College Presidents Expose the Moral Rot Within Their Institutions

• The whole nation has watched aghast over the past few months as students have shown themselves to be in a state of moral confusion inculcated by the universities and their DEI departments’ promotion of an “an oppressed v. oppressor” narrative, which identifies terrorists as the oppressed and the women they raped as their oppressors.
• The presidents of Harvard , Penn, and MIT appeared before a House committee on Wednesday to answer for their shameful inaction in the face of antisemitic rhetoric and attacks on their campuses.
• Their craven responses were as non-committal as their handlers obviously wanted, which served only to indict their institutions.
• The hearing by the House Committee on Education and the Workforce was called to examine what specific steps the three universities had taken following their campuses’ embrace of the Hamas terrorists who invaded Israel on Oct. 7, but all of higher education was put on the stand.
• Everything from the rot of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and the new racial segregation on campus to academia’s rigid, intolerant ideological partisanship, and its funding by nefarious foreign entities, was laid bare for the nation to see.

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Would China Dare Launch a Second Pearl Harbor on America?

• 82 years ago, Imperial Japan caught our nation by surprise and killed 2,479 Americans and sunk 19 warships at Pearl Harbor.
• The nation was lucky that critical logistics like the fuel depot, or tanker ships vital to keeping the fleet at-sea were not attacked. A modern foe like China won’t make that mistake. Then and now, the only proven guarantor of peace is strength, and today, that margin is too narrow.
• The modern version of a Pearl Harbor strike would come not from aircraft carriers but from cyber, ballistic, and cruise missiles launched from submarines off our coast or missiles launched from mainland China.
• To avert war the nation must begin winning in the great game for strategic position, while investing and delivering on a viable military and industry able to wage a long war. Without this, a modern Pearl Harbor and a subsequent long war occurring is only a matter of time.

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An Ignorant Public Poses a Threat to the Republic it Cannot Keep

• Understanding how our system of government is designed to work is not only necessary to evaluate its performance, but also to keep in place the elements that make our liberty possible.
• This is especially important, for example, as unfair attacks are claiming that Supreme Court justices whose decisions don’t advance certain political interests are unethical, corrupt or partisan.
• The Annenberg Public Policy Center’s 2023 survey of civic knowledge found that one-quarter of Americans can name only one branch of government — or none at all. Half can name no more than one of the five freedoms protected by the First Amendment.
• In another peek at the future, civics scores for eighth graders in the National Assessment of Educational Progress are declining for the first time since it began in 1998.
• The American Bar Association’s recent civic literacy survey found more than one-third of Americans say they do not feel informed enough to participate politically in our democratic process.
• Stunning unfamiliarity with the Constitution has bred contempt for the document on which our republic is based. If put to a vote today, only half of those surveyed said they would vote to adopt the Constitution.

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