Victor Davis Hanson 3) Boarding passengers should be greeted with “Put all cell phones away until seated.” How many times, reader, have you watched someone with one hand on the phone talking, the other trying to slam a too-large carry-on into an already stuffed overhead? (Or how many times has a passenger blocked the aisle, …
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Víctor Davis Hanson I know the airlines have doubled the numbers of passengers of just a few years ago. I know in real dollars, fares, at least until Biden, are lower than ever. I know that chances of a lethal crackup in the skies are fewer than ever. I know they are gouged by astronomical …
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Victor Davis Hanson After the midterms, Republican blame-gaming reached a crescendo. And it was fueled by two realities: one, Ron DeSantis had a spectacular night (and two years ago had delivered Florida for Trump in 2020), and two, Donald Trump, in circular fashion and often vulgarly, attacked almost everyone, from his wife Melania and Dr. …
Victor Davis Hanson I remember the rain year of 1982 when we rolled 100,000 raisin trays in 24 hours and hired anyone who could help us save the crop on the ground. Finally, my dad on his operated knees saw my mom rolling in the next row over and called out, “Well, look at that, …
Victor Davis Hanson About 20 minutes later I came upon another farmhouse, of all of them, the most completely run down (most of the land in these parts has been purchased by huge operations and the homes rented out to workers or undocumented). I stopped right in the street in my truck, as again the …
Víctor Davis Hanson I took a drive along a few rural roads last Sunday, and for no reason other than to get out and enjoy one of the last days of an Indian summer in rural central California. It was near sunset. The drought dust in the sky makes for some stunning sunsets over the …
Victor Davis Hanson There is no need to review in detail the January 6th buffoonish riot in the Capitol. Instead concentrate on the subsequent effort of the Left to construct it into an “armed insurrection” and “conspiracy” to overthrow the government—as a way of demonizing conservatives as violent traitors and deflecting the violence of summer …
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Victor Davis Hanson How many times since 2017 did we hear the cry, “25 Amendment!” to remove Donald Trump from office on grounds he was non compos mentis? Immediately upon taking office Foreign Policy ran an essay by Obamaite Rosa Brooks outlining a way to remove him through a) impeachment, b) the 25th Amendment, or …
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Victor Davis Hanson Think of any recent leftwing accusation against the Right. Then automatically assume that it is evidence of the accuser’s own culpability for the very charge he levels against others. In other words, the Left projects upon its opponents exactly what it fears is most incriminating among its own ranks. As a general …
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Victor Davis Hanson Almost anything or anyone the Left opposes is smeared as racist or a racist. And the rules are made only by the Left. The N-word is utterly racist. Yet it continues and obviously gains currency when rappers and comedians use it promiscuously on the assumptions that leftists and blacks cannot be racist …
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