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Welfare Is What’s Eating the Budget AA

By Phil Gramm and Jodey Arrington - Sept. 11, 2024

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Principles of Government · September 13, 2025 ·

By Phil Gramm and Jodey Arrington – Means-tested social-welfare spending totaled $1.6 trillion in 2023. Welfare spending now absorbs an astonishing 72.6% of unobligated general revenue (total revenue net of Social Security and Medicare payroll taxes and premiums and mandatory interest on the public debt) and is larger than the claims against unobligated general revenue by Social Security (4.1%), Medicare (23.5%) and defense (37.2%) combined. Read More

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The Counter-Revolt Finally Begins B

By Daniel Henninger - April 24, 2024

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Principles of Government · May 21, 2024 ·

A list of the phenomena laying us low includes: wokeness, DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion), defund the police (a depressing subset of wokeness), conspiracy theories, head-in-the-sand isolationism and a self-centered political polarization typified—from left to right—by Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Cori Bush, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Matt Gaetz and Lauren Boebert….
In all these places, the reversals by elected officials are driven by the prospect of voters’ turning them out of office. That is the U.S. political system trying to right itself.
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‘Follow the Science’ Leads to Ruin A

By Bjorn Lomborg - March 13, 2024

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Principles of Government · January 21, 2022 ·

Over the past two centuries, global life quality has dramatically improved, to a large extent because of an incredible increase in energy, mostly from the harnessing of fossil fuels. That has made agriculture, industry and transportation vastly more productive. Average life spans have more than doubled, hunger has dramatically declined, and real income has increased tenfold. We risk all that progress if we just stop using fossil fuels.
The world still gets four-fifths of its energy from fossil fuels, because renewable sources rarely provide good alternatives. Half the world’s population entirely depends on food grown with synthetic fertilizer produced almost entirely by natural gas. If we rapidly ceased using fossil fuels, four billion people would suddenly be without food. Read More

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America’s Space War Vulnerability A

By The Editorial Board - Feb. 15, 2024

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Principles of Government · April 16, 2024 ·

The Editorial Board – Feb. 15, 2024… the military threat in space is real and growing. Russia and China are working hard to develop space weapons. A Pentagon official told Congress last year that “Russia has fielded several ground-based lasers that can blind satellite sensors and has a wide range of ground-based electronic warfare systems that can counter the Global Positioning System,” satellite communications, radars, and space-enabled weapons guidance. China “has already fielded ground-based counterspace weapons, including electronic warfare systems, directed energy weapons, and direct-ascent (DA) anti-satellite (ASAT) missiles designed to disrupt, damage, and destroy U.S. satellites,” the same Pentagon official told Congress last year. Read More

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Drone Swarms Are About to Change the Balance of Military Power

By Elliot Ackerman  and James Stavridis - March 14, 2024

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Principles of Government · March 22, 2024 ·

By Elliot Ackerman and James Stavridis – Much like the nuclear arms race of the last century, the AI arms race will define this current one. Whoever wins will possess a profound military advantage. Make no mistake, if placed in authoritarian hands, AI dominance will become a tool of conquest Read More

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Characteristics of Government

  • INTRODUCTION
  • SOCIALISM
  • COMPETITION
  • DEMOCRACY AND VOTING
  • SOCIAL POLICIES EFFECTS ON DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENT
  • GOALS OF PROGRESSIVISM AND THE MODERN LEFT
  • EVOLVING IDEOLOGIES
  • DEMOCRACIES AND NATIONAL DEFENSE

Principles of Government

  • INTRODUCTION
  • CITIZENSHIP
  • BELIEF SYSTEM
  • GOVERNMENT STRUCTURE AND POLITICAL SYSTEM
  • FISCAL POLICIES
  • SOCIAL POLICIES
  • FREE MARKETS AND REGULATION
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  • THE RULE OF LAW
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Characteristics of Government

  • INTRODUCTION
  • SOCIALISM
  • COMPETITION
  • DEMOCRACY AND VOTING
  • SOCIAL POLICIES EFFECTS ON DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENT
  • GOALS OF PROGRESSIVISM AND THE MODERN LEFT
  • EVOLVING IDEOLOGIES
  • DEMOCRACIES AND NATIONAL DEFENSE

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