In fact, it would be unfair to suggest that he got all his ideas about the world from his brother and father. It would be equally off-base to suggest that he has any of his own. What he, like most of the other Republicans who may run for president, has are...
The Naval War College, based in Newport, Rhode Island, runs a special 11-month course for foreign Navy officers. On February 3, the Naval War College held a special morning session at the Hoover Institution, where I am a research fellow. I was invited to speak. The...
At a speech that Defense Secretary Leon Panetta gave at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey yesterday, I posed the following question: Good morning, Mr. Secretary. I'm David Henderson, an economics professor here in the Graduate School of Business and Public...
To publicize his 20/20 special, "Bailouts and Bull," ABC's John Stossel went on Sean Hannity's show that same evening (last night). There were two high (so to speak) points, one involving Stossel and one not. In a discussion of the mess in Mexico, the following...
As Justin Raimondo points out in his article this morning, "A Brazen Evil," noted Israeli scholar Benny Morris wrote an op/ed in Friday's New York Times, "Using Bombs to Stave Off War," in which he advocated that the U.S. government or the Israeli government attack...
I think highly of Ivan Eland as a person and as a foreign policy analyst. His piece on today's site on the danger of recruiting into the military people with bad records of behavior is on target. On the way to making his points, though, Ivan writes the following: One...
Well, OK, he didn't say that explicitly. But he did say it implicitly. A basic logic lesson and please forgive me if you think I'm talking down to you. I'm really not. It's just that I'm shocked at how many people, including McCain, don't seem to get logic. If I say,...
I'm not a big fan of the New York Times, but today's front-page investigative report on the Pentagon's managing of the news is absolutely first-rate. One of the Pentagon officials, Torie Clarke, the Pentagon's main propagandist, said her goal had been to achieve...
This morning I received a request to sign an “Economists’ Statement in Support of John McCain’s Economic Plan.†The statement laid out his plans to prevent taxes from rising, to reduce some taxes, such as the corporate income tax, to support free trade...
You read it here first. Or, if you subscribe to the Wall Street Journal, second. In today's WSJ, Yoo actually speaks out against a war. Yoo, remember is the Berkeley law professor who believes that the U.S. president has way more power than the Constitution appears to...
