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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)

 

A majority of both Senate and House Republicans voted for a bill that raises spending 44 percent above last year's…Today's Republican Party -- divided, drifting, demoralized -- is epitomized by the farm bill….Republicans talked about following their new standard-bearer, John McCain, against pork. But that's not the way they voted last week….There was never any hope in the Senate, where Republican Leader Mitch McConnell not only supported the farm bill but earmarked a tax provision benefiting horse farms in his state of Kentucky. – Robert Novak

Trash Talk           By Theresa Camoriano

Last weekend, I took one very small step to try to make the world a better place for the next generation.  As I was walking into a store, a little boy was walking out with his parents.  The parents had just given him a small candy and were smiling at him as he unwrapped the candy, put it in his mouth, and threw the wrapper on the ground.  Neither parent took any step to pick up the paper or to teach the little boy not to litter.  I was concerned.  This family seemed pleasant and well-dressed and appeared to be from a foreign country.  Maybe in their country they threw trash on the ground and walked away, but I wanted them to learn that we don’t do that here, because I didn’t want their little boy to grow up in a world that had turned into a garbage dump.   What could I do?          (click to read more)

Appeasers are terminally gullible and, at the same time, unbelievably egotistical….What appeasers fail to understand is that once you sit down as equals with those who wish to slice your throat, your head is already halfway off your neck. – Burt Prelutsky

The inevitability of world government          by Henry Lamb

It makes very little difference which candidate wins the White House. The next president will push the United States a little further into the web of global governance. Hillary Clinton is on record in support of global governance. John McCain has declared his intention to embrace the Kyoto Protocol. And Barack Obama has introduced the Global Poverty Act (S. 2433) to bring the U.S. into compliance with the U.N.'s Millennium Declaration.          (click to read more)

A lot of people these days feel entitled to health care, child care and retirement benefits paid for by someone else. A lot of people expect governments to care about them, feel their pain, and provide for their material security. Not a lot of people these days understand that freedom takes work. Not a lot of us are willing to assume the responsibilities of competent adults. Judging from how we vote, many of us would rather be children of the state. – Lyle Rossiter, Jr., M.D.

A tangled web of government polices pushes up fuel, food prices          By John Garen

Sir Walter Scott’s well-known childhood admonition cautions: “Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive.”

But another tangled web – governments worldwide intervening and regulating – deepens problems with food and energy prices. This requires untangling, not more government tinkering added to the already unhealthy mix.           (click to read more)

Environmentalists come to their senses when non-drilling philosophy costs them something. …[T]he best way to get oil exploration in the Alaska National Wildlife Reserve is to give the land to environmentalists. You can bet they wouldn't sit on billions of dollars of oil and gas. – Walter Williams

Looking for a backbone stronger than butter            By Jim Waters

I grew up in a home where politics dominated many dinner conversations, and I admit that Election Day still holds a rush for me.

But politics has changed since I walked into the fire station around the corner from my small-town Indiana home 26 years ago and voted for the first time. The interest and competition for the races in my town made the ballot look like a Chinese buffet menu.           (click to read more)

When I carry a gun, you cannot deal with me by force. You have to use reason and try to persuade me, because I have a way to negate your threat or employment of force. The gun is the only personal weapon that puts a 100-pound woman on equal footing with a 220-pound mugger, a 75-year old retiree on equal footing with a 19-year old gangbanger, and a single gay guy on equal footing with a carload of drunk guys with baseball bats. http://munchkinwrangler.blogspot.com/2007/03/why-gun-is-civilization.html

FIREARMS REFRESHER COURSE 

'Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not.'   ~ Thomas Jefferson

1.  An armed man is a citizen.  An unarmed man is a subject.           (click to read more)

Hagee is one of the most pro-Jewish Christians alive. No living Christian has devoted more of his life to combating anti-Semitism. He has received death threats from anti-Semites, and they have attacked his home. To accuse such a man of anything anti-Jewish renders both truth and anti-Semitism meaningless. … those who imply some anti-Jewish animus in Hagee do so in order to undermine an evangelical conservative and to manufacture a right-wing equivalence to the America-cursing, race-based Rev. Jeremiah Wright. – Dennis Prager

Special Education Abuses in Texas c henry, advocate & parent 

I  have been writing to Federal as well State (TX) politically influential people (supposedly) for over a year  now in regard to the issue of abusive treatment of special needs children in schools.  They all want to direct the issue  to another office or department.  They all want to wash their hands of the blood of innocent people whom they could possibly keep from being oppressed.          (click to read more)

"I knew Obama during the mid-1990s. The first time I introduced myself to him he said 'Oh, you are the gun guy.' I responded 'Yes, I guess so.' He simply responded, 'I don't believe that people should be able to own guns."' ---Professor John Lott, PhD, author of More Guns, Less Crime

Pudgy politicians shout, ‘Supersize that budget!’          By Jim Waters

Kentucky’s health nannies routinely point out the unhealthy habits of fellow residents.

Yes, we Kentuckians do smoke, eat and drink too much. But signs of improvement have cropped up.          (click to read more)

It would be hard to think of a more ridiculous way to make decisions than to transfer those decisions to third parties who pay no price for being wrong. Yet that is what at least half of the bright ideas of the political left amount to. – Thomas Sowell

State parks need a new sheriff to tee off on waste             By Jim Waters

Put Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio in charge of Kentucky State Parks.

The innovative lawman is reportedly saving Maricopa County taxpayers millions of dollars a year through innovative programs that earn him the media’s designation as “America’s Toughest Sheriff.”           (click to read more)

Politicians who use blacks as mascots do not hesitate to throw blacks to the wolves for the benefit of the teachers' unions, the green zealots whose restrictions make housing unaffordable, or people who keep low-price stores like Wal-Mart out of their cities. Using human beings as mascots is not idealism. It is self-aggrandizement that is ugly in both its concept and its consequences. – Thomas Sowell

"The big difference between Republicans and liberal Democrats is the way each party views people. Republicans see us as individuals and respect our God-given human dignity. To liberal Democrats, we're not individuals; we're members of a herd with all the dignity of a cow or pig dependent on its owner for daily rations of hay or slop. Democrats see us as being white or as blacks or as straights or as gays, or as lesbians or as heterosexuals, or as rich or poor, or as Christians or as Jews or as Muslims, or as young or as old, as working or as retired, or as housewives or as career women. They submerge us into pools that define us as members of groups instead of as what we are as God sees us---as any father sees his children---each being different from one another, and each child being a separate and distinct individual with his or her own specific talents and abilities, and all deserving of his love... This Marxist view of human nature embraces group-think, despises individuality, and seeks to eliminate all vestiges of the dignity to which every human being created in the image and likeness of God is entitled. Only the hopes and aspirations of the groups matter, and they matter solely because they create dependency on the state---which seeks to supplant God as the source of all that is good and necessary for survival." ---Michael Reagan

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