Before we get to 2016, there’s some housekeeping to attend to. Specifically, three gubernatorial contests on tap for later this year. The states in play: Kentucky, Louisiana and Mississippi. Will they offer any windows into the health of the two parties? Let’s take a quick look at each one.
Maybe it’s haughty dismissiveness – the view from California that racial unrest only besets lesser states. Yet it may also be that Angelenos don’t pay much attention to what goes on in Oakland.
This week we remember the worst war in history. But we remember the war differently. Russians remember the war that began in June 1941 when Germany attacked the Soviet Union. Most other Europeans (including Poles and many Ukrainians) remember the war that began in September 1939 when Germany and the Soviet Union joined to destroy Poland.
Call it “hybrid war,” “unconventional conflict,” “political warfare,” or “little green men.” The sense is not only that Russia is now unwilling to abide by such twenty-first-century principles as “no changing borders by force,” but that Putin has developed sophisticated new methods of asserting power unconstrained by conventional notions of warfare and even the law of armed conflict between states.
Diversity failed: Diversity oriented Brits voted for a United Kingdom (Labour, Liberal Democrats). They were trounced. Ethnicity is now the dominant factor in British politics. Get used to it.
I guess we now know why William F. Buckley famously said: “I’d rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University.”
quoting Terry M. Moevia e21, Economic Policies for the 21st Century
Thursday, May 7, 2015
In many cities with abysmal school systems, teacher firings are exceedingly rare, due to powerful teachers' unions. In New York City and Chicago, barely 1 in 1,000 teachers loses his job for poor performance. In Los Angeles, fewer than 2 percent of teachers are denied tenure-and only a quarter of a percent of teachers who received tenure were fired over the course of a decade. Meanwhile, graduation rates are barely above 50 percent.
Unlike the opinions of party activists and pundits, public opinion about women’s choices during their pregnancies yields surprising points of agreement across party lines. If you ask them specifics, Americans agree on quite a bit about when and why abortions should be legal. This is what one large, federally funded survey project did in 2012.
Mr Erodgan’s call for further historical scholarship is a vacuous statement; scholars have been frequently intimidated and access to archival material has sometimes been scant. Scholars who have engaged independently in this research have all unearthed strong evidence which supports the evidence in favour of genocide. In an edited collection of essays regarding the Armenian genocide, Norman Naimark provides a context to these chilling events.
In 1982, Gregg Bemis made the cheapest and most expensive financial transaction of his career: For one dollar he acquired full ownership of the RMS Lusitania, the British transatlantic passenger liner struck by a German torpedo in 1915.
In 1972, US president Richard Nixon, with the advice of Kissinger, undertook a masterstroke in 20th-century diplomacy by opening up to China to counterbalance the threat of the Soviet Union. A quarter of a century later, the US-China rapprochement propelled China to become the world's second-largest economy, but the US now considers China a rival, creating cold war version 2.0, with a strange mix of competitors and allies.
Both officers in their studies seek to better understand why Navy COs get fired and put forward recommendations on how to bring the number of such drastic actions to a minimum. In 2011, then-Chief of Naval Operations Gary Roughead reacted to the spate of reliefs by putting in place his Charge of Command exhorting commanding officers to fully understand the duties imposed on them and act accordingly.
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco President John Williams and former Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia President Charles Plosser participate in "Policy Panel on the Impact of Reform in Practice" before the Central Bank Governance and Oversight Reform conference hosted by the Hoover Institution at Stanford University
