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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)

 

"Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom."

-- John Adams

A few thoughts –      By Theresa Camoriano

1.         An immigration law that rewards the people who have broken the law for the longest time is nuts.  Who thinks up this stuff?          (click to read more)

Competition works         By Mr. John Stossel

One exciting thing about the free market is that you can’t predict what the market will create. Big-government advocates tell you exactly what will happen when their plans work (as if they actually would work!), but we who trust the free market can only say that people will compete and good ideas will win. We don’t set out to make all your choices for you, and, not being psychic, we can't predict what decisions you'll make.           (click to read more)

Dear Parents, Give us your children--or go to jail.    Love, Your Government

150 Years of Compulsory State Schooling

When parents in Massachusetts defied the state in the 1850's and refused to send their children to its compulsory schools, the state let them know at gunpoint that attendance was not optional, that the government's plans for children outweighed parents' choices.           (click to read more)

Forced testing for elected officials?        By Henry Lamb

Pennsylvania lawmaker, James Rhoades, has introduced a bill in the state Legislature that would require elected school-board members to take a 40-hour training course and pass a test, in order to serve as an unpaid local school-board member. "We ask school directors to deal with some pretty complicated stuff," says the staff director of the Education Committee.           (click to read more)

THE UGLY TRUTH ABOUT HEALTH CARE (AND WHAT WE CAN DO ABOUT IT)        by Rod D. Martin

President Bush was addressing health care again Tuesday morning.  But the President many conservatives assail for his gargantuan prescription drug benefit wasn't talking about socialism.          (click to read more)

Doing business in Kentucky not a ‘privilege’          By Aaron L. Morris

Kentucky’s office-seekers rarely miss an opportunity to vow support for creating new jobs and opportunities in their press conferences, photo-ops and campaign stops. Once elected, however, their actions rarely resemble such high-minded exhortations and instead often wind up as anchors that hold back entrepreneurship across the state.           (click to read more)

Republicans Killing Free Speech (from a reader)

At one point in time, it was Republicans who stood up for free speech and opposed the un-American McCain-Feingold campaign finance censorship law. Then one by one, enough of them caved and, thanks to President Bush's signature on the bill, the abomination became law.  Now, rather than seeking to undo or repeal this horrible mess, a majority of Republicans are attempting to EXPAND the speech restrictions beyond the major political parties to include so-called independent "527" organizations.  It's embarrassing and outrageous.          (click to read more)

September 11^th at the Movies.* *Too Painful to Remember, or Too Eager to Forget?*        by Justin Darr

Ever have a conversation with someone who does not want to talk to you about the subject at hand? You know the ones: Why are you asking me for money again? When are you going to get around to returning all the tools you borrowed? And, what are your intentions with my daughter?          (click to read more)

What our generation has forgotten is that the system of private property is the most important guaranty of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for those who do not. It is only because the control of the means of production is divided among many people acting independently that nobody has complete power over us, that we as individuals can decide what to do with ourselves. If all the means of production were vested in a single hand, whether it be nominally that of “society” as a whole or that of a dictator, whoever exercises this control has complete power over us. — Friedrich A. Hayek, The Road to Serfdom [1944]

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