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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)

 

Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.

— Will Rogers

Dangerous Activities          By Theresa Fritz Camoriano

How do the “intelligentsia” or “smart people” decide which dangerous activities they will praise, which they will disdain, and which they will make illegal?    

While the “smart people” claim to be motivated by concern for public health and safety, their contradictory positions make it clear that they really have a completely different agenda.  For example, they make celebrities of people who do things that are very dangerous, like rowing a boat across the Atlantic Ocean, climbing a sheer, snow-covered cliff, or riding a bicycle along narrow, winding roads next to fast-moving cars, while, at the same time, they make it illegal for us to drive our cars safely if we are not wearing our seatbelts.  Does this sound like someone whose primary motivation is public safety?      (click to read more)

Louisville council members should ignore misinformation, embrace Engle’s compromise       By Bluegrass Institute

(Bowling Green, Kentucky) – As Louisville Metro Council members prepare to vote on a proposed smoking ban, they should focus on the true impact of their decisions instead of misinformation and scare tactics.

Valid studies performed by competent economists confirm that oppressive regulations are bad for business. Economist Dr. Richard Thalheimer performed a rigorous study addressing the effects of a smoking ban in Lexington and concluded that there was a substantial drop in the sale of alcohol in bars and restaurants following enactment of the ban.       (click to read more)

A Citizen's Rights and Foreign Policy            by Gordon F. Corbett

    Righteous foreign policy, like proper domestic policy, has only one purpose:  the protection of every citizen's rights.  Unhappily, few Administrations in our country have hewed to this objective.

    Wilson's, Franklin Roosevelt's, and both Bushes' foreign policies are essentially identical.  All, in one way or another, worked or work at building and asserting the power of America's Establishment.  They use any tactic or stratagem that will advance those goals, always ostensibly to serve beneficent goals.       (click to read more)

Who Is The Victim of My Crime?        by Shawn Jacobs

Independence, KY

On Saturday September 7, 2002 while driving my family back from the library, I was ticketed by Lt. Jeanette Benett in Lafayette, IN for not wearing a seat belt. We were actually stuck in construction traffic at the time and moving 5’ every 5 minutes. The police officer was walking down the line of traffic and saw us without a seat belt. She told us to pull over and issued me a ticket for driving without having my seat belt on. The whole thing caught me by surprise. I was shocked that I could be pulled over for nothing other than not having a seat belt on. I felt my rights had been violated.       (click to read more)

Fair play on Kentucky’s links      By the Bluegrass Institute

By eliminating free golfing as a perk for state officials and charitable groups, Kentucky’s Department of Parks has demonstrated an act of government responsibility nearly as uncommon as a hole in one. No longer will a select few be able to slice and hook at taxpayers’ expense.

Until January, it was a common – and increasingly costly – practice for state parks to offer free golf to park employees and their guests, charities and even public officials. A 2002 study found that Kentucky’s parks were giving away 32,000 rounds of golf at a cost of $500,000 each year.      (click to read more)

Review of Cloning of the American Mind" Eradicating Morality Through Education  by Beverly Eakman          Reviewed by Jeff “Mario” Smith

Beverly Eakman, or B. K. Eakman, is a prolific writer. She is extremely intelligent to the point her book has to be "studied" while it is read, at least when I read it, because I prefer to completely understand what I am reading and not skim read. The war against Liberty, Christianity, Morality, and America is being waged by people who practice mind control. The service she has provided us through this book and the research she has done to write it is priceless!      (click to read more)

CAFTA Battle Rages in Congress –         by Bernie Kunkel

          This article points out: The Bush administration has been clear that it sees CAFTA approval as essential to building momentum for approval of the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), which would include all the nations of our Western Hemisphere.      (click to read more)

Is America Becoming a Big Israel?          by Jeff "Mario" Smith, Guerilla Reporter

All my life, I have been inundated with images of Israelis being blown to bits on buses and in cafes. I have seen many a picture or video of a typical city street in Israel where there are men walking around with automatic Uzi sub-machine guns "protecting the public". I am a believer in the right to protect oneself with armed resistance, both from bad people and from tyrannical government, so knowing that all Israelis live as armed citizens, the Uzi images didn’t bother me so much, that is, until now.      (click to read more)

Canadian healthcare is painful         By the Bluegrass Institute

While many Americans clamor for more government involvement in health care, some Canadian citizens want less.  

Reflecting that sentiment, Canada’s Supreme Court recently struck down a Quebec law banning private medical insurance on the grounds that the nation’s universal public health care system could not guarantee “reasonable” medical service.      (click to read more)

New Bill of Rights needed to protect Kentucky taxpayers

Recent mischief by politicians in the state of Washington substantiates the need for a Taxpayers’ Bill of Rights (TABOR) to rein in irresponsible, big-spending government.

Not only did Washington’s lawmakers vote to reduce the number of votes needed to raise taxes – from a two-thirds majority to a simple one – they then proceeded to approve additional spending and $500 million in new taxes.       (click to read more)

Terry’s Tidbits         By Terry Gray

July 18, 2005

"Say what you want about the Nazis, but no woman has ever had a fantasy about being tied up and beaten by a man dressed as a liberal." -- P.J. O'Rourke

Free This

I’m sick to death of hearing about “Free Speech Zones”, “Gun Free Zones”, “Drug Free Zones”, “Smoke Free Zones”, and all the other “Free” zones. This is America. You cannot legislate away our right to freedom by giving us a zone to be free or not free, as the case may be. From Massachusetts to Key West, from Virginia to California, this is a free land. Don’t try to appease me by giving me a little plot of fenced off real estate to exercise my 1st amendment. Don’t try to appease me by giving me an outside smoking patio. Don’t tell me that weapons have to be controlled; weapons are controlled, by the Constitution for the United States of America and by the people who choose to own them.       (click to read more)

If, in the opinion of the people, distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way which the Constitution designates. But let there be no change by usurpation; for though this, in one instance, may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed. The precedent must always greatly overbalance in permanent evil any partial or transient benefit which the use can at any time yield. — George Washington

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