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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 agenda of the Republican Party of recent years, an agenda fought tooth and nail by the Democratic Party and by the NAACP, has been an agenda of emancipation. Let parents choose where to send their child to school. Emancipate them from the tyranny of a public school monopoly. Let working Americans take ownership of their social security contributions and build equity in their own retirement savings accounts. Emancipate American workers from the tyranny of the payroll tax and government-controlled retirement. – Star Parker

Are You A Greedy Businessman?        By Theresa Fritz Camoriano

Consider your household to be a business enterprise.  As is the case in most businesses, you are both a producer, producing goods and services, and a consumer, purchasing goods and services. When you are a producer, you are acting as an employee, and, when you are a consumer, you are acting as an employer.   

Consider some of the situations in your role as consumer, making you a direct or indirect employer.  For example, you may directly employ a baby sitter to care for your children, someone to mow your lawn, or a plumber to repair your toilet.  You may indirectly employ a seamstress in China or Honduras when you buy a shirt, a factory worker when you buy a car, or a coal miner when you turn on a light powered by a coal-fired generator.          (click to read more)

Should Taxpayers foot the bill for a Downtown Arena?          By A Concerned Citizen

One answer given to the question is that a downtown arena is good for the city. It is said to be able to stimulate business for restaurants, stores, and other enterprises in often-moribund center cities. And maybe it will. So what?          (click to read more)

Louisville’s Brain Trust is Bust            By Concerned Citizen

If you begin with an incorrect premise, you are bound to arrive at bad conclusions. Nowhere is this truer than in matters of the local Mayoral race in Louisville.

If Kelly Downard is trying to convince Republicans or conservatives that he hasn’t the slightest understanding of being a Republican, then he’s doing an outstanding job.  In a speech given August 9, 2006, Downard test-drove his new campaign slogan: "Priorities for Progress” — soaked in economic ignorance. Any Republican or conservative who is paying attention should be shuddering to think that this man is running for Louisville Metro Mayor.          (click to read more)

Intern threatened with arrest           By Lauren Miller

My research as an intern with the Bluegrass Institute this summer has opened my eyes to the ability of school choice to improve the dismal quality of public education in Kentucky.

However, my research could not teach me just how intense Kentucky education officials are in their opposition to reform ideas that do not come directly from their central office. I only gained this knowledge – which parents of public-school children have known for years – from an encounter with Jefferson County Public Schools (JCPS) security guards on Wednesday night.          (click to read more)

Ending Dependency As We Know It?         By Reeze Brighton

As Thomas Sowell has pointed out, the Great Society welfare programs of the 1960s had the stated objective of ending the dependency of the people whom the government defines as poor.

Despite that bleak history, the long-suffering taxpayer is now asked to pay more, while being told that welfare "as we know it" has ended. If the public is skeptical, who could be surprised? Judging by a recent Courier Journal article from August 9, 2006 “Homeless families:  More single mothers and their children are in crisis”, the system has been a complete flop.          (click to read more)

Real Money, Real Taxes, and Freedom          By Gordon Francis Corbett

Specie is the raw material from which men manufacture genuine money.  It must be valuable in itself, relatively rare, and capable of returning the purchasing power the owner used to buy it.  Over the centuries, precious metals' value has proven very durable.

Gold can be made into jewelry, dental fillings, sculpture, and many other valuable things.  Today we can add usefulness in electronics.  Silver and platinum also qualify as specie because they have intrinsic value, are rare, and return equal value to their purchasers.          (click to read more)

You Might be a Heretic            By Jeff “Mario” Smith, Guerilla Reporter

As a patriot, I am committed to never letting my fellow Americans forget the terror of 9-11, wrought upon America by islamic fascists. That's right, in case anyone reading this has forgotten or you are a member of the politically correct terror supporting organization CAIR¹, we were attacked by fascists under the umbrella of islam, a religion that our president has wrongly and unfortunately called "a religion of peace". You don’t believe that? Read the Koran, not some college professor’s alleged study of it!          (click to read more)

Grandma is an outlaw          By Henry Lamb

She didn't kill anyone. She didn't rob a bank. In fact, she didn't commit any illegal act. It's what she didn't do that made her an outlaw. We'll call her "Sally" – so the jackboots can't track her down.

Sally got up on the morning of Jan. 2 and went about her daily chores – fixing breakfast, feeding the animals and cleaning the house. Aside from the cold, and the new year, everything was pretty much as it had been everyday for many years. But today, Sally became an outlaw without even knowing it.          (click to read more)

IT WAS A GREAT WEEKEND            By Don Heavrin

This year the National Hot Rod Association held its annual meeting in Louisville.  It was a great weekend.  There were 4,000 street rods in the area, and it was a joy to drive around town looking at them.  The meeting  had been in Louisville on many other occasions, and they have agreed to come back to Louisville for at least the next four years, and I hope they do.            (click to read more)

Enumerating insanity          By David Schlosser, candidate for U.S. Congress

Week of 9^th August 2006 

When I announced my campaign for US Congress, I told my supporters that I believe the Federal government should use the same accounting standards that it requires of business.  More than a few people have asked why I make a point of this rather arcane issue – primarily, it seems odd to most folks that there is more than one standard for accounting.          (click to read more)

"Some have suggested that in today's world, the family has somehow become less important. Well, I can't help thinking just the opposite: that when so much around us is whispering the little lie that we should live only for the moment and for ourselves, it's more important than ever for our families to affirm an older and more lasting set of values. Yet, for all that, in recent decades the American family has come under virtual attack. It has lost authority to government rule writers. It has seen its central role in the education of young people narrowed and distorted. And it's been forced to turn over to big government far too many of its own resources in the form of taxation. Even so, the family today remains the fundamental unit of American life. But statistics show that it has lost ground, and I don't believe there's much doubt that the American family could be, and should be, much, much stronger." ---Ronald Reagan

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