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  • Victor Davis Hanson: Guilty!—But Not Really Guilty?

    03/18/2024 6:57:00 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 18 replies
    American Greatness ^ | 18 Mar, 2024 | Victor Davis Hanson
    A cynical public now expects any accused prominent leftist to remain unindicted, while any non-leftwing target will be indicted, convicted, and jailed—for the same alleged offenses. In 2011, then Homeland Security Advisor to President Obama, John Brennan, swore before Congress that drone-targeted assassination missions near the Pakistani border had not led to “a single collateral death.” That was an obvious lie with grave consequences, given that Brennan was sworn under oath and was one of the top officials in the US national security community. Yet there were no subsequent repercussions. In fact, the opposite occurred. Brennan was subsequently rewarded with...
  • Victor Davis Hanson: Elite Heaven or Real Hell on Earth?

    03/14/2024 6:55:52 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 22 replies
    American Greatness ^ | 14 Mar, 2024 | Victor Davis Hanson
    Anytime ideology and dogma trump merit, logic, and safety, the result is predictably dangerous. America needs to recalibrate its priorities to protect the lives and aspirations of its citizens. The horrific murder of Laken Riley by a repeated felony offender and illegal alien Jose Ibarra, 26, a Venezuelan citizen, was preventable—had federal immigration laws simply been enforced by the Biden administration. When called out in his recent State of the Union address, President Biden referenced the deceased Ms. Riley. But Biden misidentified her as “Lincoln Riley”—the USC football coach! Biden only accurately noted that she “was killed by an “illegal.””...
  • Victor Davis Hanson: The Anti-Democratic Democratic Left

    03/11/2024 4:54:33 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 25 replies
    American Greatness ^ | 11 Mar, 2024 | Victor Davis Hanson
    The defense of those destroying democracy is that they are doing it to prevent others from doing what they would do, should they have been on the receiving end of exactly what they are now doing. Joe Biden has claimed that his opponents are assaulting democracy on the basis of the January 6, 2020, buffoonish riot. Aside from the fact that storming the Capitol Rotunda sometimes is apparently deemed permissible—as in the recent pro-Hamas takeover of it—or aside from the fact that disrupting a federal government proceeding is deemed exempt—as in the recent pro-Hamas throng that blocked the route of...
  • Victor Davis Hanson: Gearing Up for ‘Biden’ Versus Trump: Not If, But When and How to Replace Biden

    03/04/2024 4:39:08 AM PST · by MtnClimber · 39 replies
    American Greatness ^ | 4 Mar, 2024 | Victor Davis Hanson
    If Trump can praise those he defeats, call for unity, and campaign in 50 states in non-Republican strongholds, then he can win. President Joe Biden is declining at a geometric, not an arithmetic, rate. His cognitive challenges are multifaceted. His gait is shaky. His daily use of stairs now risks the chance of a tenure-ending fall. Even when he sticks to the teleprompter, he so slurs his speech, mispronounces words, and glides his syntax that at times he becomes as incomprehensible at the podium as he is unsteady in his step. He now speaks a strange language foreign and untranslatable...
  • Top Military Expert: Obama’s Shadow Government Controls the U.S.

    03/02/2024 6:29:19 AM PST · by Sam77 · 66 replies
    Disswire.com ^ | 2 March 2024 | Bradley Greer
    Military specialist and historian Victor Davis Hanson said Barack Obama, who once expressed the desire to serve his third term “in my basement in my sweats” acting as Joe Biden’s puppet master, is doing just that and is in complete control of the United States. Hanson has a reputable background. He is a professor of Classics Emeritus at California State University, Fresno, and Senior Fellow in Residence in Classics and Military History at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He is also a renowned columnist for Tribune Media Services and teaches military history and classical culture courses at Hillsdale College.
  • 20 new rules of politics Democrats have given us

    03/02/2024 9:40:00 AM PST · by CFW · 16 replies
    NYPost ^ | 3/1/24 | Victor Davis Hanson
    The Left has created new rules for national politics. Here are 20 precedents they 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 the Electoral College — but only if it appears to recently favor the candidate of the opposition. 3. In an election year, change any state balloting laws deemed unhelpful through administrative fiat or court order to favor your political candidate. 4. Seek to flip electors from voting in accordance with the popular vote count in their states;...
  • Victor Davis Hanson: American Paralysis and Decline

    02/29/2024 5:38:43 AM PST · by MtnClimber · 26 replies
    American Greatness ^ | 29 Feb, 2024 | Victor Davis Hanson
    Societies do not always collapse from a lack of wealth, invasion, or natural catastrophes. But they are so paralyzed by their fear that the road to salvation becomes too painful to even contemplate. "We can bear neither our diseases nor their remedies.” So shrugged the ancient historian Livy (59 B.C.- A.D. 17) of the long decline of Roman national character that, in his age, finally ended the Roman Republic. Like a patient whose medicine proves worse than the disease, Livy lamented that the Romans knew that they had become corrupt and lawless. But the very contemplation of the hard medicine...
  • Victor Davis Hanson: Russia! Russia! Forever: An Anatomy of a Left-wing Obsession

    02/26/2024 6:33:34 AM PST · by MtnClimber · 16 replies
    American Greatness ^ | 26 Feb, 2024 | Victor Davis Hanson
    As this year’s election nears, expect Russia! Russia! fantasies to heat up again to mask a failing administration and its indefensible record. Collusion about CollusionThe more candidate Trump in 2016 trolled the Clinton campaign (e.g., “Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing, I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press”), the more the irate left bought into hysterical conspiracy theories. Finally, the left became completely unhinged after the 2016 victory. An Obama-era Pentagon lawyer published an essay exploring the chance for a military coup. Retired lieutenant colonels called...
  • Victor Davis Hanson: Blue Laws for Red Citizens

    02/22/2024 5:29:24 AM PST · by MtnClimber · 34 replies
    American Greatness ^ | 22 Feb, 2024 | Victor Davis Hanson
    We are entering a dangerous era in America. The left is waging lawfare with the implicit message to political opponents: either keep quiet or suffer the consequences. One state prosecutor and one civilian plaintiff have already won huge fines and damages from Donald Trump that may, with legal costs, exceed $500 million. Trump awaits further civil and criminal liability in three other federal, state, and local indictments. There are eerie commonalities in all these five court cases involving plaintiff E. Jean Carroll, Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg, New York Attorney General Letitia James, federal special counsel Jack Smith, and Fulton...
  • Victor Davis Hanson: Delusions, Alternate Realities, and the Biden Consortium

    02/19/2024 5:27:17 AM PST · by MtnClimber · 15 replies
    American Greatness ^ | 19 Feb, 2024 | Victor Davis Hanson
    The Biden apparat has tried to present the construct of a dynamic president promoting a traditional Democratic agenda, which has succeeded brilliantly. Sustaining that lie requires constant deception. Hunter Biden has a train of a dozen lawyers defending him on felony indictments ranging from several counts of tax fraud to gun violations. From time to time, the contents of his laptop come up, both in these criminal trials and in civil suits. The information on the laptop is, of course, incriminating and useful to various prosecutors and litigants. Yet Hunter himself is suing the computer repairman with whom he dropped...
  • Victor Davis Hanson: The Strange Disconnect Between Israel and Ukraine

    02/15/2024 8:12:28 AM PST · by MtnClimber · 31 replies
    American Greatness ^ | 15 Feb, 2024 | Victor Davis Hanson
    Most of Europe, the U.S., and the West understandably supported arming Ukraine to repel Vladimir Putin’s Russian aggression. By contrast, such support for democratic Israel was strangely mixed. The Ukrainian and Israeli wars are similar and yet also different conflicts—but in more ways than we can imagine. Ukraine was invaded by a huge Russian state, with a population three-and-a-half times greater, a gross national product ten times larger, and an area thirty times its size. Hamas, by contrast, is a terrorist clique of about 50,000-70,000 gunmen and terrorist kingpins who run Gaza. It is dwarfed by the Israeli population (20...
  • Victor Davis Hanson Sounds The Alarm: "Brace Yourself For What Is Coming In 2024."

    02/14/2024 12:55:07 PM PST · by Enlightened1 · 53 replies
    X (formerly Twitter) ^ | Victor Davis Hanson
    Great listen. (video in the link below)https://twitter.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1757814293205336397
  • Victor Davis Hanson: Do Leftists Now Believe Leftism Doesn’t Work?

    02/12/2024 5:07:24 AM PST · by MtnClimber · 36 replies
    American Greatness ^ | 12 Feb, 2024 | Victor Davis Hanson
    In 2024—an election year—the left is trying to undo what it created without explaining why and what they did to us and themselves as well. It is hard to destroy a naturally beautiful city like San Francisco, with ideal weather and stunning infrastructure inherited from far better earlier generations. Yet San Francisco continues its much-publicized and self-inflicted doom loop. The productive classes still flee the increasingly crime-ridden city and its self-induced pathologies. The city is eroding not because of the doomsayers and not because of what people say about San Francisco, but because of what San Franciscans have done to...
  • Victor Davis Hanson: The Absurd Democrat Border Con

    02/08/2024 4:16:47 AM PST · by MtnClimber · 31 replies
    American Greatness ^ | Victor Davis Hanson
    It remains unclear why Biden and Homeland Security Chief Alejandro Mayorkas destroyed what Trump had achieved. Why would they ensure such misery for both Americans and millions of illegal migrants? In 2021, Joe Biden opened wide an inherited, secure southern border that had finally stopped mass illegal immigration. When he overturned Donald Trump’s efforts, a planned flood of over 8 million illegal immigrants entered the U.S. Almost all arrived without background checks, health screening, or vaccination certificates—but with massive needs for free housing, education, healthcare, and food entitlements and subsidies. For four years, Donald Trump battled the courts, his Democratic...
  • Victor Davis Hanson: Is Biden Malicious, Incompetent, or Conniving?

    02/05/2024 6:54:25 AM PST · by MtnClimber · 75 replies
    American Greatness ^ | 5 Feb, 2024 | Victor Davis Hanson
    Things are 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. What Excites Biden? 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. When the ailing and non-compos-mentis president now speaks, he rarely becomes excited about Iranian or terrorist provocations. Biden seems restrained even at Russia’s outlawry in Ukraine....
  • How Can We Make Sense of the Current Senseless Absurdity?

    02/03/2024 10:13:28 PM PST · by definitelynotaliberal · 45 replies
    X ^ | Feb. 3, 2024 | Victor Davis Hanson
    <p>Is what’s happening all a bad dream? The wage of utter incompetence? A bad joke? Nefariousness?</p><p>Did New York offer an answer by not incarcerating arrested foreign thugs, illegally residing in the U.S., who had swarmed New York City police and kicked the heads of officers while on the ground?</p>
  • Victor Davis Hanson: How To Ensure a Big, Ugly War with Iran

    02/01/2024 6:30:38 AM PST · by MtnClimber · 34 replies
    American Greatness ^ | 1 Feb, 2024 | Victor Davis Hanson
    When serially attacked, loudly responding that we will only proportionally strike back and wish no wider war will only ensure a big, ugly one. Iranian-backed militias have attacked American installations and forces in Syria, Iraq, and Jordan some 170 times. Ostensibly, these terrorist groups claim they are hitting US forces to coerce America into dropping its support of Israel and demanding a cease-fire in the Gaza war. In reality, these satellite terrorists are being directed in a larger effort by Iran to pry the US. out of the Middle East, in the manner of the 1983 Marine barracks bombing. That...
  • Victor Davis Hanson: Trump Has Reason to Rage—But Needs to Stay Calm and Get Even Rather than Mad

    01/29/2024 6:31:13 AM PST · by MtnClimber · 83 replies
    American Greatness ^ | 29 Jan, 2024 | Victor Davis Hanson
    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. Donald Trump gave one of his best and most conciliatory speeches of his political career after his win in the recent Iowa primaries—that might explain why the media would not cover it. Later, to answer an ad hoc ambush reporter’s question whether he would hold grudges, he emphatically said he did not. Yet after his win in New Hampshire, Trump went ballistic at Nikki Haley’s earlier charges that he, rather than Joe Biden, was...
  • 83 Million?=The baffling case of E. Jean Carroll.

    01/29/2024 5:35:01 AM PST · by SJackson · 48 replies
    Frontpagemagazine ^ | January 29, 2024 | Victor Davis Hanson
    <p>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.</p><p>It was just settled against Trump for $83.3 million. The Carroll suit was largely subsidized by Reid Hoffman the billionaire capitalist, and mega-donor to the Democratic Party and leftwing causes.</p>
  • Victor Davis Hanson: Nikki Haley’s Strategies?

    01/25/2024 5:32:06 AM PST · by MtnClimber · 33 replies
    American Greatness ^ | 25 Jan, 2024 | Victor Davis Hanson
    In the short term, Haley will cede to Trump the Nevada caucuses and focus on her home state of South Carolina. But then what? Nikki Haley just lost the New Hampshire primary by 11 percent. She had earlier come in third in the recent Iowa caucuses behind Ron DeSantis. But DeSantis, not she, dropped out of the race. He then endorsed front-runner Donald Trump. By contrast, Haley confidently announced that at last there was a two-person, head-to-head race. So she confidently headed to New Hampshire. Her subtext was that if she did not win the upcoming two-person primaries, she would...