by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Beefcake Beheading I have been catching up on the episodes of the new Starz series on Spartacus, the Thracian slave who terrified Rome between 73 to 71 B.C., through a mass servile uprising originating in Capua. Share This
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by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media A Pretentious Word for a World Without Rules Given thirty years of postmodern relativism in our universities, we were bound to get a postmodern president at some point. Share This
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What we will–and will not–hear in the upcoming debate. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online After the healthcare fight, we can expect the Obama administration to use the same template to pass “comprehensive immigration reform.” Share This
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by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner This week’s talking point is the sudden danger of new right-wing violence, and the inflammatory push-back against healthcare. Share This
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Today marks the 65th anniversary of the invasion of Okinawa. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Sixty-five years ago, on April 1, 1945, the United States Marines, Army, and Navy invaded Okinawa. The ensuing three months of combat resulted in the complete defeat and near destruction of imperial Japanese forces on the island, just
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by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner Amid all the fighting over healthcare, Obama’s new promises, the Israeli spat, the Frum controversy, et al., looms the national debt. We can ignore it; get angry at it and say, “What the hell, I’ll quadruple it!”; have our “experts” write sophistic treatises about how it either doesn’t matter or
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by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Were We Podded in Our Sleep? I think I went to sleep about a year ago, just woke up, and realized that either I or the world has been changed, snatched as it were. [1] Share This
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by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner Some strong supporters of both Obama and Israel are disappointed in the latest hysterical Biden-Clinton-Obama smack-down over the settlement issue. But why, I don’t know — this is a logical, not an aberrant, development from President Obama. Share This
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Connect the dots of Obama’s first year–an ugly picture emerges. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online We can have a rational debate on any one item on President Obama’s vast progressive agenda, arguing whether adjectives like “statist” or “socialist” fairly describe his legislative intent. But connect all the dots and lines of the past
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by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services After the bloodletting over the healthcare bill, President Obama is now at a crossroads. Share This
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