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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)

 

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A wise and frugal government ... shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government.

— Thomas Jefferson

With a Wave of a Wand or the Passing of a Law…         By Theresa Fritz Camoriano

Many people seem to believe that all you have to do in order to change the world for the better is to pass a law demanding that it be so.  They think passing a law will be like waving a wand, and everything will magically become what they wish it would be.  Wouldn’t it be nice if that were so?  If that were the case, there would be lots of laws we all might want to have enacted, like laws requiring us all to be thin, beautiful, intelligent, happy, rich….However, most problems are not solved by passing laws, and many problems are made much worse.  For example, if the legislature passed a law tomorrow requiring everyone to be thin, many of us would still be fat, plus we would have the added problem of having to hide from the police!  Surely people know that, and yet they continue to act as if they don’t.              (click to read more)

Kentucky teachers among nation’s highest paid         By Jim Waters

If high teachers’ salaries determine student achievement, Kentucky schools would be among the best in the nation.               (click to read more)

Public arenas, fiscal failures          From the Bluegrass Institute for Public Policy Solutions

Lawmakers from around the country seem more than willing to throw millions of taxpayers’ dollars into the building of sports arenas and convention centers.

Washington state taxpayers recently subsidized $591 million for Qwest Field, $427 million for Safeco Field, $139 million for a remodeling of Key Arena, $200 million for the retirement of the Kingdome's debt and $168 million for freeway access improvements to Qwest Field.               (click to read more)

HOW LOW CAN YOU GO?           BY: MAJOR MARK A "ZIPPO" SMITH, SENIOR, UNITED STATES ARMY-RETIRED
 
Politicians, leftist media, wacko preachers, and the aging sixties radicals and their children, chuckle at the new lows they can reach. From producing a bogus list of ‘heroes' during the elections and choosing to ignore the results as if they were somehow robbed, to disrupting the funerals of real war heroes, no lie or tactic is too despicable. How low can they go?              (click to read more)

Compulsory unionism harms workers, businesses        From the Bluegrass Institute for Public Policy Solutions

Compulsory unionism forces employees to join the union and pay dues even if they do not want to participate. This is unsound policy. Workers should be allowed to freely choose concerning union membership.

Samuel Gompers, one of the founders of the labor movement, said: “The workers of America adhere to voluntary institutions in preference to compulsory systems which are held to be not only impractical, but a menace to their rights, their welfare and their liberty.”               (click to read more)

It's Going...Going...GONE!            By Mike Minton

Embroiled in a battle with both the liberal Kentucky Attorney General and our liberal media over hiring practices, Kentucky's Republican Governor Ernie Fletcher hit one out of the park last night in his annual State of the Commonwealth speech. A speech I shall not soon forget.              (click to read more)

John Shadegg’s Announcement of His Candidacy to Replace DeLay

Dear Republican Colleague,

Ten years ago, we took control of the House of Representatives for the first time in half a century. It was a historic achievement, and it was possible because we stood for the principles the American people believe in:  a smaller federal government, returning power to the states, lower taxes, greater individual freedom, and – above all – reform.              (click to read more)

Setting the Stage for World War III. History Repeats Itself.         By Justin Darr

For years the term “World War III” has been tossed about to describe everything from the international fight against poverty and disease to most recently the War on Terror. However, as anyone who actually lived through the World War II era can tell you, the battles of the past 50 years share little in common with that dark time.              (click to read more)

Liberal Attack Machine In Full-Battle Mode           by Mike Minton

The liberal Louisville Courier-Journal was in full-battle mode in a big way again yesterday, in a story called "Democrats Say Troubles In GOP Go Beyond DeLay."

Now, while I have no problem agreeing that 'Abramoff-gate' will reach deep into the Republican Party, there is no doubt that the impact will be exponentiated by the liberal media. By this, I mean that the bare facts of what Republican lawmakers in Congress are truly guilty of will undoubtedly be bad enough, but the way the mainstream media is covering it will elevate the impact to what I'm now prepared to say will be historical levels.              (click to read more)

Do We Have To Be Serious ALL The Time?          By Mike Minton

Okay, close your eyes. Well, read this paragraph first, and then close your eyes. Do these songs ring a bell? "Saturday Night," "Rock and Roll Love Letter," "Yesterday's Hero." How about "Dedication?" Maybe not if you are under 35 or over 50. But if you fall in there somewhere, these may mean something to you.              (click to read more)
 

"'Life getting worse' is myth No.1 because in TV newsrooms, I hear a constant whine about life getting worse: avian flu will kill us if terrorism doesn't get us first; crime and pollution keep increasing, and the poor are suffering. But in truth, life keeps getting better. We live longer than ever, and with less pain (think about dental care in the 1960s). Crime is down. In America, even poor people have homes, cars, and access to music and other entertainment that was once only available to royalty. Pollution? The air and water keep getting cleaner. I jumped in the Hudson River not long ago to illustrate the point. There I was, swimming away and looking up at the Empire State building. Despite eight million people flushing nearby, the health department says swimming in the Hudson is now perfectly safe. Despite all the complaints from the media, life keeps getting better. Let's complain less and enjoy 2006." ---John Stossel

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