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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)

 

Let's face it. The higher minimum wage is a feel-good law. A slight increase will pass because politicians and poverty activists will be able to say they have "done something" for the poor, while the victims of the policy go unnoticed. Those who can't find jobs because they produce too little are not likely to blame the law or the politicians who tried to "help" them. Then the resulting unemployment will justify expansion of the welfare state. – John Stossel

Minimum Wage – Maximum Hypocrisy        By Theresa Fritz Camoriano

What would happen if there were a minimum hourly wage for lawn care services, and you had the option of hiring a man with a machete at $6 per hour or a man with a $3,000 mower at $24 per hour?  The man with the machete would take all day to cut your lawn, resulting in a cost to you of $48, and the man with the mower would take one hour, resulting in a cost of  $24.  Which man would you hire?           (click to read more)

Prognosis for ailing health-care system will improve only with competition, transparency        By Dr. Kevin T. Kavanagh

When I began practicing medicine in the 1970s, the United States offered the best health care in the world. This is arguably no longer the case.

Recent research confirms how far our nation has fallen behind.           (click to read more)

Budget Surplus

Dear Governor Fletcher,

I attended your Town Hall meeting at Northern Kentucky University last night. We greatly appreciate your coming to Northern Kentucky to get input from the citizens of this area on how best to spend the projected $279 million in Budget Surplus. While I had already filled out the on-line survey at your website, I traveled to NKU to deliver my comments in person. I kept raising my hand but, unfortunately, I was not called on to speak. So here are the comments I was trying to deliver:           (click to read more)

What is Stolen Valor? Or Public Law 109-437 Seeks to Protect Earned Valor       By Jeff “Mario” Smith, Guerilla Reporter

The term  “Stolen Valor” is credited to military researcher and Vietnam Veteran (199^th Light Infantry Brigade) B. G. Burkett, who accidentally embarked upon authoring the book “Stolen Valor: How the Vietnam Generation was Robbed of its Heroes and its History” while seeking corporate donations to build the Texas Vietnam Veteran’s Memorial. It is now a household term among Veterans and military families. Credit must also be given to award-winning investigative reporter Glenna Whitely who co-wrote and co-researched the book with Mr. Burkett.            (click to read more)

Republican Disaster Brewing in KY          By John Riley

Larry Forgy is exactly right (see article below).  The campaign against Ernie Fletcher has been going on for quite some time.  It is unfortunate for grassroots Republicans that it is orchestrated by people within his own Republican Party and the behind the scenes efforts by Sen. McConnell using his powerful political machine (what Forgy refers to as McConnell's "bootlickers").  This primary election will be almost a mirror image of the 1991 Republican Primary.             (click to read more)

‘Chicken Littles’ are wrong: Eliminating AMC will not cause sky to fall         By Jim Waters

Several Kentucky state lawmakers now indicate that failing to do away with the detestable Alternative Minimum Calculation (AMC) tariff during the last budget session was a mammoth blunder likely to drive away potential employers and the jobs – and tax revenues – they would create.           (click to read more)

The ‘International Baccalaureate Programme’ is UN-American           By Jeff “Mario” Smith, Guerilla Reporter

We simply MUST stop the IB! The following description comes from Alan Quist of www.edwatch.org and explains what the IB Programme is actually all about. It is being foisted upon unsuspecting parents in what sounds like a wonderful educational opportunity as it is marketed, but in essence is totally UN-American to its core. There is un-American and then there is UN-American, which is anything using the United Nations, to undermine American interests and sovereignty. This means the eventual destruction of our Constitution of course. Can’t we already see that happening? Do you think these people doing this were not educated in our subverted government controlled “education” system and our very left colleges and universities?           (click to read more)

USDA's snooping machine       By Henry Lamb

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is looking more and more like the Big Brother government that has infected Washington in recent years. The "2006 Agricultural Identification Survey," recently mailed to thousands of private landowners, is a good example.            (click to read more)

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