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- While the Supreme Court has forced the practices of race-based college admissions underground and some states have tied universities’ access to public funding to reductions in DEI staffing, no one should be naïve enough to think that the defeat of DEI in our universities is somehow imminent or inevitable.
- In fact, in the wake of the developments listed above, many schools have doubled down on DEI.
- The University of Michigan, for example, just launched a new DEI program that increases the number of DEI employees from 142 to 500 and increases DEI payroll from $18 million to $30 million.
- Princeton University, meanwhile, issued a report celebrating the expansion of its DEI programs, grants, lecture series, and administrative positions.
- But even if these programs are cut, DEI will still be strong on campuses because DEI bureaucracies are no longer necessary for its propagation.
- Although the Supreme Court has rejected racialized university admissions, legal redress remains elusive for DEI’s victims in the faculty ranks.
- The fight against DEI on campus must expand to replace closed-minded commissars with open-minded educators committed to teaching and training successive generations to bravely pursue the truth.
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- China’s inflation-adjusted military spending is at least three times larger than it was in the year 2000 and by some counts is hundreds of millions of dollars larger than the official numbers suggest.
- Yet even these dramatic top-line estimates do not tell the whole story of China’s military rise, because it has also increased efficiencies within its defense budget – meaning that, unlike the United States, China isn’t just spending more, it’s spending smarter.
- The headline numbers mask the even more rapid modernization of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), led by a massive investment in military equipment that far outstrips the growth of rest of China’s defense budget.
- The Chinese government recognizes that it needs the ability to protect as well as to project power beyond its borders to secure the energy imports its economy needs.
- Beyond securing energy and economic needs, modernization has been an undeniable geo-political success in terms of the Chinese ambition to force reunification with Taiwan and other international strategic ends.
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- On Feb. 13, the House successfully impeached Mayorkas for the irreparable damage he has done to U.S. sovereignty, security, and the rule of law.
- Now it’s the Senate’s turn to hold Mayorkas accountable by conducting a legitimate impeachment trial to examine the evidence in detail in front of the American people.
- Mayorkas has had three years to change course to secure the border and protect Americans, but he hasn’t. Instead, he’s only grown more deceitful about his operations.
- He has hid from Americans night flights to secretly dump illegal aliens into unprepared American communities, given billions of U.S. tax dollars to secretive NGOs, and now, he demands more taxpayer dollars in a supplemental funding package to refill the NGOs’ empty coffers and pay off the sanctuary cities that are sheltering illegal aliens.
- Americans deserve a real Senate impeachment trial of Alejandro Mayorkas.
- Dismissing or tabling the impeachment, sending it to a trial committee to languish, or holding a one-day trial would all be unacceptable options.
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