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Victor Davis Hanson The Internet is afire with all the snarky comments that former Trump National Security Advisor John Bolton three years ago offered on leftwing TV, following the August 8, 2022, FBI raid on Trump’s home at Mar-a-Lago: 1) He insisted that all of Trump’s claims about declassifying documents were a “complete fiction” and

Victor Davis Hanson The Palisades fire rebuild is still anemic, stalled with all sorts of state and local mandates and zoning blocks. Only in California would an ancient and historic neighborhood go up in flames due to the DEI incompetence of letting reservoirs remain dry, allowing hydrants to sit out of commission, prohibiting cleaning of

Victor Davis Hanson California Gov. Gavin Newsom has been all over the media recently, with the usual head bobbling, hands wildly gesticulating in the air, and nervously rocking sideways on his feet. For some reason, he thinks he has found a winning issue that will propel him to the 2028 Democratic nomination. Currently, in most

Victor Davis Hanson Those final years as a family farmer are seared into my mind still. I remember the hand-to-mouth existence of canning food, rarely leaving the farm, and turning off lights constantly to save on the power bill. Yet I also remember our farm as a fortress, a bulwark against the modern world that

As far as the new sort of rural settlements divorced from farm-ownership, gang activity and break-ins are now as common as the territorial graffiti that identifies every concrete standpipe along these rural roads. The trees and vines do not know it, but they now apparently belong to the turf of rural gang bangers, who tag

Victor Davis Hanson The era of the small farmer in California and for that matter along much of the Western United States, where settlement and agrarianism came late in the latter 19th century, is about over. Globalism created huge foreign markets and, more importantly, American-controlled farms abroad designed for export to the U.S. that enjoyed