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    FISA-Gate Is Scarier Than Watergate
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    FISA-Gate Is Scarier Than Watergate

    The press used to uncover government wrongdoing. Today’s press is defending it.

    February 8, 2018 by Victor Davis Hanson via National Review via Hoover Daily Report
    The West Needs Water Markets
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    The West Needs Water Markets

    Policy discussions must focus on property rights to allocate this scarce resource. 

    February 7, 2018 by Gary D. Libecap via undefined via Defining Ideas
    China’s Surveillance State Should Scare Everyone
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    China’s Surveillance State Should Scare Everyone

    The country is perfecting a vast network of digital espionage as a means of social control—with implications for democracies worldwide.

    February 5, 2018 by Anna Rose Mitchell, Larry Diamond via Defense One via Hoover Daily Report
    Why We Need State-by-State NAEP Scores For 12th Graders
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    Why We Need State-by-State NAEP Scores For 12th Graders

    The single best thing that could happen to American education in the next few years would be for the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) to begin regularly reporting state-by-state results at the twelfth grade level.

    February 8, 2018 by Chester E. Finn Jr. via EducationNext via Hoover Daily Report
    Analysis and Commentary
    The Libertarian: The Nunes Memo And The Mueller Investigation
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    The Libertarian: The Nunes Memo And The Mueller Investigation

    Is the GOP's intelligence memo a bombshell, a dud, or something in between?

    February 7, 2018 interview with Richard A. Epstein via Defining Ideas (Hoover Institution) via The Libertarian
    Counterfeit Elitism
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    Counterfeit Elitism

    Those damn dairy farmers. Why do they insist on trying to govern? Or, put another way: Why are Republicans trusting Devin Nunes to be their oracle of truth!? A former dairy farmer who House intel staffers refer to as Secret Agent Man because he has no idea what’s going on.

    February 5, 2018 by Victor Davis Hanson via American Greatness via Hoover Daily Report
    Stock Gyrations
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    Stock Gyrations

    Is this 1929, the beginning of the end? Or 2007? Is it 1974, annus horribilis in which the stock market drifted down 40% having something to do with stagflation, and did not recover until the 1980s? Is it 1987, a quick dip followed by recovery in a year? 

    February 7, 2018 by John H. Cochrane via Grumpy Economist via Hoover Daily Report
    The Real Lesson Of The Thirty Years' War For Today
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    The Real Lesson Of The Thirty Years' War For Today

    The Thirty Years’ War in the German states between 1618 and 1648 has been invoked repeatedly in discussing the Syrian conflict, with commentators focusing on the multiple sides in the struggle and the interference by great powers. While those are surface similarities, there have been plenty of multi-sided conflicts and competitive great power interventions. The real lessons we might take to heart are that it’s far easier to get into conflicts that mingle dynastic ambitions, competing faiths, and quarrelsome ethnicities than it is to get out of them; that extended periods of warfare impose disproportionate casualties on civilian populations; and that late entrants have the best chance of winning.

    February 8, 2018 by Ralph Peters via undefined via Military History in the News
    Swamp Things?
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    Swamp Things?

    No doubt people talk indiscreetly when they believe their communications are private; perhaps those in an illicit affair may posture and brag about their self-importance and exaggerate. All that said, when reading through the latest release of the Page-Strzok archive, one is struck not just that the two who eventually were to investigate Donald Trump did not like Trump, but rather that they utterly loathed him.

    February 8, 2018 by Victor Davis Hanson via National Review via Hoover Daily Report
    Tillerson Nod To Venezuela Coup Smart, Touting Monroe Doctrine Not So Much
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    Tillerson Nod To Venezuela Coup Smart, Touting Monroe Doctrine Not So Much

    Sometimes it takes an oilman to undermine an oilman. Reminiscent of J.R.’s tactics to edge out brother Bobby from the family Ewing Oil company in the fictional 80s “Dallas” TV show, America’s chief diplomat and Exxon oilman extraordinaire is upping the pressure on Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro. One possibility? A little military coup. 

    February 7, 2018 by Markos Kounalakis via McClatchy DC via Hoover Daily Report
    Small Towns, Big Companies: How Surveillance Intermediaries Affect Small And Midsize Law Enforcement Agencies
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    Small Towns, Big Companies: How Surveillance Intermediaries Affect Small And Midsize Law Enforcement Agencies

    This paper explores how efforts by companies to resist government requests for consumer information may disproportionately affect small and mid-sized law enforcement agencies, as small departments face obstacles to using commercially collected information that do not occur in the context of larger departments. Differences between law enforcement agencies that serve large communities and those that serve small communities suggest corresponding differences in their ability to adapt to changes in the process for obtaining data from digital communication companies.  Failing to account for these differences may encourage policies that will only work as expected for large law enforcement agencies.

    February 7, 2018 by Anne Boustead via undefined via Aegis Paper Series
    Richer Than Rockefeller?
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    Richer Than Rockefeller?

    I gave a talk late yesterday afternoon at the branch of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute operated by California State University, Monterey Bay. Thanks to Michele Crompton and her very competent aide, Leslie.

    February 8, 2018 by David R. Henderson via EconLog via Hoover Daily Report
    Compliance Costs Of Federal Income Taxes Are Over 1 Percent Of GDP
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    Compliance Costs Of Federal Income Taxes Are Over 1 Percent Of GDP

    Benzarti estimates the perceived compliance costs to tax filers by computing whether there were "too few" taxpayers with itemized deductions slightly greater than the standard deduction threshold. Taxpayers who might save a few dollars by itemizing might decide that itemizing was not worth the effort; those who could save much larger amounts would presumably incur the cost of keeping records and itemizing their deductions. 

    February 7, 2018 by David R. Henderson via EconLog via Hoover Daily Report
    Interviews
    John Taylor: Annual Economic Forecast At The Commonwealth Club
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    John Taylor: Annual Economic Forecast At The Commonwealth Club

    Hoover Institution fellow John Taylor discusses changes to taxes on the horizon, health care in flux, housing prices continuing to rise, continued governmental gridlock as well as external threats to the US from North Korea and terrorism, and what it all means for your business, your investments, and the greater economy for 2018.

    January 26, 2018 interview with John B. Taylor via Commonwealth Club via Hoover Daily Report
    Niall Ferguson: The Age Of Networking
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    Niall Ferguson: The Age Of Networking

    Hoover Institution fellow Niall Ferguson discusses his new book The Square and the Tower: Networks and Power, From the Freemasons to Facebook. Ferguson explains the significance of social networks and how they have challenged the power of hierarchical institutions throughout history. He also discusses the outsized role companies such as Facebook have had on our lives.

    February 7, 2018 interview with Sir Niall Ferguson via The Agenda (TVO) via Hoover Daily Report
    Larry Diamond On The John Batchelor Show
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    Larry Diamond On The John Batchelor Show

    Hoover Institution fellow Larry Diamond discusses his Defense One article "China’s Surveillance State Should Scare Everyone."

    February 7, 2018 interview with Larry Diamond via The John Batchelor Show via Hoover Daily Report
    National Review Columnist Victor Davis Hanson On Chicago's Morning Answer (1:55)
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    National Review Columnist Victor Davis Hanson On Chicago's Morning Answer (1:55)

    Hoover Institution fellow Victor Davis Hanson discusses the release of the Nunes memo and the forthcoming Democratic response.

    February 7, 2018 interview with Victor Davis Hanson via Chicago's Morning Answer via Hoover Daily Report
    Henry Miller On The John Batchelor Show
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    Henry Miller On The John Batchelor Show

    Hoover Institution fellow Henry Miller discusses his Fox News article "Physician: We need a universal flu vaccine -- No more excuses."

    February 7, 2018 interview with Henry I. Miller via The John Batchelor Show via Hoover Daily Report
    In the News
    No, Republicans Aren't Waging A War On G-Men
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    No, Republicans Aren't Waging A War On G-Men

    The Republican Party is the law-and-order party. That’s not new, and it isn’t seriously contested. However, according to liberal media outlets such as the Huffington Post, Republicans are waging a “war on G-men.” The idea that Republicans are suddenly splitting from the FBI is a fantasy designed by the Democrats to attack a GOP strength and to distract from the growing revelations about anti-Trump maneuvering by a few senior FBI officials.

    February 7, 2018 quoting Victor Davis Hanson via New York Post via Hoover Daily Report
    U.S. To Borrow Nearly $1 Trillion In 2018
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    U.S. To Borrow Nearly $1 Trillion In 2018

    On January 31, the United States Treasury Department released its budget projections for 2018, outlining its plan to borrow an astonishing $955 billion to cover the costs of its programs. This represents the largest deficit in six years, and equates to an 84 percent increase over 2017, when the deficit was $519 billion.

    February 7, 2018 quoting Sir Niall Ferguson via The Trumpet via Hoover Daily Report
    Three Lessons For Investors In Turbulent Markets
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    Three Lessons For Investors In Turbulent Markets

    The global stocks roller-coaster of recent days reminded me of three lessons I learned many years ago as an investor in emerging markets. If well understood and applied, these precepts can turn unsettling volatility surges into longer-term opportunities.

    February 6, 2018 quoting Michael Spence via Bloomberg via Hoover Daily Report
    Pensions’ Flawed Return Forecasts
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    Pensions’ Flawed Return Forecasts

    We all know past performance is not indicative of future results, but a new study finds evidence that US public pensions are basing performance forecasts on their own prior experiences anyway.

    February 8, 2018 quoting Joshua D. Rauh via Top 1000 Funds via Hoover Daily Report
    Navigating Life
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    Navigating Life

    Despite being the best-educated generation in American history, many millennials need fundamental practical advice about how to succeed. They have fallen behind their forebears in critical thinking and written and oral communication skills. They struggle with applying knowledge and skills in practical settings, and with ethical decision-making and collaborating in teams.

    February 7, 2018 quoting Admiral Gary Roughead via City-Journal via Hoover Daily Report
    Poland’s Holocaust Law Is A License To Whitewash History
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    Poland’s Holocaust Law Is A License To Whitewash History

    They are placenames that will chill the heart for centuries to come: Auschwitz, Sobibor, Treblinka, Majdanek. They are the death camps where the genocide of European Jewry was perpetrated during the second World War in a crime known as the Holocaust.

    February 7, 2018 quoting Timothy Garton Ash via Irish Times via Hoover Daily Report
    Exploring The Frontiers Of Free Speech At Scalia Law School
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    Exploring The Frontiers Of Free Speech At Scalia Law School

    Free speech fans were treated to a fascinating and informative day of discussion recently when the Center for the Study of the Administrative State presented its conference “Free Speech and the Administrative State.”

    February 6, 2018 mentioning Adam J. White via Competitive Enterprise Institute via Hoover Daily Report
    Can New Bipartisan Group Break Through Divisions And Build Reform Consensus?
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    Can New Bipartisan Group Break Through Divisions And Build Reform Consensus?

    American health policy is stuck in a deep political rut. Now a bipartisan group of prominent healthcare, political and not-for-profit leaders have come together to try to build a public consensus for how to reform the system.

    February 6, 2018 mentioning Lanhee J. Chen via Modern Healthcare via Hoover Daily Report
  1. FISA-Gate Is Scarier Than Watergate
  2. Why We Need State-by-State NAEP Scores For 12th Graders
  3. Pensions’ Flawed Return Forecasts
  4. Richer Than Rockefeller?
  5. Swamp Things?
  6. The Real Lesson Of The Thirty Years' War For Today
  7. The Libertarian: The Nunes Memo And The Mueller Investigation
  8. Navigating Life
  9. Henry Miller On The John Batchelor Show
  10. Larry Diamond On The John Batchelor Show
  11. Stock Gyrations
  12. No, Republicans Aren't Waging A War On G-Men
  13. Poland’s Holocaust Law Is A License To Whitewash History
  14. Small Towns, Big Companies: How Surveillance Intermediaries Affect Small And Midsize Law Enforcement Agencies
  15. Compliance Costs Of Federal Income Taxes Are Over 1 Percent Of GDP
  16. The West Needs Water Markets
  17. U.S. To Borrow Nearly $1 Trillion In 2018
  18. National Review Columnist Victor Davis Hanson On Chicago's Morning Answer (1:55)
  19. Niall Ferguson: The Age Of Networking
  20. Tillerson Nod To Venezuela Coup Smart, Touting Monroe Doctrine Not So Much
  21. Can New Bipartisan Group Break Through Divisions And Build Reform Consensus?
  22. Exploring The Frontiers Of Free Speech At Scalia Law School
  23. Three Lessons For Investors In Turbulent Markets
  24. Counterfeit Elitism
  25. China’s Surveillance State Should Scare Everyone
  26. John Taylor: Annual Economic Forecast At The Commonwealth Club
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