2013: Welcome to Very, Very Scary Times ... Victor Davis Hanson

These should not be foreboding years. The U.S. is in the midst of a veritable energy revolution. There is a godsend of new gas and oil discoveries that will help to curtail our fiscal and foreign policy vulnerabilities — an energy bonanza despite, not because of, the present administration.

Demographically, our rivals — the EU, China, Russia, and Japan — are both shrinking and aging at rates far in excess of our own.

In terms of farming, the United States is exporting more produce than ever before at record prices. Americans eat the safest and cheapest food on the planet.

As far as high-tech gadgetry, the global companies that have most changed the world in recent years — Amazon’s online buying, Google search engines, Apple iPhones, iPads, and Mac laptops — are mostly American. There is a reason why Mexican nationals are not crossing their border into Guatemala — and it is not because they prefer English speakers to Spanish speakers.

“..drag Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi from a truck..If an idiot were to write that trash..”
How is it trash?

The trash is behind the truck in this instance...I get what you mean, but for clarity here is the whole quote from the article:

Note the new ease with which the liberal mind calls for trashing the Constitution, outlawing those whom they don’t like (reminiscent of “punish our enemies”?), and killing those politicians with whom they don’t agree (we are back to Bush Derangement Syndrome, when novels, movies, and op-eds dreamed of the president’s assassination.)
What would be the Register’s reaction should a conservative opponent of abortion dare write, "Repeal the First Amendment; ban Planned Parenthood as a terrorist organization; and drag Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi from a truck"? If an idiot were to write that trash, I doubt the Washington Times or Wall Street Journal would print such sick calls for overturning the Constitution and committing violence against public officials.

VDH had just quoted from the desmoinesregister.com which is a gannett company which can only be linked here.

Quite a revealing article, too bad it can't be poster here as a thread. OK it can be, but with only a title and link. Grrrrrr Gannett's loss.

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There is rarely worry expressed that a profligate nation that borrows from others abroad and those not born has no moral compass.

It should be obvious when that same nation is killing
the unborn that it would borrow from by the millions.

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