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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)

 

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"I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample underfoot."

---Horace Greeley

It’s Your Property – Right?         By Theresa Fritz Camoriano  

The Supreme Court’s decision in Kelo vs. New London has upset a lot of people who are shocked to learn that governments have the right to force one private property owner to sell his property in order to benefit another private property owner.          (click to read more)

Creating the U.S. Constitution            By Henry Lamb

 James Madison arrived in Philadelphia two weeks before the Constitution Convention convened. In his satchel, he had the outline of what would become "The Virginia Plan." He knew how divided the Continental Congress was over the idea of convening a Constitution Convention. He knew first hand the deep division in his own Virginia Legislature.         (click to read more)

Report: Med-mal crisis hurts Kentucky

(Louisville, Kentucky) – Kentucky’s medical-malpractice dilemma is driving up health-care costs and forcing physicians to flee the Commonwealth. Expenditures related to medical malpractice have risen by a factor of 23 during the last 30 years and now soak every American for nearly $100 a year.          (click to read more)

Let demand determine price at pump           By Mr. George Dick

Kentucky Attorney General Greg Stumbo announced he intends to investigate and prosecute those who are “profiteering” from Hurricane Katrina.          (click to read more)

HSAs provide healthy alternatives        From the Bluegrass Institute

Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) are becoming more popular and offer Kentucky lawmakers a useful alternative when considering health-care plans for state workers.          (click to read more)

Borrowing, spending and counterfeiting          By Dr. Ron Paul

Few Americans understand how the Federal Reserve System enables Congress to spend far beyond its means, even though this cycle of spending and printing money affects all of us.          (click to read more)

THE LESSONS OF HURRICANE KATRINA           By Jeff Head

Over the last ten days I have, with the rest of America and the world, watched a horrific natural disaster and tragedy unfold. I say natural disaster because that is exactly what a hurricane is when it strikes humanity and destroys property and lives and leaves suffering in its wake, as hurricane Katrina did along the Gulf Coast last week.          (click to read more)

An answer to the Steve Forbes flat tax          By John William Kurowski, Founder American Constitutional Research Service

In a recent article, Steve Forbes contends that “A Flat Tax Would Unleash a Stupendous Economic Boom“.         (click to read more)

The Terrorists' Gaza Peace March              By Steve Stakem

In the United States, the news events making headlines center around the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and the confirmation hearings of Supreme Court Justice nominee John Roberts, among other things. The bigger story that isn't making the same headlines is in the Gaza Strip, where terrorists are setting up camp as if it were a field day.         (click to read more)

Gas, taxes and Middle East policy            By Dr. Ron Paul

My constituents in the Gulf Coast are very concerned about the price of gasoline, especially in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. The hurricane has left nine refineries along the Gulf Coast inoperable and reduced capacity at four others, which will mean the loss of 20 million to 40 million barrels of oil in coming months. Prices at the pump could reach more than $3 per gallon.          (click to read more)

Intelligent design efforts likely to fail        By E. RAY MOORE JR.

The current Supreme Court interpretation of the separation of church and state has allowed the public schools to ignore the long-held belief by most Americans that God is the Creator.         (click to read more)

Secrecy and Fidelity          By Gordon F. Corbett  

      The Bush Administration keeps a great many secrets, and some of those secrets and reasons even FBI whistleblower Colleen Rowley endorses.          (click to read more)

Thoughts On Health          By Jonathan David Morris

I don’t understand commercials for medicine anymore. I mean, I understand what they’re trying to say when they advertise a medication and list its possible side effects. I just don’t understand why they bother anymore.          (click to read more)

"Politicians and the media are furious about price increases in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. They want gas stations and water sellers punished. If you want to score points cracking down on mean, greedy profiteers, pushing anti-'gouging' rules is a very good thing. But if you're one of the people the law 'protects' from 'price gouging,' you won't fare as well... Any number of services---roofing, for example, carpentry, or tree removal---are in overwhelming demand after a disaster. When the time comes to rebuild New Orleans, it's safe to predict a shortage of local carpenters: The city's own population of carpenters won't be enough. If this were a totalitarian country, the government might just order a bunch of tradesmen to go to New Orleans. But in a free society, those tradesmen must be persuaded to leave their homes and families, leave their employers and customers, and drive from say, Wisconsin, to take work in New Orleans. If they can't make more money in Louisiana than Wisconsin, why would they make the trip? Some may be motivated by a desire to be heroic, but we can't expect enough heroes to fill the need, week after week; most will travel there for the same reason most Americans go to work: to make money. Any tradesman who treks to a disaster area must get higher pay than he would get in his hometown, or he won't do the trek. Limit him to what his New Orleans colleagues charged before the storm, and even a would-be hero may say, 'the heck with it.' If he charges enough to justify his venture, he's likely to be condemned morally or legally by the very people he's trying to help. But they just don't understand basic economics. Force prices down, and you keep suppliers out. Let the market work, suppliers come---and competition brings prices as low as the challenges of the disaster allow. Goods that were in short supply become available, even to the poor. It's the price 'gougers' who bring the water, ship the gasoline, fix the roof, and rebuild the cities. The price 'gougers' save lives."---John Stossel

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