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Victor Davis Hanson When the Democrats lose the House in November, several FBI investigations will reveal things we can scarcely imagine. Investigators will hone in on what transpired under the last four FBI directors: McCabe (lied four times to federal investigators and oversaw fake FISA warrants); Comey (leaked confidential memos of private presidential conversations, feigned …

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Victor Davis Hanson Let us first be clear. Do not believe that the midterms are lost, or even that the Democrats are on the “upswing.” Instead go back and read the Labor Day press and study the September polls of 1994 and 2010, when the supposed Republican tsunamis had “crested.” They had not. Both years …

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Victor Davis Hanson A month ago, the news was “bombshells” from the January 6th committee. Three weeks ago, it was the “Raid,” or the FBI descent into the Trump home to take back “nuclear secrets.” As Merrick Garland fumbled about offering ever new reasons for the historic departure from 233 years of protocol, we then …

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Victor Davis Hanson We lost two entire crops to unseasonable tropical storms and saved one from a deluge by “rolling all night long” with a crew of ten. (Even my 60-year-old dad was on his operated knees and my mom too.) When rain came in those days, health or age was no exemption from rolling. …

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Victor Davis Hanson The trays after picking then sat cooking for 8-12 days, depending on the heat and humidity, the quality of the picker, the height of the vine rows, and the nature of the soil (sandy meant quick drying, heavy loam not so much). Some perfectionist farmers then sent a crew to “turn” or …

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Victor Davis Hanson Raisins are dried grapes. For 100 years, Sun-Maid Raisins, the local co-op, insisted on dried Thompson seedless grapes, the green, seedless grapes you saw once in the store fresh (though in their natural smaller state, without being pumped up from the effects of gibberellic acid, stump and cane girdling, and weekly irrigation …

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