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I will be on the “Talk With Ron Williams” show at 4 p.m. today on WCIT-AM as I am every Thursday.
You can listen on AM 940 in the Lima, Ohio, area or online at http://tho.lu/listen940.
Call in at: +1 419-228-9494 or +1 888-894-3776. You can email questions and comments to [email protected].
If you miss it, the show will be archived at Talk With Ron Archives.
During the last decade, those advocating for school choice have made real inroads into breaking the government’s stranglehold on education.
In 1999, 349,000 children attended the nation’s 1,542 charter schools. Today, that figure has ballooned to 2.05 million. Additionally, the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools reports that the waiting list to get into one of the nation’s 5,637 charter schools could fill almost 5,000 more schools.
Nearly 200,000 children are attending private schools as a result of 34 school voucher and other similar private school choice programs in 19 states. According to the Friedman Foundation of Educational Choice, 130 private school choice bills were introduced in statehouses across the country last year.
Home schooling has also doubled in the last 10 years with about 1.5 million families nationwide choosing to educate their own children compared to 850,000 in 1999, according to the U.S. Department of Education.
Unfortunately, there is still a long road to travel. That is why this week has been named National School Choice Week.
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I will be on the “Talk With Ron Williams” show at 4 p.m. today on WCIT-AM as I am every Thursday. Not sure what we will talk about, but there is a lot going on, such as the Iowa caucuses recount, Texas Gov. Rick Perry dropping out of the presidential race, and the Lima City School District hiring a superintendent without so much as a job posting.
You can listen on AM 940 in the Lima, Ohio, area or online at http://tho.lu/listen940.
Call in at: +1 419-228-9494 or +1 888-894-3776. You can email questions and comments to [email protected].
If you miss it, the show will be archived at Talk With Ron Archives.
Here is the sequel to the video I posted yesterday.
Every member of the Occupy Wall Street “movement” should watch this video and learn a little something about economics and the free market, which they despise. Same goes for all you liberals out there. This is how the real world works. Your good intentions are putting good people out of work.
OK, liberals, you must watch this video.
This video does a great job of explaining why the idea of government aid, i.e., welfare, ObamaCare, etc., is a bad idea as well as being morally wrong.
Of course, the concept will be beyond the liberal mind to understand. But if we can get just one to comprehend …
As this video clearly shows, members of the U.S. Armed Forces overwhelmingly support U.S. Rep. Dr. Ron Paul for president. Keep this in mind next time some faux-conservative war hawk ludicrously claims Paul’s foreign policy is dangerous for America. If the military professionals believe his foreign policy proposals are what is needed for America, then conservatives should listen.
During the Jan. 7 GOP presidential primary debate in New Hampshire, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney failed a constitutional quiz.
ABC’s chief political correspondent, George Stephanopoulos, asked Romney if the states could ban contraceptives or whether that is trumped by a constitutional right to privacy.
Romney was clearly perplexed by the question and was not sure of the answer.
“We can ask our constitutionalist here,” Romney responded, pointing to U.S. Rep. Dr. Ron Paul.
Apparently, even Romney recognizes that Paul understands the Constitution better, which is odd, given that Romney has a law degree from Harvard University and Paul is an obstetrician.
Shouldn’t a Harvard lawyer know more about the Constitution than a doctor with a medical degree from Duke University?
In Romney’s defense, the question was patently silly. The U.S. Supreme Court settled this question in a string of cases beginning in 1965 with a landmark case known as Griswold v. Connecticut, a decade before Romney graduated cum laude from Harvard.
The point is that a Harvard-educated lawyer and a former governor who wants be the next president of the United States had no clue whether states could constitutionally ban contraceptives.
Another funny observation by Jon Stewart on the media vs. Ron Paul. This time after the New Hampshire primary and Paul’s second-place finish.
Nothing like spending an hour on the radio being denounced as a racist! Below is audio from Thursday’s radio show. We talked about race and constitutional rights, in particular the 1964 Civil Rights Act and whether that was a constitutional law.
Near the end, Charles Thomas calls in and makes the argument that because he pays taxes to maintain the roads, businesses should not be permitted to discriminated. However, that is a slippery slope. Should free speech be curbed because it is taking place on roads or parks, the so-called traditional public fora that the U.S. Supreme Court said deserves the most protection?
Quite fun! Enjoy!
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What U.S. Rep. Ron Paul’s bid for the White House is demonstrating is that we have become a nation of cowards, comfortably hiding under the heavy government blanket that is slowly smothering the flames of liberty.
To be sure, it is not all cowardice. There is quite a bit of ignorance thrown into the pot for good measure.
This is demonstrated by the crazy talk that a Ron Paul presidency is dangerous to America.
What a ridiculous proposition. The reality is, we are in danger because of our interventionist policies and profligate spending habits.
The United States has more than 1,000 bases around the globe in more than 60 countries with military personnel stationed in more than 160 countries. That doesn’t even begin to count the facilities run by other countries on our behalf, the secret bases operated by the CIA, or the floating bases found on aircraft carriers.
In fact, the United States has so many bases it cannot even give an accurate number.
Here at home, the jobless rate is hovering near 9 percent. Still, we are spending more on “defense” than the rest of the world combined.
Who in their right mind could possibly think that makes sense?
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