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"You don't make the poor richer by making the rich poorer." ---Winston Churchill
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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
Competitive Enterprise Institute
"[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) |
The two greatest evils of the 20th century -- fascism and communism -- were often headed by well-educated individuals. And communism was supported in the West almost exclusively by intellectuals. You almost had to be an intellectual in order to support the mass murderers Lenin, Stalin and Mao. – Dennis Prager
Library, Murder, and Science By Theresa Camoriano Library - Voters defeated the proposed library tax in Louisville by a two-to-one margin -- the worst defeat of the last three times it has been on the ballot. Why were the voters so adamant this time? Did they resent the sneakiness and arrogance of the folks who tried to railroad the tax through without giving the city council time to consider it? Did they disagree with the idea that the library should not have to compete with other services for their tax money? Or did they prefer Hal Heiner’s proposal to fund the libraries through the current budget process? I suspect it was all of the above, and I have a question for those who voted for the tax. (click to read more)
Leaner government? Treasure the thought By Jim Waters A chasm exists between anti-government zealots and those who believe in limited government. One group believes in anarchy. The other holds to the principle offered in a statement attributed most often to Thomas Jefferson: “government governs best which governs least.” Again, that’s “governs least,” not “governs not at all.” (click to read more)
Is name recognition all that counts to voters? By Michael Dant In the October 25, 2007 edition of USA Today, Cal Thomas described the current presidential election as “unending”.1 He states, “What don’t we know about them that another year of this will revel?”1 Most people who follow politics probably feel much the same way. The frontrunners have received constant and unending media attention so voters at least know the basics about them, right? Wrong! (click to read more)
Patent Reform Debate Heats Up Legislation would change procedure to challenge patents and assess damages. Grant Gross, IDG News Service (Editor’s note: As a patent attorney, I am very concerned about this proposed legislation. Companies in the internet/computer software business want to be able to infringe patents now, and pay a small amount of damages later. That model may make sense for their industry, but the proposed reduction in damages for patent infringement would destroy the patent system for other industries. If we want continued innovation and all the benefits it brings, we should not allow the reduced damages provision to pass.) (click to read more)
Victory for Minneapolis Taxi Entrepreneurs Judge Upholds Competition in Taxi Market by Dismissing Cartel Lawsuit Minneapolis-Can an entrenched cartel of Minneapolis taxi drivers violate the civil rights of entrepreneurs and consumers? No, according to U.S. Magistrate Judge Franklin L. Noel. In an opinion released today, the judge recommended that a lawsuit brought by members of the taxi cartel to overturn the city’s free-market reforms be dismissed. (click to read more)
Once upon a time, on a farm in Texas, there was a little red hen who scratched about the barnyard until she uncovered quite a few grains of wheat. She called all of her neighbors together and said, "If we plant this wheat, we shall have bread to eat. Who will help me plant it?" (click to read more)
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During his years in Little Rock, Huckabee raised the state's sales tax by 37%, the gas tax by 16% and the cigarette tax by 103% (all fall particularly hard on the poor). State spending went up a staggering 65.3% -- three times the inflation rate. The state's workforce grew by 20% and Arkansas' general obligation debt increased $1 billion. – Don Feder
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Those who want to "give back" should give back the truth. It is a debt that is long overdue. – Thomas Sowell
[W]hen we build - and I'm one of the few people in the world that actually builds these climate data sets - we don't see the catastrophic changes that are being promoted all over the place. – John Cristy (climate scientist on UN panel)
[W]hen I look at the world, I see that the carbon dioxide rate is increasing, and energy demand, of course, is increasing. And that's because, without energy, life is brutal and short. So, I don't see very much effect in trying to scare people into not using energy, when it is the very basis of how we can live in our society. – John Cristy (climate scientist on UN panel)
Adam Smith's key insight was that both parties to an exchange can benefit and that, so long as cooperation is strictly voluntary, no exchange can take place unless both parties do benefit. --Milton Friedman
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