{"id":12880,"date":"2021-02-20T12:28:32","date_gmt":"2021-02-20T20:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12880"},"modified":"2021-07-26T06:03:44","modified_gmt":"2021-07-26T13:03:44","slug":"vdhs-week-in-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/vdhs-week-in-review\/","title":{"rendered":"VDH&#8217;s Week in Review"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.getrevue.co\/profile\/vdhanson\/issues\/week-in-review-rush-and-other-things-374285\">Rush and Other Things (Issue #2)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"3569\" height=\"2379\" data-attachment-id=\"12881\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/vdhs-week-in-review\/b6g2spmyzvemfo6pcf4xwsgh2m\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/B6G2SPMYZVEMFO6PCF4XWSGH2M.jpg?fit=3569%2C2379&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"3569,2379\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;AP&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS-1D X Mark II&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Rush Limbaugh reacts as first Lady Melania Trump, and his wife Kathryn, applaud, as President Donald Trump delivers his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2020. (AP Photo\\\/Patrick Semansky)&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1580871006&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;Copyright 2020 The Associated Press. All rights reserved&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;381&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;8000&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0025&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;State of the Union&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"B6G2SPMYZVEMFO6PCF4XWSGH2M\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Rush Limbaugh reacts as first Lady Melania Trump, and his wife Kathryn, applaud, as President Donald Trump delivers his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2020. (AP Photo\/Patrick Semansky)&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/B6G2SPMYZVEMFO6PCF4XWSGH2M.jpg?fit=500%2C333&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/B6G2SPMYZVEMFO6PCF4XWSGH2M.jpg?fit=806%2C538&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/B6G2SPMYZVEMFO6PCF4XWSGH2M.jpg?fit=620%2C414\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12881\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/B6G2SPMYZVEMFO6PCF4XWSGH2M.jpg?w=3569&amp;ssl=1 3569w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/B6G2SPMYZVEMFO6PCF4XWSGH2M.jpg?resize=500%2C333&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/B6G2SPMYZVEMFO6PCF4XWSGH2M.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/B6G2SPMYZVEMFO6PCF4XWSGH2M.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/B6G2SPMYZVEMFO6PCF4XWSGH2M.jpg?resize=250%2C167&amp;ssl=1 250w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/B6G2SPMYZVEMFO6PCF4XWSGH2M.jpg?w=1612&amp;ssl=1 1612w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/B6G2SPMYZVEMFO6PCF4XWSGH2M.jpg?w=2418&amp;ssl=1 2418w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 806px) 100vw, 806px\" \/><figcaption>Rush Limbaugh reacts as first Lady Melania Trump, and his wife Kathryn, applaud, as President Donald Trump delivers his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2020. (AP Photo\/Patrick Semansky)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rush and Other Things (Issue #2)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-3lK","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11187,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/why-trump-is-a-president-like-no-other\/","url_meta":{"origin":12880,"position":0},"title":"Why Trump Is A President Like No Other","author":"victorhanson","date":"May 15, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness Conrad Black\u2019s\u00a0erudite biography\u00a0of Donald J. 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