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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)

 

"Whatever man loves, that is his god. For he carries it in his heart; he goes about with it night and day; he sleeps and wakes with it, be it what it may---wealth or self, pleasure or renown." ---Martin Luther

What are we teaching our children?        By Theresa Fritz Camoriano

Last year, when our younger daughter was deciding where to go to college, we attended a “Women in Engineering” weekend at Virginia Tech.  It included a panel discussion, in which several current women engineering students and one recent graduate talked about their experience and took questions from the audience.  One mother asked how safe the campus was.         (click to read more)

Pork-stuffed budget train careening out of control        By Reps. Jim DeCesare, Stan Lee

There will be questions about why we decided to get off the reckless budget train now headed toward Gov. Ernie Fletcher’s desk – especially when this spending plan passed so overwhelmingly in both chambers earlier this week. We invite them.          (click to read more)

There's no hypocrite like a Republican hypocrite.       By Greg Holmes 

     For decades, state and national Republicans have preached to us about the virtues of lower taxes, less spending, and smaller government, even as government has continued to grow with their enthusiastic help. But with the advent of the Bush and Fletcher administrations, matters have gone from bad to absurd. Kentucky's current state budget stands at a preposterous 18 billion dollars, and the recent federal budget exceeds 2.7 trillion dollars.         (click to read more)

Will your kids be named Dhimmi?        By Henry Lamb

The term "dhimmi" ("dh" pronounced as "Z") means "protected" and describes the status of non-Muslims who are allowed to live under conditions that render them inferior to their Muslim conquerors. This term will, no doubt, be new to many readers; it is a term that every American should understand fully.          (click to read more)

IS ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION ANOTHER VECTOR OF UNDEMOCRATIC CHANGE?       By Richard Lewis

The mainstream media has consistently presented the illegal immigration issue as a fait accompli: "the problem is so large we can not deport them now" has become a mantra!         (click to read more)

Tax Day       By D. Eric Schansberg

On April 15^th, the tax man cometh. Actually, he comes all year round. But on that one day, he is most obvious—and most irritating. It’s bad enough that he takes so much money, but why does Congress make us spend billions of hours filling out forms to pay him? (Does anyone know how many members of Congress fill out their own taxes?)         (click to read more)

EVERYBODY’S DOING IT:  ABOLISH THE CAPITAL GAINS TAX        By Rod D. Martin

"[T]he appropriate capital gains [tax] rate is zero."--Alan Greenspan

How many times have we heard liberals exhorting America to act like the rest of the world?         (click to read more)

Entrepreneurs join institute’s board

(Bowling Green, Kentucky) – The Bluegrass Institute for Public Policy Solutions, Kentucky’s free-market think tank, announced today that two highly successful entrepreneurs have joined its Board of Directors.          (click to read more)

FREE TRADE Lies and Deceit       by Richard Lewis

 Imagine that you are running a large and successful U.S. corporation, "Corporation A". You learn that your biggest competitor "Corporation B" will soon enjoy a tremendous competitive advantage. All costs for your competitor "Corporation B" employee health plans and all costs for "Corporation B" future capital equipment needs will be paid for by taxpayers.         (click to read more)

Borrow now, pay later      By Aaron Morris

It’s increasingly obvious that too many members of the 2006 Kentucky General Assembly believe by issuing bonds they can increase pork-barrel spending without paying the political price of raising taxes. If it were only that easy…          (click to read more)

No Nation Exists Without Borders!         By Richard Lewis

The fundamental purpose of the United States Government is to secure our liberty.

Most courtroom dramas, political conflicts and even wars are argued and fought in efforts to establish standards.  What the standards are and how those standards are to be enforced.          (click to read more)

Special Interest Groups Love Compulsory Schooling         (from the Alliance for the Separation of School and State)

"Marketers have come to realize that all roads eventually lead to the schools." - Ed Winter, co-founder, Channel One, Business Week ( 6/30/97)

And it's not only businesses that are marketing.  Anyone who has an agenda needs to market -- they need to get their message out, convince others to buy into it.         (click to read more)

Open Letter to America’s Youth RE: Immigration      by JB Williams
 
Listen kids, I know how hard it is to pass up a good party, oops, I mean protest rally, especially when your school offers class credit just for showing up. With this nice spring whether we’re having today and a chance to show mom and dad just how well spent their money is on your higher education, who could resist?         (click to read more)

Terry’s Tidbits       by Terry Gray

Buckle up for Safety?

          The state of Kentucky has decided once again that you cannot make a decision about how to proceed safely with your life.  They just passed a mandatory seatbelt law, and all that is left is for Bungler-in-Chief Fletcher to sign it.  This is about the $11 million that the feds will give them if they pass this bill.           (click to read more)

"The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike. Subjectivism about values is eternally incompatible with democracy. We and our rulers are of one kind only so long as we are subject to one law. But if there is no Law of Nature, the ethos of any society is the creation of its rulers, educators and conditioners; and every creator stands above and outside his own creation." ---C.S. Lewis

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