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	"Your Liberty is Our Interest"	February 27, 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)

"[L]et there be no change [in Constitutional powers] by usurpation; for though this, in one instance, may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed." ---George Washington

Sports and Myths By Theresa Fritz Camoriano

Sports provide a good reality check and shatter many myths. No matter how much an athlete is praised or touted or favored, he still has to perform in order to win. Athletes learn from experience that skill, hard work, keeping one’s cool under pressure, and teamwork spell success. It doesn’t matter what color your skin is, or who your father knows, or how much money you have; what matters is your performance. On this basis, it could be argued that students learn at least as many valuable lessons from participating in sports as from academic pursuits. (click to read more)

A Journey to Honor By Don Woodrick

I am the Kentucky leader of a group of patriotic citizens called the Patriot Guard Riders. This is my account of our first Mission in Kentucky. The Journey was across the length of the state, little did I realize that it was to become a journey to the soul. (click to read more)

Left out, not just behind By Jim Waters

Since its inception, holding schools accountable for educating our children has been the principle focus of President Bush’s No Child Left Behind (NCLB) act. As a consequence, the Kentucky Department of Education (KDE) has responded to this nationwide challenge by insisting that most learning-disabled students be left out of the process altogether. (click to read more)

Irony on Ice By Ed Basquill, PE

I am not one to gloat over the misfortunes of others. That is not my way. I am also a patriotic American, and would like to see my countrymen do well at the Olympics. So, why does the news of the US Olympic Hockey team being eliminated in the quarter finals make me smile? I bought the video of the movie about the 1980 US Olympic Hockey team, dubbed the miracle on ice. Who could forget the charismatic image of the team’s goalie, draped in the American Flag? I lived close to the Spectrum in the glory days of the Philadelphia Flyers, back when men were men and the mightiest of such creatures were known as “The Broad Street Bullies.” (click to read more)

In the Age of Terror, a War on Torino By Jonathan David Morris

It’s been a while since the Olympics seemed to mean anything.

Back in the day, the Summer and Winter Games would come once—and together—every four years. The very infrequency of these events made them seem rather special. Memorable. Even politically important. But in the 1990s, that changed. The two portions were torn apart like conjoined twins joined at the soul. They were staggered so that one or the other would take place not every four years—in keeping with the definition of “Olympiad”—but rather every two. (click to read more)

The Case For War In Iraq-The Evidence And The Moscow Connection By Michael A. Minton

This story is really a combination of two blockbuster stories: the first is that there is irrefutable evidence that Iraq did indeed have weapons of mass destruction; the second is that Russia was a very integral part of the cover up and disposal of the WMD. (click to read more)

Terry’s Tidbits Terry Gray

At some point in freedom it will become necessary to become treasonous to government in order to be faithful to country. (click to read more)

MUSSOLINI, CARL SAGAN, AND WINE BOTTLES By Don Heavrin

Another book that is worth considering is; The Demon Haunted World by Dr. Carl Sagan, Random House, New York, 1995. As you may suspect, it is out of print. You have to order it by cranking up Amazon.com. In commenting on alien invaders, one of his readers wrote, “One purpose that the insidious satanic purpose (sic) is to make us worried about an alien invasion so that when Jesus and His angels appear over Jerusalem, we will be frightened rather than glad. I do hope you will not dismiss me as another religious crackpot. I am quite normal and well known in my own little community.” (click to read more)

"We have to decide what kind of America we want. Do we want an America in which individuals are proud of themselves, confident they can handle their own problems? Or do we want a country in which everyone is responsible for everyone else but no one is responsible for himself, where groups dislike each other because each gains only at the expense of others, and where we are dependent upon the favors of politicians to survive?" -- Harry Browne

"Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one less scoundrel in the world." ---Thomas Carlyle

"The 'minimum wage' is...a legal barrier to trade in labor. As economists have long argued, higher minimum wage laws lead to less employment." ---Paul Jacob

The government first provides very poor schooling, and then the harm is multiplied by the minimum wage law, which makes it difficult . . . To get on-the-job training. Without the minimum wage law, the least skilled could offer to work for low wages, which would provide an incentive for employers to hire and train them. — Milton Friedman

"Unionism seldom, if ever, uses such power as it has to insure better work; almost always it devotes a large part of that power to safeguarding bad work."—H. L. Mencken

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