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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)

 

"Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters."

---Daniel Webster

Some Thoughts – Our Computer Glitches, Living and Dying, “Partner” Insurance Benefits and Football and U of L, and Education             By Theresa Fritz Camoriano

1.   Glitches -        First, I would like to apologize for this past week’s Jefferson Review being posted late and not in the best order.  Apparently, someone had hacked into our server, and our hosts increased their security without telling us.  It took Kevin until Wednesday to figure out what had happened and to post the issue for the week, and, in the process, he apparently had difficulty, lost formatting, links, etc.  I hope this week will go better, but, in any case, will appreciate your patience as we try to adjust to the change.          (click to read more)

Facts, Argument, and Publicity          By Gordon Francis Corbett

Over sixty years after Adolf Hitler's long-overdue suicide, Hollywood is still making movies about his evil;  and, narrowly, some of them even tell the truth.  I say, "narrowly," because none, and I do mean none, of them names the prerequisite that made his deeds possible:  the economic socialism-fascism instituted by Otto von Bismarck.  And, of course, the precursor to that "reform" was the separate German principalities' royalism.          (click to read more)

Dangerous constitutional cocktails          By Caleb O. Brown

Some things just shouldn’t go together.

In recent years, the Kentucky General Assembly has been mixing up dangerous cocktails comprised of egregious lawmaking coupled with a blatant disregard for Kentucky’s constitution, all within the commonwealth’s budget.

Kentucky’s budget bill is properly labeled “an act relating to appropriations.” It’s the spending plan for the state and, unquestionably, the most important legislation produced by the General Assembly. Carefully spending the state’s income is, in fact, lawmakers’ only constitutional requirement.          (click to read more)

Watching government eliminate our borders            By Henry Lamb

It began in 1993 with an expansion of the "La Paz Agreement" between the United States and Mexico. Bill Clinton issued Executive Order 12904 in 1994, which created the Border Environment Cooperation Commission to oversee development in "Border Region XXI," a region 62-miles wide on either side of the U.S./Mexico border.

This little-known agreement, a side deal in the much-touted North America Free Trade Agreement, was a precursor to the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America, born in March 2005. The agreement was reinforced in March 2006 when the governments of Mexico, the United States and Canada met again to focus on their agenda to erase national borders.           (click to read more)

Kentucky State Parks update: Improving … but still much ground to cover          By Joel Peyton

Executive Summary

Considerable improvements have been made at Kentucky State Parks since the Bluegrass Institute issued a policy report last year entitled “Mousetraps and Stale Coffee: Making the Case for Privatizing Kentucky State Parks.” This roadmap offered ideas for reducing spending while improving services provided for visitors to Kentucky State Parks.          (click to read more)

Entangling tape            By David Schlosser, candidate for U.S. Congress

Week of 12th July 2006

A sage of Federal budgets once remarked that, with a billion here and billion there, you’d soon be talking real money.  President Bush greeted this week with some real money, announcing that projections of this year’s budget deficit suggest that the Federal government will spend only 296 billion of your dollars that it doesn’t have, instead of the earlier projection that it would spend 423 billion dollars it doesn’t have.            (click to read more)

"Politicians say that 'government should bring us together, not divide us.' But that isn't possible. Government is inherently a divisive institution -- it gives to one only by taking from another. And so groups are arrayed against each other -- each wanting to be the taker rather than the giver. Only in the free market can harmony reign, because no one there is forced to associate with anyone else. Both sides profit from an exchange -- employer and employee, buyer and seller, landlord and tenant -- because each obtains a deal that's better than anything else available to him. Voluntary associations provide mutual benefits, while government is a zero-sum deal." -- Harry Browne

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