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	"Your Liberty is Our Interest"	January 9, 2006
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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)

“Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one; for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries by a government, which we might expect in a country without government, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer.”

— Thomas Paine

A Suggestion For The Legislature By Theresa Fritz Camoriano

This year, the state legislature really should look at the state’s goals and consider the evidence as to what works before spending money or passing more regulations. Here are a few examples. (click to read more)

“Right-to-work”? For a union… D. Eric Schansberg

Professor of Economics, Indiana University (New Albany)

Adjunct Scholar, Indiana Policy Review

Author, Turn Neither to the Right nor to the Left: A Thinking Christian’s Guide to Politics and Public Policy

Labor unions continue to be in the news sporadically. This summer’s 50^th anniversary of the AFL-CIO merger was ironically paired with a maverick union group’s decision to break from the pack (the “Change to Win Coalition”). Then, just in time for Christmas, unionized transit workers in New York City hamstrung The Big Apple by going on strike. (click to read more)

KentuckyVotes.org releases 2005 Honor Roll

(Bowling Green, Kentucky)– KentuckyVotes.org, the free voter-information service of the Bluegrass Institute, is pleased to release the 2005 Honor Roll of legislators who missed the fewest votes during the most recent legislative session. (click to read more)

Eminent domain by another name By Henry Lamb

Eminent domain occurs when government takes private property. The Constitution requires that government pay "just compensation" to the owner when eminent domain is exercised. (click to read more)

Florida Supreme Court Strikes Down School Choice January 5, 2006

Washington, D.C.-In a major blow to education reform in Florida, the Florida Supreme Court today struck down the state's Opportunity Scholarship program, the nation's first statewide school choice program. For six years, Opportunity Scholarships have enabled families to opt out of failing public schools and into better-performing public or private schools. (click to read more)

Could Abramoff Actually Be Good For American Politics?
By Mike Minton

I have been trying to stay silent on this issue until all the facts were in, but I just can't take it anymore. I was reading my local newspaper this morning, the Louisville Courier-Journal, which, being owned by Gannett, is notorious for its liberal leanings, when I came across an Associated Press article about the Abramoff scandal. (click to read more)

A Fallen Brother's Family is Surrounded by Patriots

by Jeff "Mario" Smith, Guerilla Reporter

Today, representatives of Task Force Omega of KY, Combat Vets MC, AMVETS, Vietnam Vets MC, VFW, Patriot Riders MC, and other groups (sorry for those not mentioned - crs disease!), gathered in support for a fallen brother, SFC John David Morton, KIA Kandahar, Afghanistan 12-15-2005. (click to read more)

SGT MORT0N'S SERVICES by Danny "Greasy" Belcher, Executive Director Task Force Omega of KY Inc.

Danny "Big Daddy" Calhoun,

Thank you all so much for showing SFC Morton and his family such respect. Task Force Omega of KY salutes the Patriot Guard Riders and all the other groups and citizens that were there to pay their respects. I am sure the Morton family and friends will never forget the large crowd that showed up to honor our fallen hero. We were honored to be there and show our respect. He paid for our freedom in such a way that we can never repay. This family's sacrifice is immeasurable. Just thinking about the fatherless children and the lonely young mother brings a tear. (click to read more)

A NEW YEAR By Donald M. Heavrin

Bear in mind that the war in Iraq is a good example of the fallacy of democracy. When you are fighting a war to establish democracy, there is no way to tell what you’re fighting for until the war is over and an election held. The Iraqi war is a case in point. The United States wanted to have someone other than the Shiite candidate elected. (click to read more)

Is Media Darling McCain the Manchurian Candidate? By Jeff “Mario” Smith, Guerilla Reporter

”The Manchurian Candidate” , a 1962 movie about fictional Korean War ex-POW Raymond Shaw, brainwashed by the communists into becoming an assassin, is often cited when politicians who are War Veterans do something unthinkable, like John “Ho Chi” Kerry did to become a presidential candidate in 2004. His multiple treasons, unprosecuted, are public record, and Veterans in general are Not Fonda Kerry. (click to read more)

Kentucky’s prevailing wage yields union rates By Aaron Morris

Like most legislation, Kentucky’s prevailing-wage laws have the right idea at heart. Also like most legislation, the practical application of it misses its mark by a mile.

The intent of Kentucky’s prevailing-wage laws is to make sure contractors on state projects do not take advantage of workers by paying below-market wages to win state contracts. While this intention is noble, its unintended consequences wreak havoc on the actual cost of constructing public buildings. (click to read more)

The Nerve Of Vicente Fox Mr. Right Opinion

Can you believe the nerve of this guy??? Speaking at an event for migrants in Guanuato, Mexico on Sunday, Mexican President Vicente Fox ratcheted up his rhetoric against a bold, and might I add long overdue, bill which passed in the House of Representatives Friday that would greatly improve our situation in regards to illegal immigration. (click to read more)

“THE BIG LIE” THE LEFT IN AMERICA IS NOT REALLY DECRYING LIES ON THE RIGHT, BUT BEING CAUGHT IN THEIR OWN. By Major Mark A. Smith, United States Army, Retired

In Thailand, politicians or police caught in corruption rarely deny their guilt outright. They merely say “Show me the evidence”. Because of draconian libel laws, rarely does one dare make a statement without some proof. Yet, in too many instances, newspapers are shut and people jailed for not having “enough proof”; guilt is secondary. (click to read more)

Terry’s Tidbits by Terry Gray

Like Freedom? Make Noise.

Wiretapping Free Citizens Isn’t Just for Tyrannical Governments Anymore.

Those Bush supporters who speak up in favor of government spying have a buzz saying to justify the actions of a renegade president. They tell us that anyone who is concerned about the government spying on its citizens obviously has something to hide. These folks aren’t even being led to slaughter; they are foaming at their mouths to get there. I can see ignorant people who are used to government telling them when to breathe falling into a trap that will haunt them for the rest of their short free lives. But for those who have some sense, getting out in front of the sheeple with axes to make easier the road to the gallows is insane. There will be no distinguishing you from those following you once you top that final ridge looking down on the massacre. (click to read more)

2005: The Year In Headlines By Jonathan David Morris

Most journalists like ending the year on a down note with “factual” retrospectives. As far as I’m concerned, those journalists are whores. I’m the only one with the guts to compile the year’s best stories with a reckless disregard for accuracy. (click to read more)

"Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual." ---Mark Twain

President Bush is trying to put the best spin he can on this eavesdropping scandal, like he said today: "This proves we have a government that listens to the people." — Jay Leno

"The high rate of unemployment among teenagers, and especially black teenagers, is both a scandal and a serious source of social unrest. Yet it is largely a result of minimum wage laws. We regard the minimum wage law as one of the most, if not the most, anti-black laws on the statute books." - Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman

"We have the right, as individuals, to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right so to appropriate a dollar of the public money." ---Davy Crockett

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