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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)

 

“Trade between two individuals, entered into freely, always results in benefits to both parties. Otherwise, why should they trade? “— W.M. Curtiss

Ask Not What Your Country Can Do For You…         By Theresa Fritz Camoriano

President Kennedy’s famous line, “Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country” has been admired and repeated by many.  However, given current circumstances in which so many people --  rich, poor, and middle class, depend upon the government, it is time to update that phrase.  Today, people need to be told: “Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for yourself.”  Americans need to be reminded that, in order to be a free people, and to live in a society that respects every individual, we must be self-governing, independent, and largely self-reliant.     (click to read more)

Providing school choices key to advancing state          By South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford (reprinted from the Bluegrass Institute for Public Policy Solutions)

From day one, our administration has been focused on advancing ideas that are all about making South Carolina more competitive.

Whether it’s cutting income taxes for small businesses, passing a long-overdue lawsuit reform package, or finding millions of dollars in taxpayer savings in our executive budgets, we’ve had a number of key successes on that front. Simply put, I believe becoming more competitive means pushing for reforms that are consistent with market principles, common sense and fiscal responsibility.      (click to read more)

“SMART GROWTH” POLICIES INCREASE HOUSING COSTS         By Wendell Cox 

St. Louis (USA) and Christchurch (NZ), 5 December 2005: A new report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) provides further evidence that stringent land use regulations (often called “smart growth.”) inordinately raise the price of houses. The report is a Chapter in the latest issue of OECD Economic Outlook Number 78  (“Recent House Price Developments: the Role of Fundamentals,” available at http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/41/56/35756053.pdf. The OECD notes that......     (click to read more)

Thankful…for WHAT?         By Cliff Johns

Imagine for a moment that the US did not exist. What if there were no Pilgrims, no Declaration of Independence, no Congress, no Supreme Court, no President, no Bill of Rights, no New Deal, no U.S. Military and, of course, no Thanksgiving.  Imagine that instead of a country settled by entrepreneurial and faith-driven Europeans it was settled by other countries and leaders with different ambitions, different ideals, different values, different morals, different ethics, vastly different religions and more importantly very different ideas about freedom.  What would your world be like today?  One practical scenario would have to consider the following:     (click to read more)

THE FRENCH MAYHEM: WHY IT HASN'T, BUT COULD, HAPPEN HERE     by Rod D. Martin

The Germans call it schadenfreude, the delight some people feel when a disliked person gets his comeuppance.  And more than a few Americans experienced just that last month as France convulsed in riots.

For decades, France's elite, combining disdain with glee, castigated America on everything from Vietnam to Iraq, from race relations to inner-city poverty, from culture to the Cold War.     (click to read more)

Pet Store Owner Jailed For Daughter's Box Turtle Pet Owners Required to "Tag" Native Animals        From the Libertarian Party of Ohio

In Columbus, Ohio, the reported number of violent crimes such as rapes and murders is nearly double the national average.  Thefts and burglaries are well over that.  But instead of focusing on truly despicable and injurious crimes, state law enforcement officials have decided to pursue and jail an unfortunate pet store owner.  His crime: failing to "tag" his daughter's pets.     (click to read more)

Sanction of the Victim       (contributed by a reader)

The Sanction of the Victim is defined as "the willingness of the good to suffer at the hands of the evil, to accept the role of sacrificial victim for the 'sin' of creating values."     (click to read more)

Indiana Fights Eminent Domain       By Mike Minton

INDIANAPOLIS--Throughout the country, we are hearing heart-wrenching story after heart-wrenching story of small-business owners, plain-OLE residents of Anytown, America--MY AMERICA-- who actually helped ADVANCE AMERICA to the world leader that it is today, who are being FORCED by the government (you know the one--"By the people, for the people"--yea, that government), out of either their businesses or their homes because a new strip-mall would be better for the local economy and generate (and here’s the clincher) MORE TAX INCOME!     (click to read more)

Emissions Credits      By Larry Brown, Co-founder VETO the VET

It seems that the EPA and environmentalist have created a form of SECRET money called emission credits.  I have asked several KY legislators to find out how the Dept. of Revenue taxes them, but to no avail. It seems Newport Steel last year testified, along with the N KY Chamber, that they did not want us to use their emission credits to end tail pipe testing. So obviously they are valued by Newport Steel and the N KY Chamber. In Louisville, numerous requests have been made regarding Phillip Morris's credits with Ford Motor Company, and again no information forthcoming.     (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)

Justice being taken away, then, what are kingdoms but great robberies? For what are robberies themselves, but little kingdoms? The band itself is made up of men; it is ruled by the authority of a prince, it is knit together by the pact of the confederacy; the booty is divided by the law agreed on. If, by the admittance of abandoned men, this evil increases to such a degree that it holds places, fixes abodes, takes possession of cities, and subdues peoples, it assumes the more plainly the name of a kingdom, because the reality is now manifestly conferred on it, not by the removal of covetousness, but by the addition of impunity. Indeed, that was an apt and true reply which was given to Alexander the Great by a pirate who had been seized. For when that king had asked the man what he meant by keeping hostile possession of the sea, he answered with bold pride, "What thou meanest by seizing the whole earth; but because I do it with a petty ship, I am called a robber, whilst thou who dost it with a great fleet art styled emperor."  — St. Augustine, City of God [Circa 420 A.D.]

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