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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)

 

How to Feel Morally Superior at No Cost to You          By Theresa Fritz Camoriano

Normally, if you wanted to feel like a hero or feel morally superior to others, you would have to take some risk or pay some price, but what would you think if I told you that there is a way for you to feel like a hero with little or no cost to yourself?  Does it sound too good to be true? Please indulge me by reading further and judging for yourself.         (click to read more)

Get Rid of the Labels         By Lawrence W. Reed

Americans are hung up on labels. Everywhere you turn, somebody is calling somebody else a name — shorthand for what the other person’s political philosophy or ideological leanings are perceived to be.         (click to read more)

Freedom to choose is what life is all about!         by Donna Mancini

Regarding the “War on Drugs,” it seems to me that no one “important” ever asks the obvious question: Why do people take drugs in the first place?

I think we should interview every person who takes illegal drugs (who will admit it), and ask him or her why did you risk, life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness to smoke, snort, eat or inject a forbidden substance into your body?         (click to read more)

Petticoat Mafia Gone; Progressive Taxation In         By Jeff “Mario” Smith, Guerilla Reporter

Not one to read the LEFTington Heraldo-Liberal (Herald-Leader), I found interest in an article my wife brought to my attention. It is about politics in Benham, Kentucky. The story focuses on six retired ladies from Benham who have been running the town for a decade or more. They have been nicknamed the “Petticoat Mafia” by some of the locals. It appears to be an affectionate nickname, though.         (click to read more)

Wounds That Won't Heal

Greasy,

 After an appearance at Wingate College in NC, I was asked to supply a short essay on the war for the student newspaper.  It was published and seemed to be well received.  Here it is, for anyone's general interest, or your use if you have occasion to try to explain things to some of the very many (too many!) who have little idea, or mistaken ideas, of what happened.         (click to read more)

Lead, Follow, or Get Out of the Way           by Major Mark A. Smith (Ret)

From Vietnam to the ball fields of Little League Baseball, we have assumed the mantle of quitters and made losing not only acceptable, but, preferable:" As long as everyone gets to play, who cares who wins"?          (click to read more)

The Deconstructionist Thanksgiving         By Jeff “Mariio” Smith, Guerilla Reporter

“Inasmuch as the great Father has given us this year an abundant harvest of Indian corn, wheat, peas, beans, squashes, and garden vegetables, and has made the forests to abound with game and the sea with fish and clams, and inasmuch as he has protected us from the ravages of the savages, has spared us from pestilence and disease, has granted us freedom to worship God according to the dictates of our own conscience.          (click to read more)

Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes; and armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few. In war, too, the discretionary power of the Executive is extended; its influence in dealing out offices, honors, and emoluments is multiplied; and all the means of seducing the minds, are added to those of subduing the force, of the people. . . . [There is also an] inequality of fortunes, and the opportunities of fraud, growing out of a state of war, and . . . degeneracy of manners and of morals. . . . No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare. . . .  — James Madison

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