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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)

 

If con is the opposite of pro, is Congress the opposite of progress?

What if?        By Theresa Fritz Camoriano

As I was hearing the news of hurricane Katrina heading into the Gulf of Mexico, I remembered how we used to track the hurricanes when I was in high school and lived near Houston.  We would watch the hurricane’s path and do our best to prepare as it appeared to be headed our way, boarding up the windows and preparing to leave for higher and safer ground farther inland.  My parents still live near the coast, so, of course, I was concerned about them, especially as I learned of the tremendous wind speeds of this latest hurricane.  Then, my mind wandered a bit, and I wondered whether it would ever be possible to harness the energy from hurricanes and tornadoes, converting them from dreaded forces of destruction to welcomed energy sources.  What kind of a device could be used to harness those winds and convert them into usable energy?  How could that energy be stored for later use?  I did a little searching to see what I could find on the subject, and I learned that people in Oregon now are doing research to harness the power of ocean waves, and a man in Florida thinks his polymer product might be able to take the punch out of hurricanes.            (click to read more)

Everyday Americans  Defending our Freedom        by Henry Lamb

Thunderstorms were forecast for most of northern Kentucky last Saturday. The temperature was in the 90s, and the humidity was dripping. At a little restaurant at an exit off I-75, about 40 miles south of Cincinnati, people began to assemble from across the state. A businessman from Louisville, another from Lexington, an elderly couple from downstate, and by noon more than 20 leaders of a statewide coalition called Take Back Kentucky settled in to do the business of a great nation.             (click to read more)

Wal-Mart: The Yankees of the Retail World         By D. Eric Schansberg

In sports, many people love to hate a successful team. The Yankees, Cowboys, and Lakers have a large number of avid fans, but they also have the most vocal opposing fans. It reminds me of Wal-Mart, its fans, and its critics. Wal-Mart is a company with more than a million satisfied workers, millions of eager owners (shareholders), and hundreds of millions of avid customers. But it’s also a company with a lot of enemies who have a surprising level of venom for it.             (click to read more)

School choice is coming! School choice is coming!        From the Bluegrass Institute

The Kentucky Alliance for School Choice is now part of an international movement experiencing dynamic growth – even across national boundaries.

Across the pond, British officials are planning changes in England’s education system that will offer parents more choices when it comes to sending their children to better schools.             (click to read more)

Check-out inefficiency, check-in privatization        By Joel Peyton

At the beginning of his tenure more than 18 months ago, Kentucky Parks Commissioner George Ward promised to revitalize the commonwealth’s park system and eliminate its annual $29 million deficit. The results have been mixed, at best.

The Department of Parks has made some good choices such as eliminating free rounds of golf for state employees. Allowing a private contractor to build and operate a new lodge at the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington was a good decision, too.             (click to read more)

The USA PATRIOT Act           By Gordon F. Corbett
(gordon@harborside.com)

    The USA PATRIOT Act is flagrantly un-Constitutional, and the safety of our rights demands its repeal.

    Take just one part:  the Act allows Federal policemen to demand records secretly with "national security letters" that are not search warrants.  The recipient of these "letters" must disclose to Federal authorities someone's private information and keep that disclosure secret from its owner.             (click to read more)

Tax reform is a shell game         By Congressman Ron Paul, M.D.

Tax reform is back in the news, brought to the political forefront by a recent meeting of an advisory panel assembled by the president. And once again, politicians are lamenting the complexity of our tax laws while completely ignoring the need to curb their big-spending appetites.

We’ve heard this song before. In fact, Americans have been promised a simpler, fairer and better income-tax system many times, including in 1986 and 1997 when Congress made some significant changes to the nation’s tax code. Yet the federal tax system remains an embarrassment, both in terms of the tax burden itself and the outrageous compliance costs caused by its complexity.             (click to read more)

THE SPACE ELEPHANT MEETS THE GAZELLE       By Rod D. Martin, 25 August 2005

How many problems does it take for “one of the most sophisticated systems ever produced by man” to become just another white elephant?

A lot of people have been asking that about the Space Shuttle lately.  But the Space Shuttle’s downward spiral started long, long ago.  In fact, it started in the Nixon Administration.            (click to read more)

Rebel for TEL!         From the Bluegrass Institute

Kentuckians should join the tax rebellion that is rising up throughout America in the form of tax and expenditure limitation (TEL) legislation.

TELs instill respect for taxpayers into states’ spending policies and force politicians to live under the same budgetary rules as the constituents they purport to represent. The spending restrictions built into TELs make it illegal for government to spend more than it takes in.             (click to read more)

The Presidency and Other Dinosaurs         By Jonathan David Morris

Let me tell you something. I’ve heard a lot of dumb questions in my time. Hell, I’ve asked a lot of dumb questions in my time. But, by far, the dumbest question I’ve heard all summer—and maybe all year—is this: Should George Bush meet with Cindy Sheehan, the grieving mother of a slain Iraq war vet who’s set up camp outside his Texas ranch? The answer to this question is, of course, yes. But whether he should or shouldn’t isn’t what makes this the dumbest question I’ve heard all summer. No, what makes it the dumbest question I’ve heard all summer is the idea that Americans think he has a choice. As far as I’m concerned, this issue has nothing to do with the Iraq war, nothing to do with Cindy Sheehan’s relative leftness, and everything to do with the general ineffectiveness of the presidency. Simply put, it’s an office which more and more looks to have outlived its use.             (click to read more)

Terry’s Tidbits        By Terry Gray

August 29, 2005

“Where is it written in the Constitution that you may take children from their parents, and parents from their children, and compel them to fight the battles of any war in which the folly or wickedness of government may engage it?”  Daniel Webster

Bonzo IS in Washington

          I’ve got some questions and some input for George Bush.  First let me say that I’m a registered Republican with reservations.  I don’t buy most of the garbage that the Republican politicians spit out, but I don’t like most Democrats.  Libertarians can’t get elected because the Big 2 lock them out.  So in essence I’m a Libertarian in Republican clothing.            (click to read more)

“Most of the major ills of the world have been caused by well-meaning people who ignored the principle of individual freedom, except as applied to themselves, and who were obsessed with fanatical zeal to improve the lot of mankind-in-the-mass through some pet formula of their own. The harm done by ordinary criminals, murderers, gangsters, and thieves is negligible in comparison with the agony inflicted upon human beings by the professional do-gooders, who attempt to set themselves up as gods on earth and who would ruthlessly force their views on all others – with the abiding assurance that the end justifies the means.” -- Henry Grady Weaver, The Mainspring of Human Progress

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