America is relieved that things at least appear calm, as war and death rage abroad. At almost every critical juncture, the administration chose short-term happy talk in lieu of worries over long-term consequences. No matter how frequent the disasters abroad, Obama can proclaim the world is at peace in an unprecedented age of stability and security.
The Iran deal by itself, no matter what it says, cannot permanently lift U.S. statutory sanctions. Only Congress can permanently change the sanctions regime. Even if Obama agrees in the handshake deal to permanently reduce sanctions, he cannot follow through on that pledge by himself.
Seldom does the initial "front-runner" in either party's primaries end up being the actual candidate when election day rolls around. However, even if we cannot predict the outcomes of the primaries this far in advance, we can at least start trying to understand the candidates, the almost candidates and the people who are running just for the publicity.
The proper criticism of Koh is not that he was a shill for the drone program, though he did speak at ASIL on the subject. It is that he threw significant roadblocks in the way of the program and gummed up the works with policy objections masked as legal objections.
Hillary Clinton in recent months has done the following: She charged UCLA somewhere around $300,000 for reciting some platitudes. That works out to over $165 a second for her 30 minutes on stage — meaning that she made more in one minute than a student barista does in a year.
Now that 19 men and women with the ego to believe they should be America’s next president have traveled to New Hampshire and peddled their goods, we’ve learned one startling thing about 2016’s road to the White House.
The Wall Street Journalreports that the European Union’s antitrust commission will file charges against Gazprom, the Russian state-owned natural gas company, on Wednesday.
You walk into your shower and see a spider. You don’t know whether it is venomous—or whether it is even a real spider. It could be a personal surveillance mini-drone set loose by your nosy next-door neighbor, who may be monitoring the tiny octopod robot from her iPhone 12.
Admiral Gary Roughead, USN (Ret.), an Annenberg Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution, discusses China's strategic view of the Silk Road Economic Belt and the Maritime Silk Road, and the importance of controlling the sea lanes.
Hoover fellow Michael Petrilli discusses whether all students should have the opportunity to go to a four-year college and if not what are the alternative for students who know a four-year college is not an option for them?
mentioning Larry Diamondvia The Carnegie Endowment For International Peace
Monday, April 20, 2015
Western democratic powers are no longer the dominant external shapers of political transitions around the world. A new global marketplace of political change now exists, in which varied arrays of states, including numerous nondemocracies and non-Western democracies, are influencing transitional trajectories.
He's well respected as a neutral referee when it comes to the future of entitlements, which will be all the more needed as the Disability Insurance program comes closer to running out of money and the debates surrounding it grow more frequent and intense. Expect Blahous' well reasoned voice to rise above those of pundits who are in denial of the crisis facing Social Security.
