White House watch: Haley’s Rx on China
At The Wall Street Journal, Nikki Haley shares “my comprehensive plan to confront China.” For one, “prevent China from buying any more land” here, and “eliminate federal funding for universities that take Chinese money.” Then “revoke permanent normal trade relations until the flow of fentanyl ends.” “Push American businesses to leave China as completely as possible,” and end “advanced technology” exports. Since we’re “at risk of falling behind” in areas like “hypersonic missiles, nuclear weapons, space and cyber warfare, and a cutting-edge navy,” we must “transform the US military”: It’s “the best way to keep the peace,” along with bolstering our alliances from Japan to India. “The hour is late,” but “if we rally now, the Chinese Communist Party will end up on the ash-heap of history, like the Soviet Communist Party before it.”
Conservative: Law Schools Betray the Law
“Law schools matter,” argues John O. McGinnis at City Journal, as “the gatekeeping institution of the legal profession—a key occupation in a democratic republic.” But most “have become ideologically and structurally committed to the Left” and move to “punish or discourage troublesome speech or thought” via Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, “a thinly veiled code for the leftist project on race and gender.” Forget meritocracy: “The ABA’s Council on Legal Education is proposing to eliminate the requirement that students take the LSAT.” How to fight back? Don’t “mandate hiring conservatives.” Instead, “state legislatures should cut off funds for hiring bureaucrats with DEI functions.” Otherwise, expect more lawyers who see the law “as an alien virus that must be ejected from the body politic.”
Libertarian: America’s Legal Immigration Slump
“In so many areas of its immigration policy, the US is failing to attract and retain talented foreigners” in part because “many high-skilled professionals look elsewhere when they realize how difficult it is to immigrate to the US permanently,” warns Fiona Harrigan at Reason. “Most international students say they want to stay in the U.S. after graduation,” but “very few” can since “the US has no dedicated postgraduate work visa.” And the demand for employment-linked H-1B visas “far outpaces supply.” Also, “H-1Bs can’t start their own businesses.” Now “fewer international students are choosing to study in the US in the first place.” The government “will need to get out of its own way if it wants to keep attracting students, entrepreneurs, and other talented workers from abroad. Otherwise, they’ll simply look for more welcoming pastures.”
From the left: Why Assange Must Be Freed
Julian Assange’s Wikileaks was vital to publicizing the US government’s “secret prisons, extraordinary rendition, mass surveillance, and drone assassination,” notes Racket News’ Matt Taibbi. Now the feds want to imprison Assange “for 175 years, mostly for violations of the Espionage Act. These include crimes like ‘conspiracy to receive national defense information,’ or ‘obtaining national defense information’ ” — which is “whatever they say it is. It’s any information they don’t want to get out. It doesn’t even have to be classified.” Huh? “Conspiracy to obtain such information” is “called journalism.” Fact is, “secrets do not belong to governments. That information belongs to us. Governments rule by our consent. If they want to keep secrets, they must have our permission to do so. And they never have the right to keep crimes secret.”
Pharma beat: Biden’s Disastrous Drug Move
If the Biden drug-price-control effort survives legal challenges, predicts Joe Grogan at The Hill, expect “higher launch prices, fewer cures and worse health.” Already, “companies are terminating research programs to develop new treatments.” Yet it faces challenges on Fifth, First and Eighth Amendment grounds, plus separation-of-powers issues. So “if the courts do enjoin” the feds from implementing it, Democrats “won’t have anyone to blame but themselves” — but Republicans should “advance sensible legislation that protects patients, taxpayers and the innovation ecosystem.” “We can achieve affordable drug prices without destroying innovation or shredding the Constitution.”
— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board
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