by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Life is pretty good in the United States now. For all the campaign hysteria about a new Ice Age, jobs are being created. We are recovering from the mess after the late 2000 recession, Wall Street meltdown, and $1 trillion hit from September 11. But there are a […]
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by Bruce S. Thornton Private Papers The following was presented in October in Modesto, California as part of the American Heritage Series sponsored by the Modesto Bee. Share This
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by Bruce S. Thornton Private Papers Losing often induces hysteria, particularly in those suffering from arrested development. Share This
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by Victor Davis Hanson San Francisco Chronicle Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton were the only two Democrats to be elected president since 1976. Share This
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by Victor Davis Hanson New Criterion, November 2004 A review of Ulysses S. Grant, by Josiah Bunting III (Times Books, 2004) Share This
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by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Tuesday’s election was the greatest turnout in American political history, the first majority vote for a president-elect since 1988, and the largest number of ballots cast for a president in our history. What are we to make of it all, besides the obvious fact that the citizens have
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All that razzle-dazzle can’t fool average Joe. by Bruce S. Thornton Private Papers Now that, as Hank Williams might put it, it’s all over but the Democrats’ crying, what are some preliminary conclusions we can draw from this election? Share This
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In war, the last campaigns are the bloodiest. by Victor Davis Hanson Wall Street Journal A shorter version of this essay appeared in the Wall Street Journal. In singular moments in our history, the security of the United States hinged on a single presidential election. Share This
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by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online The terrorists cannot win either a conventional or an asymmetrical war against the United States, should it bring its full array of assets to the struggle. Share This
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by Victor Davis Hanson San Francisco Chronicle Are things really as ghastly as they appear this election year? President Bush is derided as a liar, brain-dead and a coward, not just by fringe groups but by prominent members of the Democratic establishment. Major intellectuals and artists lament that John Kerry won all three debates by
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