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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 cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home."

--Edward Murrow

The Trouble With Principles          By Theresa Fritz Camoriano

1.       Judges - It is a pity that the left chose to take the path of corrupting the legal system in order to advance its agenda, but, having taken that route, it is now in a bit of a pickle.  How can leftists demand that a judge respect legal precedent (prior court decisions), when their entire agenda has been advanced based on judges’ ignoring precedent and, indeed, ignoring the law itself?  If a judicial nominee refuses to discuss his personal political views, saying that they are irrelevant to his job, which, indeed they should be if he is an ethical judge, then what can they say or do?  It will be interesting to see. (click here to read more)

Swimming in red ink         By The Bluegrass Institute

One of our principles of sound public policy affirms: “Nobody spends somebody else’s money as well as he spends his own.” Knott County Kentucky has a cement pond and the missing funding to prove it.

When construction began on a county swimming pool last year, Knott County officials estimated it would cost $464,000. The price tag has since risen to $1.2 million. A building and bowling alley that were included in the project do not exist. The pool, which is only 4 feet deep at its deepest point, is about the size of a handball court. (click here to read more)

‘Blighted’ ruling endorses plunder        By Dr. Jefferson G. Edgens

Most of us learned in kindergarten that taking something belonging to one and giving it to another is called stealing. At the top of a list of people we would least expect to be guilty of such an undertaking would be the justices on our nation’s Supreme Court.

But that’s exactly what happened when this august body recently ruled that the elected officials of New London, Conn. could loot Susette Kelo’s home as part of an economic-development plan for the benefit of nearby pharmaceutical giant Pfizer. (click here to read more.)

A rose by any other name smells the same          by Kurt St. Angelo

A new report from the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA) at Columbia University suggests that makers and sellers of legal prescription drugs are more dangerous to society than their illegal counterparts.

More than 15 million Americans - 1 in every 20 - abuse prescription drugs. These drugs include pain relievers such as OxyContin and Vicodin, central nervous system depressants such as Xanax and Valium, and stimulants including Adderall and Ritalin. There is almost twice the number of admitted prescription drug abusers today as in 1992. More Americans abuse prescription drugs than illegal cocaine, hallucinogens, heroin and inhalants combined. (click here to read more)

Conspiracy Theories          By Gordon F. Corbett

    Here are some basic facts about conspiracy theories.

    Conspiracy theories connect a few known historical facts to show that powerful men have caused unpleasant political or economic events.  This idea has some basic plausibility, because life teaches that any great change requires considerable effort from many people.  The secret is knowing how to "connect the dots," and knowing which dots connect properly with which. (click here to read more)

School choice on trial         By The Bluegrass Institute

School-choice opponents are turning to the courts to protect their own self-centered interests at the expense of genuine education reform.

Antagonists have advanced a legal challenge of Florida’s A+ Opportunity Scholarship Program to the Sunshine State’s Supreme Court. Thus far detractors have been unable to discredit the improved test scores and graduation rates that the program has produced. Instead, they have resorted to legal arguments designed to deny parents this valuable choice. (click here to read more)

Should you fear school choice?       By Andrew J. Coulson

You probably oppose school vouchers. On the other hand, you probably support school vouchers. These are the conflicting results of two different public-opinion poll questions published in recent months.

When the education magazine Phi Delta Kappan asked, “Do you favor or oppose allowing students and parents to choose a private school to attend at public expense?” just over half the public said it was opposed. A poll conducted by the Milton and Rose Friedman Foundation asked the same question and got the same answer. (click here to read more)

The Flag Burning Argument   by Jeff “Mario” Smith, Guerilla Reporter

Never, in this alleged Constitutional Republic, where the free expression of ideas and thoughts is highly revered, is a discussion more completely and utterly perverted than in the flag burning or flag desecration argument. When a builder frames a house, he does not use toothpicks, he uses strong wood or steel, and sets that framing hardware into concrete. Why then, have we as a people, allowed communist pawns at the ACLU, and elsewhere, to pervert “free speech” into including something they call “expressive behavior”? (click here to read more)

The right to work … without a fee           By The Bluegrass Institute

If labor unions really cared about workers’ rights, they would stop attempting to force people to pay union dues as a condition of employment. Each individual should be free to choose where he works and what groups he supports without coercion.

Kentucky policymakers could end union aggression by enacting right-to-work legislation, which would both increase workers’ freedoms and strengthen the commonwealth’s economy. In fact, Kentucky remains the only state in the South without the protections afforded by right-to-work laws. (click here to read more)

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