For years – make that decades – California has struggled for relevancy on the road to the White House in ways other than take-the-money-and-run fundraisers and guest appearances on late-night television talk shows.
The bureaucrats of Massachusetts have done the nation a wonderful service, by parking an abject lesson in America's infrastructure sclerosis right in front of Larry Summers' office.
Hoover Institution fellow Victor Davis Hanson notes that the calls for trigger warnings, campus diversity programs, and other policies aimed at shielding students from emotional discomfort and divergent opinions are warping the educational mission of US colleges.
Since 2000, on average, 44% of registered voters have cast a ballot in the California Presidential primary – a whopping 31 points below the average Presidential general election turnout. There has been much debate about the causes and consequences of low primary turnout, but at the end of the day, it is apparent that while the June primary lays the foundation for the November general election, Californians don’t have much urgency to be a part of that masonry.
There are historical precedents to justify current American confidence that the treaty with Iran will prevent it from going nuclear. In fact, Iran itself provides the most important precedents. Three factors have in the past caused Iran to curtail its nuclear weapons programs: high likelihood of exposure, belief the United States would destroy their weapons programs, and fear that military conflict with the United States would result in regime change in Iran.
A few days ago, a regular reader of Econlog wrote me to suggest that I do a critique of a long piece written by Nick Hanauer, the person who made a few billion dollars as a tech investor. Hanauer has become a persistent advocate of a minimum wage of $15 an hour.
Activist Marcy Darnovsky published an op-ed in April that was antagonistic toward new gene therapy interventions that soon may be used to treat some of the most grotesque genetic diseases imaginable. “The biological risks and ethical implications of reproductive gene editing would be unacceptable,” she concluded.
A new statewide poll shows Hillary Clinton with a commanding 51-38 percent lead over Bernie Sanders in California — just a week after another major poll suggested a Democratic dead heat.
The Hoover Institution hosts a talk by Maroš Šefčovič, Vice President for the Energy Union of the European Commission, on Thursday, June 2, 2016 at 10:00am.
Thursday, June 2, 2016 to Wednesday, July 20, 2016
Hoover Tower Rotunda
In a new exhibition entitled Glimpses: British Visions of War & Peace, a selection of topics on 20th century British history demonstrates the richness and variety of the Hoover Institution Library & Archives’ holdings on modern Britain. The exhibition was produced by the students in a Stanford History Department class taught by Peter Stansky, Frances and Charles Field Professor of History emeritus, in the spring quarter of 2016.
featuring Thomas Sowellvia American Enterprise Institute
Tuesday, May 31, 2016
I’ve featured a lot of material lately on CD from Thomas Sowell, and will continue today with another gem of economic wisdom from Sowell, taken from his 2007 book Basic Economics: A Common Sense Guide to the Economy from the chapter “Controlled Labor Markets."
Donald Trump defended a January fundraiser for veterans groups in response to pressure from the press. Bill Kristol is reportedly considering National Review staff writer David French for a last-minute independent presidential run.
On Sunday, Gary Johnson, the former New Mexico governor, won the Libertarian Party nomination for president with former Massachusetts governor Bill Weld as his vice president.
After clinching the Republican nomination with his divisive rhetoric on immigration, some thought Donald Trump would soften his tone, particularly as he wrapped up his primary campaign in the most populous and diverse state in the nation.
The California primary might not be a dogfight after all, according to a new poll that shows Hillary Clinton with a commanding 13-point lead over Bernie Sanders.
A poll of likely California voters shows Hillary Clinton with a 13-point lead over Bernie Sanders just one week before the primary, but researchers say there are some unknown factors that could tip the race either way.
Ferguson has published fourteen books., including award winning The World’s Banker: The History of the House of Rothschild as well as Paper and Iron: Hamburg Business and German Politics in the Era of Inflation 1897-1927, The Pity of War: Explaining World War One and. In 2001, after a year as Houblon-Norman Fellow at the Bank of England, he published The Cash Nexus: Money and Power in the Modern World, 1700-2000.
Hoover has acquired manuscripts and maps created by Joseph Gaudérique Aymerich (1858–1937). As supreme commander of French Equatorial Africa at the beginning of World War I, Aymerich led French colonial forces into German Cameroon and by early 1916 had conquered it for France.
In California, site of a major June 7 presidential primary contest, Hillary Clinton is leading rival candidate Bernie Sanders by 13 points, according to a new poll. She also got the support of the Golden State's governor.
Hoover Archives has completed processing the letters of James C. Myers, a Tech. 5 with the 993rd Army Signal Corps stationed in the Pacific from 1943-1945.
