Victor Davis Hanson There are now two concurrent Washington, D.C.-area dramas. One is the last gasp of the politically motivated January 6th Committee hearings. The proceedings have been restarted to coincide with the final stretch of the midterms and to give Rep. Lynn Cheney a last appearance of political legitimacy, before in defeat she loses …
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Victor Davis Hanson 3) Did Biden faithfully execute the laws of the land as he had sworn to upon Inauguration Day? More specifically, did Biden enforce existing federal immigration law and thus prosecute those who swarmed illegally across the U.S. border, and then further in illegal fashion resided with impunity in the U.S.? Or did …
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Victor Davis Hanson We know that Donald Trump was once impeached for calling up his Ukrainian counterpart and complaining that the Ukrainian government had been too involved with the corrupt Biden family. Trump then warned that if Ukraine did not clean up its quid-pro-quo act, he would delay approved military aid. And while Trump eventually …
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Victor Davis Hanson Instead, our elite social engineers focus on the black upper-middle class through vastly expanding affirmative action and recalibrating college admissions as reparatory rather than proportionally representative (i.e., 16 percent rather than the old 11 or 12 percent of a college’s new enrollment now shall be black). They capitalize Black. The bicoastal elite …
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Victor Davis Hanson Crime Everywhere Now we come to the current crime wave. We see weekly YouTube videos of the knock-out game, of Saturday night Al Capone-gangland massacring, of vulnerable joggers raped and killed, of a mother and her daughter carjacked, of a woman at a rail crossing murdered, of a petite woman pushed to …
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Victor Davis Hanson What best characterizes an Orwellian or Soviet society? The silent, collective acceptance of the truth that never can be spoken, and the lies of the apparat that everyone else knows are not true. Think of some of the astounding truths that we simply ignore. Hillary Clinton We have spoken about Clinton before, …
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Victor Davis Hanson And then without a glitch, he said, “Leave the pickup key under the seat. I’ll find it. You go teach those classes. I’ll have it running in an hour and then you can get down here to check the crew and get back for the next class.” With my dad, it was …
Victor Davis Hanson Words Matter I omit for now the evil “great men” who changed history—the Hitlers, Maos, and Stalins—and who singularly explain a collective 100 million deaths. Instead, I want to focus on the good rescue work that exceptional men and women do, and why for anything to work you need talented and reliable …
Victor Davis Hanson “You have to have good men.” Jürgen Prochnau as Capt.-Lt. Henrich Lehmann-Ellenbrook in Das Boot “We’re not going to get rid of anybody! We’re going to stick together, just like it used to be! When you side with a man, you stay with him! And if you can’t do that, you’re like …
Victor Davis Hanson Can the FBI be saved in its present form? Should it be disassembled, and its bureaus farmed out to other agencies? Should its headquarters be transferred to Kansas City, or maybe Fresno, Dayton, or Boise? Given its record of transgressions and lapses, would we miss its absence? Or are its Washington hierarchies …