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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)

 

Thrift and hard work were what made the United States of America the global economic superstar for over a century. We excelled economically in the past, and the Chinese excel today. Instead of resenting China’s growth, we should get our own house in order…. The massive federal debt which now gives the Chinese such powerful leverage over us is the result of chronic overspending by our own government.  – Dr. Mark W. Hendrickson

Popularity of Politicians, Health Care, Global Warming, School Sports          By Theresa Camoriano

Popularity – It seems that the popularity of all politicians, from President Bush, to Congress, to Kentucky’s governor, has tanked.  The people are tired of political games, corruption, and scandals.  Of course, the people are right, but what are they going to do about it?             (click to read more)

Sticking it to Kentucky’s private school student-athletes            By Jim Waters

Lawmakers shot down a proposal last week requiring students who transfer from public to private schools to sit out of sports for a year.

They made the right call.              (click to read more)

Power-stripped Treasurer’s office  120 years in the making           By Melinda Wheeler

James William “Honest Dick” Tate celebrated his 21^st year as Kentucky State Treasurer by robbing the state treasury of some $250,000 and disappearing south into Latin America.  All that was left in the state vault was a note from Honest Dick and a baby’s high chair.             (click to read more)

‘‘Educational surge’ requires tough short-term leader           By Jim Waters

Even some of the Bush administration’s most vocal critics now reluctantly admit that the military surge is showing some success.

Perhaps an “educational surge” in Kentucky would also offer some progress beyond the miniscule improvements often touted as “substantial progress” by an education bureaucracy obsessed with making itself look good.              (click to read more)

Realization          By Gordon Francis Corbett

Our country is built of immigrants and their descendants.  Very often these people long for their families' respective homelands.  They sing the old songs, tell the old legends, and, in their minds, they paint beautiful landscapes.             (click to read more)

Who you gonna' call? Myth-busters          By Jim Waters

It turns out the longstanding belief that women talk more than men simply isn't true.

The journal Science recently published results of a thorough study revealing women use 16,215 words a day, only a statistically insignificant 546 more than men.              (click to read more)

How to catch a wild hog...   (from a reader – source not confirmed)

I can best explain my concern about the new congress's agenda, by using

this analogy given to me by a former student of mine. Several years ago I was supervising a beginning teacher in a city school system.             (click to read more)

Historical Significance    From a reader, attributed to Raymond S. Kraft (source not confirmed)

Sixty-three years ago, Nazi Germany had overrun almost all of Europe and hammered England to the verge of bankruptcy and defeat. The Nazis had sunk more than 400 British ships in their convoys between England and America taking food and war materials.             (click to read more)

An Exposé of “Blackwater”, a Book Written With a Leftist Agenda           By Jeff “Mario” Smith  Guerilla Reporter

Reading is an excellent pastime, surely much better than watching the television, a dumbing down mechanism if ever there was one. Entertainment is a multi-billion dollar industry in this country, and much of it is used as a tool of propaganda. I give you Michael Moore, Sean Penn, Oliver Stone, Rob Reiner, and George Cloony as some perfect examples of entertainment as propaganda.             (click to read more)

Let us determine that we shall not allow the state to be our master, but that we shall be the masters of the state. The long road of history is lined with the ruins of those states which bought the souls and the wills of their peoples by the lure of a granted security, and then led them to ruin by the same mirage. The world does not need one more such ruin. It needs a people who will be really secure and enduring, as far as mortal life is possible — secure and enduring because each member or society is a person who accepts his and her responsibilities as duties, and asks only that the state act to keep the avenues of freedom open. — Russell J. Clinchy

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