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Hoover Press Book, Women Of The Gulag, Featured In New Documentary

featuring Paul R. Gregoryvia Stanford News
Thursday, October 4, 2018
Women of the Gulag, a new film documentary based on Hoover scholar Paul Gregory’s book by that name, is now being screened.
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What’s In A Name?

quoting Victor Davis Hansonvia The Weekly Standard
Tuesday, October 2, 2018

Progress is our most important product,” Ronald Reagan used to say in the 1950s, when he hosted General Electric Theater, a popular television drama series.

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DAR Brings “The Hello Girls” Author To Navasota

featuring Elizabeth Cobbsvia Navasota Examiner
Thursday, September 20, 2018
Elizabeth Cobbs, Ph.D., author of “The Hello Girls: America’s First Women Soldiers,” was the guest speaker Saturday, Sept. 15, at a luncheon hosted by the Robert Raines Chapter of the National Society-Daughters of the American Revolution.
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Q&A With Richard Norton Smith

featuring Herbert Hoovervia C-SPAN
Tuesday, August 28, 2018

Presidential historian Richard Norton Smith talked about An Uncommon Man, his biography of President Herbert Hoover.

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The Watergate ‘Road Map’ And The Coming Mueller Report

by Stephen Bates, Jack Goldsmith, Benjamin Wittesvia Lawfare
Friday, September 14, 2018

According to countless media accounts and President Trump’s own lawyers, Special Counsel Robert Mueller is writing some kind of report on allegations of presidential obstruction of justice. Exactly what sort of report this may be is unclear. But to the extent that Mueller is contemplating a referral to Congress of possible impeachment material, he has two historical models of such documents to draw on.

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Reagan Rides Again In New Bid To Put His Conservative Stamp On Policy

mentioning Kiron K. Skinnervia Washington Examiner
Wednesday, September 12, 2018
Ronald Reagan is returning to Washington and his mission is the same one that got him in the Oval Office in 1981 — putting conservative principles to work.
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Reasonable Disagreements: Confirming Kavanaugh

interview with Adam J. White, Richard A. Epsteinvia Reasonable Disagreements
Wednesday, September 12, 2018

What effect could Kavanaugh have on constitutional law and the administrative state?

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Never Forget But Also Learn

by David R. Hendersonvia EconLog
Tuesday, September 11, 2018

I’ve seen various friends on Facebook today discussing their feelings about 9/11/2001 and some of their experiences that day. Some were close to Ground Zero; others had friends who were murdered; others, like me, were a few thousand miles away and knew only people who knew people who were murdered.

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How Far Have We Come Since 9/11? Only A Short Walk Across Flushing Meadows

by Bill Whalenvia Forbes
Tuesday, September 11, 2018

I offer you two views of the 17th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on America.

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Area 45: Michael Anton On “The Flight 93 Election” Two Years Later

with Michael Antonvia Matters of Policy & Politics
Monday, September 17, 2018

The choice between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton is not unlike the doomed airliner that crashed during the 9/11 attacks according to Hillsdale College political lecturer and research fellow, Michael Anton.

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