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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)

 

We no longer need to be puzzled as to why public school teachers so often sit by idly while the majority of their students taunt, harass, threaten, and even physically assault their most accomplished classmates. Indeed, we need not even be surprised that some public school teachers encourage such bullying by rudely suppressing genuine questions from exceptional students and accusing them of “monopolizing” classroom time. These educators are simply implementing Dewey’s ideas. -- Gennady Stolyarov II

Are Americans Too Dumb and Helpless To Survive?      By Theresa Camoriano

There is a trial going on in Louisville in which a girl is suing McDonald’s because she was subjected to a bizarre strip search and other indignities by a McDonald’s employee who was following the orders of a man on a telephone.  When you consider the facts of that case, you have to wonder why none of the participants used any common sense and refused to go along with the hoax.     (click to read more) 

The Harvests of Terror      By Gordon Francis Corbett

          My lady and I have owned a ten-foot satellite dish since 1994.  It and its receiver have enabled us to learn a lot from foreign news broadcasts.     (click to read more)

Stomach grumbling? It’s time for a change, not a pill         By Jim Waters

Dissatisfaction serves as a necessary component of change. Most find change hard and dissatisfaction uncomfortable.

So procrastination usually trumps dissatisfaction. We often simply adapt to avoid the usually messy process of change.      (click to read more)

Free Choice or Regulation – Which Protects The Public More?       By Theresa Camoriano

We are all human and prone to errors.  While we are capable of doing a lot of good, we also have the ability to harm others, both intentionally and unintentionally.  This is true of all of us, whether we are rich or poor, old or young, in the private sector or in government.  This raises the political question of which economic system does the best job of increasing beneficial actions while minimizing the opportunity for doing great harm – a free market, capitalist system or a system of government regulation and control?       (click to read more)

Three Eagles, We       Written by Bob “Rocketman” Norton    Submitted by Jeff “Mario” Smith, Guerilla Reporter

     It was raining when I woke up Friday morning, 14 September, 2007.  Couldn’t complain though, because God knows we need it here around Leftington Kentucky.  My concern, having made this same trip many times before, and mostly on a motorcycle, was that this weather would follow us all the way east, and we could expect the same thing Saturday morning in Washington DC.     (click to read more)

A bungling education bureaucracy leaves the state and students behind         By Caleb O. Brown

Education policymakers pledged in 1992 that by 2012 parents would see significant improvements in the academic performance of Kentucky’s students.

Absent a miracle or widespread fudging of numbers, trends indicate that parents can abandon any hope that children in the commonwealth’s public schools might learn at notably higher levels in 2012 or even in 2014 – as mandated by the federal No Child Left Behind program.      (click to read more)

Hear from Successful Inventors at the 2007 Inventors Conference on Oct. 4

September 20, 2007 Lexington, KY – What do a vaporizer, Bibb lettuce, Maxwell House coffee, a traffic light, Preparation H, a gas mask and a cheeseburger all have in common?  They were all invented by people from Kentucky!  At this year’s Inventor’s Conference, you can not only find out about Kentucky Inventors past and present, but also find out what you can do!      (click to read more)

The worst cabal of pressure groups remains virulently opposed to spraying tiny amounts of DDT on walls to keep mosquitoes out of houses, and using other insecticides to kill blood-sucking insects that carry malaria, dengue and yellow fever, and a host of other killer diseases…. Meanwhile, an African child dies from malaria every 30 seconds – a million a year. Countless more perish from other insect-borne diseases. –Paul Driessen

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