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Who Would Win a War Over Taiwan?

By The Editorial Board - Jan, 19,, 2023

Principles of Government · January 22, 2023 ·

Some readers may conclude the answer to all this is to let Taiwan fall, but that would end America’s status as a credible global power. U.S. allies would recalibrate their alliances, and rogues would take more risks. All the more reason to spend the money and energy on demonstrating to China that it will lose a Taiwan war. CSIS has done a service in putting out an unclassified document that can educate the public on what is required. Read More

America’s Right Confronts the 21st Century

By Christopher DeMuth - Nov. 18, 2022

Principles of Government · November 24, 2022 ·

Christopher DeMuth’s near perfect aspirational agenda to conserve the American nation.
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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, quotas and gerrymanders
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—not today’s official goal of 2% that quintuples prices in a lifetime, but zero.
Universal school choice
Initiatives to mobilize science and enterprise to dominate China in advanced computation, communication and weaponry and to repatriate production of national essentials
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Joe Biden’s Nuclear Weapons Misfire

By William McGurn - Dec. 12, 2022

Principles of Government · December 19, 2022 ·

It is U.S. credibility and power—not our moral example—that prevents proliferation. Since it came into effect in 1970, the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty has assumed almost sacred status in the liberal firmament. But can it survive Joe Biden’s presidency? Liberals and the arms-control establishment have always loved the NPT for its vision of a world free of… Read More

The GOP’s Lost Vote Harvest

By Kimberley A. Strassel - Dec. 8, 2022

Principles of Government · December 15, 2022 ·

The GOP did plenty wrong in this midterm, and any honest autopsy would reckon with its decisions to saddle itself again with subpar Senate candidates (remember 2010?) and to tie its fortunes again to Donald Trump (remember 2020?). But the other big takeaway: Republicans got whupped by Democrats’ early-voting game and may be years behind in a major shift in turnout tactics. The party spent more time grousing over Democrats’ 2020 voting changes than it did asking itself why its opponents were so laser-focused on making mail-in and early voting easier. Read More

Harvesting the 2020 Election

By Kimberley A. Strassel - Nov. 12, 2020

Principles of Government · December 12, 2022 ·

Pelosi’s top priority was remaking the electoral system. The virus gave her a boost.
H.R. 1 would make states register voters automatically from government databases, including federal welfare recipients. …. require “no fault” absentee ballots, allowing anyone to vote by mail, for any reason. …. It would cripple most state voter-ID laws. It left in place the “ballot harvesting” rules that let paid activists canvass neighborhoods to hoover up absentee votes.
Mrs. Pelosi’s bill didn’t become law, … But … Using the virus as an excuse, Democratic and liberal groups brought scores of lawsuits to force states to adopt its provisions. Many … courts happily agreed. States mailed out ballots to everyone. Judges disregarded statutory deadlines for receipt of votes. They scrapped absentee-ballot witness requirements. States …signed off on ballot harvesting.
…the beauty of ballot harvesting is that it is nearly impossible to prove fraud. … mail-in voting is the “single worst form of election possible” because “it moves the entire election beyond the oversight of election officials.”
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Republicans Need to Embrace Early Voting

By Arthur Herman - Dec. 1, 2022

Principles of Government · December 4, 2022 ·

But the GOP’s real problem wasn’t its message or the messengers. It was a more basic failure: not understanding or accepting how Americans today participate in elections. Early voting and mail-in balloting have irrevocably changed things. Election Day no longer counts as it once did. Yet Republicans continue to rely on a massive Election Day turnout to prevail, while conceding the rest of the electoral terrain to Democrats. When Democrats win, some Republicans blame election fraud or unfair practices instead of their own failure to adjust their ground game. Read More

Defend America’s History—and Retake Its Institutions

By Gerard Baker - Jul 6, 2020

Principles of Government · July 6, 2020 ·

SELECTED PASSAGES …At the end of the 20th century, the U.S. had won World War II and the Cold War, liberated half the planet from history’s most dehumanizing ideologies, advanced a free-market capitalism that had led more humans out of poverty than any economic system ever devised, and given the world the richest bounty of… Read More

This article also warns of how the effort to distort our history and the domination of the left in higher education is changing our culture, our politics, and our society.

The American Experiment Is on Life Support

By Andrew A. Michta - Oct 26, 2020

Principles of Government · October 26, 2020 ·

SELECTED PASSAGES … ‘Death to America!” is a common refrain from antifa rioters from Portland, Ore., to Kenosha, Wis. … Neither political party has been willing or able to end this anarchy. Extremism becomes more entrenched in American politics with each passing day. These acts of violence encapsulate five decades of neo-Marxist indoctrination in American schools,… Read More

Neo-Marxists on the street and in institutions want to erase their opponents and deconstruct the country.