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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)

 

Not understanding the process of a spontaneously-ordered economy goes hand-in-hand with not understanding the creation of resources and wealth. And when a person does not understand the creation of resources and wealth, the only intellectual alternative is to believe that increasing wealth must be at the cost of someone else. This belief that our good fortune must be an exploitation of others may be the taproot of false prophecy about doom that our evil ways must bring upon us. — Julian Simon

Who Cares About Lorraine Hill?            By Theresa Camoriano

Lorraine Hill is a fifth-grade teacher who works for the Louisville public schools.  She recently has filed a lawsuit against the school system, which refused to allow her to apply to transfer from Laukhuf Elementary to Cane Run Elementary, which is closer to her home, due to her race.  It seems that, if Ms. Hill transferred to Cane Run Elementary, she would upset the “Singleton Ratio”, which requires that 11.9-21.9% of the teachers in the Louisville elementary schools be African Americans.  If Ms. Hill were Caucasian or Asian, there would not have been a problem.  The reason Lorraine Hill was not even considered for the transfer is that she is black.           (click to read more)

The War That Isn't          By Gordon Francis Corbett

What we have in Iraq is a war that isn't.  That is to say, it is a limited war.  Limited wars are not true wars.  They are clever and costly diversions that let politicians focus citizens' attention on combat while their diplomats bargain secretly.  When third-rate countries like North Korea, North Viet-Nam, Syria, or Iran are involved, the bargainers include the belligerents' patron-sponsors.  Here, as in the past, the patron-sponsors include Russia and Red China.           (click to read more)

Blood-sucking bad ideas reappear in rearview mirror         By Jim Waters

Not even the arrest of “if-he-did-it” icon O.J. Simpson last week completely overshadowed Hillary Clinton’s attempt to replay the nightmare that Americans escaped the first time around – a government takeover of the nation’s health-care system. She first proposed her European-style health care model during the heady days of her husband’s presidency.            (click to read more)

Socialized medicine is not the solution            by Henry Lamb

Despite the claims of socialists, Democrats and many others, there is no "right" to adequate health care. Rights are endowed by the Creator and are limited to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. All other so-called rights are manufactured by governments. Governments are not empowered to grant rights; governments can only limit or extinguish rights. Governments can, however, bestow gifts upon their citizens. But to do so, governments must first take resources from those who have earned them and redistribute those resources to others.            (click to read more)

Tax aimed at lobbyists could empty lobbies          By Caleb O. Brown

The City of Frankfort needs quick cash, but the plan to raise it could slowly kill business.

Including mandated benefits for current and retired city employees, Frankfort’s payroll costs rise by $1 million each year in a city that spends just $15.5 million a year on payroll. Thus, the city needs the money.            (click to read more)

The facts are in        By Brett Gaspard

America needs a strong leader, a stark contrast to Clinton and Bush. The largest voting block in our country is not made up of Republicans or Democrats—they are by far Independents. Our nation is at a crossroads. The average voter is simply fed up with the choice between neo-conservatives and neo-socialists, because in the end, they really aren’t that different. Who will rise up to fill this void?           (click to read more)

A conversation between a Customer and Bank of America Customer Service (from a reader – information not confirmed)

The Bank: Bank of America , can I help you?

Customer: Yes, I want to cancel my account. I don't want to do business with you any longer.           (click to read more)

McConnell Issues Video Response to SCHIP Critics      McConnell Supports Reauthorizing State Children’s Health Insurance Program

            Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell today issued a video response on his blog at www.teammitch.com/blog to those who have been critical of his work on the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). Senator McConnell states in the video:           (click to read more)

SEE YOU AT TEN        By Major Mark Smith (Retired)

I SAW YOU SMIRKING ON THE NEWS AT TEN--

MAKING A JOKE OF THE WORK OF BETTER MEN.

FROM BLACKWATER TO THAT SNIPER BRAVE--
YOU CALLED THEM ALL THE MURDEROUS KNAVE.           (click to read more)

By any measure of well-being, Americans at the start of this century are far better off than Americans at the beginning of the last century. Perennial doom-and-gloom predictions about resource depletion, overpopulation and environmental quality are exaggerated and often the opposite of the truth. Preaching doom and gloom has been beneficial to the political class. They use it to gain more power and control. – Walter Williams

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