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Why I Read the New York Times

by Bruce S. Thornton FronpageMagazine.com I get a lot of ragging from my fellow conservatives for reading The New York Times every day. But as I tell them, you have to know how the other side thinks. Share This

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There Are No Socialists

by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Are There Really Socialists? Two unconnected developments were announced this past week. President Obama is releasing oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, despite the absence of a global embargo or horrific natural disaster — and despite a litany of assertions from 2008 that drilling and increased supply might only …

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Our Reactionary President

by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Barack Obama is the most reactionary president in the recent history of the United States. Obama seems intent on turning back the clock to the good old days of the 1960s and 1970s, when rigid political orthodoxy, not an open mind, once guided government. Share This

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What We Might Remember This Memorial Day

by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online  The world is a better place because Adolf Hitler did not preserve his conquest of the European continent, and because the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere of Hideki Tojo and his militarists imploded at Midway, Guadalcanal, and Okinawa. Share This

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Where Dreams Die

by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media I was given a great gift — but see below — to travel throughout California the last week, by land and by air over the state. It was hard to determine whether the natural beauty of the landscape or the ingenuity of our ancestors was the more impressive. Share This

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Corrupt Language Breeds Bad History and Bad Policy

by Bruce S. Thornton Advancing a Free Society As the history of communism and fascism both illustrate, modern political tyranny has relied on fabricated history to legitimize its claims and actions, and such history in turn relies on the debasement of language. Share This

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The End of an Idea: Why Affirmative Action Should Stop

by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media 2011, not 1970? We have had about a half-century of racial preferences and often unspoken but real quotas for hiring and admission based on racial identity. Share This

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Were Conquered Christians Really Liberated Muslims?

by Raymond Ibrahim FrontPageMagazine.com Imagine if a top American historian appeared on the MSM insisting that the only reason Europeans conquered the Americas was to “defend” the Native Americans — who somehow had adopted Christianity centuries before Jesus was born — from being persecuted by heathen tribes. Share This

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The World Turned Upside Down–Again

by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Every once in a while, the world is turned upside down in just a few years, whether by ideological ferment or force of arms. Share This

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OK, Let’s Decline

by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media “Leading From Behind” A recent report in The New Yorker suggested that the Obama’s administration’s weird sort of/sort of not foreign policy is now gleefully self-described as “leading from behind.” Share This

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