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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 "right" to an education requires a massive government-controlled public-school system to enforce that right. But it is this same public-school system that cripples the education and lives of millions of children. So, ironically, the alleged right to an education is the worst thing we can offer our children. – Joel Turtel

Judging the Judges         By Theresa Fritz Camoriano

Imagine a basketball game in which the referees decide ahead of time which team they want to win and then proceed to change the rules as the game is being played in order to ensure the desired outcome.  For example, they might decide that some baskets were scored with more skill than others and thus should be awarded more points, or they might create new fouls that would allow them to punish the disfavored team.             (click to read more)

Scholarship program would help special-needs children        By Stan Lee

In denouncing the bill creating the Special Needs Scholarship Program, the Lexington Herald-Leader in a recent editorial claimed that the legislation was about advancing some political agenda.

Could it really be that it is the newspaper trying to advance an agenda of some other group?             (click to read more)

Election 2006: Barbarians at the Gate         By Rod D. Martin, 28 September 2006

In June of last year, Rep. John Conyers staged a mock hearing into impeachment charges against President Bush concerning Iraq.

According to Washington Post reporter Dana Milbank, Detroit's loony-left congressman "banged a large...gavel and got the other lawmakers to call him 'Mr. Chairman.''" Milbank wrote that Conyers was enjoying himself so much, he ignored his aides' pleas to stop the session.             (click to read more)

Coalition to LRC: Post the votes!

(Frankfort, Kentucky) – A coalition of state lawmakers and activist organizations is calling upon the Legislative Research Commission (LRC) to post committee votes on the agency’s Web site.

LRC members will soon receive an open letter signed by 24 lawmakers, activists and bloggers who want fast, online public access to Kentucky’s General Assembly.              (click to read more)

Fences and neighbors        By David Schlosser, candidate for U.S. Congress

Illegal immigration evokes a very emotional response among most Americans.  Unfortunately, emotion tends to cloud a dispassionate assessment of this complex and challenging issue.

Because of the Federal government’s utter failure to secure America’s southern and northern borders, it is particularly challenging in Arizona.  We see the daily and dramatic impact of illegal immigration.  Shuttered hospitals, schools where English is a second language, and ecologically devastated borderlands conceal that even the most vehement opponents of illegal immigration recognize that the net national effect is positive.             (click to read more)

A Taxing Situation        By Jonathan David Morris

A couple of months ago, the State of New Jersey decided its taxes just weren’t high enough. In order to correct this situation, the state introduced a new 7 percent sales tax, which was recently extended to a number of previously untaxed goods and services, such as: tanning; tattooing; landscaping; self-storage; and music downloads.

As if these new fees weren’t already reason enough to be outraged, Garden State legislators have secretly approved a number of other new taxes, set to begin within the coming months. If you disagree with any of these taxes, you are urged to either contact your legislators or sit back and do absolutely nothing.              (click to read more)

[W]e ditch our venti latte in the trash barrel (goodbye, four

bucks) and board the flight...    It's like a cartoon….

The way to stop terrorists on planes is to encourage passengers to bring loaded firearms aboard: guys in orange vests sitting in exit rows with deer rifles on their laps, ladies with Mr. Colt in their purses, kids with peashooters. Somebody wake up the NRA. Does the Second Amendment say ''The right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed except on commercial airliners''? Where is the right wing when you really need them?…I'm a liberal and we love ridiculous government programs that intrude on personal freedom. But where are the conservatives who used to object to this sort of thing?   ---Garrison Keillor'

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