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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)

 

Compassionate conservatism pretends the state does not raise its own money via coercion and harsh threats against taxpayers. Compassionate conservatism presumes that since the government just happens to have all this cash in the treasury coffers, why not do some good deeds with it? Handouts become symbols of generosity rather than acts of redistribution at gunpoint. Compassionate conservatism portrays government as a front of moral greatness, rather than a primary source of corruption, manipulation, and degradation — James Bovard

Displaying the best and worst of human nature           By Theresa Fritz Camoriano

The past couple of weeks have been an opportunity for us to see some of the best and worst of human nature. 

The best:

The best has been displayed by the University of Louisville men’s baseball team.  Their hard work, teamwork, and excellent attitude have brought them much success – taking them all the way to the World Series.  It has been a great pleasure to me watching the good guys succeed.      (click to read more)

Play the Man           by Ed Basquill

Many successful companies now manage themselves as “learning organizations,” in order to keep up with the rapid pace of change in technology. People are considered primary business assets. Training is offered on everything from building spreadsheets and home budgeting to handling conflict and managing relationships. To my knowledge, no company has ever introduced a professional development class on “authentic manhood.”  This is not to say that it is not needed, or that companies are unwilling to go outside the bounds of business and delve into social issues.  Many companies have mandatory “diversity training,” where issues like affirmative action, gay rights, and religious intolerance are discussed.  It is a comic irony that diversity training offers company indoctrination on social issues, which is itself not diverse.  This powerfully illustrates my point that people fear talking about manhood.      (click to read more)

Not all fiddling requires a Stradivarius           By Jim Waters

The tale of emperor Nero fiddling while Rome burned seems like a historical stretch. The fiddle wasn’t invented until the 16th century.

But not all fiddling requires a Stradivarius, and good ideas can go up in flames when state legislators assume the role of emperor.       (click to read more)

Forget the illegals, track the cows!          By Henry Lamb

For more than 20 years, illegal aliens have crossed the U.S. border by the millions and have successfully avoided thousands of law enforcement officials whose job it is to capture and remove them from the United States. Government has utterly failed to locate, capture or remove the illegals.      (click to read more)

Keeping school choice under the radar keeps parents grounded  (from Kentucky Alliance for School Choice)

A popular retort to calls for school choice is: “It’s not popular.”

So opponents of choice argue against it.

For example, when the Kentucky Department of Education’s spokesperson Lisa Gross was asked about the Bluegrass Institute’s survey showing strong support for school choice, she responded: “What we’ve found is that parents want to stick with the public school and make that school better rather than take their children out, and we see that under the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) transfer option. We found parents don’t take advantage of that. They tend to want to make the school better.”       (click to read more)

Don't Drink (Milk) and Drive-It's too Expensive...           By D. Eric Schansberg

After a bike ride with our boys two weeks ago, my wife and I went to Kroger's and were surprised to find milk at $3.35 per gallon. High gas prices have received a lot of attention in recent months. And the price of gas is much more important to the economy as a whole. But at least in our family, high milk prices are just as troubling. We don't drive that much and with four growing boys, we drink a lot of milk. Putting it another way: a drive to the store to buy milk has become doubly painful.       (click to read more)

Hillary and Karl Marx        By Henry Lamb

In a recent speech, Hillary Clinton described the Bush administration as a "government of the few, by the few and for the few." She's wrong; the Bush government is bigger than the Clinton government. Nevertheless, the government she described might be the government Thomas Paine had in mind when he observed: "That government is best which governs least."       (click to read more)

Kentucky finally gets trustworthy test scores          By Richard G. Innes

Introduction

The most frustrating aspect of the 1990 Kentucky Education Reform Act is its failure to provide credible school measurements.       (click to read more)

Stagflation grips the American Economy.           Danny G. Goe

Rising gasoline, grocery and retail prices are becoming shock and awe.

Paychecks are still the same; families are caught between a rock and a hard place to make ends meet and decide what to do without.       (click to read more)

STORIES YOU NEED TO BE AWARE OF          From Norm Davis

You have got to see the Federal Governments latest addition to its many web pages. This time they have decided that they can't pass the amnesty bill just yet so they will welcome immigrants here and tell them how to get into the many subsidy and health care programs.      (click to read more)

The Tawdry Illusion of Progress           By Jeff “Mario” Smith, Guerilla Reporter

With contribution from Bill Laurie 

Bush recently met with four Viet Nam democracy advocates in Washington.  One, out of over 500 political prisoners, was released.  Wow, NOT!  Here is the little-publicized undercurrent.  If Washington and the State Dept. were truly upset about Hanoi's oppressive government, about the decimation of Hmong, Khmer Krom, Montagnards, [AKA Ethnic Cleansing] about the jailing of dissidents, it would have the EXIM bank delay further dealings with Hanoi.       (click to read more)

"I live in northern New England, which has a very low crime rate, in part because it has a high rate of gun ownership. We do have the occasional murder, however. A few years back, a couple of alienated loser teens from a small Vermont town decided they were going to kill somebody, steal his ATM cards, and go to Australia. So they went to a remote house in the woods a couple of towns away, knocked on the door, and said their car had broken down. The guy thought their story smelled funny so he picked up his Glock and told 'em to get lost. So they concocted a better story, and pretended to be students doing an environmental survey. Unfortunately, the next old coot in the woods was sick of environmentalists and chased 'em away. Eventually they figured they could spend months knocking on doors in rural Vermont and New Hampshire and seeing nothing for their pains but cranky guys in plaid leveling both barrels through the screen door. So even these idiots worked it out: Where's the nearest place around here where you're most likely to encounter gullible defenseless types who have foresworn all means of resistance? Answer: Dartmouth College. So they drove over the Connecticut River, rang the doorbell, and brutally murdered a couple of well-meaning liberal professors. Two depraved misfits of crushing stupidity (to judge from their diaries) had nevertheless identified precisely the easiest murder victims in the twin-state area. To promote vulnerability as a moral virtue is not merely foolish. Like the new Yale props department policy, it signals to everyone that you're not in the real world." ---Mark Steyn

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