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Administrative law is the collection of rules governing the welter of government agencies -- ranging from the Environmental Protection Agency and Food and Drug Administration to the Securities and Exchange Commission -- that are neither legislatures nor courts but which make binding law.
June 11, 2017 via Real Clear Politics via Hoover Daily Report
Why is it that people in large cities like Paris or New York City people sleep peacefully, unworried about whether there will be enough bread or other necessities available for purchase the next morning? No one is in charge--no bread czar. No flour czar.
June 11, 2017 via EconTalk via Hoover Daily Report
In the Senate last week, Richard Burr, a Republican from North Carolina, asked the fired F.B.I. director James Comey if he had “any doubt that Russia attempted to interfere in the 2016 elections.” Mr. Comey responded with a single word: “None.”
June 10, 2017 via The New York Times via Hoover Daily Report
A trench war, fought in our labyrinthine digital world, has been raging in the Islamic Republic of Iran for more than two decades. On one side is a youthful internet-savvy society—adept at the gender-neutral, hierarchy-averse pluralism of platforms and networks—a society craving to join the 21st century. On the other side is a clerical despotic regime with a claim to divine legitimacy, a parallel male-dominated septuagenarian elite, enamored of gender-apartheid and of ideas more than a millennium old—a power structure that is retrograde, passé and stale, compared to the vibrancy of Iranian society at large.
June 12, 2017 via undefined via The Caravan
Three of James Comey’s responses before the Senate Intelligence Committee destroy the foundations of the narrative that Donald Trump and/or his campaign conspired with Russia to steal the 2016 presidential election from Hillary Clinton.
June 11, 2017 via Forbes via Hoover Daily Report
If last November wasn’t about cracking a glass ceiling, then this summer might be. As of this weekend, the cinematic smash Wonder Woman has raked in a cool $435 million in worldwide box office, making it the hottest start for a film directed by a woman (that would be Patty Jenkins).
June 11, 2017 via Forbes via Hoover Daily Report
The chairman and ranking minority member (RMM) of the House Armed Services Committee and the chairman and RMM of the its emerging threats and capabilities subcommittee are proposing legislation that would require the Defense Department to notify congressional defense committees within 48 hours of the conduct of “any sensitive military cyber operation.”
June 10, 2017 via Lawfare via Hoover Daily Report
A way to protect Fed independence and the integrity of fiscal policy from political pressure.
June 9, 2017 via undefined via Defining Ideas
The foreign policy of the six Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) members—Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bahrain, Kuwait, and Oman—has never been a model of cooperation and unity. Even the dramatic severing of relations with Qatar and closing the aerial, territorial, and naval spheres to it—as initiated by Saudi Arabia and the UAE—is not indicative of a change.
June 12, 2017 via The Institute for National Security Studies via Hoover Daily Report
Using a borrowed credit card, the blonde Caroline Biden set up an unauthorized customer account at Bigelow Pharmacy on Sixth Avenue in Greenwich Village, and racked up the six-figure bill over the course of a year, according to a criminal complaint that does not name the victim card owner.
June 11, 2017 via EconLog via Hoover Daily Report
Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) sent a letter to the Justice Department on March 31, 2017 demanding for his Committee on the Judiciary all relevant documents on the company Fusion GBS. Fusion GPS is the company that funded the Christopher Steele opposition-research “Golden Shower” dossier against then-candidate Donald Trump.
June 12, 2017 via What Paul Gregory Is Thinking About (Blog) via Hoover Daily Report
Hoover Institution fellow Peter Robinson discusses America’s journey from tearing down a wall to talk of building one on the country’s southern border.
June 12, 2017 via Politico via Hoover Daily Report
Hoover Institution fellow Tim Kane talks about his Defining Ideas article "The Pentagon’s Personnel Problem."
June 10, 2017 via The John Batchelor Show via Hoover Daily Report
Hoover Institution fellow Paul Gregory discusses his Forbes article "It's Not Trump, But Public Intellectuals & Lobbyists Who Are Advancing Putin's U.S. Agenda."
June 9, 2017 via The John Batchelor Show via Hoover Daily Report
Hoover Institution fellow Michael Petrilli discusses the seventeen ESSA plans that have been submitted to the US Department of Education, and what the other thirty-four states can learn from them.
June 7, 2017 via Education Gadfly (Thomas B. Fordham Institute) via Hoover Daily Report
Hoover Institution fellow Tim Kane talks about his Defining Ideas article "The Pentagon’s Personnel Problem."
June 12, 2017 via The Lars Larson Show via Hoover Daily Report
Prices for houses are generally back to where they were during the housing bubble that preceded the financial crisis a decade ago. What’s worse, flipping is back.
June 10, 2017 via Star Tribune (MN) via Hoover Daily Report
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