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The ‘Anti-Navy’ the U.S. Needs Against the Chinese Military B
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By Mike Gallagher – …Mr. Xi faces an American military that is growing weaker within the decade. As the Heritage Foundation’s recently released 2023 Index of U.S. Military Strength makes clear, because of inadequate budgets, truncated modernization and degraded readiness, the U.S. military is set to be weakest when the People’s Liberation Army aims to be strongest. …Rather than gambling the fate of the free world on Mr. Xi’s restraint, we must learn the lessons from Ukraine and put American hard power in Mr. Xi’s path before it is too late. Long-term investments to rebuild American military superiority in general, and maritime superiority in particular, are critical. But the reality is we won’t be able to build the Navy the nation needs within the next five years….What we can do now is build an anti-navy—asymmetric forces and weapons designed to target the Chinese Navy, deny control of the seas surrounding Taiwan, and prevent the PLA’s amphibious forces from gaining a lodgment on the island…….Congress needs to bend the Pentagon bureaucracy, in service of a defense strategy that prioritizes hard power. Doing so demands we understand the paradox of deterrence: that to avoid war, you must convince your adversary that you are both capable and willing to wage war. Read More
America Needs a New Civil Rights Act A
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By Philip Hamburger – Today’s problem is the suppression of dissent. …Most worrisome is federal and state encouragement for private entities to discriminate against Americans with dissenting views. …The funding justification for regulation increasingly reaches not only subsidized programs but entire institutions. And almost every major institution receives federal funding. So the potential for privatized government discrimination is nearly unlimited. In education, conditions on funding interfere with academic speech and the freedom of private institutions….The first step in a constitutionally more modest approach would be to recognize that government power shouldn’t be exercised in ways that discriminate. On this basis, a new civil-rights act could bar discrimination in the exercise of government power. At the governmental level, this would prohibit viewpoint discrimination by federal and state officials and make their discrimination subject to suits for damages without qualified immunity….The bar against discriminatory exercises of government power would also reach private bodies to the extent they exercise the power of government. Just because government power is privatized doesn’t mean it should escape the ordinary limits on such power. So when institutional review boards, Title IX committees, bar associations or other professional organizations exercise delegated legislative or judicial power, they should be vulnerable to pay damages for their viewpoint discrimination. Read More
America’s Right Confronts the 21st Century B
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By Christopher DeMuth – A near perfect aspirational agenda to conserve the American nation. – *** Re-establish national borders, reduce our million plus annual illegal entries to zero, and calibrate lawful immigration to the needs of cultural assimilation, social harmony and economic growth; abolish all official racial and other group preferences; liberate the energy sector; return to a balanced federal budget outside of wars and other emergencies; redirect federal spending from personal entitlements and income transfers to public goods such as national defense, basic research and infrastructure; withdraw the collective-bargaining privileges of public-employee unions; institute stable currency; universal school choice; initiatives to mobilize science and enterprise to dominate… Read More
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ACTA believes that the free exchange of ideas is the lifeblood of a vibrant democracy. The college campus must serve as an open forum where students, professors, and the community can come together across ideological divides to pursue truth and strengthen our country’s free institutions. ACTA is working to reverse the erosion of civil discourse and the suppression of free speech that afflict so many of our colleges and universities and jeopardize the future of our free society. Students need a strong foundation of skills and knowledge for success. ACTA believes that this can be achieved through clear general education requirements. We work with colleges and universities to promote rigorous liberal arts programs that prepare students for the modern workplace and community participation and equip them with a thorough understanding of the rights and responsibilities of American citizenship. Oases of Excellence Issues and Initiatives American Council of Trustees and Alumni Read More