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 […]
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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
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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
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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
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Victor Davis Hanson So rote, habit, and the familiar were the secret to longevity. Anything that startled the body, the constitution, was seen as an infection, something that could warp a liver or heart, disrupt a healthy homeostasis. Getting on a plane, missing a connection, stressed to find another flight, crammed on with 150 other
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The Governor of Oceania by Victor Davis Hanson Imagine you were governor of California. And the embattled and robbed Union Pacific railroad was threatening to curtail rail operations in and out of the largest port in the United States at Los Angeles and associated rail hubs. It complains that trains could not pass-through the city
An Arrest Warrant is a “REAL” ID? by Victor Davis Hanson Apparently, the Biden administration faced a dilemma. When you let in nearly two million illegal aliens within a fiscal year, and destroy all immigration law as we know it, how do you still manage to ensure new arrivals inclusion and equity? Or more specifically,
Victor Davis HansonWords Matter If we used the leftwing standard of supposed requisite requirements for a vice-presidential candidate that the Left felt was never met by the pilloried Dan Quayle or Sarah Palin (remember how they called George H. W. Bush and John McCain “reckless” for choosing such running mates?), then how do we characterize