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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)

 

“All government originates in families, and if neglected there, it will hardly exist in society...The foundation of all free government and of all social order must be laid in families and in the discipline of youth.... The education of youth, [is] an employment of more consequence than making laws and preaching the gospel, because it lays the foundation on which both the law and gospel rest for success.”   

-- Noah Webster

A Solution To The Public-Private Sports Crisis         By Theresa Fritz Camoriano

The state of Kentucky is facing a severe athletic crisis that must be solved – the private schools have been whupping up on the public schools!  Private schools keep winning state championships, and the public schools are really upset about it.  They are mad as hornets, and they aren’t going to take it anymore!  So, they have voted to take their balls and go home – to set up two separate leagues for post-season play – one for public schools and one for private schools.  That way, they know for sure they will win a state championship, even if it does not mean very much, since they will not have beaten the best of the private schools in order to earn it.  In addition to depriving their students of the opportunity to improve by testing themselves against tough competition, they are teaching them that they just aren’t good enough to compete and that they can’t measure up.            (click to read more)

Privately funded arenas best in the long run         By Joel Peyton

Gov. Ernie Fletcher is heralding the success of the MCI Center in Washington, D.C. to support his assertion that the proposed Louisville arena would be “good economics for all of Kentucky.”

The governor is partially right. The MCI Center has been an economic success. However, the incentive structure used to generate its prosperity is not the one Fletcher promotes for a proposed Louisville facility.            (click to read more)

When government's rights eclipse property rights        by Henry Lamb

"Sustainable development" is a term used to justify new policies that, inevitably, erode private property rights. Proponents of sustainable development are convinced that the collective benefits of these policies far outweigh the value of any individual's private property rights that may be lost. Apparently, most Americans are willing to accept this reasoning.             (click to read more)

KHSAA Dumbs Down Competition via Affirmative Action       By Jeff "Mario" Smith, Guerilla Reporter

Just when you think you have heard it all, and school administrators couldn’t possibly do any more damage to our children in public education than they already have, the Delegate Assembly of the Kentucky High School Athletic Association, (KHSAA), voted 195-78 to split public and private school post season tournament play in athletics. The reason given is that old liberal line of "leveling the playing field". In other areas of our society it is known as affirmative action, which only serves to call into question the true quality of those who advance under such a system, where competition and merit are discouraged.             (click to read more)

Fletcher commits flagrant economic foul on arena

(Bowling Green, Kentucky) – In his October radio address, Gov. Ernie Fletcher claims that the new proposed Louisville arena is “good economics for all of Kentucky” and is asking the state to contribute $75 million toward the endeavor. But sound research portrays such projects as shoddy investments for taxpayers that are sold with false promises.             (click to read more)

“Homeschooling Family-to-Family" Aims at Bringing Over One Million Additional Children into Homeschooling over Next Five to Seven Years

COLUMBIA, SC, October 6/Christian Wire Service/Exodus Mandate announced today that it has launched "Homeschooling Family-to-Family" ("HFTF") with strong support from important homeschooling organizations such as the Home School Legal Defense Association, the Southern Baptist Church Home Education Association, and the National Black Home Educators Resource Association. Homeschooling Family-to-Family encourages experienced homeschoolers to "share their heart for homeschooling" by offering to mentor families they already know into homeschooling. HFTF's goal is to bring over one million new children into homeschooling over a five to seven year period, thereby strengthening state and local homeschooling organizations.            (click to read more)

Merit system morphs into monster       By Joel Peyton

A commission created by former Gov. Brereton Jones in the early 1990s recognized what current Frankfort politicians know but refuse to seriously address: Kentucky’s merit system simply doesn’t work.

Originally, this system sought to make qualifications – not political-party affiliation – the determining factor in hiring and promotion decisions involving state workers. A system designed to serve taxpayers well has morphed into one in which longevity and an aversion to risk are the primary requirements to sustain annual pay raises.             (click to read more)

Rocky VI: Don't Call It A Comeback        By Jonathan David Morris

Everyone is a connoisseur of something. Some people know their wines. Others know their cigars. Me? I know Rocky movies. I’ve seen all five Rocky movies hundreds of times each. And counting.

Last week, I learned that a long-rumored Rocky VI is inching ever closer to production. People are going to wince when they hear this. They’re going to roll their eyes and say, “Really? What’s next? Rambo IV?” (Well, actually, yeah. Sylvester Stallone’s planning that one, too.) I’m not going to lie to you. I don’t think Rocky VI—or Rocky Balboa, as they’re apparently calling it—will be a good movie. In fact, it may well be horrible. Most people would agree that the original Rocky is a great film. Any fair-minded person would agree that Rocky II is very good. And anyone who can’t find something to enjoy in Rocky III lacks the qualities I look for in a person. But after that, all bets are off. For most people, Rockies IV and V were the cinematic equivalent of a steaming pile of horse crap. They ruined the credibility of the entire Rocky franchise. But as low as the series may have sunk, that shouldn’t preclude Stallone from making another one. And as a Rocky connoisseur, I’m here to tell you that, if anything, he should.             (click to read more)

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"To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals---that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him." ---Honore De Balzac

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