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    • America’s Right Confronts the 21st Century B

    By Christopher DeMuth - Nov. 18, 2022

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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

    Rising Crime Rates Are a Policy Choice B

    By William P. Barr - Oct. 26, 2022

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    By William P. Barr – Progressives can’t solve the problem because they won’t abandon the practices that cause it. The violent crime surge was preventable. It was caused by progressive politicians reverting to the same reckless revolving-door policies that during the 1960s and ’70s produced the greatest tsunami of violent crime in American history. We reversed that earlier crime wave with the tough anticrime measures adopted during the Reagan-Bush era. We can stop this one as well. Studies have repeatedly shown that most predatory crime is committed by a small, hard-core group of habitual offenders. They are a tiny fraction of the population… Read More

    100 Years of Communism—and 100 Million Dead AA

    By David Satter - Nov. 6, 2017

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    By David Satter – The Bolshevik coup had two consequences. In countries where communism came to hold sway, it hollowed out society’s moral core, degrading the individual and turning him into a cog in the machinery of the state. Communists committed murder on such a scale as to all but eliminate the value of life and to destroy the individual conscience in survivors….The Bolshevik plague that began in Russia was the greatest catastrophe in human history… it …would kill millions and inflict a near-fatal wound on Western civilization… In the West, communism inverted society’s understanding of the source of its values, creating political confusion that persists to this day… Read More

    From Migrant Busing to Climate Change, Fake Virtue Abounds B

    By Gerard Baker - Sept. 19, 2022

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    By Gerard Baker -… But the scales of virtue must balance, and it isn’t simply a case of administrative incompetence but an act of abject moral failure by a government to fail to secure its borders….There is no higher obligation for a sovereign power to its own people. The reckless toleration of the entry of …millions, of illegal immigrants threatens a nation’s security, undermines its cohesion, interferes with its orderly economic and social functions. It … actively undermines respect for the rule of law…. Read More

    The Left Gets Fascism Backward B

    By Lance Morrow - Sept. 4, 2022

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    By Lance Morrow – Mr. Trump and his followers…are essentially antifascists: They want the state … to impose the least possible interference and allow market forces and entrepreneurial energies to work. Freedom isn’t fascism. Mr. Biden and his vast tribe are essentially enemies of freedom…. They desire maximum—that is, total—state or party control of all aspects of American life, including what people say and think. …The left yearns for power and authoritarian order. It is Faust’s bargain; freedom is forfeit….  Read More