Victor Davis Hanson Eeyore’s Cabinet Recently, there has been increasing pressure on China either to produce more data exonerating itself of birthing the SARS-CoV-2 virus, or to confess that the pathogen escaped from its secretive biosafety Level 4 virology lab and was human-engineered, showing insidious characteristics not found in nature. If the latter is true, …
Victor Davis Hanson 6) Twenty-million Californians living on a thin, dry, coastal, 400-mile strip, from La Jolla to north of Berkeley. That they sit atop no real aquifer and enjoy little precipitation is still not unnatural given the importance of these elites. Such critical populations must be continually supplied by otherwise not-natural, long-distance transfers of …
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Victor Davis Hanson The West in general is in a continuing drought and California in particular. The left-wing policies to alleviate little rain or snow in blue Western states have been the following—though never fully or so candidly expressed. Remember, progressive water policy for the Left is like fuel policy: do not develop such resources …
Víctor Davis Hanson Epitaph. The U.S. will survive the virus because for the most part it sickens but does not kill or disable most of the productive population. And it likely gives enough short-term immunity that one does not go from one bout to the next. The elderly, the long haulers, and the already ill …
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Victor Davis Hanson The Way Ahead. What is the future of the pandemic? Who knows? But it is likely to be more like an annual flu epidemic, albeit more toxic than a whooping cough or measles outbreak that has largely been eradicated by vaccination. Perhaps we should envision the man-made devilry as a super-flu that …
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Victor Davis Hanson What is the American public’s view of Covid as we enter year three of our shared disastrous pandemic? Origins. Despite the skullduggery of EcoHeatlh Alliance, The Lancet, the WHO, CDC, NIAID, etc., we are increasingly certain about two key elements of the Covid pandemic: “It” originated in Wuhan, China. “It” most certainly …
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Victor Davis Hanson 6. Pro-choice extremists will only up attacks on the Supreme Court. But the Left has already reached is maximum saturation points of illegality and quasi-violence against a third branch of government: illegally leaking confidential court memos; a senior senator threatening justices by name outside the doors of the Supreme Court; mobs showing …
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Eeyore’s CabinetVíctor Davis Hanson 1) The ability to abort a child will not be widely curtailed in the U.S., at least not in the early months of his/her life. Blue states will immediately advertise that abortion on demand is legal in their jurisdictions and invite those from nearby red states to take a short drive …
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Victor Davis Hanson The Border, RIP, Continued… Note well: That after years of acrimony, and the unhinged charges that Donald Trump was recreating Auschwitz on the border (i.e., reusing the “cages” built by Barack Obama), Trump by late summer 2020 at last had mostly ended illegal immigration. He replaced hundreds of miles of porous border …
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Victor Davis Hanson The Border, RIP The rise of the modern state is synonymous with ideas of identifiable and secure borders within which a consensual society can set their own laws, inculcate and nourish unique customs and traditions, and ensure that a special space is secure for its people. Without borders, we are mere tribal …
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