Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc for the Friday news roundup: Ryan Routh’s peculiarity, violent campaign rhetoric in the spot light, Harris interview by NABJ, and pagers and walkie-talkies blow up on Hezbollah operatives. Share This
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Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler as they discuss having it both ways on Afghanistan, chaos in France, the origin of the word “chaos”, and cancel culture assailing both the use of “ladies” and the Audubon Society. Share This
To the Left-wing, N-U-T-S! Read More »
The right ideological credentials mean never having to say you’re sorry. by Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Online How do you ensure that you won’t be ostracized, denounced, or fired if you are a media celebrity, captain of industry, or high public official? For some, sexist banter is certainly no problem. Stand-up comedian Bill Maher
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The massaging of critical data undermines our society. by Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Online Transparency and truth are the fuels that run sophisticated civilizations. Without them, the state grinds to a halt. Lack of trust — not barbarians on the frontier, global warming or cooling, or even epidemics — doomed civilizations of the past,
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by Victor Davis Hanson // NRO’s the Corner Of all the advice to Obama to reverse his brand of Carterism, the best might simply be to shut his eyes, and every time he gets angry and is about to say something about Israel, stop, and think first to substitute the reset vocabulary he has used with
A Modest Proposal on Ukraine Read More »
The history of Obama’s foreign-policy posturing bodes ill for the future of Ukraine. by Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Online Don’t step over the line and re-militarize the Rhineland. Absorbing Austria would cross a red line. Breaking up Czechoslovakia is unacceptable. Get out of Poland by the announced deadline. The rest was history. Don’t dare
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The meaning of works, and history itself, are malleable when it comes to our president and his record. by Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Online The nightmare societies portrayed in the George Orwell novels 1984 and Animal Farm gave us the word “Orwellian.” That adjective reflects a vast government’s efforts not just to deceive and control the people, but
by Victor Davis Hanson // NRO’s The Corner The anemic retread speech was mostly another yearly pep-talk version of the original “summer of recovery”/“millions of new green jobs” boilerplate, “big bank accounts” bad -ich-guy stuff, and “we’re out of Iraq”/close Guantanamo again.” Been there, done that. Share This
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by Bruce S. Thornton // FrontPage Magazine Tuesday night President Obama will deliver another campaign speech, this one marketed as the State of the Union address. As such, we can expect to hear, through the usual white noise of “I,” “me,” and “my,” vacuous bromides like “moving America forward,” and empty promises “to grow the economy, strengthen the middle class, and empower all who
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It’s nothing new for a president to lie to us, but Obama’s style is unique. by Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Online In the past there have been all sorts of presidential fibbing. Some chief executives make promises that they know they probably cannot or will not keep. Before his reelection for his third term
How Presidents Lie Read More »