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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)

 

“Fundamentally, there are only two ways of coordinating the economic activities of millions. One is central direction involving the use of coercion -- the technique of the army and of the modern totalitarian state. The other is voluntary cooperation of individuals -- the technique of the market place.”

— Milton Friedman

A Few Notes           By Theresa Fritz Camoriano

This week we are taking our baby off to college, so things have been frantic around here.  It is one of those major transitions in life, sending our youngest off to school.  We are excited for Nina but sad for her to leave home.  She is going to be a Virginia Tech Hokie, studying Mechanical Engineering and Spanish.  We are very proud of her and her accomplishments (I could brag for pages, but I’ll spare you), and we know she is well-prepared for college.  Still, we have those parental concerns.  Will she get enough sleep?  Will she eat healthy meals?  Will she enjoy herself too much?  Not enough?  Will she get along with her roommate?  How will we ever fit all her junk into the car?!               (click to read more)

Criminals and Human Progress           By Gordon F. Corbett

    Our developing abundance results from human freedom.  Human freedom results from respect for individual's rights, which, together, form a zone of ethical sovereignty protecting every person from human predation.

    Man lived in filth and penury for so long not only because he was ignorant, but also because tyrants took a great deal of his earnings and forbade him from thinking.  The resultant poverty and poor medicine limited human life-spans.                (click to read more)

Protesting The Protester – Statement from the Sheehan Family

The family of Casey Sheehan, an American soldier killed in Iraq in April, 2004, has broken their silence and spoken out against Sheehan's much-publicized mother, Cindy Sheehan, who has undertaken a vocal anti-war protest against President Bush outside Mr. Bush's Crawford, Texas, ranch.               (click to read more)

Vote denying smoking ban rekindles the flame of liberty        By Jim Waters of Bluegrass Institute

(Bowling Green, Kentucky) – Monday’s vote against a proposed smoking ban by the Cave City Council benefits both local citizens and those across the commonwealth.

Mayor Bob Hunt, who cast the tie-breaking vote, made it clear that smoking bans threaten private-property rights and the choices available to consumers.                (click to read more)

Terry’s Tidbits  August 15, 2005

A statement muttered by a Louisville Metro Council member to himself but overheard, “But I’m a mental patient, I’m supposed to act out.”

Smoking Ban

The Louisville smoking ban won’t rely on law enforcement to patrol our businesses looking for violators.  The Board of Health will enforce the ban.  Hey, the Board of Health has no official capacity to enforce anything.  But also consider that the Board of Health will not be scooting by the pub to catch you puffing on private property either.  They will rely on the good citizens of Louisville to turn in their neighbors, anonymously.  Remember when Hitler did this in Nazi Germany?  Where “turn in your neighbor” has been implemented in other communities, the enforcement authorities have been overrun with calls, most of them false alarms.  Those calls have been linked to smoke free organizations attempting to push for stronger bans by leading authorities to believe that there is rampant civil disobedience.  At the same time, the smoke nannies claim that smoking bans are being accepted “just fine”.               (click to read more)

SOCIAL SECURITY 70TH ANNIVERSARY: The Country Has Modernized, Time To Update Our Retirement System Too; Failure To Modernize In Last 70 Years Threatens Program, Under Serves Americans

From the Club For Growth

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Sunday's 70th anniversary of President Roosevelt's signing Social Security into law is a reminder that the failure to modernize Social Security over the last seven decades has created a situation where the nation faces dire consequences unless steps are taken now to reform the program and add increased ownership opportunities through personal retirement accounts.               (click to read more)

Who Cares What Her Son Believed. Cindy Sheehan has an Agenda.         By Justin Darr 

On April 4, 2004, Army Specialist Casey Sheehan died for his country and for what he believed.  After enlisting in the Army in 2000, Casey Sheehan reenlisted for a second tour knowing full well that he could be sent to fight in Iraq.  In late March, 2004, he was stationed with the 82nd Field Artillery Regiment as a mechanic.  Despite the fact Sheehan was in a noncombatant position with the Army, in his first week on base, Sheehan volunteered to go on a dangerous mission into the heart of the Iraqi insurgency in Sadr City and was killed in action.  These are the acts of a hero, not unlike thousands of others in the armed forces who sacrifice, and sometimes die, daily for our country.                 (click to read more)

“The only freedom which counts is the freedom to do what some other people think to be wrong. There is no point in demanding freedom to do that which all will applaud. All the so-called liberties or rights are things which have to be asserted against others who claim that if such things are to be allowed their own rights are infringed or their own liberties threatened. This is always true, even when we speak of the freedom to worship, of the right of free speech or association, or of public assembly. If we are to allow freedoms at all there will constantly be complaints that either the liberty itself or the way in which it is exercised is being abused, and, if it is a genuine freedom, these complaints will often be justified. There is no way of having a free society in which there is not abuse. Abuse is the very hallmark of liberty.” — Lord Hailsham, The Dilemma of Democracy

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