Why California’s Drought Was Completely Preventable

by Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Online The present four-year California drought is not novel — even if President Barack Obama and California governor Jerry Brown have blamed it on man-made climate change. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, California droughts are both age-old and common. Predictable California dry spells — like those […]

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The Strange Case of Modern Immigration

The West is too cowed by guilt to look honestly at immigration. by Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Online Is immigrating from less-developed countries to the West a good or a bad thing, for host and guest? Is the immigrant angry at, or nostalgic for, the country he left? Is he thankful to or […]

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The Fall of the House of Clinton

Boys and girls, Count Victor presents a berrry, berrry scarrrrrry tale of political corruption run amok. by Victor Davis Hanson // PJ Media Hillary Clinton will probably survive her latest ethical disaster. James Carville — of “if you drag a hundred dollar bill through a trailer park, you never know what you’ll find” fame  — […]

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Do Hillary’s Fair-Pay Talking Points Apply to Her Own Family?

by Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Online Hillary Clinton apparently plans to base her presidential campaign on the noble goals of greater fairness and shared sacrifice. She has already lambasted vast differences in compensation. “The average CEO makes about 300 times what the average worker makes,” Clinton warned. She is right — but can best […]

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Don’t Worry, Be Happy

by Victor Davis Hanson // PJ Media In his 1988 presidential race, George H.W. Bush was trashed by the left for selecting the Bobby McFerrin hit “Don’t Worry, Be Happy” as his campaign song. Maybe Bush thought he needed a lighthearted optimistic echo of Reagan’s 1984 mantra, “It’s morning in America.” [1]But the Left thought […]

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Moral Schizophrenics

On campus, on the campaign trail. by Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Online Hillary Clinton in recent months has done the following: She charged UCLA somewhere around $300,000 for reciting some platitudes. That works out to  over $165 a second for her 30 minutes on stage — meaning that she made more in one minute […]

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A Foreign Policy Primer for Obama––and Rand Paul

by Bruce S. Thornton // FrontPage Magazine The president who thinks there’s such a thing as an “Austrian” language is advising Rand Paul to “bone up on foreign policy.” It’s now official: the Obama administration has become a recurring skit on Saturday Night Live. This is the same Barack Obama who became president after 2 […]

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L. Ron Obama and the Church of Progressivism

by Bruce S.Thornton // FrontPage Magazine The HBO documentary about Scientology, “Going Clear,” is a must-see. Not so much because it exposes Scientology as a moneymaking, totalitarian cult, something most people already have known for 50 years. More useful is the film’s description of Scientology’s ideas, techniques, and tactics, for they bear an eerie resemblance […]

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Is Race Following Gender in Becoming a ‘Fluid’ Identity Construct?

Among many careerists and politicians, tweaking one’s ethnic identity is becoming increasingly widespread. by Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Online Not long ago, the New York Times uncovered the artifact that Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush had once listed himself as “Hispanic” on a Florida voter-registration form. Bush is married to a Mexican American. He […]

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Obama and Revolutionary Romance

His foreign-policy errors result not from incompetence but from a conscious agenda. by Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Online Lots of questions arise about the muddled foreign policy of the Obama administration. Critics suggest that America’s friends have now become enemies, and enemies friends. Others cite incompetence and naïveté rather than deliberate agendas as the […]

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Why Is Hillary Clinton Even Running?

Hillary has no resume to run on. Is America ready for her to dial up the culture war to 11?  by Victor Davis Hanson // PJ Media That is not as stupid a question as it first sounds. Ostensibly we know her four ready answers. I. Who Else? One, there is no other credible Democrat who […]

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The Modern University Is Failing Students in Every Respect

From cost to employment prospects, the state of American higher education is dismal for students. by Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Online Modern American universities used to assume four goals. First, their general education core taught students how to reason inductively and imparted an aesthetic sense through acquiring knowledge of Michelangelo, the Battle of Gettysburg, […]

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The Burdens of Thought Policing

From gay weddings to Iran’s muscle-flexing, PC enforcers have a big job. by Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Online It is not easy being a contemporary thought policeman. No sooner had the radical gay Left demonized the owners of an Indiana pizza parlor, which does not cater weddings, for suggesting that in theory they might […]

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The Drought: California Apocalypto

by Victor Davis Hanson // PJ Media The proverbial thin veneer of civilization has never been thinner in California, as if nature has conspired to create even greater chaos than what man here has already wrought. What follows below was a fairly typical seven-day period in the land of the highest sales, fuel, and income […]

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The Shadow of Munich Haunts the Iran Negotiations

Once again our leaders are needlessly appeasing a hostile state that shows them nothing but contempt. by Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Online The Western capitulation to Adolf Hitler in the 1938 Munich Agreement is cited as classic appeasement that destroyed Czechoslovakia, backfired on France and Britain, and led to World War II.

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Obama’s Chicago Presidency

What you can do if you don’t care what anybody says. by Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Online Senator Robert Menendez (D., N.J.) was a vocal critic both of President Obama’s executive-action opening to Cuba and his nuclear non-proliferation talks with Iran. In the midst of his loud opposition, he found himself suddenly the target […]

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The Rules of Racialists—Part Two

by Victor Davis Hanson // PJ Media Last week I reviewed some rules to navigate [1] in our race-obsessed culture. Here are three final statutes. 3) Class Is Irrelevant In our racialist society, race always trumps class. In that sense, we do live in a classless society — at least as far as racial matters […]

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Tom Cotton, Tragic Hero

Despite the value of his open letter, he will become Obama’s scapegoat when the Iran negotiations inevitably fail. by Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Online The snarky quip attributed to 19th-century French foreign minister Charles Maurice de Talleyrand — “It was worse than a crime; it was a blunder” — has recently been making the […]

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The Rules of Racialists — Part One

by  Victor Davis Hanson // PJ Media Never should racial relations be better. Intermarriage between various ethnic, religious, and racial groups has become commonplace. Every family that I know can no longer be termed white or Latino or black, despite the efforts of government and academic clerks to insist on such. Cousins, nephews, grandkids, spouses, […]

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The Putin Way

Putin is following a blueprint that dates back to Philip of Macedon. by Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Online Nothing that Vladimir Putin has done in gobbling up territories of the former Soviet Union is new. In fact, he simply apes every tyrant’s time-honored four-step plan of aggression. INVADE, WAIT — AND INVADE From Philip […]

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