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	"Your Liberty is Our Interest"	September 12, 2005
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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)

"In order to discover new lands, one must be willing to lose sight of the shore for a very long time."

---Andre Gide

A Few Thoughts … By Theresa Fritz Camoriano

First, I want to apologize for a computer glitch I had, which caused me to lose many of the materials I was planning to use in this week’s issue of Jefferson Review. I am hoping I will be able to recover those documents in time for next week’s issue. However, in case I cannot recover them, if you had sent me any materials you wanted me to post and they are not in this issue, please re-send them to Editor@JeffersonReview.com. Thanks. Now, on with the thoughts… (click to read more)

Ghost-ly statistics on education By Christopher J. Derry

Persistent supporters of Kentucky’s faltering public-education system always seem to be on the prowl for statistics to support their lament that “our children would be better educated if we just had more money.” Such mythical journeys can easily be derailed by “ghost statistics” – well-intended numbers that just don’t exist.

If more education spending really yielded better results, then the $13,331 spent by the Washington, D.C. school district on each of its children would graduate the best students in the nation. Sadly, that school system’s dropout rates are way above average. (click to read more)

Another disaster for U.S.: 'Reform' at the U.N. By Henry Lamb

While the world is focused on the Katrina tragedy, historic events at the U.N. are going unnoticed. Next week, delegates from around the world will be asked to adopt the final draft of reform measures designed to strengthen an institution that should be dismantled.

How ironic is it that within days after the internal oil-for-food investigation revealed that the corruption reached to the highest levels, the same officials are demanding more power, under the banner of "reform." (click to read more)

Terry’s Tidbits By Terry Gray

September 12, 2005

As Seen on Contest Rules

“If a Canadian resident is chosen at random as the potential winner, the Canadian resident must correctly answer a skill-testing question within a two-minute limitation, without assistance of any kind, mechanical or otherwise, to win the prize.”

This kind of stuff certainly makes one proud to be from anywhere but Canada. (click to read more)

“I find no warrant for such an appropriation in the Constitution, and I do not believe that the power and the duty of the General Government ought to be extended to the relief of individual suffering which is in no manner properly related to the public service or benefit. A prevailing tendency to disregard the limited mission of this power and duty should, I think, be steadfastly resisted, to the end that the lesson should be constantly enforced that though the people support the Government the Government should not support the people.

The friendliness and charity of our countrymen can always be relied upon to relieve their fellow-citizens in misfortune. This has been repeatedly and quite lately demonstrated. Federal aid in such cases encourages the expectation of paternal care on the part of the Government and weakens the sturdiness of our national character, while it prevents the indulgence among our people of that kindly sentiment and conduct which strengthens the bonds of a common brotherhood.”— President Grover Cleveland, upon vetoing a bill appropriating money to aid drought-stricken farmers in Texas [February 16, 1887]

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"How should it happen that the individual should be without rights, but the combination of individuals should possess unlimited rights?" -Auberon Herbert

"Those who called early on for shooting looters on sight should have been listened to---not because property is more valuable than human life, but because when property isn't safe from marauders, human life isn't, either." ---Jeff Jacoby

“In a republic, the importance of the central government, seen as an economic parasite and a potential tyrant, is rightly minimized. By contrast, our democracy today, like all humanistic democracies before it, is nothing more than mob rule—the rule of the majority—where the federal government becomes a criminal, stealing from the productive and giving to the unproductive; where the government makes ungodly laws and politicians play God, relying ultimately upon the force of violence.” R.E. McMaster, Jr. in his book No Time For Slaves

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