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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)

 

Of course liberalism is a religion. It has its own cosmology, its own miracles, its own beliefs in the supernatural, its own churches, its own high priests, its own saints, its own total worldview, and its own explanation of the existence of the universe. In other words, liberalism contains all the attributes of what is generally known as religion. – Ann Coulter

The Gore Gospel on Global Warming      By Theresa Fritz Camoriano

According to the Gore Gospel on Global Warming (GGGW), we must immediately stop burning fossil fuels or the earth will overheat.  I admit I am skeptical, since I am old enough to remember the 1970’s, when the gospel of the day was that the burning of fossil fuels was causing global cooling!  However, I do respect other people’s religions and would be more sympathetic to the GGGW if Gore would lead by his own example – showing us how we all should live by refusing to take advantage of fossil fuels himself.          (click to read more)

Hiding in Frankfort’s budget bowels         By Caleb O. Brown

“The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.” -- Patrick Henry

A pending court case involving Kentucky’s state budget begs the question: Is the General Assembly using an unconstitutional budgeting process to shield controversial new proposals from open debate?          (click to read more)

Could Plame Game Leaks Have Undermined Our Security?         By Gordon Francis Corbett

Some have wondered whether I. Lewis Libby's disclosure that Valerie Plame had been a C.I.A. asset endangered national security.  A little library research could have answered that question.

In his ground-breaking 1986 book, "The Underground Empire," James Mills recounted an electronically augmented police investigation of America's clandestine drug industry.  Back in the '80's, Federal investigators let him see how they used Pen Register machines to discover links in that industry's network, and how their supercomputers kept track of them.  This surveillance was legal.  They needed no judges' permission, because Pen Registers only record telephone numbers and elapsed times.  According to Mills, they rarely needed to listen.            (click to read more)

Our line-item veto con artists in Congress

By John W. Kurowski

If you really want to zero in on a number of con artists in Congress, the following article is a wonderful source to identify these charlatans. Senate legislation aims to stop overspending

“New Hampshire Senator Judd Gregg flanked by Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist and other Republican Senators today introduced "Stop Over Spending" Legislation. The SOS package is a series of budget reform measures designed to slow the growth of federal spending and cut entitlements.”           (click to read more)

*We Told You So. *  *The UN Takes One More Step Toward Global Government.*      by Justin Darr* * 

For years, Conservatives have been trying to alert Americans and all freedom loving people in the world about the dangers the United Nations poses to individual liberty and democracy. Whether it was “Agenda 21,” the United Nations’ plan for global sustainable development that would void your private property rights, force you to give up your car in lieu of a bicycle, and reserve almost half of the United States as no human zones to facilitate habitat for migratory animals, or the United Nations’ plan to wrest control of the Internet away from the United States and place it under the “unbiased” control of China, Sudan, and Cuba, or NRA President Wayne LaPierre’s warning that the UN’s “Small Arms Review Conference” was nothing more than a thinly veiled attempt to destroy the 2nd Amendment, Conservatives have always seen the UN as the anti-American organization it is. And, categorically, we have been ridiculed and called insane by the left as a result.          (click to read more)

Nurturing freedom in the midst of evil

By Henry Lamb

In a society where people can say whatever they wish, every policy initiative that is advanced is sure to draw opposition. That is a good thing. What is not good is opposition that is based not on the merits of the initiative, but on the person who advances the initiative. Not every initiative advanced by George Bush is good – or bad. But if an initiative is advanced by George Bush, regardless of its merits, it draws opposition from the same group of hard-core Bush haters.           (click to read more)

Terry’s Tidbits  June 26, 2004

“God made men equal, and Smith and Wesson make sure it stays that way."

Funnies and not-so Funnies

          -Louisville is worried about the amount of gas that city employees are using in government vehicles; this includes cops.  Hey Mr. City Government, have you seen your officers driving their vehicles all over town to do chores that the rest of us do with our own vehicles?  There are three cop shifts a day.  Assign 3 cops to a car, one cop per car per shift, sell off the rest of the cars and shut up.          (click to read more)

"Partisanship is fine when it's an expression of the high animal spirits produced by real political contention based on true political belief. But the current partisanship seems sour, not joyous. The partisanship has gotten deeper as less separates the governing parties in Washington. It is like what has been said of academic infighting: that it's so vicious because the stakes are so low. The problem is not that the two parties are polarized. In many ways they're closer than ever. The problem is that the parties in Washington, and the people on the ground in America, are polarized. There is an increasing and profound distance between the rulers of both parties and the people---between the elites and the grunts, between those in power and those who put them there." ---Peggy Noonan

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