[Tolik]

    Victor Davis Hanson Ping ! 

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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/

[Patriotic1]

Wow.... that was powerful!

[Obadiah]

Without a vision the people perish.

We have no leaders. Our national moral compass is broken and we are told we have no need to fix it. Therefore, chaos and it’s cousin, depression, follow.

When a leader begins to emerge, or if attempts are made to recalibrate our national moral compass we get a godless bloodletting from people demanding that we leave them alone and not impinge upon them in any way.

Frustration from a sense of total helplessness to make obvious course corrections results. Greater chaos naturally follows as a deeper national depression sets in, and the decent into depravity spins just a little faster now.

[CharlieOK1]

self ping for later...

[RU88]

Once again, VDH cuts through the many layers of nuance right down to the bone. He really has his hand on the pulse of America. It's really hard to say when this all started. It certainly wasn't seven months ago but the financial crisis has really brought every thing out in the open. I would call it a collective crisis of confidence that we are experiencing as a society. Hanson is dead on in his observations. I just wish more people in Washington and on Main St. understood the extent of the decay and took affirmative action to correct it.