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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)

 

“Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the forms of kings to govern him? Let history be the answer to this question.”

— Thomas Jefferson

Texas Gulf Coast Evacuee Wins Racewalk Competition          By Theresa Fritz Camoriano

Austin, Texas – After spending 29 hours in bumper-to-bumper traffic from Wednesday evening until Friday morning trying to evacuate her home in Alvin, Texas, eighty-year-old Terry Fritz was very tired.  However, that did not stop her from competing in the Texas Senior Olympics 1500 meter racewalk in Austin on Saturday morning – and winning the gold medal!          (click here to read more)

Pass the pork, please        From the Bluegrass Institute

(Bowling Green, Kentucky) – The destruction left behind by Hurricane Katrina has opened a floodgate of sympathy and support from individuals across the United States. A growing number of people are urging Congress to eliminate egregious earmarks included in the $295 billion Highway Bill and redirect funds to assist in hurricane-relief efforts.           (click here to read more)

Take Back Kentucky Proposes Solution to Eminent Domain Abuse           By Theresa Fritz Camoriano

Frankfort, Kentucky -  Last week, several members of Take Back Kentucky testified before the state legislature’s Judiciary Committee in support of a proposal to amend the state’s eminent domain law.  The U.S. Supreme Court decision of Kelo vs. New London has raised public awareness of some of the abuses of eminent domain law, and Rep. Gross Lindsay, Chairman of the Judiciary Committee, indicated that the committee is interested in changing the law in order to reduce the opportunity for abuse.            (click here to read more)

We Must Abolish the Draft!           By Gordon F. Corbett

    Truth reveals reality, and learning reality promotes survival.  We learn truth with our minds, and this independent discovery makes truth every tyrant’s Nemesis.

    Tyrants pursue twisted hopes and crooked dreams through the exercise of power.  They obtain it, they keep it, and they expand its reach, by keeping their victims ignorant.  Only truth renders these criminals impotent.           (click here to read more)

Bluegrass Institute Celebrates Its Second Anniversary        By Theresa Fritz Camoriano

When Chris Derry founded the Bluegrass Institute for Public Policy Solutions two years ago, he could not have imagined how effective the organization would be in such a short time.  Last week, the Bluegrass Institute celebrated its second birthday with a party in Bowling Green, complete with a cake and two hundred  well-wishers from all over Kentucky, including a large group of supporters from Northern Kentucky, who chartered a bus for the event.          (click here to read more)

Perhaps America Should Act Like the United Nations.         by Justin Darr

Here is a quick “Final Jeopardy” question for you: “Name an organization that within the last year has been found complicit in child molestation and prostitution, abandoning hundreds of thousands of civilians to genocide because they are not Muslim, summarily terminating the employment of those who wrote a book outlining the organization’s systematic patterns of abuse, actively working to obstruct an investigation that proved that its employees where taking bribes and kickbacks from funds intended to feed women and children, and still receives the praises of those who feel America should yield its national sovereignty over to it.”          (click here to read more)

Home schooling grows in popularity         From The Bluegrass Institute

Many parents who are dissatisfied with the poor quality of public education have decided to take matters into their own homes. According to the U.S. Department of Education, the number of home-schooled students across the nation grew by 29 percent between 1999 and 2003.          (click here to read more)

International Communists Focusing on LEFTington, KY         By Jeff "Mario" Smith, Guerilla Reporter

September 20, 2005

LEFTington, KY:   We call it LEFTington because that is the political direction the town has been traveling for the last several years. Radical leftists and liberals of all flavors have established their beloved "grass roots" organizations and are working together to accomplish all their individual tasks. From their appearances at several LFUCG Council meetings with their Birkenstocks and bongo drums, one can only imagine what kind of "grass roots" they are utilizing.          (click here to read more)

Squeeze taxpayers’ dimes harder           By Joel Peyton

Frugal families on tight budgets who squeeze the dime hard throughout the year often accumulate surpluses at the end of their fiscal years. Some families will undoubtedly blow the money on frivolous items; thrifty ones will likely save or invest the leftover funds in case of an emergency next year.           (click here to read more)

Like Rabid Dogs          By Jeff “Mario” Smith, Guerilla Reporter

September 22, 2005

“The SEAL waited several minutes longer before easing out from his hiding place and moving quickly to the structure’s rear window. He pulled himself through the window, moved briskly across the room, and quickly grabbed a fistful of documents from a pile of papers strewn across a table. Without examining what he had picked up, he backed out through the window into the darkness, then made his way back to where the Boss and the RTO had set up their listening post.”          (click here to read more)

Terry’s Tidbits         By Terry Gray

 “Money is truthful. If a man speaks of his honor, make him pay cash.”

Dutch Proverb          (click here to read more)

In Search of Jonathan David Morris           By Jonathan David Morris

I got an email over the weekend from someone who works for Fox News, whose name is Jonathan David Morris. He said he was writing just to let me know that there’s another guy in the media who goes by the same name as me. I’m not sure how I feel about this.

Actually, I know exactly how I feel about it. It makes me feel like less of a person.           (click here to read more)

"We are now reaping the benefits of a welfare state. For more years than most can remember, we have been told by those holding office that they will take care of us. We have provided food, clothing and shelter to the extent that the recipients became entirely dependent on government resources to live. They have reached the point that no longer do they have the knowledge to take care of themselves. They will sit there and drown or go hungry, and curse the fact that the government has not gotten them out of this mess. When it is all said and done, there is but one person who is responsible for me, and that is me. The responsibility falls to me to take care of my family, not the government. Society, not government, has an obligation to provide care and sustenance to those who, because of age or physical impairment cannot take care of themselves, but able-bodied people who stand around and complain that no one is doing anything for them deserve whatever the fates cast in their direction. Life is hard, and you either get tougher or you get washed away---it is as simple as that. Politicians will never, ever take care of you---they only want one thing from you, and that is to stay in power as long as they can. In a situation like Katrina, they will stand in front of the cameras and microphones and denigrate everyone above them in government to take the eye off of their pathetic efforts. This is a situation that they have created, and now the good citizens of the area will have to step in and clean up the mess that has been created by the politicians. It won't happen overnight, but it will happen---there are too many good people who live in that area for it not to happen. I love the people of New Orleans and the surrounding parishes, but I despise the politicians... I just hope that when the area is rebuilt, they stay away from the massive welfare system they had before---absolutely no good comes from welfare. It depletes available resources, making it ever more difficult for what passes as government to respond to the true needs of the community."---Robert Johnson, retired NOPD captain

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