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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)

 

This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer. — Will Rogers

Skepticism About Science and Immigration           By Theresa Camoriano

1.  Science – Do you remember the old bumper stickers that said “Question Authority”?  Well, that’s what scientists are supposed to do.  Scientists are supposed to be skeptical, to challenge accepted wisdom, and to demand proof and reproducibility of results.  Unfortunately, today many scientists have lost their skepticism – allowing very shaky “scientific” conclusions to go unchallenged while ridiculing and punishing those who dare to question the accepted wisdom.  Have scientists been corrupted by government funding?  Are they being ignored by the media unless they support its alarmist agenda?  Are they being intimidated by political pressure?   Probably all of the above.  As consumers of scientific information, we need to realize that, since today’s scientists are not fulfilling their role as skeptics, we need to be skeptical ourselves.         (click to read more)

Great strides in the wrong direction            By Jim Waters

The more Kentuckians find out about school choice, the more they like it.

The results of a recent survey commissioned by the Bluegrass Institute and conducted by a team of researchers show that. Dr. Larry M. Caillouet, an associate professor of communication at Western Kentucky University, led the researchers.          (click to read more)

The 99-year taxpayer boondoggle          By Henry Lamb

American roads are the hottest commodity in the international marketplace. State and local governments are falling all over themselves to sell off highways, bridges and all sorts of other revenue-producing infrastructure to international financiers who are eager to snap up structures Americans have already paid for – and for which they continue to pay maintenance costs through endless taxes.          (click to read more)

Lawmakers promise to deal with testing omission

(BOWLING GREEN, Kentucky) – Students throughout Kentucky have just put down their pencils from taking the 2007 CATS school assessments. But state lawmakers already know the results won’t show parents how their children compare with others in the state and across the nation.          (click to read more)

The thing won't die! (Law of the sea treaty)          By Henry Lamb

Every time the saviors of sovereignty call out the troops to stomp the life out of the Law of the Sea Treaty, it appears that they succeed – but the damn thing won't die. It just keeps coming back and coming back again.

President Clinton repaired, reworked, polished and shined the thing, and then parked it in the U.S. Senate. Fortunately, the saviors of sovereignty stomped it to a pulp. Then, while other sovereignty-stealers lurked in other legislation, John F. Turner talked his pal, Dick Cheney, into talking his pal, George Bush, into quietly resurrecting the Law of the Sea Treaty in 2004. Before anyone was the wiser, the Foreign Relations Committee, then-chaired by Sen. Richard Lugar, passed the thing unanimously.          (click to read more)

Giuliani Is Delusional           By Jonathan David Morris

I like how people think Rudy Giuliani won the second Republican presidential debate. I guess that depends on your definition of “won.” To me, he only won it if the idea was to look like a fool.

After hearing Ron Paul explain the CIA’s concept of blowback—the idea that American foreign policy stirred up the hate that inspired 9/11—Rudy took a stern look and quickly responded: “That’s an extraordinary statement… that we invited [9/11]. I don’t think I’ve heard that before, and I’ve heard some pretty absurd explanations for September 11th.”         (click to read more)

We Do Not Need Immigration Reform We Need Immigration Enforcement          by Richard Lewis

The United States has immigration laws and those laws are adequate to our nation’s needs.

It would be bad enough if our immigration laws had simply not been enforced, but the situation is far worse. Illegal immigration has actually been encouraged by business-government partnerships.         (click to read more)

FIREARMS REFRESHER COURSE
1. An armed man is a citizen. An unarmed man is a subject.
2. A gun in the hand is better than a policeman on the phone.
3. Colt: The original point and click interface.         (click to read more)

A Modern Parable      (source unknown)

A Japanese company ( Toyota ) and an American company (General Motors) decided to have a canoe race on the Missouri River. Both teams practiced long and hard to reach their peak performance before the race.         (click to read more)

Al Sharpton: The Worst Kind of Hypocrite            By Jonathan David Morris

So let me get this straight. A couple of weeks ago, Don Imus gets fired for calling the Rutgers women’s basketball team “nappy-headed ho’s.” A few weeks later, the same guy who led the anti-Imus charge, Rev. Al Sharpton, refers to Mormon presidential candidate Mitt Romney by saying “those that really believe in God will defeat him.” And the media say next to nothing?         (click to read more)

Ballot Access Restrictions Eased Major Victory for Libertarian Party

Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner issued a new directive allowing minor political parties to organize for the 2008 ballot with half the signatures previously required by Ohio law.  The new directive comes as a response to a lawsuit filed by The Libertarian Party of Ohio against J Kenneth Blackwell in 2004 after the previous Secretary of State had rejected their petitions to become a political party.         (click to read more)

Belief in authority   (This was rec’d from a reader of Jefferson Review.)

"Good citizens" don't like to hear this, but its truth should be obvious: The biggest threat to humanity, to peace, and to justice is NOT personal malice. It is the belief in "authority." (Oddly, most people have the delusional belief that "authority" is what PROTECTS us from injustice and violence, when the exact opposite is true.)         (click to read more)

Bluegrass Digest - May 2007
 

"People on the leftward side of the political spectrum say they want to 'keep government out of your bedroom,' by which they usually mean they oppose restrictions on abortion. This is a bit of a non sequitur, since few abortionists make house calls. But you can see the logic: Restrictions on abortion may inhibit sexual behavior; hence they are a government intrusion 'into the bedroom.' But it's an oddity of today's politics that abortion proponents tend to be allied with environmentalists, and environmentalists want government in every room in your house, from the bathroom (mandatory low-flow toilets) to the kitchen (energy saving appliances) to the garage (fuel-economy standards) to---well, any room with artificial lighting (the bulbs had better be the compact fluorescent variety). So it turns out the only room in the house these characters want to keep the government out of is the bedroom, and only when the lights are off." ---James Taranto

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