Note: This content was recorded by Victor Davis Hanson prior to his Dec. 30 medical operation.
600,000 people could soon be without water because Pacific Gas & Electric is tired of being sued by environmental nonprofits trying to protect indigenous land, alleges a recent article by UNWON.
“I understand that we want to have social justice, but the whole indigenous land is such a volatile issue and anybody who challenges this idea that this land belongs to indigenous people is called a “racist.” It’s hard to talk about that but the fact of the matter is land changes all the time.”
“ If you want to talk about an imperialist. Look at the history of the Comanches or the Lakota Sioux. I mean, they were merciless to other indigenous people, and they created empires by taking lands and hunting grounds.”
Prayers for you and have a speedy recovery
Praying for a full recovery and getting back to work soon. I have so appreciated your interviews given to various media. I don’t have Internet and have limited data on my cell phone so am missing your online programs. Hopefully, that will be changing. I value your love for our great country and your common sense approach to our many liberal problems.
God Bless you and comfort you during your recovery. Keep up the good work.
Prof Hanson, I recommend the following book: “The Things Our Fathers Saw…The Untold Stories of the World War II Generation From Hometown, USA….Voices of The Pacific Theater,” by Matthew A. Rozell, Woodchuck Hollow Press, 2015/2023. This adds depth to WW II history.
Prayers and well wishes for Professor Hanson’s speedy recovery.
Sammi, if you are able to post an update to the blog, it would be appreciated.
Water rights and water appropriations are going to be a constant problem in the West and the Midwest as the supporting snowpack gets smaller and rainfall decreases. As T. Boone Pickens said 20 years ago, water will become more valuable than oil. We have wasted 20 years in not building the infrastructure to move that limited water resource based on needs. There are many stakeholders at that negotiation table: potable water, crop irrigation, livestock, industrial process water, endangered species, evaporation loss, and contamination. We all need to put on our big boy pants because we all live on this Earth.
Dr. Hanson,
God speed on your operation recovery.
I’ve spent many trips into OR for one reason and another, and I agree with you. The staff is second to none, from the pre-op coordinators, room technicians, nursing, doctors, and post-operations processes.
Sending prayers for a speedy recovery. Long time subscriber Peggy
They are smart, but they are using the wrong word. It is not “Indigenous”. It was “Conquered”. There’s a huge difference. I don’t have to give back land that I conquered, it’s mine, that’s what conquered means. I won, you lost. You were conquered by me.
Dumbasses….
I want to add my well wishes to Dr. Hanson.
My husband and I are Baby Boomers, I a native-born California, his family moved from Chicago to California when he was 6 years old, so he may as well be native-born. We moved out of Los Angeles in 1994, to Bishop. Still California, so in 2004, we moved to Reno, NV. What a wonderful change! Great state (now, if we could excise Clark County, which is largely Democrat, lol), no state income taxes, wonderful people. What concerns us is that Democrats compose most of the State Legislature, even though we voted for President Trump in 2024. And, it would be nice to get our oil from somewhere other than California, because when California sneezes, we get a cold. Here in Reno, we get our water from the Truckee River, no dams necessary.
I just worry about my sister, who continues to live in the San Fernando Valley. We pray for her safety.
Garry, there is at least one significant issue with your statement: California, once a golden splendor of hope and dreams, is now a dull, dismal gray; it is as you say, just one state. The problem is it holds too dang many of what the late former professor of Economic History at the U of California, Berkeley, Carlo M. Cipolla, described in his Five Laws of Stupidity. Millions and millions of California’s low information voters insure the decline will continue, even worsen. In that desolate, barren land live a number of people who thrived in California’s glory days and sweet memories before the seditious Democrat Party worked its agenda. Were they young, yes they would benefit by moving. We got out of the burbs of Seattle in 2022 even though i grew up on a small dairy farm there decades ago. However, for some with longer histories and with “youngen” nearby, what the heck, it’s understandable to want to live out one’s golden years in the once golden State.
We pray professor VDH recovers well and speedily.
I look forward to reading about the success of your medical operation.
Well wishes, and have speedy recovery! We all hope that the world hasn’t fallen apart during this break!
Dr. Hanson, we are praying for your full and speedy recovery following your surgery today. Your wisdom and insight are a rare & much needed gift to us, and you are a Godsend to the United States of America
Professor Hanson,
Baby boomers are NOT parasites. Liberals are parasites. Liberals of all generations are parasites. Liberals are the ones destroying California. Move away from California into middle America where the large majority of people don’t hate America. California has poisoned your mind. For your own sanity, leave California and discover that middle America is still free and does not destroy what previous generations have built.