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"[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)

 

Just like the laws of physics, economics laws are simply descriptions of reality.  Scarcity can be no more ignored than gravity. . . Policymakers who think they can determine the proper price of a good better than the market will create no less a disaster than the captain of an ocean liner who believes his engines will allow him to pay no heed to momentum."--Dr. Arthur Laffer, Internationally Renowned Economist

Economic stimulus package, School assignment plans, Prayer in the voting booth        By Theresa Camoriano

 1.                 Economic stimulus package – If the way to improve the economy really is to take money from some people and give it to others so they can spend it, then I am willing to be part of the solution  -- namely, the part on the receiving end of the money.  Instead of wasting time distributing money to millions of people who might not even know how to use it properly, Uncle Sam can just write a single check to me!  I promise I won’t do anything silly with it, like save or invest; I promise to spend, spend, spend!             (click to read more)

[A] black off the plantation is the last thing Sen. Clinton wants. She wants blacks to feel impotent and vulnerable and in need of a political patron to hand them the goodies they need. – Star Parker

A Challenge to the Election Finance Laws           By Richard Lewis

A group of citizens has asked the Federal Election Commission (FEC) to decide whether they are required to register as a political action committee before they can pool and expend money endorsing a federal candidate.             (click to read more)

How PPPs are destroying our freedom           by Henry Lamb

There's a lot to be said for laissez-faire, which is "a doctrine opposing governmental interference in economic affairs beyond the minimum necessary for the maintenance of peace and property rights," according to Merriam-Webster. This is the economic doctrine that allowed the United States to build the world's most powerful civilization. The line that differentiates the "governmental interference" that is the minimum necessary, however, has moved so far toward government benefit that the very idea of laissez-faire has been lost.              (click to read more)

The Bush bailout, as well as Federal Reserve Bank cuts in interest rates, is a wealth transfer from creditworthy people and taxpayers to those who made ill-advised credit decisions, and that includes banks as well as borrowers…. Only 2 to 3 percent of all mortgages are in foreclosure. The government bailout helps a few people at a huge cost to the rest of the economy. – Walter Williams

Recession and depression are on everyone’s mind.           By Danny G. Goe

How deep will the recession be and how long will it last?

These are hard questions and depend on the Federal Reserve future actions and the Bush administration and congress.

Any tax increase at any level would not be in the best interest of the working citizen.             (click to read more)

Among the many lies we can expect to hear this election year, none will be bigger or more often repeated, in the media as well as by politicians, than the lie that there is a widening income gap between the rich and the poor. – Thomas Sowell

School choice can ‘free’ education          By John Garen

Gov. Steve Beshear outlined in his inaugural address a sampling of Kentucky’s economic problems. He urged leaders to “take bold steps” to resolve them.

I agree with the governor. Kentucky faces serious issues that require bold action. And I’m going to suggest a bold step for our state that I hope lawmakers take seriously.             (click to read more)

A LITTLE GUN HISTORY        (from a reader)

In 1929, the Soviet Union established gun control and from 1929 to 1953, about 20 million dissidents, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.

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  In 1911, Turkey established gun control and from 1915 to 1917, 1.5 million Armenians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.             (click to read more)

Open government, smaller government   (press release from Bluegrass Institute)

(BOWLING GREEN, Ky.) —– Jim Waters, the Bluegrass Institute’s policy and communications director, called this week for more transparency in state government during the 2008 session of the General Assembly.              (click to read more)

I could not under the McCain-Feingold censorship law, the current law governing campaign finance, participate in leading American Solutions while exploring a candidacy because quite simply, under McCain Feingold, it would have been illegal.…[U]nder McCain-Feingold, I had to choose between being creative and being a candidate. I could raise money or raise ideas, but not both…. I object deeply…to a system that makes it almost impossible for middle-class candidates to raise money and that is rapidly moving us towards a plutocracy in which only the rich can compete for office.  – Newt Gingrich

Earmarks That Would (or should) Make a Democrat Go Republican         --By: Michael A. Minton http://mrrightopinion.blogstream.com/.

I got my daily CNSNews.com newsbrief this morning, and I was flabbergasted by the top story. There is so much to it that I just cannot take the time to write an article of my own about it.             (click to read more)

We have been hearing for years that Senator John McCain gives "straight talk" and his bus has been endlessly referred to as the "straight talk express." But endless repetition does not make something true. – Thomas Sowell

The feds are trying to steal your water        By Henry Lamb

The U.S. Constitution empowers the federal government to "regulate commerce … among the several states. …" Historically, this has been interpreted to empower the feds to regulate "navigable" waters of the United States. Historically, "navigable" waters were defined to be water deep enough to float a canoe. Historically, the regulation of all other waters has been left to state and local governments, and before that, to whoever had the fastest gun.              (click to read more)

Missing, Presumed Dead – A Must See Documentary         By Jeff “Mario” Smith, Guerilla Reporter, Task Force Omega of KY, Inc.

The unthinkable has happened. This nation sent warriors into foreign lands in the name of Liberty, only to leave many behind in the hands of our enemies, seemingly uninterested in bringing them home. To some of us, this is not news. To most Americans, unfortunately, it is.              (click to read more)

“Carbon footprint” is code for limitless government intrusion into every detail of your life. Nothing is beyond the reach of a government determined to reduce your carbon footprint in the name of the environment. To these people, nothing is sacred, nothing is private, nothing is truly yours. Not even your thermostat.  – Kevin James

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