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The Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted 10-8 yesterday to approve Senator Menendez’s draft AUMF for ISIL. As endorsed by the Committee, the bill:
December 12, 2014 via Lawfare via Hoover Daily Report
Germany's first chancellor, Otto von Bismarck, supposedly once said that there was "a special providence for drunkards, fools and the United States of America."
December 10, 2014 via Tribune Media Services via Hoover Daily Report
No news source in any medium captures the CIA interrogation debate more fully than this video from the Onion, which bears reposting this week:
December 12, 2014 via Lawfare via Hoover Daily Report
The Supreme Court should help simplify “search and seizure” law.
December 11, 2014 via undefined via Defining Ideas
As someone who has made a lot of mistakes and who tries hard to admit them and apologize when I think apologies are in order, I have become somewhat of a student of the apology. I think it's important, if you apologize, to do so sincerely and actually to admit your mistake.
December 12, 2014 via EconLog via Hoover Daily Report
The death sentence could be swift and absolute: If Mayor Bill de Blasio gets his way, New York’s horse-drawn carriage industry, after more than 150 years of thriving existence, will cease to exist on May 31, 2016.
December 12, 2014 via Daily News (NY) via Hoover Daily Report
The Senate’s misleadingly dubbed “torture report,” an executive summary of which was released by the Senate Intelligence Committee, is a shameless and dangerous act of political grandstanding and moral preening.
December 12, 2014 via FrontPage Mag.com via Hoover Daily Report
Two Washington policy wonks propose an appeasement policy that would doom Ukraine and give Putin a huge victory over the West, while offering no tangible benefits. Their “win-win-win” policy is based on a fundamental lack of understanding of the Kremlin.
December 11, 2014 via Forbes via Hoover Daily Report
Senior Fellow Michael Spence discusses global economies, institutions, and economic reforms in Europe on Bloomberg Surveillance.
December 12, 2014 via Bloomberg via Hoover Daily Report
Senior Fellow Thomas Sowell discusses the field of economics, his biography, race, and current events on the Ricochet Podcast.
December 11, 2014 via Ricochet via Hoover Daily Report
Research Fellow David Davenport discusses the potential for a "liberty moment" in light of the growing disillusionment in the US on Townhall Radio.
December 11, 2014 via Townhall via Hoover Daily Report
It’s common knowledge that American students are mediocre when it comes to taking tests. Now we know that American teachers are too.
December 12, 2014 via Fortune via Hoover Daily Report
A new analysis of the performance of charter schools in Ohio found that they are lagging behind public schools. The 5 year study by Stanford University’s Center for Research on Education Outcomes measured growth by students in charter schools to growth by similar students in public schools.
December 11, 2014 via NPR via Hoover Daily Report
Differences in teacher quality are commonly cited as a key determinant of the huge international student performance gaps. However, convincing evidence on this relationship is still lacking, in part because it is unclear how to measure teacher quality consistently across countries.
December 12, 2014 via National Burea of Economic Research via Hoover Daily Report
It’s sometimes said that cradle-to-grave doorstopper biographies are a thing of the past – that readers (and writers) now prefer something slighter, a life approached at an angle, or an account structured in a less traditional way.
December 4, 2014 via Guardian (UK) via Hoover Daily Report
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