Where Dreams Die

by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media I was given a great gift — but see below — to travel throughout California the last week, by land and by air over the state. It was hard to determine whether the natural beauty of the landscape or the ingenuity of our ancestors was the more impressive. Share This

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Corrupt Language Breeds Bad History and Bad Policy

by Bruce S. Thornton Advancing a Free Society As the history of communism and fascism both illustrate, modern political tyranny has relied on fabricated history to legitimize its claims and actions, and such history in turn relies on the debasement of language. Share This

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Alligators, Moats and Other Such Nonsense

by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services President Obama gave what was billed as an important speech on immigration last week near the border in El Paso, Texas. Unfortunately, it was one of the most demagogic moments in recent presidential history. Share This

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DSK’s Technocratic Socialism

by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s  The Corner The bizarre story of socialist IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn was almost storybook: Share This

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The Fog of Revolution

by Bruce S. Thornton Advancing a Free Society Apart from celebratory statements applauding what looks like to us democratic “people’s revolutions” against tyrannous autocrats, the uprisings sweeping across the Muslim Middle East have created great uncertainty for policy-makers as they try to calculate a response. Share This

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Muslim Jihad in Christian Ethiopia: Lessons for the West

by Raymond Ibrahim FrontPageMagazine.com Not only does recent jihadist rampage against Ethiopia’s indigenous Christians highlight the travails Christians encounter wherever Islam has a sizable population, but it offers several insights, including some which should concern faraway, secular nations with Muslim minorities. According to Fox News: Share This

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Bin Laden and the Eternal Hydra of War

by Raymond Ibrahim Hudson New York As we ponder the significance of Osama bin Laden’s death, it is well to reflect that Islamists are not the cause of hostilities; they are but symptoms of a much greater cause. Share This

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Hope and Change in the Middle East

by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner This was the sort of split-the-difference address that the president is now famous for — long on Icarus-like soaring phraseology, very short on down-to-earth realities. Share This

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Adios, Pakistan

by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner “I don’t care if someone is giving us money; we are not a purchasable commodity. We cannot be bought. We can live in hunger, but we won’t compromise our national interests.” – Bashir Bilour, a Pakistani senior minister, in angry response following an al-Qaeda reprisal for the American killing

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The End of an Idea: Why Affirmative Action Should Stop

by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media 2011, not 1970? We have had about a half-century of racial preferences and often unspoken but real quotas for hiring and admission based on racial identity. Share This

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