The System Works I Bullshit
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The System Works I
Bullshit J-Ry. The system does not work. It is broken and prosecutorial abuse such as yours, is all to prevalent. Maybe they mean well, but they have forgotten their charge.
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The System Works II Who
The System Works II
Who will the Trib endorse after the endless series of articles and editorials on the Death Penalty in Illinois?
J-Ry and Birkett as they seem to be leaning towards? Or Blago and Madigan? Blago and Madigan are far from perfect. Rich Miller has a good discussion of Blago’s problems on the Capitol Fax:
STATEWIDE STUFF Is Rod Blagojevich stupid or corrupt? Or was it the arrogance of a sure-winner that convinced him to move a million dollars of campaign money into a southern Illinois bank owned by the husband of State Board of Elections member just days before a vote on whether the board would proceed on an investigation of his campaign? After all, the board eventually voted 8-0 in his favor, and the action was widely expected.
If Blago is elected and he continues doing this sort of thing, he’s gonna have a long and uncomfortable four years in office. And it will just be only four years. He obviously has no internal moral compass, so he’d better keep someone close to him who does.
And Wanda Rednour, the SBE board member who had Blago over to her house for dinner where her husband broached the funds transfer, ought to resign immediately.
But Blago and Madigan haven’t overseen the capital prosecution of an innocent man and refused to take responsibility. Birkett and J-Ry have refused.
The System Works III So
The System Works III
So explain how the system work, J-Ry. Explain how the system works. Come on, do it. Stop avoiding the issue with platitudes.
The New York Times Gets
The New York Times Gets Their Man
For a paper lambasted for being a liberal schill, the did one hell of a job on the Torch.
Mideast Peace on One Campus
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.
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.
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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.
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.