The Demand Is Growing

by Little Miss Attila on January 1, 2010

. . . for a privately funded, free-market-identified student voucher fund in the District of Columbia to replace the one that the Obama Administration just gutted—for no apparent reason other than reflexive Democratic hostility to vouchers (or a desire not to have the Presidents’ kids rubbing elbows with the poor).

The Anchoress flatters me by putting me on her list of potential namesakes, but I personally like the idea of naming it after Professor Reynolds, Professor Althouse, or Professor Sowell. I wouldn’t mind contributing to a McArdleSuderman scholarship, either.

But Sowell is a towering intellect who can explain the most complicated economic theories in terms that even English majors like I can understand. He’s an old-school adventurer in “the realm of the mind.” So he gets my vote, even though he doesn’t have a blog. I mean, no one is perfect.

UPDATE: Cold Fury has more.

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MissTammy January 1, 2010 at 6:38 pm

I’d love to see any of y’all honored thus, but it would really thrill me to see Professor Sowell’s name on this project, which I am anxious to be involved with. This seriously needs to be done, and I’d love to see the Tea Party groups involved, as well. Not for the publicity, but for the kids.

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Charlie Martin January 1, 2010 at 7:56 pm

It’s not “English majors like me”?

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Little Miss Attila January 1, 2010 at 8:05 pm

I’ll have to check on that, since in that construction I was both subject and object. Obviously, I felt that the [I can understand] dominated over the [like me], but I should double check on what Words into Type says.

At least I didn’t say “like myself.” Nine times out of ten, that’s a vulgar attempt to make language fancy.

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Charlie Martin January 1, 2010 at 8:08 pm

Well, I saw it and thought “crap, have I been doing it wrong?”

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