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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 hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office."

--Aesop

Why Stop With A Smoking Ban In Restaurants?          By Theresa Fritz Camoriano

          Several Louisville council members believe the metro area needs a serious smoking ban, and two of them have written an article explaining their position.  They compare a smoking ban to other restrictions government puts on businesses, saying:  “We require restaurants to meet health and safety codes. We require warning labels to be printed on dangerous consumer products.”  They also say, “You have the right to smoke, but you should not have the right to smoke where other people will be harmed by your decision to light up.” I would like to consider their arguments.          (click to read more)

Contrast, Conflict, and Victory           By Gordon F. Corbett

    When people know little of political philosophy, they need examples to see its effect.  To focus their attention on those examples, they need a reason;  and few things draw the attention like contrast and conflict.

    Many of us have friends who support one of the two ruling parties.  If we let them compare our ideas with their parties' leaders' thinking, they will see how the two philosophies contrast.  When they understand what makes ours superior, they will spread the word among their fellow "grass-rooters."  As more members see these contrasts, more will press their parties' moneyed backers to adopt our ideas.  When the backers refuse, the member-backer clash will generate still more contrast and induce still greater conflict.           (click to read more)

Proudly abhorrent to the ignorant and the evil          By Barry Bright

In June one of my state's premier ‘leftwing extremist’ publications, The Lexington Herald Leader, Lexington, Kentucky, ran a column on the front of its Sunday June 12 Opinion section by ‘former FBI agent Mike German who specialized in ‘domestic counterterrorism.’

German infers that Ku Klux Klan and militia groups are the same. Then he frets that some are ‘clandestine.’           (click to read more)

Unions, unite!          By Dr. D. Eric Schansberg

The AFL-CIO gathered this week to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the merger of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations. But there isn’t all that much to celebrate considering a half-century of declining union membership and, in recent decades, diminished political power.

To add insult to injury, a maverick group calling itself the “Change to Win Coalition” has decided to compete with the AFL-CIO. The leaders of this new group believe they have better strategies and promotional efforts. Unfortunately, the creation of this coalition will prove to be a blip in the long decline of private-sector unions rather than the pivotal moment its organizers anticipated.           (click to read more)

About The Pledge of Allegiance             By Rex Curry,  Attorney at Law

Another school year is here and it is time to teach students about their right not to chant the Pledge of Allegiance.  As a libertarian lawyer, I provide pro bono services in schools nationwide (& by this letter) to educate students and teachers about their right to reject robotic ritualism. Please help, and also inform everyone about my new historical discoveries:          (click to read more)

Terry’s Tidbits           By Terry Gray

August 1, 2005

EVIL TOOLS

Guns v. sticks, stun guns, pepper spray.  How many citizens today actually have to use stun guns or pepper spray for protection?  Though not typically lethal, they can be lethal in some circumstances.  Guns are not always lethal either.  A sweet knee shot or slug in the shoulder is sufficient to put down the baddies.            (click to read more)

"Thousands of innocent civilians such as [Theo] van Gogh have been murdered by Islamic extremists -- in Darfur, Gaza, India, Israel, Lebanon, London, Madrid, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippines, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey and the United States. The carnage gives credence to the adage that while the vast majority of Muslims are not terrorists, the vast majority of global terrorists most certainly are Muslims. The killers always allege particular gripes -- Australian troops in Iraq, Christian proselytizing, Hindu intolerance, occupation of the West Bank, theft of Arab petroleum, the Jews, attacks on the Taliban, the 15th-century reconquest of Spain, and, of course, the Crusades. But in most cases -- from Mohamed Atta, who crashed into the World Trade Center, to Ahmed Sheik, the former London School of Economics student who planned the beheading of Daniel Pearl, to Magdy Mahmoud Mustafa el-Nashar, the suspected American-educated bomb-maker in London -- the common bond is not poverty, a lack of education or legitimate grievance. Instead it is blind hatred instilled by militant Islam." --Victor Davis Hanson

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