Victor Davis Hanson In the end, I said “Ok, let’s do it”—just as the latest torrential storm hit (so much for the tired warning that the “drought is not over” as we receive two back-to-back near-record years of rain and snow). Over the last two weeks, all sorts of lumber and materials arrived. Manlifts were […]
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Victor Davis Hanson So, 150 years after the barn’s birth, the last month’s California storms started to flop up the roof sheets again. In one gusty hour, I saw the roofline sway and the barn itself shake. Another far more skilled and imaginative roofer came out who two years ago had saved some of the
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Victor Davis Hanson When the almond shakers and sweepers of the surrounding orchards kicked up clouds of dust the floors by this November were 3–4 inches deep in dirt. It was in theory a barn, but so perforated and porous that the inside was not much different from the world outside. About 10 years ago
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Victor Davis Hanson I was told by my grandfather (1890–1976) that his grandmother Lucy Anna Davis (1832–1923) when she and her boys arrived by train here from Missouri (ca. 1870–71), bought what is now left of our present farm from the railroad (ca. $4 an acre contingent on improvements made within a set period of
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What is the Matter with Victor? Part Two 4) By late 2019, the Trump administration finally had managed to cease stop-and-release, rebuild over 500 miles of the rickety border fence, begin on new portions of it, demand refugees apply for status in their own countries, and leverage President Obrador of Mexico to stop transiting millions
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From an Angry Reader: What is the Matter with Victor? Part One What is the Matter with Victor What is the matter with Victor? The latest diatribe about Joe Biden not trying to the immigration problem is total diction of the Truth! Anyone who is breathing and has a functioning brain iOS aware that Trump
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Victor Davis Hanson After the heroic late February and early March 2022 salvation of Kyiv by ad hoc Ukrainian forces, ebullience swept the West. Putin and his thuggish invasion were seemingly defeated and the war all but won. Amid such euphoria, billions of dollars of weapons poured into Ukraine. European and American politicos outdid each
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Victor Davis Hanson There have been some 170 attacks on American installations spread over Syria, Iraq, and Jordan. And while they are not always identical in mission and nature, our bases’ general agenda is to help governments in the Middle East resist the resurgence of ISIS, a Sunni-derived radical terrorist organization that during the Obama
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From Angry Reader Gerald Dnko: VDH Biased POS I just wanted to say fuck you Victor and you have no impartiality. Youre definitely a fake ass “journalist”. Your shit would never pass any real journalism school. You literally wrote that in all cases he faces lefy wing judges… So Eileen Cannon who was slapped down
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Victor Davis Hanson The Strangest Case of E. Jean Carroll and Donald Trump (continued) 5) As for Carroll’s suits, there were originally no criminal or civil charges filed because obviously the statute of limitations had long since expired. But that changed in 2022 when a new law (“The Adult Survivors Act”) was passed in the
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