The FBI’s targeting of traditional Catholics, updates on the U.S-Iran war, and the Left’s continued misuse of media; this is “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words.” As tensions with Iran continue to dominate news headlines, questions are growing about whether diplomacy can still deter the regime’s nuclear ambitions and aggression. Victor Davis Hanson argues… Continue reading Iran Can’t Be Trusted, and Trump Turns the Tables on Kristen Welker
The Abortion Question: Vice Presidential Responses Fall Short
The First Amendment vs. Multiculturalism
by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online The American Left used to champion free expression. We were lectured — correctly — that the price of being repulsed by occasional crude talk and art was worth paying. Only that way could Americans ensure our daily right to criticize those with greater power and influence whom we… Continue reading The First Amendment vs. Multiculturalism
‘Religious Defamation’ Laws Would Ban Islam
by Raymond Ibrahim Frontpage Magazine As the Islamic world, in the guise of the 57-member state Organization of Islamic Cooperation, continues to push for the enforcement of “religious defamation” laws in the international arena — theoretically developed to protect all religions from insult, but in reality made for Islam — one great irony is lost,… Continue reading ‘Religious Defamation’ Laws Would Ban Islam
Strangers in a Stranger Land
The Real Point of the Left’s Uproar over Limbaugh
by Bruce S. Thornton Frontpage Magazine Rush Limbaugh has got the progressives pitching a fit over some remarks on his radio show about a Georgetown University law student named Sandra Fluke. Fluke had made the preposterous claim, while addressing House Democrats over President Obama’s rule forcing Catholic institutions to pay for contraception, that the cost… Continue reading The Real Point of the Left’s Uproar over Limbaugh
Nigeria’s Christmas Present: Blown Up Christians
Diplomatic Supping with Jihadist Devils
A Vandalized Valley
by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online I am starting to feel as if I am living in a Vandal state, perhaps on the frontier near Carthage around AD 530, or in a beleaguered Rome in 455. Here are some updates from the rural area surrounding my farm, taken from about a 30-mile radius. In this… Continue reading A Vandalized Valley