Month: May 2013

There Is No There There?

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by Victor Davis Hanson

NRO’s The Corner

Senator Harry Reid may be right that we should wait for the full sordid details before demanding resignations from an increasingly politicized and now apparently confessional IRS (yet the proof of the pudding is that groups such as Media Matters, Think Progress, Moveon.org, and Organizing for America don’t seem to be the sorts subject to unusual IRS scrutiny), but he has lost all moral authority to pontificate about restraint in matters of the IRS Continue reading “There Is No There There?” →

Terrorism as Therapy

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The Obama administration is intent on downplaying the Islamic roots of contemporary terrorism.

by Victor Davis Hanson

National Review Online

One common theme emerges from the hearings over the Benghazi disaster: The Obama administration is intent on downplaying the Islamic roots of terrorists who harbor an existential hatred of the West. Continue reading “Terrorism as Therapy” →

The Moral Low Road in the Immigration Debate

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by Victor Davis Hanson

NRO’s The Corner

Now elites are wistfully recalling the Bracero Program as a sort of model for the new “guest worker” provisions. Continue reading “The Moral Low Road in the Immigration Debate” →

Count Me Out on Syria

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by Victor Davis Hanson

PJ Media

There are good reasons to go into Syria, but far better ones to stay out [1]. Continue reading “Count Me Out on Syria” →

Neither, Secretary Clinton

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by Victor Davis Hanson

NRO’s The Corner

Hillary Clinton’s now infamous second question that followed, “Was it because of a protest or was it because of guys out for a walk one night who decided that they’d go kill some Americans?” Continue reading “Neither, Secretary Clinton” →

Hope for Change in Syria

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Once again, Obama has proven more of an idealist than an implementer.

by Victor Davis Hanson

National Review Online

Remember when President Obama used to warn Syria’s Bashar al-Assad to stop his mass killing and step down? Continue reading “Hope for Change in Syria” →

Ideology Trumps Character in South Carolina

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by Victor Davis Hanson

NRO’s The Corner

Liberals are probably astounded that voters in South Carolina would prefer a candidate who misled and lied to them to conduct an affair over another whose personal life was, in comparison, spotless. Continue reading “Ideology Trumps Character in South Carolina” →

The Mass Exodus of Christians from the Muslim World

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by Raymond Ibrahim

Fox News

A mass exodus of Christians is currently underway.  Millions of Christians are being displaced from one end of the Islamic world to the other. Continue reading “The Mass Exodus of Christians from the Muslim World” →

The Great California Land Rush

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by Victor Davis Hanson

PJ Media

Boom or Bust?

I have lived on the same farm for 59 years and seen at least three boom-and-bust farm cycles — one in the late 1960s, another in the early 1980s, and a third right now. Continue reading “The Great California Land Rush” →