by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services The House this July passed another five-year, multi-billion-dollar farm support bill. The Senate now has its own version under discussion. And we can probably expect that the compromise bill that passes will be at least the $286 billion allotted by the House. Share This
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by Victor Davis Hanson The New Criterion A review of The Seventh Decade: The New Shape of Nuclear Danger by Jonathan Schell (Metropolitan Books, 2007, 272 pp.) During the nuclear freeze movement of the 1980s, Jonathan Schell became well known for his detailed arguments calling for global nuclear disarmament. Share This
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by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services At first glance, it would seem a straightforward thing to stop a relatively weak but volatile Iran from obtaining a nuclear bomb. It would also seem to be something a concerned world community would be actively working to do. Share This
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by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner I thought (and wrote to that effect) that both the gratuitous and toothless Senate resolutions calling for the de facto trisection of Iraq, and condemnation of Turkey for the century-old Armenian holocaust were unnecessary barbs that would only inflame an already anti-American Turkey. Share This
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by Victor Davis Hanson The American This article appears in the “Geopolitics” section of the recent issue of The American. By October, 15 months before his presidency would end, George Bush’s approval ratings still hovered around 30 percent. Share This
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An interview with Col. Rick Gibbs. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online On a recent visit to Iraq, I was advised to speak with an American colonel at ground zero in the effort to secure Baghdad. Share This
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by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services The president establishes American foreign policy and is commander in chief. At least that’s what the Constitution states. Then Congress oversees the president’s policies by either granting or withholding money to carry them out — in addition to approving treaties and authorizing war. Share This
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Al Gore’s evangelical liberalism reconsidered. by Bruce S. Thornton Private Papers Al Gore embodies a type that usually turns up in high school or university faculties, what we can call the evangelical liberal. Share This
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Iraq for most Americans is now a toxic subject — best either ignored or largely evoked to blame someone for something in the past. Share This
by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Which of these two do we Americans know anything about? Share This
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