Posted on 05/15/2009 5:25:57 AM PDT by Tolik
Let me know if you want in or out.
Links: FR Index of his articles: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=victordavishanson
His website: http://victorhanson.com/
NRO archive: http://www.nationalreview.com/hanson/hanson-archive.asp
Pajamasmedia: http://victordavishanson.pajamasmedia.com/
preaching to the choir
the people who should read this and learn from it, never will
--great quote, just a little long for use as a by-line--
VDH is great. It is so nice to read a well thought out piece such as this.
We need a VDH as our POTUS.
Yet another excellent analysis from VDH. He cites a lot of pain heading our way, but if it means the end of our misguided embrace of socialism, it will be worth it. It’s just a shame it has to go that far for us to come to our senses.
I just have one question about this,,,where does this 62% approval come from? How do we know it is true? From the tone of the people I talk to across the 5 states I cover, there sure isnt any 62% approval. Is this a number invented and trumpeted by the MSM? Again, who are and where are the 62% that believe this hoax?
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Dare we say VDH is our new William F. Buckley?
And that is the pain we at FR feel. We see this, nay, we SAW this a long time ago. We can only pray the nation wakes from its deleterious slumber.
You didn't address this to me, but I'd like to comment. They are/were both great writers, but I find it much easier to read Hanson. Buckley's writing was more academic, IMO.
Was Buckley more libertarian than VDH?
His “missed opportunities” of is just a prosaic foil, of course.
Stating what Obammie the Commie could have done is like describing what other kinds of animals a leopard could look like if it could change its spots.
Obammie the Commie's goal is to weaken (if not destroy outright) the US to the point where it can no longer be sovereign — forcing the US citizen to demand that our Feds lead the world into the New World Order.
As long as mainstream Americans want US sovereignty, the New World Order is a very difficult State to achieve. But ruining not just the financial wealth of Americans (which is what Obammie and his Commies are doing now) but also the very stability coupled with unemployment, UNCERTAIN FOOD SUPPLY, and increasing risk of attack from nations that loathe us, will force mainstream Americans to demand a global currency controlled by a world bank.
One of VDH’s best columns in recent memory.
The MSM is welded to this goof and will say anything to keep him in the popularity game. In my circle of friends, business contacts, fellow parishoners, I cannot find one person who even has any respect for this goof. I would be that their 62% comes from a selected group of people they poll in order to get the results they are looking for. I haven’t trusted the MSM since the early 90’s when C BS news had a news crew on a beach in the middle east during a NIGHTTIME marine landing. The idiots had landing lights on them and was trying to interview the marines on why they were landing at night. The MSM is full of people who are either idiots or evil or a combination of both.
Very much agree.
He has a very good week. Between his articles I pinged to this morning, it’s hard to choose which one is better.
“preaching to the choir
the people who should read this and learn from it, never will”
I agree. The same can be said for FOX and its anchors. They may have the highest ratings, but they are not reaching the potentially reachables whose willfully misinformed votes put Obama into the WH. We cannot reach the 30% rabid moonbats, they are unredeemable. However, we can try to reach the 10-20% in the middle who can be persuaded by logic and facts. That should be our goal, and that of FOX. Otherwise, I fear we could be lost, with a Second Revolution inevitable.
Barack Obama with leftist control of the US Congress poses a clear and present danger to American society as we once knew it.
I have decided that conservatives need to change the tone of their message not the message itself. By doing this they will ease the fears of the nonreligious while strengthening the fears of the religious and expand their base.
Every social issue can be presented in a nonreligious scientifically based way and people are starving for this straight talk. They have succeeded in using despicable means to silence anyone who prevents their agenda from moving forward.
All we want is a clear definition of marriage. Anyone else must come up with their own word and definition for this type of union.
Instead of coming at homosexuality from the religious angle they need to come at it from the impact it has on services, healthcare costs and is unconstitutional.
The same for abortion and illegitmacy.
They should shame the government into action. Smoking only shaves off a couple of years but homosexuality shaves off from 20-40 and they are silent on the issue and encourage the behavior. A government that would do that would do anything to any other group they decided to hate.
The cost of Aids medications while homosexuals brag about not using any protection, the mental health costs, the lost workdays, the partner abuse is extremely expensive.
It has not been proven to be genetically caused therefore it is not a disability. It has been proven to be overcome -thus proving it is a lifestyle.
We don’t know the cause nor want to guess, we are not in the business of judging the cause but as concerned citizens we must be in the business of evaluating the effects and preventing our children from being indoctrinated.
We believe in a live and let live policy and as long as they agree to stay out of our classrooms, and agree to a sex-free zone for K-8. In the upper grades, they must teach the physical and mental impact and quote scientific studies if they talk about it at all.
We have a right and a responsiblity to ensure that citizens know the consequences of this lifestyle. If we were homophobic we would encourage more of risky behavior because we would have them dying at a much younger age than now.
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