Mideast Peace on One Campus
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Mideast Peace on One Campus
One of the problems with concentrating on particular institutions is that other institutions that work well in accommodating different views get lost.
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Another Useful Idiot I should
Another Useful Idiot
I should have taken Will to task for stating that Uranium depleted munitions are of no danger. Perhaps the specific effects were overstated by the Congressmen, but they can be very toxic and have horrible effects on the environment.
Title IX Primer One of
Title IX Primer
One of the funniest things I have ever seen took place after the US Women’s Soccer Team won the Gold. Trent Lott was on Meet the Press and brought it up as a last second issue and asked Lott if that wasn’t a good example of how Title IX’s success. Lott agreed, and then got a stunned look on his face realizing he had just probably offended a significant number of Ole Miss alums with this statement.
Anyway, Lynn Sanders has a great primer on the true significance of Title IX. A good read.
The vagaries of blogger have
The vagaries of blogger have lost a post criticizing Bonior and McDermott.
Do the, Do the, Do
Do the, Do the, Do the stab and twist
Oh, if only Lautenberg is the guy, it’ll make Torch’s demise all the worse. And that is good. Major kudos to Altercation to be the only one to mention the the Harbury case that I saw.
Huh? Has anyone looked at
Huh? Has anyone looked at the polls?
Instapundit appears to be confused. The polls are good for Dems and the three on the trip to Baghdad simply aren’t that influential. One is leaving Congress and got his butt handed to him in the Michigan gubanorial primary. The other two aren’t party leaders so I have to wonder how two backbenchers and a retiring leader out of public life are going to tarnish an entire political party?
Their argument about dishonesty is made by Kinsley and others in the press as well. This isn’t a fringe idea. Indeed, Weisberg (see below) thinks as I do, we should take on Iraq despite the dishonesty of the administration.
Special Ops vs the 82nd
Special Ops vs the 82nd Airborne
This story describes the difference in operating methods and identifies some of the tensions seen in Somalia. While it shouldn’t be dismissed, the Special Ops guys don’t exactly play well with others. The specific incident is troubling, but one incident.
Why conservatives need to understand
Why conservatives need to understand capitalism and economics
One of the common screeds from conservatives advocating vouchers for schools (I’m a liberal advocate of vouchers), is that private schools are cheaper and so vouchers would save money.
This ignores that some private schools are cheaper than public schools based tuition. Tuition doesn’t cover all costs in such schools. Catholic schools are the primary example. Catholic schools are a horrible comparison to public schools. Most diosceses subsidize the schools, physcial plants are shared with other facilities, and teacher pay is low.
If you look at other secular private schools their tuition is similar or more than most public schools per student expenditures. And such schools often have other sources of income.
The NY Times Rothstein points out we have good examples of how to increase teacher retention and it shouldn’t be hard to figure what that is for those who understand economics. He suggests, increase salaries for teachers. Surprise, in New York this worked.
The claims of vouchers being cheaper fails to grasp this and many other issues. There is a pool of cheap labor out there for private schools, but it is limited and highly unlikely to expand greatly. Increasing teacher salaries is going to be necessary to increase the labor pool.
Duh.
Costless Reform The Chicago Tribune
Costless Reform
The Chicago Tribune dedicates the entire editorial page to a single death penalty reform. Police are good people for the most part, but because they are good people they do the best they can to prove a case. Unfortunately, this eagerness causes the system to be warped. Creating checks on that eagerness is reasonable and just.
Update:
On Sunday, Clarence Page points out the advantages of videotaping confessions in relation to the police. I have always been amazed at the resistance to the idea. It should reduce the number of coerced confession claims plummet. And provide some juries some good laughs as they watch the fools confess on camera and then claim they were coerced by the withholding of M&Ms.
News at 11: Sometimes, just
News at 11: Sometimes, just sometimes, friends disagree
Steve Chapman points out that sovereignty means you get to make your own choices and your allies ought to respect those choices.
Germany is highly averse to fighting wars. They backed us in Afghanistan and they backed us in Kosovo. The fact that they are leary of Iraq isn’t a betrayal, it is their right. They certainly aren’t the pain in the ass that France is.