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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)

 

"America united with a handful of troops, or without a single soldier, exhibits a more forbidding posture to foreign ambition than America disunited, with a hundred thousand veterans ready for combat."

 ---James Madison

76% OF KENTUCKIANS SAY THE LEGISLATURE SHOULD PASS EMPLOYEE CHOICE 

Kentuckians for Jobs Now releases results of statewide poll.

Frankfort, KY  --   It’s a simple question that the vast majority of Kentuckians find easy to answer.  Should the Kentucky legislature give workers the freedom to choose for themselves whether or not to join and pay dues to a union?  Three out of four Kentuckians say yes.            (click to read more)

RIGHT TO WORK STATE GEORGIA LANDS KIA PLANT

Lexington, KY    The long awaited announcement from Kia Motors Corporation regarding the location of its first U.S. plant is in and the winner is Georgia.

The $1.2 billion plant in West Point, on the Georgia-Alabama line southwest of Atlanta is expected to employ 2,500 when production begins in 2009.           (click to read more)

Bernie Kunkel Says: “Lower Taxes Through Less Government!”

By Jeff “Mario” Smith, Guerilla Reporter

Have you ever known someone, liked him and respected him, but never met him face to face? This is a common phenomenon today with all the communicating we do over the internet. In 1996, I decided to start speaking up and getting involved with the political process when a serial rapist and cokehead from Arkansas was reelected to the presidency. It was time to either take action putting my money where my mouth was, or sit back and whine like so many around me were doing. I don’t care for whining very much, so the world is now stuck with Mario, the Guerilla Reporter.            (click to read more)

Imposing Immorality In Boyd County Kentucky

"These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up."  -- Deuteronomy 6:6-7

God handed down the moral and civil laws to the Israelites through His servant Moses. Moses, in turn, told parents to teach these laws to their children. This was not an option, but an obligation—one in which Christians ought to take seriously today. But for a Christian parent with children in the Boyd County Public Schools, the task was made more difficult recently by a court ruling which mandated that parents do not have the right to opt their children out of controversial gay sensitivity training.           (click to read more)

Eminent domain restrictions pass Kentucky Senate

FRANKFORT — State agencies and local governments would be prohibited from taking private land and then transferring it to other private owners under a bill approved unanimously in the Senate.

House Bill 508, sponsored by Rep. Rob Wilkey, D-Scottsville, would restrict the right of eminent domain to specified public purposes, including roads, public utilities and to clean up blighted areas.           (click to read more)

What Happened to Representative Government?

By Jeff “Mario” Smith, Guerilla Reporter

Political parties have stolen representative government from the people and replaced it with “party government”. I usually follow that statement with, “The only difference between America and a communist country is that America has two communist parties.” No longer are our so-called representatives doing the business of the people and actually representing them. They are doing the business of the parties instead. It is all about party power over what is actually good for America. With proper homage given to el Rushbo, I would go so far as to say that what is bad for America is good for the Democrat Party. It is so fitting that their mascot is a jack-ass.           (click to read more)

Prevailing-wage law: Noble goal, costly projects

Aaron Morris, fiscal policy analyst for the Bluegrass Institute was invited by Rep. Joe Fischer to provide the following testimony to the Kentucky House Labor and Industry Committee on March 7, 2006:

Good morning Mr. Chairman and committee members.

Thank you for the opportunity to come here today and present you with information regarding prevailing wages in Kentucky. My name is Aaron Morris. I am a fiscal policy analyst for the Bluegrass Institute for Public Policy Solutions, Kentucky’s free-market think tank.           (click to read more)

About the Arena        By George Conrad Dick

After receiving an email from the office of the governor inviting me to a rally in the Capitol Rotunda supporting a waterfront arena (vs. the Water Company site), I'd suggest we take a few steps back from the emotionally charged debate to examine the goals and premises that engendered the idea.           (click to read more)

Employee choice: The small change that will create a big difference             By Aaron L. Morris

Large and powerful labor organizations want us to believe that Gov. Ernie Fletcher’s proposal to introduce “employee choice” is the end of the line for Kentucky’s unions. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Actually, making Kentucky an “employee choice” state would require only a relatively minor adjustment in state policy. The impact on Kentucky’s workforce, however, would be considerable.           (click to read more)

Reagan Conservative Chuck Bradley Running in 62^nd District        By Jeff “Mario” Smith, Guerilla Reporter

The fortieth president of the United States, Ronald Wilson Reagan, is known for his articulate expression of a belief in limited government, personal responsibility, and economic freedom. Reagan is, beyond a shadow of a doubt, the most popular and charismatic conservative leader of the tumultuous 20^th century.            (click to read more)

Partito Nostro:  Doing Business with the Clinton Syndicate.       By Justin Darr 

In the final years of the Clinton Presidency, Hollywood producer and entrepreneur, Peter Paul, attempted to recruit outgoing President Bill Clinton to take a seat on the Board of Directors of Stan Lee Media, the innovative on-line animation company Paul co-founded in 1999.           (click to read more)

Fellow Americans,

I am the Kentucky leader of the Patriot Guard Riders. Our group displays United States flags at the funerals of servicemen and women killed in action, as a show of honor and respect for their sacrifice. As a result of attending these services, I have spoken with many of the immediate families, close friends, and comrades in arms of those who have made the ultimate sacrifice for our liberty and freedom. I felt compelled to express these thoughts on their behalf.           (click to read more)

Megan Liebengood Gone Forever; Her Murderers Live On        By Jeff “Mario” Smith

Young newlywed Megan Liebengood had her life snuffed out by some selfish thugs in North Lexington, Kentucky on September 15, 2004. She was returning home from the grocery store to her Codell Drive apartment. As her husband awaited her arrival, some punks, who thought it was their place to take from someone that which they worked hard to earn, attacked Megan to rob her, shooting her four times in the head with a .22 caliber pistol. I get chills when I remember being young and living in a not so great part of town like this, thinking we were safe.            (click to read more)

Pork producers should leave Kentucky’s farmers alone!        By Joel Peyton

Why complicate something as simple as selling produce at a farmers’ market on Saturday morning? Yet that’s exactly what Frankfort’s wasteful bureaucracy appears eager to do.

For example, the Governor’s Office of Agricultural Policy (GOAP) shelled out $1.5 million in grants last year to farmers’ markets across the commonwealth. However, estimates by the state Department of Agriculture indicate that Kentucky’s farmers’ markets generated only $5.4 million in total revenue during 2004.            (click to read more)

Will We Be UN-Wise Again?          By Michael A. Minton 

Boy, a lot of the rhetoric we have been hearing lately regarding Iran sounds grossly like the rhetoric we heard about Iraq from 1992-2003. “We know they have, or are attempting to acquire, nuclear weapon capability.” And, “We have to garner international support to metaphorically beat this radical, madman-led regime into submission.” How about this: “Let’s refer them to the U.N. Security Council.”           (click to read more)

The Bluegrass Digest  Volume 4, No 3

Tax and Spending Reduction: How to build more – and better – roads at lower cost

    Leasing toll roads to private companies is sound policy ensuring needed thoroughfares get built in the future while existing highways are properly maintained.            (click to read more)

In Belgium, the government spends less than American schools do on each student, but the money is attached to the kids. So they can go wherever they want---to a state-run school, a Montessori school, or even a religious school... In public education, our land of the free is now a bunch of local fiefs, where petty-bureaucrats-turned-lords-of-the-manor decide whether you can get a decent education, and parents must go to them, begging for their children's future. Meanwhile, in Belgium and much of the rest of the world, students and their parents have the freedom to choose their schools---and the opportunity that comes with that freedom." ---John Stossel

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