Victor Davis Hanson Finally, unlike the Biden revenge tour, the Trump prosecutions will earn mostly negative press. The media is for the most part left-wing. It has never apologized for spreading the collusion hoax, popularizing the laptop ruse, smothering the collaboration of the FBI and social media corporations to silence 2020 campaign-cycle news accounts unfavorable […]
Victor Davis Hanson Another consideration: which is the greater political sin: enforcing the law against an admittedly political enemy, or suspending law enforcement on behalf of a culpable political friend or ally? Translated: why did the Biden administration drop a developing and likely strong DOJ case against John Bolton once he was determined to ignore
Victor Davis Hanson The opposition to President Trump from both the Left and the vestigial Never Trump Right has mostly lost the policy debate. The American people support Trump’s success at border security, energy development, the economy, military recruitment, trade agreements, massive foreign investment, and spectacular foreign policy deals and ceasefires. The Left has offered
Victor Davis Hanson In the last two years, I have had two medical emergencies—a complete, strange anaphylactic shock due to a routine bee sting (the fourth or fifth sting that spring that had caused no problems) and pneumonia. And so twice I have gone to a local ER. On both occasions, I was about the
Victor Davis Hanson Why is California so dysfunctional? It is not from want of state treasury money. Its highest tax bracket in the nation is 13.3 percent. It relies on only about 1 percent of the state’s households to pay nearly 50 percent of all state income tax revenue. But then again, California has more
Victor Davis Hanson Gavin Newsom is running for president. Yet, he is not broadcasting his qualifications by citing his history of eight years as Governor of California, eight years as Lieutenant Governor, his eight years as Mayor of San Francisco, and not his eight years on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Why? During these
Victor Davis Hanson As we walked out of the now deserted class, Billy suddenly seemed upset and added, “We need to split up and get the f**k out of here.” And I said, “Why? They started it, and they were the violent ones. We were just staying in the class we paid for.” He said
Victor Davis Hanson My next occasion with the anti-war, Che Guevara, Santa Cruz Left followed the next spring, 1973. These were the final gasps of anti-war protests sputtering out over the very end of the Cambodia misadventure, with the U.S. Air Force bombing of Cambodia to save the pro-American Lon Nol government (the tail end
Victor Davis Hanson Oddly, I was not quite the final one to leave the amphitheater. The speaker herself also had strangely lingered to the last. So, by accident, I met a complete stranger, but apparently a well-known campus radical, at the very moment I reached the main exit aisle. We were the last two there.
Victor Davis Hanson As far as the noisy march down to the Santa Cruz courthouse, I remember that it went something like “Hey, Hey, Ho, Ho, Nixon’s Gotta Go.” And the updated “Not in Our Name!” etc., etc. We two looked out of place given we had T-shirts and Levis on with baseball caps with