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”
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Illegal Immigration: Who Benefits?
Why does the well-off California suburbanite stand shoulder to shoulder with La Raza?
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
Why are over 11 million foreign nationals residing illegally in the United States? Continue reading “Illegal Immigration: Who Benefits?”
Confessions of a Counter-Revolutionary
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
“Counter-revolutionary” is an apt term for these days: President Obama has promised to make a fundamental transformation, a veritable revolution in American society and culture. Continue reading “Confessions of a Counter-Revolutionary”
Explaining the Inexplicable
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
Almost daily we witness things that make no sense. A few examples, from the profound to the trivial. Continue reading “Explaining the Inexplicable”
Beautifully Medieval California
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
Gates Close at Dusk
At about dusk, I close two large metal gates to my driveways. The security lights come on, and I enjoy intramural life. Continue reading “Beautifully Medieval California”
Incoherent Immigration Reform
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
Nothing about illegal immigration quite adds up. Continue reading “Incoherent Immigration Reform”
Bankrupt California
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
I thought of my fellow Californian Energy Secretary Steven Chu last week, when I paid $4.89 a gallon in Gilroy for regular gas — and had to wait in line to get it. The customers were in near revolt, but I wondered against what and whom. I mentioned to one exasperated motorist that there are estimated to be over 20 billion barrels of oil a few miles away, in newly found reserves off the California coast. He thought I was from Mars. Continue reading “Bankrupt California”
Graffiti on Trees, High-Speed Rail to Nowhere: The Wages of Liberalism
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
Last week, while reading about an insolvent California’s insistence on going ahead with the first leg of a proposed high-speed rail line (total cost of the system: an estimated $100-$300 billion), I heard the following story on a local ABC news affiliate about a nearby low-Sierra lake: Continue reading “Graffiti on Trees, High-Speed Rail to Nowhere: The Wages of Liberalism”
California: The Road Warrior Is Here
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
Where’s Mel Gibson When You Need Him?
George Miller’s 1981 post-apocalyptic film The Road Warrior [1] envisioned an impoverished world of the future. Tribal groups fought over what remained of a destroyed Western world of law, technology, and mass production. Survival went to the fittest — or at least those who could best scrounge together the artifacts of a long gone society somewhat resembling the present West. Continue reading “California: The Road Warrior Is Here”
Mexican Jihad
by Raymond Ibrahim
Gatestone Institute
As the United States considers the Islamic jihadi threats confronting it from all sides, it would do well to focus on its southern neighbor, Mexico, which has been targeted by Islamists and jihadists, who, through a number of tactics — from engaging in da’wa, converting Mexicans to Islam, to smuggling and the drug cartel, simple extortion, kidnappings and enslavement Continue reading “Mexican Jihad”