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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)

 

"In a society under the forms of which the stronger faction can readily unite and oppress the weaker, anarchy may as truly be said to reign as in a state of nature."

-- James Madison

What’s the purpose of your life?         By Theresa Fritz Camoriano

We humans have a natural desire to find meaning and purpose in our lives.  Many people find meaning and purpose through traditional religions.  Others find substitutes for traditional religion, such as new age, crystals, Tarot cards, and so forth.  One of the most popular substitutes for religion is government, with people seeking to use the power of government to make themselves feel like gods, imposing a “better world” on others through force.  What is the meaning or purpose of your life?        (click to read more)

Kentucky can’t tax its way to prosperity         By Christopher J. Derry

Predictably, Gov. Ernie Fletcher’s tax-modernization act that passed last year is now generating additional piles of cash. His deputies sing in unison, proclaiming the additional revenues indicate the state’s economy is picking up steam.         (click to read more)

Judging Kentucky Basketball – and How About That George Mason?       By Theresa Fritz Camoriano

A disgruntled referee succeeded in postponing a game in the Kentucky High School Boys’ basketball tournament, arguing in court that he had the right to officiate the game after having been thrown out of a previous game by the Kentucky High School Athletic Association for getting into a fight with another referee.  In order for the judge to grant an injunction in this case, he had to determine that the referee had a good chance of success on the merits of the case and that he would be irreparably harmed to a much greater extent by not officiating the game than the fans and players would be irreparably harmed by postponing the game.  How could any reasonable judge grant such an injunction?        (click to read more)

Fair Elections, Philly Style.     By Justin Darr

Living in the Philadelphia area for a decade has taught me a thing or two about what “Philly Style” actually means.  For example, in a “Philly style cheesesteak” the cheese is not cheese, but “Cheese Whiz,” the steak is not steak, but shredded beef, and if “Philly” appears anywhere in the name, it is not a “Philly cheesesteak.”  A submarine or hero sandwich is either a hoagie or a grinder, unless it has pickles, then it is from “Subway.”  Scrapple, pork rolls, and pepper pot soup all taste great as long as you do not know what goes into them.  Pretzels are not pretzels unless they come all stuck together in a big slab from a street vendor smothered in yellow mustard. A lunch cake is a “Tastycake,” even if it happens to be a “Twinkie.”         (click to read more)

Open government is good government     By Caleb O. Brown

In matters of government, sunshine offers a powerful disinfectant. So when a public servant shakes his fist and ardently calls for either more or less scrutiny of a proposal or program, Kentuckians should pay rapt attention.         (click to read more)

It's time to Censure Jimmy Carter

Friends,

Several days ago I authored a column in which I expressed the ridiculous notion that the Congress was considering motions to Censure President Bush for his efforts to wiretap suspected terrorists.        (click to read more)

20 Year Old Soldier Responds to Leftist Richard Belzer       by Mario, Guerilla Reporter

When I wrote the article about Hollyweird play actor Richard Belzer who thinks because he allegedly reads twenty newspapers a day he is more qualified to talk about Iraq than our troops who are on the ground there, a 20 year old troop serving in Afghanistan replied to me with an email. For his security, his name will not be disclosed, nor can we mention his unit and where they are located.         (click to read more)

SUPPORT FOR EMPLOYEE CHOICE CONTINUES TO GROW

The Madisonville Area Manufacturers Association and the Madisonville/Hopkins County Chamber of Commerce are the latest groups to endorse employee choice legislation in Kentucky.  Over two dozen chambers of commerce, associations, economic development authorities, organizations and the Paducah City Commission have passed formal resolutions supporting Right to Work legislation.         (click to read more)

A billion

Here's something thought provoking -

The next time you hear a politician use the word "billion" in a casual manner, think about whether you want the "politicians" spending your tax money.        (click to read more)

GUEST OPINION by Don Bendell

AMERICA IS SUPPOSED TO BE ABOUT HEROES

          The America I grew up in was in black and white and was all about heroes. Most of them were cowboys, like John Wayne, Roy Rogers, or the Lone Ranger. America and “hero” used to be synonymous. Now, to most of our enemies around the world, America has become synonymous with “sucker.” Why? Because many of those with political ambition have no clue about being a statesmen anymore. They sell out the commander-in-chief and our troops for the sake of trying to get votes. They want to appear to be heroes so we will vote for them. How? It is simple.        (click to read more)

Government's idea of 'tracking' animals      By Henry Lamb

Reaction to the National Animal Identification System is shining a light on a growing problem that independent producers believe is threatening the entire livestock industry. Vertical marketing practices in the meat processing industry, combined with the industry's access to and influence on the Department of Agriculture and Congress, has the small producer against the ropes. The NAIS may be the final blow that puts independent ranchers and small farmers down for the count.         (click to read more)

Another Hollyweird Leftist Knows More Than Everyone Else       By Jeff “Mario” Smith, Guerilla Reporter

The day I return to the movie theaters to give my hard earned, over-taxed, American dollars to the leftists in Hollyweird, take me out, because I will have lost it. The days of Hollywood men of virtue like Charleton Heston, Charles Bronson, John Wayne, and good old Ronald Reagan, are gone, replaced with mind-controlled and neutered sheeple like Streisand, Cruse, the Baldwin clones, Asner, and so many other scientologists, atheists, homosexuals, socialists, and communists.         (click to read more)

Terry’s Tidbits       By Terry Gray

What Fools.

We, the American people have a contract with the United States government.  This contract is called the Constitution of the United States of America.  The contract keeps changing and the changes are made by those who are bound by the amendments to the constitution.        (click to read more)

The greatest threat to the future of our nation -- to our freedom -- is not foreign military aggression … but the growing dependence of the people on a paternalistic government. A nation is no stronger than its people and the best measure of their strength is how they accept responsibility. There will never be a great society unless the materialism of the welfare state is replaced by individual initiative and responsibility. — Charles B. Shuman

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