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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)

 

"A government can be compared to our lungs. Our lungs are best when we don't realize they are helping us breathe. It is when we are constantly aware of our lungs that we know they have come down with an illness." ---Lao-Tzu

A few thoughts          By Theresa Fritz Camoriano

1.  There ought to be another law?  -- A recent news story involved a teenage girl who flew out of the U.S. to meet up with a cyber-boyfriend without telling her parents.  Her mother said the daughter was a straight A student, never had given her a moment’s trouble, and shouldn’t the government have prevented her from leaving the country like that?  It seems to me that the mother should have been very grateful to the government authorities who intercepted the daughter and prevented her from going through with her plan after being notified by the parents.  Beyond that, the mother should be careful what she is wishing for.  If she really wants a government that prevents people from leaving the country without permission, then she is asking for even more of a police state than we already have.  A better solution would be for the mother to have a good chat with her daughter.           (click to read more)

Al Gore's hellfire and damnation          By Henry Lamb

Most people on the planet believe in some form of an afterlife. Religion is the term that embraces the theology that sets forth the process through which mere mortals may secure a utopian existence in the afterlife. The gateway through which mortals must pass in order to experience this afterlife is belief: acceptance of and commitment to the theology offered by a particular religion.            (click to read more)

Good intentions, wrong decision          By Jim Waters

“Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold – but so does a hard-boiled egg.” – Anonymous

The Christian County Board of Education likely meant well when it made the decision to deny school choice to the parents of newly enrolled elementary school children.           (click to read more)

Winners and Losers           By Rod D. Martin

“Here’s my strategy:  we win, they lose.”  -- Ronald Reagan

This was one of the more politically significant weeks in recent history.  A recap of the winners and losers:

­ Conservative Senators.  On not one but two key votes -- permanent Death Tax repeal and a Constitutional Marriage Protection Amendment -- conservatives led by Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN) did what we’ve all been clamoring for them to do:  stand and fight.  They lost.  It doesn’t matter.  They showed a spine.  And they put their opponents on the record where it counts.           (click to read more)

Bush's True Political Philosophy        By Gordon Francis Corbett

In replying to a letter about appointees to the Supreme Court, one of my "progressive" correspondents said,

       "You nailed that! Absolutely! Bush has to nominate far-right ideologues like himself.  Good thinking!"

Evidently he and I differ concerning what constitutes "far-right ideologues" and what makes up President Bush's own ideology, such as it is.  The first thing is to look at the definitions of "ideology" and "ideologue."  The second is to see whether either fits Bush.           (click to read more)

Terry’s Tidbits           By Terry Gray

Really Silly Stuff

          -Fox News reported a missing baby this week.  They reported that he was “…last seen wearing a diaper and white socks.”

          -From “The Onion”:  “NSA wiretap reveals that man spends too much on long distance.”

          -The epitome of elitism?  Ernie Fletcher on vacation in Florida while he is indicted in a Kentucky court.           (click to read more)

It is an established fact that alcoholism, cocainism, and morphinism are deadly enemies of life, of health, and of the capacity for work and enjoyment; and a utilitarian must therefore consider them as vices. But this is far from demonstrating that the authorities must interpose to suppress these vices by commercial prohibitions, nor is it by any means evident that such intervention on the part of the government is really capable of suppressing them or that, even if this end could be attained, it might not therewith open up a Pandora's box of other dangers, no less mischievous than alcoholism and morphinism. — Ludwig von Mises

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