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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)

 

Civil Rights Activist Ward Connerly Speaks At University of Louisville         By Theresa Fritz Camoriano

Louisville KY March 6, 2007 – This afternoon, Ward Connerly spoke to a standing room only crowd of over 500 people at the University of Louisville on the topic of affirmative action.  Connerly said he wants this country to get beyond the issue of race, particularly with respect to government policies, and he believes universities should engage in an on-going dialog on that issue, even though he realizes it is a very emotional topic for many people.          (click to read more)

Kentucky’s pension overhaul: No time to waste         By David Adams

For decades, Kentucky policymakers have recklessly avoided tackling a burgeoning crisis involving the state’s public employee-benefits system.

The 2006 financial report of the Kentucky Retirement Systems indicates unfunded pension and health-care liabilities totaling $16.9 billion, which adds up to more than $4,000 for every man, woman and child in Kentucky.          (click to read more)

Why Cervical Cancer Vaccines Should Not Be Mandatory       By Theresa Fritz Camoriano

There are many reasons why government should not cozy up to the Merck lobbyists and mandate that schoolgirls be injected with the cervical cancer vaccine.  Here are eight:          (click to read more)

Kentucky Minimum Wage Hike?         By Kentucky Club for Growth

The Kentucky Senate passed a hike in Kentucky's minimum wage Thursday. What does this decision mean for voters, businesses and unskilled workers?

It means that the Kentucky Senate has little to no understanding of basic economics. When lawmakers decide that employees are worth a minimum amount, they are not making workers more valuable. When a legislature decides that you must pay a worker a minimum amount - and decides that no worker may accept an amount below a proscribed minimum - that legislature has decided that the free market cannot be trusted to set prices for labor.          (click to read more)

The Scooter Libby Case –         By Theresa Fritz Camoriano

The conviction of Scooter Libby should cause all Americans to shake in their boots.  In this case, the prosecutor knew within a couple of weeks that no crime had been committed.  Nevertheless, he proceeded to use the vast resources of government to investigate the non-crime, questioning Libby about it until he was able to create a possible crime and then prosecute Libby for perjury and obstruction of justice.  Libby did not “out” a CIA operative and harm national security.  His mistake was that he tried to cooperate with the investigators.           (click to read more)

Gutting the golden goose

Dolly Parton sang: “You’re known by the company you keep.”

However, when it comes to the hated alternative minimum calculation (AMC) tax – a gross-receipts tax charged to companies that, in some cases, don’t even make a profit – it becomes clear that Frankfort’s leading politicians are known more by the company they don’t keep and even less by the words they speak.           (click to read more)

How much land should the government own?        By Henry Lamb

Government – at every level – is addicted to land acquisition. Local, state and federal governments are buying up land as if the last acre had already been created.

In a nation that was founded on the belief that private property is sacred – and which limited its federal government to own only 100 square miles of land and that which could be purchased from the states with the approval of the state legislature, and then only for "needful buildings" – why have governments gone on a land-buying binge in recent years?           (click to read more)

Let the debates begin           By Jim Waters

Venezuela with its thug-for-a-president, Hugo Chavez, isn’t the only place in the world where an absence of debate is taking place. It’s happening in Frankfort, Kentucky, too.

How else can we describe the utter lack of open and public debate in Frankfort these days about important issues involving our mediocre education system and how our tax dollars are being spent?           (click to read more)

Will Frankfort’s politicians skip town without helping special-needs children?

(Frankfort, Kentucky) – The House education committee is preparing to finish its work for the year without considering House Bill 30, which would create scholarships for Kentucky’s 109,000 special-needs children.

“Committee chairman Frank Rasche has indicated he will not give the bill a hearing,” said Becky Burton, volunteer coordinator of a statewide effort to promote the interests of special-needs children in Frankfort.           (click to read more)

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