendations to amend this nanny-state attack against freedom and personal choice. The LEFTington Fayette Urban County Council www.lfucg.com has already passed a countywide smoking ban in all public businesses. .....

Liberalism’s Ultimate Goal:  The Destruction of Christianity Through Social Security.          By Justin Darr

Would you let your child go fishing alone with a known child molester?  Why not?  The answer is simple enough:  because patterns of behavior are called “patterns of behavior” for a reason, and once someone does something once, they are likely to do it again.  Evil people do evil things over and over. .....

Liberals Think Democracy Has A Reset Button.        By Justin Darr

A few years back, I was watching my son play little league baseball.  This is not the little league you and I might remember where a few of the older kids would pitch to you with the coach standing behind them, but our new liberalized “T-Ball” little league where the kids get to stand up at the plate and cut away at a stationary ball ad infinitum until they hit it and get to run to base.  On this day the unthinkable happened.  A boy hit the ball, and a player actually caught it, turned and made a strong throw to first base, and to all the parents’ shock and joy, the first baseman caught the ball long before the batter reached the bag.  Now, back in the days when conservative Neanderthals ruled the Earth, this would have been called an “out.”  But not so today in America’s “enlightened” youth athletic programs.  No, this was called a “nothing.”  The boy was returned to the plate so he could have another chance to bat and achieve the “proper” outcome of him getting to run the bases like everyone else.   It is not like they keep score or anything, so who cares?  .....

Smoke For Jesus      By Jonathan David Morris

Tuesday, June 14, 2005

Last week, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of pain. And not just pain, but severe, crippling pain—the kind of pain you wouldn’t wish on your worst enemy.

For years, people in less than a dozen states have been smoking medical marijuana to help cope with such things as brain tumors and multiple sclerosis. The federal government, however, sees such attempts at pain relief as selfish. These people are undermining the war on drugs, the feds say. And, last week, the Supreme Court agreed. In a 6-3 ruling, the court confirmed that federal anti-drug laws overrule state medical marijuana laws. Federal power is far more important than some cancer-havin’ stoner’s excruciating pain. So now the feds can feel free to bust anyone who smokes, grows, prescribes, or distributes medical marijuana, even if they live in one of the few states where doing so was approved democratically. .....

Speech-restricting policy presents the real danger    Either INDOT thinks Hoosiers are hapless or safety is its excuse to silence opponents       by Sheri Conover Sharlow

Police officers stopped Thomas Tokarski and Brandon Hill before they could enter the public forum sponsored by the Indiana Department of Transportation......

The Bluegrass Digest  Volume 3, No 6

Tax and Spending Reduction: Taxpayers blitzed by stadium funding plans

     Will Kentuckians be asked to subsidize yet another monument to special interests?.....

Terry’s Tidbits         By:  Terry Gray

Like Freedom?  Make Noise.

“Bust / Massive arrest by the state - When US police go on rampage and incarcerate large numbers of people during the "War on Drugs" it is considered a great victory ... When China arrests large numbers of people for trying to bring down the government, it is considered to be a barbaric act against basic human rights.”.....

Can the law — which necessarily requires the use of force — rationally be used for anything except protecting the rights of everyone? I defy anyone to extend it beyond this purpose without perverting it and, consequently, turning might against right...

Here I encounter the most popular fallacy of our times. It is not considered sufficient that the law should guarantee to every citizen the free and inoffensive use if his faculties for physical, intellectual and moral self-improvement. Instead, it is demanded that the law should directly extend welfare, education, and morality throughout the nation.

This is the seductive lure of socialism. And I repeat again: These two uses of the law are in direct contradiction to each other. We must choose between them. A citizen cannot at the same time be free and not free.

— Frédéric Bastiat, The Law [1850]

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