Victor Davis Hanson
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Senior Fellow @HooverInst. Classics and military history. Opinions are my own.
Joined May 2010
Here we are 78 years after the end of the Holocaust and once agains thuggish killers dressed in black are pulling Jewish elderly, women, and children out of their homes and executing them, and then throwing their bodies into the street. But in 1945 we were fighting the SS.
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Ten bad takeaways from the Zelenskyy blow-up. 1. Zelenskyy does not grasp—or deliberately ignores—the bitter truth: those with whom he feels most affinity (Western globalists, the American Left, the Europeans) have little power in 2025 to help him. And those with whom he.
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A 50th Anniversary War?. Why did Hamas stage a long-planned, carefully executed and multifaceted attack on Israeli towns, soldiers, and civilians—one designed to instill terror by executing noncombatants, taking hostages, and desecrating the bodies of the dead?. And how were the.
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Israel, Our White-House Absurdities, and the Left’s Empire of Lies. The Biden administration is furiously trying to contextualize its past, unsupportable policies that have sown global chaos, especially in the Middle East. But the more it spins, the clearer its culpability. Does.
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Assassination Porn and the Sickness on the Left. If we were leftists and we were to use leftist tropes to editorialize the recent attempt on Trump’s life, then we would frame the assassination attempt in the following way:. We have witnessed for years blatant exceptions to the.
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They Kill, While Our Government Tweets and Deletes…. If wild reports are true that the inhuman Hamas will execute dozens of civilian hostages, and if it is further accurate that there are rumored Americans among them—and if Americans then are to be executed by Hamas—aside from.
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There really is no President Biden or Vice President Harris. The former is non compos mentis and failing ever more rapidly. The latter has no clue who she is or what she should do. The cabal that engineered their respective exits and entrances cares more about retaining power.
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Suddenly after three years, a number of angry former Trump appointees—some on the prompt of potential or real book promotions, or in anger about firings, or their own legal exposure—are replaying all the supposedly atrocious things Trump said in private to them between 2017-21.
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The real losers were ABC and its two partisan moderators, Muir and Davis. They sought to warp a debate, disgraced their network, and offered a good reminder why such media “moderators” should never be allowed anywhere near presidential debates.
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83 million?. Donald Trump in furor stormed out of a New York courtroom for a while, in the defamation suit brought by author and dating/boyfriend/sex-advice columnist E. Jean Carroll. It was just settled against Trump for $83.3 million! The Carroll suit was largely subsidized by.
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And then, the disappointed former community organizer suddenly disappeared—pondering to which of his own four mansions his private jet would fly him home to commiserate.
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Why Are They Destroying Us?. If someone wished to destroy America, could he do anything more catastrophic than what we currently see and hear each day? What would an existential enemy do that we have not already done to ourselves?. Here are eleven now familiar steps to.
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Special counsel Smith indicted Trump aide Walt Nauta for an allegedly false statement of “I don’t know”. John Brennan and James Clapper both lied under oath to Congress. Andrew McCabe lied three times to federal investigators. James Comey 245 times under oath claimed ”I don’t.
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The Obama and the Biden administrations finally seemed to have achieved their aims, in what the Obamas once boasted would be the “fundamental transformation” of America into something unrecognizable by its Founders. But what they gave us was nihilism—the destruction of norms,.
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As Gen. Milley leaves office of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, on his last day he goes out ranting about his loyalty to the Constitution and not to a “dictator,”—blasting Trump without mentioning Trump, and thus trumping as it were Trump’s own excesses with those of his own.
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Special Counsel Jack Smith added new indictments against Donald Trump, among them conspiratorially “unlawfully discounting legitimate votes.” Was Smith here referencing Stacy Abrams who for years claimed she was the real governor of Georgia, barnstorming the country to overturn.
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Has America Finally Had It With Joe Biden?. Joe Biden’s personal approval rating is at historic lows; almost all his policies do not poll fifty percent. He is behind Trump in almost all the swing states. And now he lies serially even to sympathetic interviewers. In short, finally.
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The Late, Great Hamas Finally Got Its Wish–And . ?. Ever since Hamas was “elected” to run Gaza, and then followed the usual “one election/one time” Middle-East formula, it has bragged nonstop that its agenda was to erase Israel off the face of the earth (cf. the wall map in.
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The Incredible Lightness of Barack Obama. Joe Biden is caught in a quadfecta of corruption, cognitive decline, a failed agenda, and eroding polls. Amid this apparent vacuum, an opportunistic Barack Obama — who used to be more discreet in managing his third term—is reentering the.
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At some point, some president was going to have to stop the unsustainable spending and borrowing. To have any country left, some president would eventually have had to restore a nonexistent border and stop the influx of 3 million illegal aliens a year. Some commander-in-chief.
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The Colorado Insurrection. Donald Trump is being erased from the Colorado primary (and general?) ballot, by warping the 14th Amendment, and in a way never envisioned by its creators. So now can one be guilty by fiat of Confederacy-like “insurrection,” when he has never been.
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We are in the midst of one of the most radical revolutions in American history. It is as far-reaching and dangerous as the turbulent years of the 1850s and 1860s or the 1930s. Every aspect of American life and culture is under assault, including the very processes by which we.
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James Comey warns us that Trump will weaponize the FBI. Does he mean leaking a confidential memo of a private presidential conversation to the press?. Using a known fraudulent dossier to obtain a FISA warrant?. Pleading amnesia or ignorance 245 times under oath to a.
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Bill Gates is angry that Elon Musk is editorializing on X about the internal politics of Europe, from the United Kingdom to Germany. The outraged Gates claims we don’t allow (hired) foreigners to interfere in our domestic politics and don’t do that to others. Really?. Is he.
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President Biden—the Matter Is Not Over, Not Now, Not Ever. President Biden Thursday night hit rock-bottom as he gave a mean-spirited distortion of the special counsel’s report. And in the process, Biden further embarrassed himself, his toady press, and the country at large. In.
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What Are “They” Afraid That a "Dictator”/President Trump Might Do?. As Joe Biden’s political viability implodes, the exasperated Left has yet a new narrative: front-runner Trump and his extremist/semi-fascist/Ultra MAGA 160 million are out for “revenge” and “retribution—and that.
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Harris’s Fox Disaster . T-ball Oprah interviews with Harris don’t work and now the nation knows that real honest interviews prove even worse for her. Kamala Harris by intent showed up late for the interview. She quit early. She filibustered all that was asked, lost her temper,.
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The Fumes of the 2024 Election. Three weeks after the election and the fallout from it, we are starting to appreciate the clarity of the vote. It explains much of the present, the past, and the future. Consider the following:. 1. Even Donald Trump’s enemies are beginning,.
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What the Left Has Bequeathed Us. The Left has created new rules for national politics. Here are 20 some precedents they now have established for America in the future:. 1) When in control of the Senate, demand the end of the filibuster; when not, don’t. 2) Call for the end of.
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Democracy Really Is Dying in Darkness—But by Whom?. Never in modern presidential history has a political party staged a veritable inside coup to remove their current president from his ongoing candidacy for his party’s nomination and reelection. Stranger still, the very elites.
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Former First Lady Michelle Obama, often known to lecture Americans on their inequality and bias from one of her three mansion estates, reportedly recently out Kendied the diversity profiteering of Professor Ibram X. Kendi. She reportedly received an honorarium worth ca.
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How To Destroy the American Legal System. By either listening to testimonies or reading transcripts of the various 2024 Trump election-related court cases and testimonies, what we are left with is an epidemic of lies. 1) Hunter Biden’s current testimonies are contradicted by his.
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One Angry Biden Lie After Another. A demagogic fuming Biden gave another Phantom of the Opera speech blasting conservatives for all the destruction that he has caused and has resulted in his own historic unpopularity. All too aware that he was confused and incoherent, his.
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Biden is Too Demented to Be Found Guilty of Crimes, But Not Too Demented to Be President?. Special Counsel Robert Hur just found Joe Biden was guilty of violating national security laws in removing classified documents— after examining then Senator and Vice President Biden’s.
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Things are becoming so strange, so surreal, so nihilistic in contemporary America that the chaos can only be deliberate. Chance, incompetence, and accident could not alone explain the series of disasters we now daily witness that are nearly destroying the country.
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Israel vs. a Death Cult. Here are three critical considerations that must be understood about the current Israel-Hamas conflict. It is a sort of half-war. It consists of a military trying to defeat an organized clique of passive-aggressive, media-obsessed tribal murderers. It is.
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The Legal Circus of Letitia James. Letitia James’s farcical prosecution of Donald Trump might win a conviction, given the known temperament and biases of the partisan presiding judge Arthur Engoron. And things are now escalating well beyond the facts of the indictment for.
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Do not believe the White House/mainstream media-concocted narrative that the four criminal court cases—prosecuted by Alvin Bragg, Letitia James, Jack Smith, and Fani Willis—were not in part coordinated, synchronized, and timed to reach their courtroom psychodramatic finales right.
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Trump Revenge?. As Joe Biden’s polls plunge, his public bewilderment becomes chronic, and his exposed corruption can no longer be defended, pundits are writing furiously about the specter of “Trump revenge”. What is that, and why is it coming up now?. The Republican primary polls.
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The Candy Crowley Debate. What do we remember, if anything now, about the second presidential debate of 2012?. Not whether Obama or Romney won. But only how CNN’s Candy Crowley blew up her career and embarrassed CNN—by outrageously hijacking the debate, and as a partisan,.
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The left now believes it can magically rebound by destroying Donald Trump’s cabinet nominees. Many of Trump’s picks are well outside the usual Washington, DC/New York political, media, and corporate nexus. But that is precisely the point—to insert reformers into a bloated,.
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Retiring Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Mark Milley is hitting the media circuit as he retires. How odd of him to warn about all the unconstitutional measures that Donald Trump threatened to enact that supposedly justified the illegal or unethical acts that his opponents in.
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We are witnessing the greatest effort to reinvent or, rather, restore the U.S. since the first 100 days of FDR’s radical New Deal revolution.
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Anatomy of a Full Leftwing Meltdown. The media is afire with warnings of the impending Trump “dictatorship”. Celebrities, the Squad, and Biden administration grandees vie to conjure up the most nightmarish things that Trump might do to them. What drives their current mounting.
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How Will the World React to Gaza?. Hamas has always repelled most of the civilized world. But the world was either too scared or too woke to say just that. But now Hamas’s premodern violations of all human norms have relieved most nations of any pretense of having to support.
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Biden is not so much an octogenarian as an unhealthy and prematurely aging 80-year-old. It is America’s irony that he is fit for almost no other job in the country other than President, which apparently allows for a 3-day-a-week ceremonial role while others in the shadows run the.
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Joe Biden has lost any shred of moral credibility to keep harping to Americans on privilege, guns, and paying their “fair share” of taxes since his own DOJ exempted his privileged felonious son who recklessly broke both gun and tax laws.
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Trump, His Disrupters, and a Chance to Return to Normalcy?. Many of Trump first-round picks share some common themes. One, many, who were in the past victimized by government bullies and cowardly bureaucratic grandees, or proved sharp critics of the administrative state, are.
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Dresden in Los Angeles and our Confederacy of Dunces. LA is burning. And the derelict people responsible are worried that they are found out as charlatans and empty suits. The leftwing voters who enabled them are getting angry over the inferno that their chosen politicos.
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Don’t Do Unto Others What We Would Have Done to Them?. Once more, it gets even creepier how the projectionist Left is daily still shrieking about impending Trump “revenge” and “rage”, or about Trump’s purported enemies lists to come, or about his planned weaponization of the.
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Harvard Says to Us, Get Over It?. Most of the nation witnessed three haughty, morally obtuse Ivy-League presidents humiliated in their groupthink televised House testimonies. But more than 700 Harvard faculty did not. They are circling the wagons to ensure that their benefactor.
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Absurdities of the week. Why would those undocumented protestors now shutting down the 101 in Los Angeles burn the flag of the country in which they are demanding to remain—while waving the flag of the nation to which they apparently have no desire to return?. Why here at home do.
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The Biden years did the country great damage and rendered Biden himself one of the most unpopular incumbent presidents in American history. But his agendas may have fundamentally changed the country for decades, if not longer—and will require tough remedies that may be almost as.
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The Left is saying to America “We are so morally superior to you that we can and must employ any means necessary to achieve our unpopular political ends. But you cannot respond in kind or deter us by mimicking our own tactics, because should both parties do so, the resulting.
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California is now spending a half-billion dollars to destroy 4 dams on Klamath River—as a record snowmelt goes out to sea due to insufficient reservoir storage. Another symptom of Decivilization—the systematic dismantling of all that brought us security and prosperity.
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All of sudden pundits are shrieking as they imagine the impending “end of democracy”. That is, that a potential president Trump might follow their lead and could do to them what they did to him: weaponizing the DOJ, FBI, and CIA against political enemies, siccing the.
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“Oh What a Tangled Web Biden Weaves, When He First Practices to Deceive”. Joe Biden and his White House handlers continue to peddle misinformation if not lies about his removal of classified files. The worst is that Biden—supposedly so unlike Trump—came forward willingly as soon.
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Will Biden Take Us Down With Him?. Biden’s handlers thought it was a sly Machiavellian move to coordinate local, state, and federal prosecutors to wear down Trump, bankrupt him, destroy him mentally and physically, and brand him as a criminal felon—through a long winter, spring,.
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Claudine Gay Is Only Digging Deeper…. It is understandable that Claudine Gay is furious over her forced resignation, her calamitous fall from grace, and the public consensus about the great damage done to Harvard by her presidency. But still playing the wounded-fawn is no.
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The Hamas One-Eyed Jack. Gruesome details of the October 7 Hamas attack on Israeli civilians continue to come to light. Hamas gunmen who have been captured or found wounded are quite candid in taped interviews about their killing spree. They apparently remain unapologetic about.
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Should we laugh or cry when Alvin Bragg today said he indicted Trump because he would not “normalize” criminal activity — this from a politicalized prosecutor who systematically has normalized violent crime in New York City by not charging arrested felons or releasing violent.
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No Law Left in America—From Willis to Hur?. From the testimonies of at least two associates of Fani Willis and Nathan Wade, from the inconsistent and self-contradictory statements of Willis and Wade themselves especially about large “cash” remittances, without any supporting.
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Beware of The Deadly Progressive Touch. Recently, viral videos have highlighted the furor—and narcissism—of progressive elites when they rarely face the consequences of their own actions. The most hilarious video was the defiant DA of New York’s Monroe County, dripping with.
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The Scent of a Harris Panic in the Air. The 2024 race is still close. But then so was the 1980 Carter-Reagan race at this same juncture. Indeed, incumbent president Carter was then comfortably up in the last two October Gallup polls—before utterly and suddenly evaporating on.
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Why do so many liberal climate-activist grandees fly on private jets? Or why do those who profited from Black Lives Matter have a propensity for estate living? Or why do the community-activist Obamas prefer to live in not one, but three mansions? The answer is that calls for.
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How Can We Make Sense of the Current Senseless Absurdity?. Is what’s happening all a bad dream? The wage of utter incompetence? A bad joke? Nefariousness?. Perhaps the answer to fathoming the currently unfathomable is that the powers that run our national, state, and local.
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De Santis’s Reality Defeats Newsom’s Fantasy World. Ron De Santis and Gavin Newsom performed as any who have watched them would have predicted. At first, the glib and smarmy Newsom followed his usual script of strutting, posing— teeth sparkling, hair shimmering—interrupting,.
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Biden’s lies on top of lies on top of lies. In the last week, Joe Biden had flat-out lied in the most egregious fashion in so many ways. In his disastrous press conference of last week, he claimed that special counsel Hur’s report exonerated him. Anyone who read the findings.
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What does a corrupt DOJ do? Have its ridiculous plea deal set up for Hunter thrown out by honest judge? Drop campaign violation charges against Dem donor, crypto crook Bankman-Fried? Beef up indictments against Biden’s leading 2024 opponent? Or all 3 in a week?.
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One Insulting, Sappy Harris Speech. Who would have thought that Harris all this time, over the last three and a half years, was not really an incumbent, but instead simply a fresh new and relatively unknown face (“Forward!”)?. Did anyone know that the “newcomer” Harris always has.
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A Short Anatomy of a Biden Disaster. There really was not a debate last night, merely a one-sided slugfest. The arguments over the issues, such as they were, were over in 30 minutes. The rest was unnecessary. In bullfighting terms, the end-stage tercio de muerte lasted an entire.
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Who Are the Real Insurrectionaries? Part One. Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows just ordered Trump’s name removed from the primary ballot in May. She claimed he is guilty in her view of “insurrection”—a crime Trump has never been charged with, much less convicted of. Her.
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“Don’t!”— Or Ten Ways to Guarantee a Theater-wide War. On the eve of the October 7 massacres, National Security Advisor bragged in an essay that his Mideast portfolio was “quieter than it has been for decades”. Now we are on the verge of a multifront Middle East war. How did Joe.
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There Are Only Two Things That Can Stop the Re-election of Donald Trump. The Biden news cycle is disastrous—and unending: a perfect storm of his failures abroad, disaster at the border, and reasons why sky-high prices nullify the Bidenomics hype. The bad news is interspersed.
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From which of his three mansions—Kalorama, Martha’s Vineyard, or the Hawaii beachfront—did the prep-schooled and Ivy-leagued multimillionaire Barack Obama sound off at Sen. Tim Scott, who had denied that he had been a victim?.
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All over America, we are now watching a recurrent tired script play out daily:. A mediocre American academic—apparently desperate to win any sort of attention by outdoing the escalating campus hatred of Israel—spreads utter lies about that country, ostentatiously performs his.
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Snarky Europeans Scowl At Truth-teller Vance. Europeans sat aghast after Vice-President J.D. Vance dared to suggest that their socialist democracies have become illiberal, intolerant, authoritarian—and on the wrong side of global populism. Like some addict that knows his habit.
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The Pro-Hamas Crowds will Soon Have a Rendezvous with Reality. For over six months, the anti-Israel, pro-Hamas protests have accelerated, and now are predictably incendiary and violent. Recently, they have jumped the shark with unapologetic chants of “Death to America”. Or so a.
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The Art of Democratic Democracide . Democrats are destroying democracy by engineering a veritable coup through forcing out Biden from the race—but not from the presidency. Here are ten of their new rules of American democracy that they have now bequeathed to us. 1) The.
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Politicized faculty, infantilized students, and mediocre classes have combined to erode the prestige of college degrees, even at once elite colleges. A degree from Columbia no longer guarantees either maturity or preeminent knowledge but is just as likely a warning to employers.
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Our Three Blind Mice. “Three blind mice. Three blind mice. See how they run. See how they run…”. The recent testimonies of the three university presidents (Claudine Gay of Harvard, Sally Kornbluth of MIT, and [soon to be departed?] University of Pennsylvania’s Liz McGill).
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Our Immoral Monsters. Students at UCLA, some of them perhaps on foreign-student visas and others on some sort of taxpayer-funded support, are now marching with a new controversial and disputed chant: “Israel, Israel you cannot hide, we charge you with genocide”. But how strange.
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A common denominator that explains why previously successful societies implode is their descent into fantasies. A collective denial prevents even discussion of existential threats and their solutions. Something like that is happening in the United States.
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Hunter’s alleged felonies range from bribery to tax evasion. That he has not yet been prosecuted for anything is scandalous. His exemption is attributable only to Attorney General Merrick Garland’s likely weaponized directives to federal prosecutors to downgrade or forget.
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October 7 and the Touchstone of Hate. The almost immediate posting after October 7 of the BLM poster glorifying the hang-gliding murderous entry into Israel only confirmed what most of us knew anyway. Black lives matter and the entire diversity/equity/inclusion conglomerate.
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This second debate descended into the same quagmire of the first debate: . 1) The candidate who was polling anywhere from 30-40 percent ahead of the pack was not on the stage and that made it hard for the other candidates to attack their front-running rival in absentia—and almost.
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Who Are the Real Insurrectionaries? Part Two. Hillary Clinton was joined in her later efforts to deny the legitimacy of the 2016 election by a large chorus of elected House members, and ex-president Jimmy Carter. Carter in 2019 echoed her charges: “And there's no doubt that the.
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The Deadly Get Trump Climate Continues…. Just two months after the failed Trump assassination attempt of one Thomas Matthew Crooks, we witnessed today yet another foiled one by Ryan Wesley Routh—a would-be assassin and anti-Trump/radical pro-Ukraine War social media addict.
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Animal Farm Democrats. Leftists make up things as they go along, as yesterday’s heresies (e.g., Biden seems demented) become today’s orthodoxies (e.g. Biden really is demented)—depending on the current party directive about what is most advantageous. So many of the Democrats.
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Are Biden & Co. Sane?. Joe Biden just announced “$100 million for humanitarian assistance” in Gaza and the West Bank”. Despite his idiotic caveat that “we will have mechanisms in place so this aid reaches those in need —not Hamas or terrorist groups,” even Biden knows all too.
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Ask Kamala Harris yet a third time: Of the violent summer 2020 riot organized by BLM and Antifa, Harris gushed: "They're not gonna stop, and everyone beware, because they're not gonna stop…they're not going to let up — and they should not.” Common denominator? Some.
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Is Kamala’s Running-Out-the-Clock Campaign Running Out?. Everyone knows Kamala Harris is not really a presidential candidate. She will not do normal network interviews, town-halls, or press conferences. Nor will she review or defend in any detail her proposed agendas. Nor will.
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Harvard’s President Gay Resigns. As we wrote here earlier, it was inevitable that Claudine Gay would eventually step down. A while back, we listed reason #1 of ten why she would resign: "Harvard can claim to be America’s preeminent university, or have a plagiarist as its.
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Can we at last cease the tiresome charge of Trump the fascist since it has not only been proven false but has revealed far more about the authoritarian and conspiratorial nature of the accusers than their target?
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Kamala Harris’s Joe Biden Problem. A selected Kamala Harris will become the only presidential nominee of the two parties in the modern era, who has never once entered, much less won, a single primary. And it is hard to think of a single statement or position that Kamala Harris.
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Trump must concentrate on the disaster of the Biden administration and reiterate nonstop the agendas of 2025 that will save us from tottering on the brink.
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America is in a similar position to where it was in 1861, 1929, 1941, and 1968—only perhaps worse, given in all those cases, there was at least a president and Congress that identified and reacted to the crisis, whereas today our elected government is what caused the crisis.
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This current counter-revolution is a return to centrist normalcy and just beginning. It is deemed wild only by feral Democrats, whose high crimes and misdemeanors, and various conspiracy theories over the years of their madcap rule are now being revealed every day.
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