VDH UltraThe Secret But Real Story of California. Part Three

Victor Davis Hanson In the last two years, I have had two medical emergencies—a complete, strange anaphylactic shock due to a routine bee sting (the fourth or fifth sting that spring that had caused no problems) and pneumonia. And so twice I have gone to a local ER. On both occasions, I was about the […]

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The Left is ‘Bleeding Kansas’

Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness In the late 1850s, “Bleeding Kansas” was the term used to describe the escalating cycle of violence, when surrogates for the Union and soon-to-be Confederacy fought each other over whether Kansas would be admitted as a free or slave-owning state. As the assaults and killings increased, radicals set the agenda.

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‘So I’m Voting Commie’: Why Mamdani is Likely to Win

VDH and Sami talk about leading New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani posing with a controversial imam named an unindicted co-conspirator in the first World Trade Center bombing. They also discuss why the self-proclaimed socialist is likely to win. Share This

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Who Are the Real Kings?

Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness So-called King, Donald Trump, ran in two contested Republican primaries. He ran three times in a general election. He was elected twice, and his party recently won a Republican Congress. In contrast, in 2020, Joe Biden did not run a typical campaign. He avoided the public, staying ensconced in his

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Ketanji Brown Jackson ‘Is Way Out of Her Depth’

Victor and Jack discuss how a recent Supreme Court oral argument reminds us just how “out of her depth” Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson truly is, the true “brilliance” behind Sen. John Fetterman’s PR strategy, and why is the Left now trying to “cancel” Taylor Swift. Share This

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VDH UltraThe Secret But Real Story of California. Part Two

Victor Davis Hanson Why is California so dysfunctional? It is not from want of state treasury money. Its highest tax bracket in the nation is 13.3 percent. It relies on only about 1 percent of the state’s households to pay nearly 50 percent of all state income tax revenue. But then again, California has more

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VDH UltraThe Secret But Real Story of California. Part One

Victor Davis Hanson Gavin Newsom is running for president. Yet, he is not broadcasting his qualifications by citing his history of eight years as Governor of California, eight years as Lieutenant Governor, his eight years as Mayor of San Francisco, and not his eight years on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Why? During these

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