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William L. Whalen

Whalen discusses President Obama’s support of same-sex marriage on KQED’s Forum

via Forum with Michael Krasny (KQED)
Thursday, May 10, 2012

Bill Whalen, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution where he studies and writes on current events and political trends, discusses President Obama’s support of same-sex marriage and what this decision may mean for the presidential election.

Clint Bolick

Bolick discusses his recent book Death Grip: Loosening the Law’s Stranglehold over Economic Liberty on Liberty Law Talk

via Liberty Law Talk (Library of Law and Liberty)
Monday, May 7, 2012

Clint Bolick, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution who also serves as the director of the Goldwater Institute Center for Constitutional Litigation in Phoenix, explores the history and intent behind the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment and its privileges, or immunities, clause and then looks at current efforts to breathe life back into the protection of economic liberties.

Thomas Sowell discusses Intellectuals and Society on Uncommon Knowledge.

Thomas Sowell on the second edition of Intellectuals and Society

with Thomas Sowellvia Uncommon Knowledge
Wednesday, May 9, 2012

On the occasion of the publication of a new edition of his book Intellectuals and Society, Thomas Sowell returns to Uncommon Knowledge for a wide-ranging interview. (52:37)
“It gives them a much bigger role in the world. I mean if you believe in free markets, what about all these people who want to have social justice. People just go out there; they make whatever deals they can with each other, work things out and then go on their way. Here is all this unused brilliance standing on the sideline watching with impotent rage.”

Two-Fer: Electing a President and a Supreme Court by Hoover research fellow and

In Two-Fer: Electing a President and a Supreme Court

Monday, April 30, 2012
Stanford

Hoover Institution Press released Two-Fer: Electing a President and a Supreme Court by Hoover research fellow and constitutional law expert Clint Bolick. In Two-Fer, Bolick importantly points out that, during a presidential campaign and election, judicial selection is usually considered a minor issue and given too little attention by the American public and the media. The recent argument over Obamacare, however, has brought into sharp focus the importance—and pointed internal division—of the US Supreme Court.

Press Releases
Analysis and Commentary

The Supreme Court Will Decide A Federal-State Tug-Of-War

by David Davenportvia Forbes
Tuesday, April 24, 2012

The U.S. Supreme Court is closing its term with a bang, having devoted several days to the historic battle over healthcare and concluding this week with the legal challenge to Arizona's immigration law...

In the News

The Handicaps of the Disabilities Act

by Richard A. Epsteinvia Defining Ideas (Hoover Institution)
Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Let the government pay for wheelchair ramps and chairlifts...

Analysis and Commentary

Judiciary up for grabs in presidential election

by Clint Bolickvia Daily Caller (DC)
Monday, April 23, 2012

President Barack Obama has thrown down the gauntlet: if the U.S. Supreme Court strikes down his precious health care law, he’ll make the courts an issue in the presidential campaign...

Pat Buchanan on Suicide of a Superpower

Pat Buchanan on Suicide of a Superpower

with Pat Buchananvia Uncommon Knowledge
Wednesday, April 25, 2012

This week on Uncommon Knowledge, author and commentator Pat Buchanan discusses the disintegration of the United States as a superpower and a united nation.
“Why are you bringing in each year one million people to work in the United States when we have twenty-three million people who are unemployed or underemployed. What are you doing to your own people, black, white, Asian, whatever, by bringing in new workers when you have this enormous unemployment problem. It does not make sense.” (1:00:41)

Analysis and Commentary

Blinder on Health Care

by David R. Hendersonvia EconLog
Friday, April 20, 2012

Alan Blinder, in today's Wall Street Journal, has an interesting piece attacking Supreme Court judges who would actually seriously consider finding the recent health care law unconstitutional...

Interviews

Richard Epstein on John Batchelor

with Richard A. Epsteinvia John Batchelor Show
Friday, April 20, 2012

Guests: Amanda Coyne, AlaskaDispatch.com; Charles Pellegrino, author; Richard Epstein, Hoover...

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