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Expanded Theft of Taxpayer Dollars to Fund Federal Intervention in Education
By Robert Greenslade © Nitwit Press

Now that the 2004 Presidential Election is officially underway, let the baby kissing and pandering begin. The American people can expect presidential “hopefuls,” and I use that term very loosely, to start making grandiose promises to special interest groups across the nation in exchange for campaign contributions and votes. One of their favorite targets is the American education system. At a recent campaign stop, President Bush fired the first salvo by promising to expand federal spending for k-12 programs to $36.7 billion; an increase of $1.2 billion from the previous year. Total education spending by the federal government is expected to increase by $2.5 billion to a record $55.7 billion next year.

According to press reports, democratic hopefuls claim the President is actually attempting to under fund education programs. In fact, they have gone so far as to claim Bush’s proposed $1.2 billion increase is actually a cut because, according to their accounting methods, federal spending on k-12 programs was suppose to increase to $37.9 billion. Only in the twisted world of American politics would a political party attempt to curry favor with the people by claiming that a $1.2 billion increase in spending from one year to the next is actually a cut because it did not meet their anticipated projections. (Read the rest here)

Those Americans not dumbed-down by media propaganda are already more than up to speed regarding the extracurricular activities of the Bush administration and the lies told by President George W. Bush to engineer an unnecessary war against a defenseless Third World dictatorship. If human rights are an issue, where was America relative to the cause for world justice as regards Rwanda?

The denizens of talk radio and FAUXNews justify the unjust war by the interventionist question: Aren’t the Iraqi people better off without Saddam? Frankly, I cannot answer that question – I simply don’t have enough information on the matter. Neither does anyone else in Amerika. To be certain, the media hasn’t shed enough light on the matter. In fact, the media is still in arrears as regards information on TWA 800, JFK, RFK, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., 9-11, Halliburton, Bechtel, Enron, and on and on. So how could anyone in this nation of propagandized news know what’s going on anywhere at anytime? (Read the rest here)

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Taxation through the Ages
By Joseph Sobran

I’ve told this story before, but I’ll tell it again.

In the summer of 1965, when I’d just finished my freshman year in college, I was reading a little book called The Law — a long pamphlet, really — by the nineteenth-century French legislator Frédéric Bastiat, when I was riveted by a single sentence: “Look at the law, and see if it does for one man at the expense of another what it would be a crime for the one to do to the other himself.” (Read the rest here)

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I have confirmed with the legal team that the next court date -February 2, 2004- is open to the public. So spread the word throughout the land. I'll be wearing a suit and tie, and if I can remember how will even comb my hair. So the spectator value will be pretty high even ignoring the legal niceties.

The appearance is at Ashland County Common Pleas court, which I believe is at 142 W 2nd Street, Ashland Ohio. The proceedings start at 11:30 AM. I shall leave it to the local activists to arrange the details of where and when they will gather. I will be arriving with the lawyers, and probably tied up with them for at least a little while before that to boot. I suspect I will be told it would be inadvisable to say anything; you know the drill. I would appreciate as big a show of support as we can manage, but remember that we MUST appear polite, respectable, and businesslike.

Feel free to forward this notice far and wide, and should the local activists have questions that they can't get answered on the LRT web page, feel free to email me at this address.

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