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Hoover Daily Report by topic: Ethics

March 20, 2010 | Detroit News

Editorial Quick Hits: Other views

Why try Sept.11 mastermind? . . .

March 21, 2010 | Works and Days

We’ve Crossed the Rubicon

President Obama has crossed the Rubicon with the health care vote. . . .

March 19, 2010 | Bill Whalen: Politi-Cal

What $32,500 Gets You in Los Angeles . . .

Word out of the Southland is the presidential fundraiser for Sen. Barbara Boxer will be held on April 19 at LA’s Natural History Museum. . . .

March 18, 2010 | Foreign Policy

The LWOT: Holder Argues for Civilian Trials, 'JihadJane' Pleads Not Guilty

Holder continues to press for civilian trials for alleged 9/11 plotters. . . .

March 19, 2010 | Washington Times

Hard questions for Holder

It's been a rough few months for Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., and he should face more tough questioning when he reports for the Senate Judiciary Committee oversight hearing on Tuesday. . . .

March 17, 2010 | Financial Times (subscription required)

Google In Italy: Lessons from Tobago

As a student of the Yale Law School more than 40 years ago, I audited a course in conflicts of laws taught by the Israeli academic Avigdor Levontin. . . .

March 19, 2010 | Washington Post (registration required)

KSM's dispensable trial

The Obama administration and its critics are locked in a standoff over whether to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and the other alleged Sept. 11 conspirators in a military commission or in federal court. . . .

March 17, 2010 | American Council on Science and Health

Notes From Dr. Miller

ACSH Trustee and Hoover Institution Fellow Dr. Henry Miller wrote an excellent letter in today’s Wall Street Journal in response to an article about the degradation of the peer-review process. . . .

March 16, 2010 | Works and Days

Reflections on the Revolution in America

These are exciting though scary revolutionary times, akin to the constant acrimony in the fourth-century BC polis, mid-nineteenth century revolutionary Europe, or — perhaps in a geriatric replay — the 1960s. . . .

March 17, 2010 | Wall Street Journal

Letter: Feeding the Propaganda of Anti-Technology Activists

Peter Berkowitz is right to condemn abuses in the peer-review process ("Climategate Was an Academic Disaster Waiting to Happen," op-ed, March 13 ), many of which reflect the biases of both articles' referees and journal editors. . . .