Jim Tynen

07:09 pm: good analysis of long war
http://www.livejournal.com/update.bml

01:49 pm: to do
Tai chi

05:19 pm: bubbles may not be bad

TCS: And what happens after the bubble bursts?

GROSS: You get excess capacity, which leads to competition that brings prices down for normal users, which creates the climate in which somebody can come along with a new business idea that instantly plugs into a large user base.

 

http://www.tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=092507C

01:53 pm: health??
http://weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/014/153ohtzy.asp?pg=2

12:46 pm: more on vouche4rs
http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070924/auto_talks.html?.v=22

cato

11:19 am: voucher sources
http://www.choiceineducation.org/schoolchoice_utah.php

Better for kids, competition improves public schools, saves money, smaller classes in public schools.

http://www.heritage.org/Research/Education/SchoolChoice/Utah.cfm

history of voucher efforts and charter

http://www.heritage.org/Research/Education/wm1362.cfm

On Monday, Utah Governor Jon Huntsman, Jr., signed into law the "Parent Choice in Education" Act (H.B. 148).[1] The legislation, which was sponsored by Rep. Stephen H. Urquhart (R-St. George) and Sen. Curtis S. Bramble (R-Provo), creates a sweeping school voucher program that puts Utah on track to offer all children a scholarship to attend the school of their parents' choice. By enacting the "Parent Choice in Education" Act, Utah has created the most comprehensive school choice program in the nation. State and local policymakers across the nation should consider similar programs to expand educational options and introduce competition into education.

http://www.soyouwanna.com/site/pros_cons/vouchers/vouchers.html

anti-voucher arguments

http://www.heraldextra.com/component/option,com_smf/Itemid,/topic,59189.msg290573#msg290573

lively thread on vouchers

http://www.nea.org/vouchers/index.html?source=google&paidkeyword=school+vouchers

against vouchers, duh

http://www.nea.org/vouchers/talkingpoints.html

http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0322/p13s02-legn.html

cs monitor on utah bill

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=7871

cato

http://www.utahpolitics.org/archives/2007/05/toward_understanding_school_vouchers.shtml

site has more info

http://www.utahnsforpublicschools.org/facts/

anti-voucher site

http://www.utea.org/newsEvents/pressCenter/index.htm

Mark Mickelsen
Director of Communications
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875 E 5180 S
Murray UT 84107
(801) 266-4461

11:17 am: nope
Not coal, nut nuclear.

The proposed Bonanza Power Plant expansion in Uintah County has thrust Utah into the "ground zero" of a national debate over controlling carbon-dioxide emissions and global warming, according to Sierra Club national president Robert Cox.

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,695211881,00.html

08:58 am: edit idea
Editioral: NOPE (note moms against coal plants)

Jon Huntsman Jr. said Thursday that he will oppose a nuclear power plant in Utah until technology is developed to reprocess safely the plant's radioactive waste on site.

"That's a deal-breaker," the governor told the Deseret Morning News in an interview the day after an interim legislative committee discussed a proposal that would allow utilities to recover the cost of building a nuclear power facility even before it begins generating power.

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,695211879,00.html

05:13 pm: Rove in WSJ on health care
In short, the best health reform proposals will be those that recognize and build on the virtues of our market-based medical system. Sick people around the world come here because they can't get quality care in their home countries. Many health-care professionals come here to practice, leaving behind well-meaning health-care systems where government is in charge, bureaucrats make the decisions, and where the patient doesn't have the choice he or she does in the U.S.
Mrs. Clinton may think Americans want to trade freedom and innovation for the illusory security of government regulation and surrender control of their health decisions to government bureaucrats. My bet is 2008 will teach us something different if Republicans make health care a centerpiece issue.

http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110010620

07:00 pm: thoughtful piece
But there are subtle indications that U.S. policy is slowly working, and that a strike now on Iran would be a grave mistake, in every strategic and political sense — not to mention the humanitarian one of harming a populace that may well soon prove to be the most pro-Western in the region.

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=Y2I4ODZlYTdkNDhiZTkxMDVhMmQzNDA2NDNjM2RjNjg=&w=MQ==

10:43 pm: a plea
http://www.nypost.com/seven/08252007/postopinion/opedcolumnists/senator_warners_bad_withdrawal.htm?page=0

The truth is that our troops want to continue this struggle. I know. I'm here. And I'm listening to what they have to say. They're confident as never before that we're on the right path.

Should we rob them of their victory now and enhance al Qaeda by giving them a free win? How can we even contemplate quitting now?

I've been sitting down with Iraqis, too - including former enemies. They don't want us to leave. They finally cracked the code. They need us. And although they've got a range of their own goals (not all of them tending toward Jeffersonian democracy), they're unified in their hatred of al Qaeda.

11:19 am: fascinating piece
http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110010505

It may be claimed that Padilla's odyssey is a triumph for due process and the rule of law in wartime. Instead, when it is examined closely, this case shows why current institutions and statutes are not well suited to even the limited task of supplementing what became, after Sept. 11, 2001, principally a military effort to combat Islamic terrorism.

11:03 pm: Giuliani sums it up
Full recognition of the first great challenge of the twenty-first century came with the attacks of September 11, 2001, even though Islamist terrorists had begun their assault on world order decades before. Confronted with an act of war on American soil, our old assumptions about conflict between nation-states fell away. Civilization itself, and the international system, had come under attack by a ruthless and radical Islamist enemy.

http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20070901faessay86501/rudolph-giuliani/toward-a-realistic-peace.html

06:06 pm: striking column
If I am right about this, an enormous prize is within our reach. We can not only deny the clones of Bin Ladenism a military victory in Iraq, we can also discredit them in the process and in the eyes (and with the help) of a Muslim people who have seen them up close. We can do this, moreover, in a keystone state of the Arab world that guards a chokepoint—the Gulf—in the global economy. As with the case of Afghanistan—where several provinces are currently on a knife-edge between an elected government that at least tries for schools and vaccinations, and the forces of uttermost darkness that seek to negate such things—the struggle will take all our nerve and all our intelligence. But who can argue that it is not the same battle in both cases, and who dares to say that it is not worth fighting?

http://www.slate.com/id/2172152/

10:34 pm: Hang in there?
Is success suddenly guaranteed in Iraq? Of course not. The situation's still a bloody mess. But it's also more encouraging than it's been since the summer of 2003, when the downward slide began.

Gen. Dave Petraeus and his subordinate commanders are by far the best team we've ever had in place in that wretched country. They're doing damned near everything right - with austere resources, despite the surge. And they're being abandoned by your elected leaders.

http://www.nypost.com/seven/07262007/postopinion/opedcolumnists/winning_in_iraq_opedcolumnists_ralph_peters.htm?page=3

12:17 pm: A resolution?
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/20/opinion/20khalilzad.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

This could be helpful. See the Krauthammer column. One possibility: a federated (in fact) Iraq, U.S. troops providing the muscle, U.N. providing some help and political cover.

Better than the way we left Germany, Eastern Europe and Korea and Vietnam.

10:46 am: Realistic?
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2007/07/an_american_vision_for_iraq.html

For an interminable 18 months we waited for the 80 percent solution -- for Maliki's Shiite-Kurdish coalition to reach out to the Sunnis. The Petraeus-Crocker plan is the 20 percent solution: peel the Sunnis away from the insurgency by giving them the security and weaponry to fight the new common enemy -- al-Qaeda in Iraq.

Maliki & Co. are afraid we are arming Sunnis for the civil war to come. On the other hand, we might be creating a rough balance of forces that would act as a deterrent to all-out civil war and encourage a relatively peaceful accommodation.

12:14 pm: important piece
fascinating piece by great novelist and ultra-hawk.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/19/opinion/19helprin.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1

The United States has fought the war in Iraq as if history, strategy, maneuver, preparation, foresight, fact, integrity and common sense did not exist. Nonetheless, the effect of the war has been to shatter the politics of the region and create opportunities, one of which is the potential for a settlement between Israel and the Palestinians.

11:47 pm: stopped clock dept. etc.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2007/07/first_anbar_now_baquba_is_al_q.html

Al Qaida's brutality has alienated the overwhelming majority of Sunnis as well as the Shias who were the primary targets of its attacks. When the U.S. can provide them with protection, ordinary people are turning on al Qaida with a vengeance.

11:47 pm: remember
This has been the Bush-Cheney War. But it will only be fair to call the carnage after we run away the "Reid-Pelosi Massacres

http://www.nypost.com/seven/07112007/postopinion/opedcolumnists/the_quit_iraq_caucus__opedcolumnists_ralph_peters.htm?page=2