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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)

 

Not only did Jesus perform some outrageous and scandalous acts of compassion, but also as stated, He was a verbally vicious warrior when necessary. He wasn’t some squeegee cleaned, wind testing cliché weaver of fuzzy phrases. He said stuff that made people want to kill Him, and y’know . . . if I remember the story correctly, I think they eventually did. -- Doug Giles

Who Is Reporting On The Real Scandals?        By Theresa Fritz Camoriano

The reason we started JeffersonReview.com was that the mainstream media frequently ignored the news or slanted it to support its own agenda.  Our goal was to provide an alternative source of information and analysis.  While there are more outlets for information now, unfortunately, the need for a source that is unbeholden to the powerful interests, continues.  For example, while politicians and the press continually distract us with “scandals” of little consequence, like revealing the “secret identity” of a woman who worked at a desk in Washington or firing some government employees in Washington D.C. or Frankfort, Kentucky, the real problems and scandals continue with little mention.            (Click to read more)

Parents should teach education committee a lesson
 
Good reasons exist for using committees to determine which bills the full Legislature gets to vote on in Frankfort.
 
After all, political infighting and chatting with lobbyists leaves precious little time during a session. And the lawmakers need a little time to consider very important bills that impact the greatest number of people, right?           (Click to read more)

A lot of ‘gas’ spewing from a hollow tank           By Jim Waters

“Faithful are the wounds of a friend, but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.” – Solomon

Loyalty is sometimes a desirable – but often misunderstood and misplaced – virtue.

For example, former-governor-turned-legislator Sen. Julian Carroll somehow considers leaders who speak their minds disloyal and more devious than people who hide their true intentions.           (Click to read more)

SEQ CHAPTER \h \r 1VA HOSPITALS           By Donald M. Heavrin

For 30 years everyone from the mayor of Dogpatch to the President of the United States has been aware that the VA hospitals give substandard treatment to the servicemen they serve.  Now, everyone is pretending to be shocked.  I had a client years ago who was retired from the service, and he was talking about the hospitals bills that he had incurred that were not covered by his insurance program.  I asked, “Why didn’t you go to the VA Hospital?”  I knew he was eligible for benefits from the VA.  He looked at me like I had lost my mind and said, “I didn’t go to the VA Hospital because I wanted to increase my chances of survival.”  Then he delineated some of the horrors that he had experienced in VA system.  I was amazed.  Since then I have understood that there are a lot of problems with VA hospitals, and I don’t think the public should let the politicos get away by pretending to be surprised at the conditions in the VA system.          (Click to read more)

History denied        By Jeff “Mario” Smith

LEFTington, KY

While Lexington residents and visitors enjoyed the Parade and NCAA basketball on St. Patrick’s Day, concerned citizens were in Washington, DC to stop the anti-war left from desecrating our War Memorials with their signature hateful messages, leftist rhetoric, and vandalism.          (Click to read more)

Market economics in the workplace        By Lawrence W. Reed

There should be a ready-made market for a great new book – Charles G. Koch’s “The Science of Success: How Market-Based Management Built the World’s Largest Private Company.”

Academia, government, nonprofits and even the business world can use this management primer, published by John Wiley and Sons Ltd., which integrates economic and management principles against the backdrop of indisputable achievement.          (Click to read more)

Erin Go Braugh: The Bluegrass Irish Society’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade         By Jeff “Mario” Smith, Guerilla Reporter

LEFTington, KY

Erin Go Braugh and all that, right? It is Saint Patrick’s Day 2007, and with that comes the annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade. The Task Force Omega of Kentucky float once again honored the 24 Irish Veterans who were killed in action (KIA) in the Vietnam War fighting beside our American military. In addition, we dedicated our parade entry this year to my son, who is fighting in Afghanistan, and three soldiers who led our parade entry last year and are fighting in Iraq with the 82^nd Airborne as this article is being written.          (Click to read more)

"Parents should have the same freedom in educating their kids that they have in clothing, housing, and feeding them. You wouldn't let the government decide what time your kids should go to bed, or which doctor should treat their chicken pox, or how they should spend their summer vacation, or which religion they should be instructed in. On matters serious and not so serious, parents are entrusted with their children's well-being. Why should schooling be an exception? Get government out of the business of running schools, and a range of alternatives will emerge. Freedom, innovation, and competition will do for education what they do for so much else in American

life: increase choices, lower costs, improve performance---and eliminate conflict. So long as education is controlled by the state, the battles and bad blood will continue. With more liberty will come more tolerance---and more resources spent on learning than on litigation." ---Jeff Jacoby

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