It is wise to remember the good dead and emulate their example rather than to be caught up with the mediocre of the present. I certainly spend more time recalling the voice of my mother than listening to the televised psychodramas of our elite. Faith and transcendence in the end matter most, whether for us who believe in God and an eternal soul, or for the more agnostic humanists who trust that one’s good works now can affect others following them, from raising good children to planting an olive tree.
I've been reading more about the "Deflategate" case than I ever would have imagined. It's not because I'm a Patriots fan or a Patriots hater. I'm neither. It's not because I'm a football fan. I'm not really; I don't tend to watch whole football games until the playoffs and the NBA and especially the Golden State Warriors are what I'm passionate about. But I do have a passion here: it's a passionate that animates me in all parts of my life. It's the passion for justice and fair play.
Probable Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush got himself into trouble by sort of, sort of not, answering the question whether he would have supported going into Iraq in 2003 — had he known then what we know now.
This post continues a series begun in 2014 on implementing the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). The first installment introduced an analytical scheme investigating CCSS implementation along four dimensions: curriculum, instruction, assessment, and accountability. Three posts focused on curriculum. This post turns to instruction. Although the impact of CCSS on how teachers teach is discussed, the post is also concerned with the inverse relationship, how decisions that teachers make about instruction shape the implementation of CCSS.
The fact that most of the rhetorical ploys used by Barack Obama and other redistributionists will not stand up under scrutiny means very little politically. After all, how many people who come out of our schools and colleges today are capable of critical scrutiny?
Not that housing in California defies logic but consider this tale of a home that went on the market in San Francisco back in February 2015. Located in the city’s Outer Sunset District, the four-bedroom home was listed at $799,000 – a bargain by local standards (in April, the median asking price for a San Francisco property was a shade under $1.01 million). Why the discount?
Punditfact bothered to check average growth rates of GDP by decade. Punditfact also checked top tax rates during the 1960s and found the split noted above. They found Gates's claim about tax rates being 90 percent in the 1960s to be false (if I were to put in in their terms, I would say "Mostly False" because tax rates were below 90 percent for over half the decade.)
I’ve always liked Lindsey Graham, and I like the fact that—unlike so may politicians—he says what’s on his mind, completely unfiltered by what’s politic for him to say. That said, this kind of talk is not healthy. It communicates wrongly what the rules are, and what authorities the president really has. Graham is a smart guy, but folksy homespun wisdom doesn’t always make for good law.
A media that has generally consigned the advances of ISIS in Iraq and Syria to its inside pages and minor news reports, has suddenly been forced to give them full prominence, not because of the thousands of deaths that ISIS is causing but rather the threat it poses to the splendid urban architecture of Zenobia’s surviving jewel of a city, Palmyra.
The May-June 2015 issue of Eureka, a Hoover Institution publication focusing on policy, political, and economic issues confronting California, was released in conjunction with this Golden State Poll. This volume centers on California’s housing conundrum, examining home values in a historical context, causes of the affordability crisis, and possible solutions. Hoover Institution research fellow Carson Bruno also provides an in-depth analysis of the Golden State Poll results in the same issue of Eureka.
The David D. Laitin Papers contain writings, correspondence, and printed matter relating to the history, language, and political and social conditions in Somalia in particular and the Horn of Africa in general. Included is a nearly complete run of the rare STORM (Somali, Tigray & Oromo Resistance Monitor) newsletter.
Hoover fellow Victor Davis Hanson discusses George Stephanopoulos's grilling of Peter Schweizer while failing to disclose his own contributions to the Clinton Foundation.
Hoover fellow Peter Berkowitz discussses the left's crusade against free speech. Berkowitz mentions Kirsten Powers's book in which she recounts that in the space of a few days, White House communications director Anita Dunn, her deputy Dan Pfeiffer, White House Senior Adviser David Axelrod, and White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emmanuel openly asserted that the administration properly excluded Fox reporters from press briefings because Fox was not a legitimate news organization.
“You can do all the planning you want about wanting to be in public service,” Rice said. “The best thing you can do is find something you really love to do and say, ‘I’m going to be the best at that.’ If you then are able to meet people who are in public service … they become your mentors. They become your advocates, and they bring you into public service.”
Last fall, after more than a decade of work, Kotkin, the John P. Birkelund '52 Professor in History and International Affairs, began to answer that question with the publication of "Stalin, vol. 1: Paradoxes of Power," the first part of his extensive, three-volume Stalin biography. Stalin's birth is noted, of course, but the first volume opens by focusing on the confluence of world events that set the stage for Stalin's rise.
Is American freedom being gutted? Acclaimed social scientist and bestselling author Charles Murray says we can no longer hope to roll back the power of the federal government through the normal political process. By his count, the Constitution is broken in ways that cannot be fixed even by a sympathetic Supreme Court, our legal system is increasingly lawless and unmoored from traditional ideas of “the rule of law,” and the legislative process has become systemically corrupt no matter which party is in control.
"Britain has taken leave from the world stage in an extraordinary and depressing way," says Timothy Garton Ash, professor of European Studies at Oxford University. "It's marginalized itself in Europe, and it's absented itself from most of the great issues on the world stage."
The question of how much is a dollar worth in yuan is easy to answer. Monday, it was 6.20 yuan. How much a dollar should be worth in yuan also has a simple answer: Nobody knows — and nobody can.
Here is how Reagan detailed the three in the unedited handwritten text later found by scholar Kiron Skinner: “First it must be based on firm convictions, inspired by a clear vision of, and belief in Americas future. Second, it calls for a strong economy based on the free market system which gave us an unchallenged leadership in creative technology. Third, and very simply we must have the unquestioned mil. ability to preserve world peace and our national security.”
Proponents of Proposition 30, which temporarily raised tax rates in California, are pressing Gov. Jerry Brown to continue with the tax increases even though the state now has ample black ink and revenues are expected to climb even without the additional taxes.
On any given day, President Barack Obama's foreign policy initiatives are publicly reviled by various right-wing elements. One adjective frequently used to describe his policies is "feckless," defined as weak, ineffective, careless or irresponsible. The current chaotic nature of world affairs, particularly with respect to the Middle East, stands in stark contrast with the more relatively simplistic events associated with the two world wars and the Cold War.
