Election 2012: Jeb Bush vs. Barack Obama February 20th, 2012 WARNING TO: Selfish insecure children and conservatives. This is not a political promotion for any candidate. It is simply an observation of certain facts exposing a foregone conclusion. What I

Hoover fellows participated in a symposium that used as background the Federal Reserve’s performance leading up to and during the financial crisis of 2007–8, the Great Recession of 2007–9, and the current slow recovery. The symposium was attended by the

One other economist worth noting, both for his work on the Commission and for his public opposition to the draft, is the aforementioned Allen Wallis. Wallis had been a top adviser to President Eisenhower and was later to be the Undersecretary of State fo

BEAVER CREEK, Colo. , Feb. 2, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Governor John Hickenlooper will deliver the keynote remarks at the inaugural Vail Global Energy Forum (VGEF), held March 3-4, 2012 in Beaver Creek, Colo. The Vail Valley Foundation, in conjunction with St

BEAVER CREEK, COLORADO - January 24, 2012 (Investorideas.com renewable energy/green newswire) The Vail Valley Foundation, in conjunction with Stanford University's Precourt Institute for Energy (PIE) and Precourt Energy Efficiency Center, (PEEC), will ho

RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. Ronald Reagan celebrated New Year’s Eve here 18 times, one of seven president

MARINE CORPS AIR STATION CHERRY POINT, N.C. — Interventions in Panama and Grenada during the 1980s highlighted the conditions when Marine Air-Ground Task Forces should be used and when other methods are preferred. Though they had nearly identical objecti

Vice-Premier Li Keqiang meets former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger on Tuesday at the Great Hall of The People in Beijing. Kissinger led a delegation of prominent former diplomats attending the China-US Track Two High-Level Dialogue. [Ren chenming

BEIJING - Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang met with former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in Beijing, urging the two countries to properly settle differences in bilateral relations and promote the healthy growth of relations. "Under the new circums

Roy L. Ash, who used tough-minded analytic acumen to build a multibillion-dollar conglomerate, Litton Industries, and to become a force in the Nixon White House, where he headed the creation of agencies like the Environmental Protection Agency, died on D

OVER the last three years, as I delved into the world of American nuclear weapons, I felt increasingly as though I had stepped into a time warp. Despite the nearly total rearrangement of the international security landscape since the demise of the Soviet

“The climate naysayers will surely challenge Burton Richter: What makes a mere physics professor an expert on climate change, even if he holds a Nobel Prize for finding some exotic particle inside the atom?The answer: The Stanford professor has been rese

What do you think will be the most hard-fought political issue in California this year, and why? To comment, please use our comments section at the end of the story. Every election year in California can prove dangerous for bystanders. But 2012 is shapin

Ezra Shaw/Getty Images Andrew Luck attended a recent Stanford women's basketball game. After this quarter, Luck needs to complete three credit hours to graduate with a degree in architectural design. PALO ALTO, Calif.

On the day after a nuclear bomb annihilates Washington, New Delhi, Islamabad, Seoul, Tel Aviv or Moscow, vaporizing and burning to death hundreds of thousands of people, our present complacency about nuclear proliferation will look like daylight madness.

BEAVER CREEK, Colo. , Dec. 27, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The Vail Valley Foundation, in conjunction with Stanford University's Precourt Institute for Energy (PIE) and Precourt Energy Efficiency Center (PEEC), will host the inaugural Vail Global Energy Forum (V

The mystery over the missing bronze bust of former Secretary of State George P. Shultz is over. The bust, missing from Chapman University in Orange since Aug. 6, was recently recovered from a garbage bin in Huntington Beach, the Orange County Register re

The head of George P. Shultz was found in a Huntington Beach garbage bin. Meanwhile, Ronald Reagan's noggin is still missing, but a new one is being made. This is not the plot for an episode of Futurama, but the state of matters related to busts being lo

John Taylor (speaking), the George P. Shultz Senior Fellow in Economics at the Hoover Institution and the Mary and Robert Raymond Professor of Economics at Stanford University, and Lee Ohanian, a senior fellow at Hoover and an economics professor at UCLA