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Hoover Daily Report by topic: Politics and the Media

January 13, 2011 | Arena (Politico)

Will political rhetoric soften after Tucson?

No I don't think it hurt us too badly. [Sarah Palin] can be a little testy on the campaign. And her hard core positions are themselves polarizing. But who among our great presidents wasn't polarizing...?
January 12, 2011 | Corner (National Review Online)

Rhetoric and Perceived Status

In such a warped world as we are in, the suggestion that the unhinged Major Hasan drew on the ubiquitous hatred of radical Islamic imams is as irresponsible and scurrilous as it is certain that Sarah Palin fostered Jared Lee Loughner...
January 8, 2011 | Arena (Politico)

Politicizing the tragedy in Arizona?

Will Sarah Palin suffer from her provocative little logo? As Gabrielle Giffords fights for life in Arizona, one can only hope...
January 9, 2011 | National Review Online

Political Vultures

The sick art of turning insanity into politics...
December 15, 2010 | Lawfare

The Implications of Charging Assange for Conspiracy to Leak

[Charging Assange as a conspirator to Manning’s leak] would not distinguish the Times and scores of other media outlets in the many cases in which reporters successfully solicit and arrange to receive classified information and documents directly from government officials...
December 8, 2010 | National Review Online

Julian Assange’s EgoLeaks

Julian Assange, the public face of WikiLeaks, is, among many things, cowardly...
December 7, 2010 | Lawfare

Initial Thought on Al Aulaqi and the Press

I wonder how many media outlets that misleadingly made the government’s invocation of the state secrets privilege the central feature of their coverage of its arguments will eat crow in light of Judge Bates’ refusal (at the government’s urging) to engage the subject of the privilege...
November 30, 2010 | Corner (National Review Online)

Liberal Outrage, and Its Absence

Liberal angst is never really over transparency, freedom of artistic expression, or limitations on federal power, but over certain sorts of transparency, certain sorts of free expression, and certain sorts of government conduct...
November 17, 2010 | Daily Beast

To Hell With the Activists

Lisa Murkowski’s write-in victory proves it: If a party’s tiny primary electorate backs a wingnut, good candidates should keep going, and trust the will of the voters...
November 18, 2010 | EconLog

One and a Half Cheers for Fox News

Senator Jay Rockefeller made a splash Wednesday by suggesting that the Federal Communications Commission shut down the Fox News Channel and MSNBC...