[Tolik]

Please dear freepers. Don't get offended by his use of "We". Everybody knows that "we" as freepers are ahead of the curve. It's a rhetorical tool. He is generalizing on the scale of the whole country. "We" as a country did elect Obama, believe it or not :^)

[Tolik]

 

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FR Index of his articles:	http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/victordavishanson/index
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Pajamasmedia:	http://pajamasmedia.com/victordavishanson/
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[Tolik]

Victor Davis Hanson:

Just a partial list: http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/victordavishanson/index:

When Conservative Felonies Become Liberal Misdemeanors

2010: Our Year of Decision

Beating the Dead Terrorist Horse. September 11 taught us many lessons. To our peril, we have forgotten them

Bush Did It! And, Really, Bush Did It! And Bush Really Did It!

A Humpty-Dumpty View of the World

2009 Chickens and Their 2010 Roost

Our Year of Obama

Where Did These Guys Come From? The Origins of Obamism

The War Against the Wannabe Rich. Why attack the productive classes who want to be rich?

The Long March From California to Copenhagen [Hanson on debate between capitalism and socialism]

Obama and the Malleability of History. In pursuit of noble goals, Obama ignobly twists the truth.

Our Flip-Flopping Wars - Iraq was never lost and Afghanistan was never quite the easy good war

The Palin Wonder

Obama’s Wheel of Fortune. The president’s luck has changed — and he doesn’t seem to have noticed

Why Are We Tiring of Obama?

Has War Really Changed? War always involves “a military solution.”

Change, Weakness, Disaster, Obama: Answers from Victor Davis Hanson

If Iran Refuses To Cooperate, Block Its Ports

Resetting the Reset Button [Victor Davis Hanson dissects 0's pathetic diplomacy]

Riding the Back of the Tiger [Victor Davis Hanson on Obama not understanding What Causes Wars...]

We Ain't Seen Nothing Yet

Palin-Odes? What Drives the Fear and Loathing of Sarah Palin?

Obama’s Prissy America - Why does Obama’s tolerant, apologetic America seem so very self-centered?

What Bush Inherited, and What He Left Left Behind

Who Are ‘They’? To Obama, “they” are responsible for all our troubles. Problem is, “they” are most of us

Afghan Mythologies. We have everything we need to defeat the Taliban.

The Discreet Charm of the Left-wing Plutocracy

Truman and the Principles of U.S. Foreign Policy. Jimmy Carter rejected the postwar consensus. President Obama appears to be following a similar path

Dr. Barack and Mr. Obama - The backlash is sharp as voters learn that Obama is not the man they thought he was

Obama and "Redistributive Change". His real agenda

The War Against the Producers

President Palin’s First 100 Days. Imagine if Sarah Palin had Obama’s record

Thoughts About Depressed Americans

Our Battered American [gets angrier - Must Read Rant]

Just a partial list. Much more at the link:  http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/victordavishanson/index

[CholeraJoe]

Re: Ivy League - I will take a Service Academy graduate or a Land Grant School graduate ANY DAY over an Ivy Leaguer.

[Sans-Culotte]

Wow! One of VDH’s most incisive and all-encompassing essays ever.

[tet68]

An obvious candidate for beneficial cognitive diversity./s

VDH bump.

[kidd]

More Taboo:

6) Global Warming is unproven
7) Social Security is a dinosaur that needs to be retired
8) Obama has not yet proven his eligibility

[sickoflibs]

List like these are good.

The political problem with Iraq is it became toxic from 2005-2007 when things were going bad and Bush kept on saying they were going good. Sure, Bush finally under a democrat controlled congress employed the surge and fixed what looked to be a coming disaster. But by that point the popular conventional political wisdom was “Bush lied to get us into war. He lied to us and lied to democrats”. (Not saying this was the case.)

The fact is it was Bush, Cheney and Condi out on national TV every day promoting the need for the invasion(Mushroom clouds, WMDs, Iraq pay for it's reconstruction, greeted as liberators, ...) . And they alone made the decision.

There was no amount of explaining or playing of CSPAN tapes on talk radio that could remove those images of Bush responsible.

[Arthur McGowan]

(a) The state propositions have hamstrung the legislature, and resulted in almost no free choices anymore in budgetary decision.

He means "hamstringed."

[UCFRoadWarrior]

Excellent piece....and I agree those are five things that need to be discussed, but is too PC (even for the going-liberal Fox News).

One more to add.....

The Failure of Free Trade, and how so-called conservatives agree with George Soros, Al Gore, Jimmy Carter, Barack Obama, and other far-lefties....agree on Free Trade....and the refusal to discuss its outright failure

[ml/nj]

I am convinced those leaving a Hillsdale College or St. Thomas Aquinas or St. John’s would do better than the average Yale BA.

I think Hanson is wrong here. It is quite conceivable that any given student going to St. John's instead of Yale would come out with a better education than if he had chosen the Ivy, but the talent pool that Yale gets to pick from "did better" on average in high school and they are likely to continue doing so after they get their four year degree.

ML/NJ

[Incorrigible]

Bump

[schu]

Great stuff.

Until we start to talk about and address REAL problems, many which are listed here, we will continue to flounder as a nation.

The time has come where the politics of obfuscation, lies and false promises has ended. The winners over the next few years, and the leaders that will harness the energy of the masses to fix our problems, are those that will shoot straight and be honest.

BTW, these leaders do not necessarily need to be at a national level and the farther away from the static political organizations the better chance they have of success.

It will take some time, but these crazy ideas are in the process of been discredited. It will probably take bankruptcy to make it so. Painful but necessary.

schu

[wardaddy]

It requires the logic of the Old Confederacy to determine racial purity among the intermarried citizenry

Nice try Yankee, you guys had black codes and laws against interracial marriage same as we did Senor Hypocrite

What we could use from my ancestors is some of that courage and valor and respect from where one comes from.

[snowsislander]

I am fortunate for a wonderful graduate education in the PhD program at Stanford, but I learned more about the way the world works in two months of farming (which saved a wretch like me) than in four years of concentrated study.

Well put, Dr. Hanson.

[loveliberty2]

Interestingly, the Far Left radicals now in positions of power in Washington who rely on the good reputations of "Ivy League" schools for their own "qualifications," conveniently ignore how these schools first obtained such a reputation for excellence. More importantly, however, they and their so-called "progressive" fellows would disavow the legitimacy of the ideas which motivated the founders of those universities to create such places of learning.

Those ideas would not fit into the Far Left's "politically correct" world view, because the ideas were derived from religious thought and, as such, are "flawed," as are the ideas of America's genius Founders.

[GOPJ]

It requires the logic of the Old Confederacy to determine racial purity among the intermarried citizenry. Jet-black Punjabis get no preferences. Light-skinned Mexican-Americans of the fourth-generation claim privilege. Poor whites from Tulare don’t rank. The children of black dentists do. I see very little logic here.

I know - I know (waving hand in air - call one ME!)

Here's the logic: The groups with the benefits are DEMS. The groups without have FEW voters - or they're Republican...

[Defiant]

Illegal Immigration and California.

I guarantee you that California would not have a budget problem but for illegal immigration. It is a problem caused by the US Supreme Court (when it decreed that illegals had to be served in schools and hospitals), by the Feds, allowing unfettered illegal immigration, and by the illegal alien lobby within California, which has taken over the legislature and which looks at illegals as the best path to Aztlan. They don't just fund the illegals, they actively seek more of them and lionize them.

The amount the budget is under water could be erased overnight if illegals were not here. Our streets would be safer and there would be more jobs with decent pay contributing to the tax base.

[T. Buzzard Trueblood]

A motivated undergraduate student, who picks the right professors and classes, can get as good an undergraduate education at San Jose State as at Stanford. Certainly, the four years are not worth $200,000 in room, board, and tuition— if education is the goal.

But wait! If, in contrast, networks, influence-accumulation, and contacts are the objectives to ensure a child remains, or enters into, the elite class, then the investment in such undergraduate schools is very much worth it—but should be considered analogous to a debutante ball, the social register, or the Grand Tour.

Brilliant.

[neverdem]

We simply can’t afford these taboos anymore. All this bipartisan and nonpartisan nonsense defies common sense.

[redgolum]

Some very good points.