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    The U.S. Must Defeat Mexico’s Drug Cartels

    By William P. Barr - March 2, 2023

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    William P. Barr – America can no longer tolerate narco-terrorist cartels. Operating from havens in Mexico, their production of deadly drugs on an industrial scale is flooding our country with this poison. The time is long past to deal with this outrage decisively. Reps. Dan Crenshaw (R., Texas) and Michael Waltz (R., Fla.) have proposed a joint resolution giving the president authority to use the U.S. military against these cartels in Mexico. This is a necessary step and puts the focus where it must be. Read More

    The Left’s War on the Rule of Law

    By Ed Meese and Kelly Shackelford - May 16, 2023

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    By Ed Meese and Kelly Shackelford – The left was able for decades to get through the courts, including the Supreme Court, what it couldn’t get through Congress. Today, however, liberals are trying to subvert the legitimacy of the Supreme Court because it contains a majority of justices committed to the Constitution and the rule of law. Suddenly, instead of repeatedly approving the left’s agenda, the federal judiciary has become one of its greatest impediments. Believing they can no longer win at the court, progressives now want to change the rules of the game. Rather than improving their legal arguments and strategy, they are attacking the referees. Read More

    The Economic and Human Costs of Protecting Criminals

    By Jason L. Riley - January 11, 2023

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    By Jason L. Riley – A 2021 paper published by the University of Chicago’s Journal of Law and Economics put annual spending on policing and corrections at about $250 billion. Meanwhile, a study released the same year by the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation “conservatively estimated” that the yearly cost of personal and property crimes in the U.S. is $2.6 trillion. By that comparison, it’s hard to conclude that we spend too much money on law enforcement. What’s even harder is putting a price on the psychic burden of crime—the constant fear that you or a loved one will become a victim Read More

    The Deep State Is All Too Real

    By David Bernhardt - May 9, 2023

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    By David Bernhardt – Grade-school civics teaches that Washington is designed to operate under a system of checks and balances, constrained by the Constitution and empowered by the consent of the governed. In practice, however, power has become concentrated in the executive branch and largely wielded by unaccountable career bureaucrats. The notion of a “deep state” isn’t a conspiratorial talking point but a manifest political reality. Read More

    The Debt Deal’s Defense Threat

    By Roger Zakheim - June 4, 2023

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    By Roger Zakheim – Sequestration 2.0 would rapidly erode America’s position in the world. Today’s stakes are higher because the threats are greater. Still suffering from the 2011 sequestration hangover, the U.S. military has struggled to reconstitute itself to deter or defeat a Chinese invasion of Taiwan. The Pentagon is woefully behind in generating the capital necessary to upgrade military platforms and integrate new technology into the force. The war in Ukraine has exposed the shallow capacity of the defense industrial base and the dramatic need to recapitalize defense manufacturing. Combined with ill-defined and underdeveloped operational concepts for how our military ought to fight the People’s Liberation Army, these realities have sowed doubt about whether the U.S. can win a fight in the Indo-Pacific. As the U.S. dithers with defense spending that barely keeps pace with inflation, the PLA’s budget has nearly doubled in the past decade as China has undertaken an unparalleled modernization program. Read More