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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)

 

"Opinions divorced from knowledge are ugly things." -- Socrates

I Oppose Torture and John McCain          By Theresa Fritz Camoriano

Senator John McCain specializes in selling out America.  He was a darling of the media when he was crusading for his campaign finance law, acting as a white knight on a mission to clean up politics.  Of course, as with many laws, it had exactly the opposite effect from what was claimed in the sales pitch.  Instead of cleaning up politics, McCain’s campaign finance law has allowed politicians to be even more corrupt than before the law was enacted, because it restricts our freedom of speech, making us less able to hold politicians accountable for their actions.  In a similar vein, McCain now is crusading for an “anti-torture” law.  Again, this law would not have the effect claimed in the sales pitch.  If this law passes, it will make it more likely that prisoners will be tortured, and it will leave us much more vulnerable to terrorists who want to kill us.           (click to read more)

Greenhouse gasbags gather in Montreal         By Henry Lamb

Once again, the global warming industry is holding its annual party, this time in Montreal. Nearly 10,000 celebrants have gathered to eat, drink and be merry – and to bash the U.S. for withdrawing from the Kyoto Protocol. Less than half the crowd are official delegates from 180 nations; the rest are advocates representing hundreds of non-government organizations.            (click to read more)

Bus story          By Robert C. Maynard 

The December 5^th story in The Courier-Journal on the bus system sought for Hardin County, Kentucky was an eye-opener.  Low ridership, common?  The real shocker was the figures from TARC operating in Louisville.  In a budget of  $57.1 million, only $7 and a half million come from fares and advertising, a paltry 12.3%.  The story mentions this as though it’s perfectly fine or that’s the way to do business.  Give me a break!            (click to read more)

Daeschner: Superintendent of the Year?

(Bowling Green, Kentucky) – The Bluegrass Institute has serious reservations about the selection of Jefferson County Public Schools Superintendent Stephen Daeschner as the commonwealth’s “Superintendent of the Year” by the Kentucky Association of School Administrators (KASA).            (click to read more)

Defining victory in Iraq         By Henry Lamb

Victory in Iraq can be declared when there is an elected representative government in place that controls Iraqi security forces of sufficient strength and experience to prevent Islamic fundamentalists from gaining control of the nation by force of arms.           (click to read more)

Universal Veterinary Care           By Charles Innes

  The outbreak of avian flu in Asia and Canada should serve as a wake up call to everyone about the need for universal veterinary care.  Domestic livestock and family pets are receiving the lion’s share of veterinary services, leaving scant resources for the world’s wild creatures.  Now, with the looming outbreak of avian influenza, millions of waterfowl and other birds are in grave peril.  Surely this great nation’s resources could be mobilized to meet and prevent this potential holocaust. Rich, pampered family pets get preferential treatment at emergency animal hospitals; this inequality should end now before another outbreak threatens the entire animal kingdom.             (click to read more)

Left Behind

A new study reinforces the view that the state’s (Kentucky’s) student testing system is badly flawed and should be replaced with more reliable measurements of academic performance.

Richard Innes, an education policy analyst for the Bowling Green-based Bluegrass Institute for Public Policy Solutions, studied the Commonwealth Accountability Testing System and concluded that it doesn’t provide adequate information on the progress of students who have traditionally lagged behind in public school classrooms – minorities, children from poor families and students with disabilities.           (click to read more)

Larry Brown Testimony to end Vehicle Emission Testing in Northern Kentucky

  I am writing in support to end Vehicle Emission Testing in Boone, Kenton and Campbell counties that was ordered by the governor under 401 KAR 65:011E that will repeal 401 KAR 65:010.  Tailpipe testing is not needed and is a waste of consumer money, bad public policy and ineffective method of cleaning the air. It was borne from an EPA regulatory system that valued political science over real science. Like the EPA’s mandated gasoline additive MTBE, a cancer causing agent, it is time to end all forms of consumer vehicle emission testing.           (click to read more)

THE AMT MUST BE DESTROYED

By Rod D. Martin

http://www.theVanguard.org

"Carthage must be destroyed." -- Cato

Thus did Cato, the great Roman senator and orator, conclude each and every speech of his career before the Senate.

Archeologists understand his wrath.           (click to read more)

The Great Cigarette Tax Debacle      By Terry Gray

          It seems odd to me that in a society which preaches diversity and tolerance for minorities we find it in our hearts to totally screw a major minority – smokers. 

          At 3 cents a pack Kentucky excise tax, from June 2003 to June 2004, Kentucky smokers paid $21,551,000 in tobacco tax that only smokers paid.  At 6% Kentucky sales tax, from June 2003 to June 2004, Kentucky smokers paid $130,937,000 in sales tax on tobacco that only smokers paid.  At 39 cents a pack Federal excise tax, for fiscal year 2004, Kentucky smokers paid $7,778,569,117 in federal excise taxes that only smokers paid.  Since November 1998 to June 2004, Kentucky government received $620,117,489 from the Master Tobacco Settlement law suit against tobacco companies.  This sum, paid by tobacco companies was passed on to smokers via higher cigarette prices.           (click to read more)

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