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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)

 

Our next issue will be October 17th, 2005

"Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purpose is beneficent."

---Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis

The Law As A Sword and Arena Magic            By Theresa Fritz Camoriano

1.         The Law As A Sword - The law is supposed to be a shield, protecting us against aggressors and defrauders.  However, as we have created more and more laws to try to regulate all aspects of people’s behavior, the law has become a sword – something that can be wielded aggressively against people who have not done anything that we would all understand to be objectively wrong.  There are so many laws today, and they have become so complex, that all of us, if we are breathing, are probably violating at least one of them.             (click to read more)

Time to sell federal land          By Henry Lamb
 

The only thing about which Democrats and Republicans can agree these days is the astronomical cost of rebuilding the storm-ravaged Gulf Coast. Estimates, on either side of the political aisle, reach into the hundreds of billions of dollars. How to pay these costs is a question fueling heated debate inside both parties.              (click to read more)

Kentucky House Speaker frees up voting records of General Assembly

(Bowling Green, Ky.) – After months of mounting pressure from the Bluegrass Institute, Kentucky House Speaker Jody Richards told the Bowling Green Daily News in a story published Tuesday (“Think tank in dispute over records”) that he will push for legislators’ votes to be posted online.              (click to read more)

Afterthoughts on the Aftermath of the New Orleans Flood         By D. Eric Schansberg 

A month after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, the debacle of the ineffective levees surrounding New Orleans, and the disappointment with the government’s relief efforts, let’s look back at the lessons we should have learned from this disaster.

The disaster was much more about the flood than the hurricane. Many people seem to be missing this point. The over-estimation of Hurricane Rita’s predicted impact is one symptom. Another side-effect is that, relatively speaking, the damage wrought by Katrina outside of New Orleans was ignored by the media. When we think about the devastation of hurricanes, unfortunately, we’re far more likely to remember flooded New Orleans than flattened coastal Mississippi.              (click to read more)

Smoking bans cloud free market's ability to thrive         By Aaron L. Morris

Smoking and health concerns

The harmful effects of cigarettes on smokers have been well documented since the 1950s.

Health officials, doctors and government agencies have long cautioned that cigarettes cause numerous cancers, emphysema, chronic bronchitis and obstructive pulmonary disorders, among other ailments. Despite warning labels and public campaigns, many smokers continue to accept the health risks and simply light up.              (click to read more)

Tony Blair backs away from Kyoto          by Henry Lamb

The most important news to emerge from Bill Clinton's "Global Initiative," was a statement from Tony Blair that the mainstream media completely ignored. Blair, a long time advocate of the Kyoto Protocol, told the star-studded gathering that "My thinking has changed in the past three or four years. No country is going to cut its growth" to accommodate Kyoto, or any other climate change treaty.              (click to read more)

Peirce Stands With Norwood Residents, Launches Save Our Homes Eminent Domain Amendment for 2006

Dr. Bill Peirce, Libertarian candidate for Ohio Governor has launched the "Save Our Homes" Committee to promote an Ohio Constitutional amendment protecting homeowners from eminent domain abuse.

In the recent US Supreme Court decision, Kelo v. New London, the justices decided that homes can be taken by the government and given to private developers if they expect to earn higher property taxes.             (click to read more)

Terry’s Tidbits            By Terry Gray

October 3, 2005

“The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.”  Brooks Atkinson

Tobacco Persecution

          The first European to be persecuted for smoking tobacco was Rodriguo de Jerez, one of the dudes on the 1492 Columbus voyage to the new world.  It seems that Roddy was introduced to tobacco by native Cubans during an exploratory mission inland.  He took some leaves back to Spain with him and during the voyage began a habit of smoking a “cigar” every day.  Back in Spain he made the mistake of lighting up in public and was thrown in prison for 3 years.  He was the first victim of anti-smokers’ hate campaigns.             (click to read more)

2 States, 22 Observations            (author unknown)

Things I have noticed while watching media coverage of the recent hurricanes.

1. Texas: Productive industrious state run by Republicans.

    Louisiana: Government dependent welfare state run by Democrats.             (click to read more)

Andwan’s Collection of Campfire Tales

1^st Adventure – Andwan’s Samhain Fright

By Andwan Wingsweep

Chapter One

            I stood in the middle of a gaggle of my peers.  All of them were in their late teens and early twenties.             (click to read more)

A Marriage Made In Heaven (Heaven, In This Case, Being Fenway Park)            By Jonathan David Morris

Ever since the days of George Washington—who, little known fact, owned a giant foam finger and once ate his weight in ballpark hot dogs—no true, blue-blooded American man has gone to meet his maker without first sitting behind home plate at Fenway for a Yankees-Red Sox game. A few weeks ago, my father-in-law called me with four free tickets and a chance to do just that. And not for just any Yankees-Red Sox game, either, but a final-series-of-the-season Yankees-Red Sox game—a game that may well decide which team wins the AL East and a spot in the postseason this year. Well, suffice it to say, I immediately started making funeral arrangements, prepared to come back from Boston and die a happy man—not to mention a solid American.              (click to read more)

“The Hunter Medical Research Institute says the study aims to identify the causes of inflammation in the airways of children with asthma and the results will be compared to the lung functions of healthy children.             (click to read more)

Jay Leno...  We had a huge rain storm here in Los Angeles yesterday. Lightening, thunder---it's tough living in Beverly Hills when it rains. Nobody from FEMA shows up. You know, I think George Bush doesn't care about rich, white people. ... Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton has announced that she has decided to vote against the nomination of John Roberts for the Supreme Court. She said it was a matter of conscience. And when she explained this to Bill he said, "A matter of what?" ... John Kerry said he was never clear about where John Roberts stood on the issues and for that reason he's not voting for him. That's the same reason Roberts didn't vote for Kerry. ... In an announcement today President Bush said all federal workers should travel less to save fuel. He decided on this in Texas, right before he flew to Colorado then back to Washington to prepare for tomorrow's trip back to Texas. ... Barbra Streisand told Diane Sawyer that we're in a global warming crisis, and we can expect more and more intense storms, droughts and dust bowls. But before they act, weather experts say they're still waiting to hear from Celine Dion.

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