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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

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“Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.” - Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (1870-1924)

 

“Democracy can only flourish, as your founding fathers realized, when political leaders and those whom they represent are guided by truth and bring the wisdom of firm moral principle to decisions affecting the life and future of the nation.” – Pope Benedict XVI

Nina’s Panic Attack          By Theresa Camoriano

My daughter Nina is normally a very level-headed, sensible person, but last week she had a panic attack.  It was ten minutes before the end of her large lecture class at Virginia Tech when a young man entered the room wearing baggy clothes and carrying a backpack.  She did not recognize him, and it seemed peculiar that he would be coming into the class so late.  Suddenly she feared that he was going to pull a gun out of his backpack and begin shooting the members of her class.  Nina panicked, because she knew there was nothing she would be able to do to protect herself, her classmates, or her professor.  Fortunately, the young man sat down and took a book out of his backpack.          (click to read more)

For the liberal, ideology trumps reality, even when the demolishing of all authority results in the demolishment of his own authority as he stands in the front of the classroom. Indeed, ideology trumps reality even as he is knocked to the floor, bitten, punched, and stabbed, as the insane answers by disabled teachers and delusional pedagogues indicate. – Mary Grabar

RX for health care policymakers: First, do no harm         By John Garen

I have often heard the important charge to doctors, “First, do no harm.” 

Government health care policies routinely ignore this basic tenet. Many such policies interfere with the efficient provision of services and remain focused on “treatments” without addressing ills already caused by bad policy.          (click to read more)

Astoundingly, state-run medicine gains political ground. Against all logic. Against all evidence. How? Because politicians and bureaucrats have repeatedly crippled the system, and then successfully blamed the injuries on “the ‘free’ market” part of the system. – Paul Jacob

Drunk With Power       By Theresa Camoriano

People are rioting in the streets all around the world due to high food prices.  One of the main reasons food prices are so high is that corn is being used to produce alcohol for use as a fuel.   This has driven the price of corn and of alternative food crops to very high levels, causing poor people around the world to starve.            (click to read more)

It is much easier to fight global warming than to fight human evil. You will be celebrated at Time, Newsweek, The New York Times, the BBC and throughout the media world, no one will threaten your life, there are huge grants available to scientists and others who fight real or exaggerated environmental problems, and you may even receive an Academy Award and the Nobel Peace Prize. Individuals who fight Islamists get fatwas. – Dennis Prager

The more-money blues cause taxpayers to see red

Kentucky’s “educrats” seem passionate about only one thing: finding ways to pilfer more money from hard-working taxpayers.

Talk about the failure of the state’s monstrous CATS testing system and they blandly defend it.          (click to read more)

Black education is the worst in cities where Democrats, both black and white, have held the reigns of political power for decades and in cities spending the largest amount of money on education. – Walter Williams

Government appetite for taxes insatiable         By W. Bryan Hubbard

Headlines sound the alarm on the economic storm that comes our way. The cost of living is heavier than what many of our backs can now bear. The poisonous crude to which we’re enslaved strangles our budgets and pushes the cost of all things we need ever higher.           (click to read more)

Those who want the government to provide subsidies to help meet the high cost of college seem not to consider whether government subsidies might have contributed to the high cost of college in the first place.—Thomas Sowell  

About Lexington Kentucky’s Smoking Ban          By Michael J. McFadden 

Michelle Ku's April 19th story, "Smoking ban may get revision" illustrated several things about smoking bans that those who force these bans through legislatures don't like to publicize.          (click to read more)

What will happen to the poor if there are no government subsidies for college? If this argument is meant seriously, rather than being simply a political talking point, then there can always be some means test used to decide who qualifies as poor and then subsidize just those people -- rather than the vastly larger number of other claimants for government largesse who advance toward the national treasury, using the poor as human shields. – Thomas Sowell

Tax Me More         By Jim Waters

Whether you made, or missed, this year’s tax-filing deadline, most Kentucky taxpayers can relate to Mark Twain’s observation: “The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.”           (click to read more)

Voters must care (about global warming), but not for Al Gore’s reasons. Plenty of scientists say we don’t have to fear a global warming apocalypse. The global food riots stemming from forced biofuel policy serve as a chilling clue of what we do have to fear. Instead of global warming causing food shortages, U.S. government policy has done that. Instead of rising sea levels, we must fear rising tax levels. Instead of ice caps melting away, we must fear our jobs evaporating. – Amy Menefee

If Stevens has come to believe capital punishment is abhorrent and ought to be abolished, he ought to resign his seat and campaign for its abolition. But if he exploits his position as a justice to impose his views on a dissenting democracy, Stevens should be impeached. And he would be, if we had a Congress that cared about its own and the states' right to make such decisions under the Constitution.  – Patrick Buchanan

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