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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)

 

One of the principal political figures who worked to ban DDT was none other than Al Gore.As a result of the DDT ban, more than 30 million children in Africa and Asia have died from DDT-preventable malaria, and an estimated 500 million adults are today chronically ill from this disease. The ban of DDT was the worst act of technological genocide in human history…. As acts of genocide, the potential effects of the human-caused global warming industry are so profound that the DDT genocide is minor in comparison.  – Arthur Robinson

Ron Paul Draws Crowd In Louisville            By Theresa Camoriano

Louisville, Kentucky, May 17, 2008 – Ron Paul supporters nearly filled the Louisville Palace Theater today (capacity 2700).  The enthusiastic group was very diverse and well-behaved – from a nun in a full black habit to long-haired hippies, and from college students to white-haired folks.  The rally opened with a prayer; three young women sang the national anthem; and a poet read a humorous poem about tapping his own phone to make sure he was behaving himself.         (click to read more)

A quarter of American corn is turned into ethanol, and that amount is set to rise. Last year the federal government mandated that ethanol production grow five-fold by 2022. Sensibly, some lawmakers are moving to suspend that law, or even repeal it and the subsidies altogether. We can’t afford to keep burning so much corn while people go hungry.  – Ed Feulner

Fight cigarette taxes and you fight terrorism          By Jim Waters

I may have the best reason yet for Kentucky lawmakers to not raise cigarette taxes: High cigarette taxes pay for terrorism.

I know. I know. I flinched when I first heard about this connection, too. The notion that cigarette smuggling, driven by higher taxes, created a big-enough business to fund terrorists seemed goofy.          (click to read more)

I can’t make Al Gore tell the truth. I can’t make Barbara Boxer tell the truth. I can’t make (NASA climatologist) James Hansen tell the truth. But you know what? I can make a CEO tell the truth. I can maybe even sue a CEO. I can maybe get the Securities and Exchange Commission interested in some of the statements they’ve made about global warming that aren’t true. That’s why we have the Free Enterprise Action Fund, and that’s kind of the route that we are pursuing because we think the CEOs are vulnerable on this. – Steven Milloy of junkscience.com

How Politicians Use “Smart Folks” To Get More Power          By Theresa Camoriano

Most politicians have an insatiable appetite for money and power.  No matter how much we give them, it is never enough.  Since most of us understand that it is not in our best interests to give them more money and power, they have to trick us into doing it.           (click to read more)

People on the far left like to flatter themselves that they are for the poor and the downtrodden. But what is most likely to lift people out of poverty-- telling them that the world has done them wrong or promoting the work ethnic of the Korean girls, the dogged determination of my Harvard classmate with the newspaper in his shoe, or the self-reliance of my fellow junior high school student in Harlem who had too much pride to take charity? – Thomas Sowell

Congress to transform America to socialism?          by Henry Lamb

The classic definition of socialism is: government control of the sources of production. A bill now before Congress, H.R. 2421, will give the federal government absolute control over all sources of production. This bill, if enacted, will instantly convert the United States into a socialist nation.

The debate, however, is not about the merits of socialism over capitalism and free markets; the debate is about water. The bill will give to the federal government control over all water in the United States, and control over all "… activities affecting these waters."         (click to read more)

The McCain plan offers a $5,000 tax credit to families and $2,500 to individuals to purchase health care on their own. This would end the inherent inequity of some getting tax-free health care from their employers, but those on their own or working for small businesses having to purchase it with after tax dollars. It levels the field and relocates the focus of health-care-purchase freedom and responsibility to where it should be -- on individuals.  – Star Parker

Oklahoma-like land grab should come later than 'sooner'           By Jim Waters

Surely Northern Kentucky University land-grabbers don’t think they can use eminent domain to seize private property for a new athletic complex. Or do they?

You never know what people in power, who seem to disdain the sacredness of private-property rights, are capable of doing.         (click to read more)

Despite the political myth that government is protecting us from big businesses charging monopoly prices, the cold fact is that far more government actions have been taken against businesses that charge low prices than against businesses that charge high prices. – Thomas Sowell

Light Rail News             By Randal O’Toole

Last week, the Cato Institute released my report on rail transit and the environment. The report shows that most light-rail lines use as much energy per passenger mile as an SUV and emit as much greenhouse gases as the average automobile. I conclude that cities that want to save energy or minimize greenhouse gas emissions should not build rail transit, but should instead take steps to reduce emissions from automobiles by relieving congestion.         (click to read more)

"Windfall," of course, is just another word for "undeserved," which is why windfall profits are defined as the profits earned by someone other than you. If we were honest with the people having their profits yanked away, we'd call it the "well-earned and richly deserved profits tax." – Jonah Goldberg

Chair: New board members will help shape Kentucky's future

(Bowling Green, Kentucky) – The Bluegrass Institute for Public Policy Solutions, Kentucky’s free-market think tank, recently welcomed three new members to its board of directors.

Dawn Cloyd, director of international sales at THIEL Audio, and Rick Loghry, president of Actions Speak, LLC, both of Lexington, and Louisville entrepreneur Phil Moffett expressed their commitment to expanding the effectiveness of the institute in its mission of improving the lives of all Kentuckians by advancing liberty and making government more accountable to the people it serves.         (click to read more)

The truth is that I don’t like politicians. With only a few exceptions, I don’t think they’re necessarily evil or more venal than other people, but they have an unsavory appetite for power and influence. They really believe they are entitled to tell other people how to live and, what’s more, they’re convinced that they spend other people’s money more wisely than those who actually go out and earn it. – Burt Prelutsky

RON PAUL ‘08         By Terry Gray

Will You Vote for Evil?

          I would never vote for Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama.  That said, I can’t bring myself to even consider John McCain.  John McCain has proven himself to be a liberal.  The McCain-Feingold bill which basically bans free speech in politics, his pro stance on amnesty for illegals to include the McCain-Kennedy bill, and his current stance on the economy with emphasis on government intervention are only a few of his liberal leanings that paint a RINO picture of John McCain.  In my opinion all three of these jokers are weapon grade insane.         (click to read more)

[I]f women are doing exactly the same work as men and getting paid 23% less, every profit-maximizing entrepreneur would hire only women. But last I heard, men are still getting jobs. Obviously there’s something wrong with the gender wage gap theory. – Carey Roberts

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