Last week the Senate Banking Committee held a hearing about monetary reform and the need for “responsible oversight” of the Fed as Senator Richard Shelby, the Committee Chair, put it. Allan Meltzer was a witness, and I sat next to him at the witness table listening carefully when he spoke.
At a time of lacklustre economic growth, countries around the world are attempting to devise and implement strategies to spur and sustain recovery. Multiple objectives should be pursued to avoid half-baked results.
In Marty’s post yesterday about the letter that 47 Senators sent to “the Leaders of the Islamic Republic of Iran,” he briefly addressed the question of “whether the President has the constitutional authority to complete the agreement in question without further congressional involvement.”
Hillary apparently seemed to be saying: “Most federal high-ranking employees have personal and private e-mail accounts; when they leave office they turn over their .gov accounts and keep their own. But I didn’t like that, so I gained sole control of both my private and public accounts by mixing them up on my own private server.
The Hoover Institution held its Southern California Conference in Pasadena on Tuesday, February 3, 2015. The conference offered presentations by Hoover fellows on a wide range of public policy issues, from the economy to immigration to democratic values.
If, as Marty and I just argued, the deal with Iran is a non-binding agreement under international law, then, as we stated, “there is little doubt about the President’s constitutional authority to make the deal on his own.” I think Senator Cotton agrees.
Senate Republicans’ letter to Iran was a foolish act of pique that’s likely to backfire. But the president’s shortsighted dissing of Congress has weakened his hand for executive action.
Hillary Clinton bowed to the inevitable earlier today and fielded reporters’ questions regarding her use of private e-mail for both public and private business while serving as U.S. Secretary of State.
The New York Times today has an op-ed by the founder of Wikipedia called Stop Spying on Wikipedia Users. The op-ed asserts that “N.S.A.’s mass surveillance of Internet traffic on American soil — often called “upstream” surveillance — violates the Fourth Amendment, which protects the right to privacy, as well as the First Amendment, which protects the freedoms of expression and association.”
The message of Boris Nemtsov’s assassination now cannot be mistaken. The in-your-face murder in the shadow of the Kremlin obviously required high-level assistance.
“Regrettable substitutions” occur when, capitulating to the demands of activists, manufacturers substitute ingredients or processes that prove to be inferior or actually harmful.
In the Wall Street Journal last Friday, columnist Kim Strassel characterized the flap about Hillary Clinton’s use of only a personal email address to conduct official business during her entire tenure as secretary of state—contrary to departmental guidance.
Iran’s Foreign Minister Javad Zarif has responded here to the letter from the 47 Republican Senators, on which I commented yesterday. Just as the Senators’ letter purported to school Iran on U.S. constitutional law of foreign relations, Zarif says that the Senators “not only do not understand international law, but are not fully cognizant of the nuances of their own Constitution when it comes to presidential powers in the conduct of foreign policy.”
During the 1976 campaign for U.S. president, candidate Jimmy Carter popularized the "Misery Index" as a way of criticizing his opponent, Jerry Ford. The misery index--equal to the sum of the inflation rate and the unemployment rate--was devised by the late Arthur Okun, who was second chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Lyndon Johnson.
What happens when senators and congressmen go around a controversial president to communicate directly with the enemy? They undermine the stability of their own party — and the integrity of the nation.
Hillary stonewalled and has now outsourced her problem to attack-dog subordinates and Democratic stalwarts who, she believes, have Hillary—or no one—for 2016.
This is an excellent bit of radio about one of the weirder forms of attack during World War II—the only one I know of that produced casualties in the continental United States: balloon bombing.
We’re thrilled to announce the publication today of our new book, The Future of Violence: Robots and Germs, Hackers and Drones—Confronting A New Age of Threat .
The book takes on what we think is a pretty big question: How do you govern a world in which anyone can attack anyone from anywhere?
The video does not seem remarkable on first viewing. A title informs us that we are watching Ashley Hinton, a teacher at Vailsburg Elementary, a school in Newark, New Jersey.
