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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 Western civilization that will not recognize the essential role that Judaism and Christianity played in its development and will not defend its faith in these religions and the right of other faiths to exist unthreatened, will fall victim to the irrationality and violence of Islam, and the light of reason will be turned off." ---Alan Caruba

Smoking Bans and Bears; A Lack of Imagination on Education Possibilities; The Death Rate is still 100%        By Theresa Fritz Camoriano

1.  Smoking bans and bears -  Louisville recently passed an ordinance that bans smoking in most privately-owned businesses, with a few exceptions.  No sooner was the ink dry than the anti-smoking forces began seeking to close the “loopholes” in the ordinance in order to get rid of those exceptions.       (click to read more)

Fewer schools achieve CATS goals; many students languish in mediocrity

(Bowling Green, Kentucky) – With the release of the 2006 CATS scores on Thursday, the defenders of Kentucky’s mediocre public-education system offered their usual spin.

Education officials across the state steadfastly refuse to acknowledge that our state’s public schools are not making the academic progress commensurate with the huge investment taxpayers continue to make in our state’s education system. Neither is the progress sufficient for schools to reach 100-percent proficiency in core academic subjects by 2014 that parents expect in accordance with the federal No Child Left Behind Act.        (click to read more)

Institute for Justice Vows to Defend Arizona’s Scholarship Tax Credits for Low-Income Students From Legal Attack

Arlington, Va.—The Institute for Justice and its Arizona Chapter pledged to defend Arizona’s scholarship tax credit program for low-income families from legal attack.  The Arizona School Boards Association and American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona plan to file a lawsuit in state court attempting to block the recent expansion of Arizona’s successful tax credit program to encourage corporate donations to scholarship funds that help poor families trapped in failing public schools attend the private school of their choice.       (click to read more)

Prevailing wage: Kentucky’s self-inflicted inflation         By Jefferson G. Edgens

Kentucky’s prevailing-wage policy is a great idea … if you’re a union worker on a public-construction project. But it’s unsound fiscal policy for everyone else, including taxpayers and public-school officials who must shoulder the resulting inflated costs.

One of the many telling examples of the ill-effects of the commonwealth’s prevailing-wage policy occurred during renovation of the University of Kentucky’s baseball stadium in 2002. Originally, the university planned to bypass the state’s prevailing-wage requirements by using only private funds for the $4.2 million project.       (click to read more)

Bagel Entrepreneur & IJ Punch a Hole in City of Redmond’s Sign Ban With 9^th Circuit First Amendment Victory

Arlington, Va.—Blazing Bagels owner Dennis Ballen and the Institute for Justice Washington Chapter (IJ-WA) won an important First Amendment victory when the 9^th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed that the City of Redmond’s ban on portable signs containing certain commercial messages—in this case those about bagels—is unconstitutional.  The Honorable Richard C. Tallman, writing for a three-judge panel, held that Redmond’s ban “impermissibly discriminates against the commercial speech rights of businesses within the City in a content-based manner more extensive than necessary to serve the Redmond’s legitimate governmental interests.”       (click to read more)

When Banning Smoking, Please Speak English       By Jonathan David Morris

Over the summer, Geno’s Steaks in Philly made national headlines when owner Joey Vento posted a sign in his window saying: “This is America. When ordering, speak English.” The whole City of Philadelphia could use the same reminder. In fact, so could the country. I don’t know what the hell language we’re speaking in America. But whatever it is, English isn’t it.       (click to read more)

Hippies, Trees, and Environmental Spirituality          By Jeff “Mario” Smith, Guerilla Reporter

The September 20^th edition of LEFTington, KY’s Heraldo-Liberal news rag contains a story by one Frank Lockwood, [er, uh, is that Lockweed], that tells of the adventures of a 32 year old lady named Julia Butterfly Hill. If that name doesn’t clue you into Ms. Butterfly’s leanings, then you weren’t alive in the 60s or 70s.        (click to read more)

What a Difference a Poll Makes         By Rod D. Martin, 20 September 2006

In 1998, then-House Speaker Newt Gingrich confidently predicted that the Monica Lewinsky scandal and Bill Clinton’s sale of U.S. military secrets to China for campaign cash would net Republicans 25 House seats in November. When the all-Clinton-all-the-time approach actually produced a GOP net loss of 5, Gingrich had the joy of resigning.       (click to read more)

Unbreaking eggs        By David Schlosser, candidate for U.S. Congress

Americans expend a lot of energy arguing about whether starting a war in Iraq was a good or a bad idea.  I have the answer to this question: it doesn’t matter.

It doesn’t matter because – regardless of your opinion – we started a war in Iraq.  Now we need to end it, as quickly and efficiently as possible.       (click to read more)

"Every collectivist revolution rides in on a Trojan horse of 'emergency'. It was the tactic of Lenin, Hitler, and Mussolini. In the collectivist sweep over a dozen minor countries of Europe, it was the cry of men striving to get on horseback. And 'emergency' became the justification of the subsequent steps. This technique of creating emergency is the greatest achievement that demagoguery attains." ---Herbert Hoover

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