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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)

 

"The Census Bureau revealed today that Las Vegas is about to pass Washington, D.C. in population. The big difference between Las Vegas and D.C., of course, is that in Las Vegas people gamble with their own money."

-- Jay Leno

Showing Compassion, Government Accountability, Minimum Wage, and Eminent Domain         By Theresa Fritz Camoriano 

          1.  Showing compassion – About two months ago, I wrote about my trip to Connecticut to spring my Uncle John from a nursing home.  So far, he is doing well at home, for which I am very thankful.  However, I have noticed something very interesting in this situation.  Many people seem to think they are showing concern and compassion for Uncle John by telling him all the things he cannot or should not do.   Some people tell him he shouldn’t drive a car.  Others tell him that he shouldn’t try to walk without his walker, that he will be lonely at home, that he should never allow himself to be left alone, and so forth.  They remind me of the socialist Democrats, who try to make everyone dependent on government for everything, as if they think that is kindhearted and compassionate.  If people really want to show compassion or concern, they ought to volunteer to pitch in and help!  It would be wonderful if some of those supposedly “concerned” people would stop by to visit Uncle John, or call him to see how he is doing, or take him out to lunch – but just telling him what he can’t or shouldn’t do, and making him dependent, is not the least bit compassionate or helpful.         (click to read more)

Ethanol in Gasoline – Increased Price and Increased Pollution?          By John Riley

The recent C-J article "Ethanol mix" by Wayne Tompkins is typical of the reasons more and more people no longer buy the nonsense that is distributed by "newspapers".  When they print such poorly researched nonsense, they lose credibility and subscribers, and eventually advertisers don't value them as highly either.  That of course is not to mention the grave disservice they do to our community and our environment.  There's no wonder subscription numbers and profits continue to fall in the newspaper industry.         (click to read more)

Incumbents’ ace in the hole         By Caleb O. Brown

In poker, the dealer often “calls the game,” deciding which rules govern each hand.

But what happens if the dealer decides that everyone else has to either make a huge wager or fold before seeing any cards while he’s allowed to look at his cards before deciding whether to stay in the game? It’s a sure bet that most reasonable people will get up and leave the table.         (click to read more)

Interventionism, Hussein, and the Modern Schoolyard          By Gordon Francis Corbett

We hire public guardians to protect our rights.  We limit their power with the Constitution, which sanctions their protecting our rights with force.  They may use that force only within Constitutional strictures.  They may use neither less force, nor more force, than is necessary.

The use of force requires an attack on an American citizen's rights, or a credible threat of such an attack.  Absent such a threat, no public guardian should use force, even if the guardian volunteers.  The reason is that we taxpayers pay him;  and, therefore, letting him exert force when nothing endangers any citizen's rights violates every taxpayer's rights.  Remember, we pay our guardians to protect our rights and we forbid them to violate them.          (click to read more)

Enlarge the problem            By David Schlosser, candidate for U.S. Congress

The legendary Jack Welch advises that you can find unexpected solutions to intractable challenges if you enlarge the problem.  Something that seems so counterintuitive is difficult to comprehend until you accept that most problems are a function of the context in which you examine them.  Trying to calculate fractions using only whole numbers will make a problem appear unsolvable – no different than trying to drive a square peg into a round hole.         (click to read more)

Make the ACT count  Success of new testing policy hinges on the response of the Kentucky Department of Education            By Steve Newman

Executive Summary

The new law created by Senate Bill 130 (SB 130) requiring all Kentucky public-school students to take the Educational Planning and Assessment System (EPAS) tests from Act, Inc. is the most important education development in our state since passage of the Kentucky Education Reform Act (KERA) in 1990.          (click to read more)

Terry’s Tidbits          By Terry Gray

Dumb and Dumber

          -Mother Earth News is protesting a National Uniformity for Food Act.  This is the same publication that heavily promotes globalization.  Do they think they’ll be able to protest a Global Uniformity for Food Act?  I say it all the time, be careful what you wish for.

          -Loud music in cars makes me crazy.  As a nation, with Big Healthcare and nannies at the helm, we are very health conscious.  Given this, how long before we regulate loud music in cars when kids are present?  It pretty much seems a given to me though I see it as big brother.  I don’t like big brother.         (click to read more)

"Now it doesn't require expropriation or confiscation of private property or business to impose socialism upon a people. What does it mean whether you hold the deed or the title to your business or property if the government holds the power of life and death over that business or property? Such machinery already exists. The government can find some charge to bring against any concern it chooses to prosecute. Every businessman has his own tale of harassment. Somewhere a perversion has taken place. Our natural, inalienable rights are now considered to be a dispensation from government, and freedom has never been so fragile, so close to slipping from our grasp as it is at this moment." ---Ronald Reagan

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