Next Battle: Immigration

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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More Bottled Piety

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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Remembering the Pacific War

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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In the End, There Is Only the Debt

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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We Are All Pods Now

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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Israel: One of Many

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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Chicago Does Socialism

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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As Predictable As the Sun Rising

by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Giddy About Remaking America If we assume that Obama & Co. wish to radically remake the United States — along the lines of a European socialist society, or perhaps to the left even of a Belgium or Denmark — then the past 14 months were as predictable as the

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Let the Games Begin?

by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner I don’t follow the Democratic thinking. Their president polls below 50 percent. The Democratically-controlled Congress polls less than 20 percent. Healthcare reform polls at about 45 percent support. Share This

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