Category Archives: Hoover Institution

Hoover Institution: Colin Dueck: The Obama Doctrine: American Grand Strategy Today

Posted on August 26, 2015 by Rik Schneider

Source:The New Democrat  President Barack Obama laid out The Obama Doctrine in the spring of 2011. He obviously wanted to move away from the Bush Administration’s neoconservative unilateral military force is always the first option policy. But he’s not an … Continue reading →

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Hoover Institution: Karl W. Eikenberry: A Grand Strategy For Failed States

Posted on February 19, 2015 by Rik Schneider

Source:Hoover Institution Here’s my definition of a failed state. A state that can’t defend itself even against domestic threats whether the government is a good peaceful responsible government, or an authoritarian regime with a bad human rights record. That would … Continue reading →

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Hoover Institution:George P. Shultz: How to Get America Moving Again

Posted on August 13, 2014 by Rik Schneider

Source:The New Democrat  George Shultz now a fellow at the Hoover Institution and of course former Secretary of State for President Reagan and I believe Secretary of Treasury or Commerce for President Nixon wrote an interesting article on how to … Continue reading →

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Hoover Institution: Edward Paul Lazear: How to Energize a Lackluster Recovery

Posted on April 29, 2014 by Rik Schneider

Source:The New Democrat  The U.S. income tax is now the biggest book ever written in the history of the world, at least as far as I know, standing at over one-million pages.  How would you like that for a book … Continue reading →

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The Hoover Institution: Bruce Thornton: Illiberal Liberalism

Posted on April 14, 2014 by Rik Schneider

Source:The New Democrat  Reading right-wingers about people they call “elitist Democrats,” or wine and cheese Democrats, people whom I call wine and cheese progressives, the wing of the Democratic Party that believes that anyone who didn’t graduate from an Ivy … Continue reading →

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Hoover Institution: Richard Epstein: Our Property Principle

Posted on March 12, 2014 by Rik Schneider

Source:The New Democrat  I guess because of the way I look at the United States Constitution, I would be described as a Liberal Constitutionalist, who looks at the entire Constitution and doesn’t pick out parts that I like and rail … Continue reading →

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Hoover Institution: Issues on My Mind: George P. Schultz: Drugs, The War With No Winner

Posted on August 15, 2013 by Rik Schneider

Source:The FreeState It’s good to hear a Republican and a Conservative, who worked for both President Richard Nixon, when the War on Drugs was declared and President Ronald Reagan, when the Drug War was escalated in the 1980s, like George … Continue reading →

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