Archive for September, 2007

School vouchers are anti-government

http://www.democracyforutah.com/node/1801
Synopsis: Vouchers are an intentional step on a slippery slope ending in the destruction of our publicly funded system of education.
Partly right. Anti-government:Yes End publicly funded system:No
Remember people, it’s the government who decided to underfund schools. It’s the goverment that invaded Iraq. It’s the goverment that sucks out huge chunks of your paycheck and […]

Utah Amicus Unfairly Criticizes Paul Mero

http://economicspolitics.blogspot.com/2007/09/utah-amicus-unfairly-criticizes-paul.html
Synopsis: Frank Staheli rakes the Utah Amicus over the coals for it’s criticism of a recent Sutherland Institute publication.
Read the article. Frank does a good job making his point.
One thing I took away from it was that, while Paul Mero may usually be wrong, he isn’t this time. I think sometimes we may dismiss some […]

Revamp NCLB to fulfill its promise

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bal-op.nclb16sep16,0,3497741.story
Synopsis: What Congress can do to fix NCLB…make it more onerous.
This is written by someone who believes that government, if they just think hard enough and spend enough money, can fix anything. All we have to do is ignore the evidence that gov’t intervention generally screws things up royally at a great cost.
Repeal it and […]

Vouchers are not unconstitutional

http://www.sltrib.com/opinion/ci_6904879
Synopsis: Someone agrees with my post here.
Some of the comments are kind of funny.