Ultimately, Chitester and Mead want to help teachers get their students to think for themselves about the role of government in their lives; they want the kids to always ask themselves: Who’s choosing?
izzit.org provides teachers with high-quality educational videos and accompanying lesson plans on range of topics. These include entrepreneurship, property rights, free trade, global warming, and personal responsibility.Read an entire interview with the creators of izzit.org here.
I encourage you in your efforts to improve your skills. But the power of the Day Timer and the Palm Pilot to increase Americans' productivity tells us that it is not our skill sets that are our personal key to success; it is our ability to meet deadlines without letting things fall through the cracks.
This is why a college education really does pay off. College removes external nagging, which still exists in high school. College leaves the student on his own. If he survives this last test -- deadlines without nagging -- he is ready for adulthood.
Businesses hire college graduates, not because of their skill sets, but because of their ability to survive an inefficient bureaucratic system that imparts little formal knowledge that is as important as the ability to meet deadlines without being nagged. College is the first nagging-free environment for about one-third of Americans. Half of them don't graduate.You can sign up for Gary North's tip of the week at http://garynorth.com/.
The greatest enemy of the entrepreneur is government intervention.
Perry E. Gresham
Liberty and the Entrepreneur
Perry E. GreshamThe entrepreneur, moreover, must be able to face failure and be resourceful enough to learn from it. Some of the most successful companies in America are the result of early entrepreneurial failures. The imaginative and creative business person learns by failure, as well as by success.
Volunteers and friends of MOPP:
You probably have heard or seen the announcements by American Majority, a national non-profit, non-partisan political training institute and that they are starting national training seminars across the country on September 17, 2011. Well, the Missouri Precinct Project (MOPP) is one of the first organizations to have a joint training session with American Majority on Saturday, October 1, 2011 in Jefferson City. Go to our website www.moprecinctproject.org - it also has a link to American Majority and sign up for this fabulous training online as soon as possible.
American Majority is a national organization that has developed state of the art training tools that our volunteers can use and they will benefit from the expertise that American Majority has developed. It would be well worth your time to come to this training and learn the latest strategies of how to take back our country one neighborhood at a time. I would love to see you there.
I know - there is a debate scheduled for that date between Ann Wagner and Ed Martin. They are both running for Congress from the 2nd Congressional District. But they'll have more debates. I know, because I already scheduled their debate for Bonhomme Township in December. So you won't have to miss our favorite candidate for this important office.
Hope to see you in Jefferson City on Saturday, October 1, 2011 and really find out how to walk your neighborhood.
Frieda KeoughMissouri Precinct Project (MOPP)"Let's MOPP 'em up in '12"for more information call:Now...Join us on Facebook and FreedomConnector
The Missouri Real Estate Commission has admitted that Kansas City Premier Apartments provides the public with useful, truthful, and harmless information about rental properties, but in spite of this it insists that the government is within its rights to make the communication of this information a criminal offense unless you are part of a governmentally-approved group. The commission has also specifically argued that the Missouri Constitution's unique protections for free speech no longer have any independent meaning and cannot provide protections above and beyond those provided by the First Amendment. We hope to persuade the Court that the Missouri Constitution means what it says when it guarantees "that every person shall be free to say, write or publish, or otherwise communicate whatever he will on any subject, being responsible for all abuses of that liberty."If anyone is interested in attending the argument or in showing up for a pre-argument rally in support of KCPA, please contact Dave Roland: dave [at] mofreedom.org
....Some claim SB113 repeals Prop B, ignores the will of the people, and the General Assembly has no right to change it. They are wrong on all accounts.
First, SB113 is not a repeal of Prop B. SB113. SB113 is a compromise which respects the will of the people to protect dogs while also protecting the rights of the individuals who choose to breed them. Last November 51.6% of the voters passed Prop B. The stated reason for the bill was to protect dogs. SB113 actually increases the funding and enforcement of Prop B, and does not weaken any penalties for violating it.
What SB113 does repeal is the unconstitutional and arbitrary limitation of 50 dogs per breeder. This is the single most important aspect of the debate. SB113 brings up a bigger issue than the protection of dogs. It asks the question “What is the proper role of government?”
According to Missouri’s constitution, “All persons have a natural right to the enjoyment of the gains of their own industry…that to give security to these things is the principal office of government, and that when government does not confer this security, it fails in its chief design. (Art 1, Sec 2)”
The fundamental role of government is to “give security” to the rights of its individual citizens. Prop B limits an individual’s right to own property. No one, not the legislature, and not a majority of citizens, has the right to vote away the constitutional liberties of another individual. It was my sworn duty, in order to uphold the constitution and to defend the individual rights of all Missourians, to vote in favor of SB113.
So, for those of you who voted for Prop B because you wanted to protect dogs, SB113 does exactly what you wanted, and it does a better job.
For those of you who voted against Prop B, SB113 is a good bill that protects both dogs and their breeders and will not harm the agricultural community in our state.
And for the few of you who voted for Prop B because you wanted to put dog breeders out of business with this unconstitutional provision – shame on you. But rest assured I will vote to protect your individual rights just as I voted to protect the rights of the dog breeders.
If you need to communicate with me, you may call 573-753-9768 or email kurt.bahr@house.mo.gov. I am looking forward to hearing from you.
| MO: Keep up the pressure until the full Senate votes and passes HB 167! | Take Action! |
| April 20, 2011 | |
Your phone calls and emails into the state Senate must be working, because yesterday, the Senate Committee on General Laws voted 6 to 2 to pass the bill out of committee and send it directly to the Senate floor for an up-or-down vote! The committee did, however, adopt a bill-weakening amendment that would allow non-English speakers to use interpreters while taking the English driver’s exams. This flawed amendment was offered by Sen. Rob Schaaf, R-St. Joseph, and it was unfortunately agreed to by the committee. The House author of the bill, Rep. Jerry Nolte, R-Gladstone, was right to include a ban on interpreters in the original version of his bill. The whole idea behind eliminating foreign language driver’s exams is that English proficiency should be a minimum requirement for motorists seeking to drive on U.S. roads where only one language is used—English. Does this mean that the foreign language applicants who rely on interpreters to pass the test will promise to keep an interpreter with them at all times in their cars to translate the meaning of the road signs while they drive? Of course not! This amendment is a dangerous one and it jeopardizes public safety. It should be corrected prior to final passage. ProEnglish supports restoring the interpreter ban on the Senate floor before the final vote. Please urge your state Senator to push to restore the prohibition on the use of interpreters during driver's exams! HB 167 will simply require driver’s license written and skills/road test exams to be administered in no languages other than English. Administering taxpayer-funded state driver’s license exams in foreign languages violates the official English law of Missouri (2008). Missouri currently allows the test to be taken in 12 different languages. Be sure to check out this video from KOMU News TV in Missouri summarizing the opposition arguments made during yesterday’s committee hearing.  Stay tuned to ProEnglish email because we’ll have a detailed rebuttal to these opposition claims coming your way tomorrow! Continue calling, emailing and writing to your state Senator to urge them to: 1. Restore the ban on the use of interpreters, and then 2. Vote YES on HB 167 on the Senate floor! | |
The prayers of many have been answered with the closing of the Women's Care Gynecology abortion clinic in Bridgeton, Missouri. "This is great news for Missouri. There is one less location killing unborn children," said Pam Fichter, President of Missouri Right to Life. The clinic, owned and operated by long-time abortionist Allen Palmer, closed its doors last Monday. Palmer is retiring, and a spokesperson for the clinic confirmed that no replacement doctor would continue his abortion business. Only two Planned Parenthood abortion clinics in Missouri perform abortions at this time, one in Kansas City and the other in St. Louis. The Kansas City clinic does only chemical abortions. A Planned Parenthood clinic in Columbia has done abortions in the past but has no abortionist at this time. "More and more people, in Missouri and elsewhere, are recognizing that unborn children have a right to life," said Fichter. "Many people, who previously were conflicted about the abortion issue now recognize that too many abortions are being performed. A recent poll of New Yorkers found that 64%, including a majority of those who identified themselves as "pro-choice," believe that too many abortions are taking place in New York City. Those feelings are even more prevalent in other parts of the country," Fichter continued. See the complete story here.
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