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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.