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VDH UltraTheir California Dreams, Our Nightmares, Part Three

Victor Davis Hanson The coastal elites gave us sanctuary cities and a sanctuary state. They oppose deportations (remember the campaign videos of Kamala Harris chanting and demonstrating to stop federal deportations of illegal aliens from California). They virtue signal their liberality and then are shocked that a 13.3% income tax rate will still not bring

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VDH UltraTheir California Dreams, Our Nightmares, Part Two

Victor Davis Hanson Consider the following four examples: 1) Massive solar and wind projects, while dismantling hydroelectric, nuclear, and natural gas generation, spiked electricity costs to over 30 cents a kilowatt. For the coastal elite, whose affluence means they can run their air conditioners as they please (and their ocean-side climate makes that optional in

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VDH UltraTheir California Dreams, Our Nightmares, Part One

Victor Davis Hanson California has become for some time a one-party state: no Republican statewide office holders; supermajority of Democrats in both state legislatures; only nine Republican Congressional representatives out of the 52-member state delegation; no Republican governor in the last 15 years; and the majority of local and state judges leftwing Democrats. Why the

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VDH UltraWhy We Hate Flying, Part One

Victor Davis Hanson Americans love to travel. And once they were proud of their unmatched airlines—clean, on time, meritocratic, and safe. But not now. True, sophisticated avionics, along with bigger, faster, and far more reliable and safer planes make airline travel—despite a tenfold increase in passengers over the last 50 years–cheaper and even safer with

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