July 2009

  • Our Best and the Brightest Led us to the Moon and Now We’re Leaving Them Behind

    moon-landing-imagesIt is not surprising that it would take Forbes, the magazine that, for years, had as its slogan "Capitalist Tool," to point out that the way money is spent in the field of education is truly bizarre.In their November 21, 1994 issue, an article by Peter Br

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  • Quote: "If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation are people who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. That struggle might be a moral one; it might be a physical one; it might be both moral and physical, but it must be struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand." - Frederick Douglass.
  • July 09 2009 show notes

  • Quote: "When we can't dream any longer we die." - Emma Goldman.
  • Topic: Are copyright laws a threat to our online freedom?
  • Article: Copyright laws are a threat to our online freedom by Christian Engström.
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  • July 08 2009 show notes

  • Quote: "Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one." Malcolm Forbes.
  • Is the Capital Gains program to help kids get good grades good school policy or "government bribery?"Article: 'Nightly News' Promotes Paying Children for Public School Success By Jeff Poor, Business & Media Institute.
  • Gun toting, veggie-eating, liberal mama!

    Don't mess with Louise.

  • July 07 2009 show notes

  • Quote: "We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason if we dig deep in our history and remember that we are not descended from fearful men, not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate and to defend causes which were for the moment unpopular." - Edward R. Murrow, 1954.
  • Anniversary of the 7/7 bombings in London, 2005.
  • Why do Libertarians hate the middle class?
  • Obama Drinks Friedman’s Kool-Aid

    free-trade-imagesby Thom Hartmann

  • July 06 2009 show notes

  • Quote: "The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism -- ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling private power." -- Franklin D. Roosevelt.
  • Is the Republican Party still alive and kicking...are we addicted to war - is there no hope for peace?
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