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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)

 

It is absurd to talk about the First Amendment, on the one hand, and government regulatory agencies with jurisdiction to regulate any entity that uses mass media to talk about politics, on the other. If Congress "shall make no law," how can we have speech black-out periods around elections? How can a law be passed forbidding groups from mentioning a politician's name? – Paul Jacob

Throwing OJ Out           By Theresa Camoriano

An interesting story from this year’s Kentucky Derby was that a Louisville restaurant owner refused to serve OJ Simpson.  Since Simpson is black, the restaurant owner now is at risk of being sued by the government for racial discrimination and may have to spend a lot of money to defend himself.  Clearly, the anti-discrimination laws make it very risky and potentially very expensive for a business owner to refuse to do business with someone. 

Survey shows Kentucky parents support school choice

(BOWLING GREEN, Ky.) – A newly released school-choice survey commissioned by the Bluegrass Institute indicates that the more Kentuckians find out about school choice, the more they favor it as an option for parents across the commonwealth.

In a telephone survey yielding 493 completed surveys, 79 percent of respondents favored allowing parents to have more choices in determining where children attend school.

I’ve Decided to Vote for Harper          By Theresa Camoriano

The Kentucky primary races are coming right up, and, as a registered Republican, I have three choices:  Fletcher, Northup, or Harper.  Of the three, only Harper is promoting ideas that can make a real improvement in the state.  In education, Harper is promoting school choice, which would provide real improved opportunities for our children without increasing the cost to taxpayers.   He also promotes free market solutions to other problems rather than more government control over our lives, which again is the approach that repeatedly has been proven to work.  He also has successfully run a business, which means he stands a decent chance of being able to run the state.  (This can be contrasted with Northup, who has never been a chief executive of anything, and Fletcher, who also was never a chief executive of anything larger than a small medical practice before being elected governor.)

Harper calls for open enrollment in every state school district

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Republican gubernatorial candidate Billy Harper today renewed his support of school choice for parents and students and pointed to a new survey that shows a strong majority of Kentuckians support school choice programs when informed of the facts about them.

A five-finger discount worth the risk          By Jim Waters

Keep this column away from the kids. It promotes stealing.

For the record, I believe in the King James Version of the Ten Commandments, including the No. 8. But even the Old Testament offered mercy to desperate people.

“Desperate” defines Kentucky when it comes to new ideas and leadership backbone stronger than a banana, both noticeably absent in the current gubernatorial campaign.

A nation asleep in a garbage bin           By Henry Lamb

A homeless Florida man, sleeping in a garbage bin, was inadvertently dumped into a compactor truck. Despite his cries and pleas for help, the unrelenting machinery smashed him over and over again.

Freedom in America is much like the homeless man, sleeping in a garbage bin. The unrelenting machinery of government is smashing and squeezing and smashing again, while the victim is crying out for help.

Riviera Beach Homeowners Celebrate Victory Over Eminent Domain Abuse         Party Saturday Celebrates Victory & One-Year Anniversary Of Florida’s Eminent Domain Reform Law

Arlington, Va.—The Institute for Justice and property owners from Riviera Beach, Fla., are celebrating the successful conclusion of their legal fight to stop the city’s attempt to take private property through eminent domain for a massive private development project.  They will hold a party Saturday, May 12, from 1p.m to 5p.m. in Bicentennial Park in Riviera Beach to celebrate the victory and to mark the one-year anniversary of Florida’s eminent domain reform law.

Kentucky Undocumented Resident Cost         By Richard Lewis

In the late1990's, Congress passed immigration reform legislation.

The "immigration reform legislation" required every state to keep records of all undocumented residents making application to participate in public programs.

Want Freedom? Strive to make politicians miserable!         by Donna Mancini

“You don’t combat an evil by adopting it and practicing it.”

- Ayn Rand

I have been involved in the Libertarian Party for roughly eleven years now, and I have come to believe that The Libertarian “Party” is an oxy-moron. 

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