Victor Davis Hanson
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Tough Trump deterrence will prevent 'endless wars'
In Donald Trump's second administration, rethreading the deterrence needle may be a challenge — because after Joe Biden, the world of today is far more dangerous than in 2021.
Harris' disastrous presidential bid was doomed from the start
Even if Kamala Harris was a gifted politician and an adept speaker — and she isn't — she faced three damning realities that she could never have changed.
Debunking Harris' farcical 'fascist' charge vs. Trump
Ironically, Donald Trump has been the target of fascist machinations from Kamala Harris' party and supporters for nearly a decade.
Harris' desperate talking-point flops are convincing no one
Kamala Harris' ever-evolving narratives haven't stopped her campaign's hemorrhaging — because voters see the election as a conflict of two absolutely antithetical visions.
In this election, it's the lecturers vs. the lectured-to, and voters are getting ticked
Hectoring the electorate on its supposed ignorance or moral shortcomings has become a trademark of the Kamala Harris campaign.
Biden and Harris, own up: your Iran policies ignited Israel's war
For over three years, Biden-Harris had signaled Israel's enemies that the United States no longer acted like a close ally of the past — and they got the message.
How Joe Biden, Kamala Harris blew up the Middle East — in 5 easy steps
By unleashing and emboldening Iran, President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris paved the way for multifront war across the Middle East.
Kamala' stealth campaign: run out the clock, sneak into office
Like Biden in 2020, Harris has nationalized a new kind of cynical campaign in which leftist candidates seek for a few months to deceive the public into thinking they are...
Decade of untruth: Tallying the media's Trump, Biden lies
The media and the left have successfully fed the country a succession of rank deceptions and conspiracies — because they deemed Donald Trump too dangerous to be president.
These 15 'rules for radicals' will get far-left Harris elected
Democrats considered unpopular and enfeebled Biden far preferable to the incoherent, lightweight Harris, so her makeover requires 15 radical rules followed to the letter.
How a demonized Trump came back from 2020 ruin to become 2024 nominee
Donald Trump managed to come back from his 2020 presidential defeat to become the only Republican three-time presidential nominee in history.
How Dems staged coup after coup — skirting democracy to hold power
In March 2020, all the major Democratic primary candidates abruptly, mysteriously and in near unison withdrew from the presidential race, ceding the nomination to Joe Biden.
How Gavin Newsom made California's paradise into purgatory
California has become a test case of the suicide of the West thanks to Newsom's leftist mismanagement.
How to tell that the West's 'pro-Palestinian' protesters really only care about bashing Israel
What are the mobs in Washington defiling iconic federal statues with impunity and pelting policemen really protesting?
Dems, media fool no one: White House is knee-deep in Trump prosecutions
Biden is delighted that his own former prosecutor, a left-wing judge and a Manhattan jury may well keep Trump off the campaign trail.
Institutions have violated the trust of Americans, and a new revolution is coming
Sometimes unexpected but dramatic events tear off the thin veneer of respectability and convention.
When Putin and Xi hint at nuclear annihilation, take heed
We should not count on friends or neutrals to save our civilization. Otherwise, we will naively — and fatally — believe that we are magically exempt when the inconceivable becomes...
Team Biden's sleazy plan to get the unpopular prez reelected — by any means necessary
Bidenites believe they can reelect an unhealthy, unpopular and unsuccessful president by any means necessary. And they may be right.
Why mankind's greatest threat is mankind
A new book details how once great civilizations have killed each other off.
Iran just pulled its own nuclear teeth
Israel's retaliatory strike on Iran showed that it could send a barrage at Iranian nuclear sites with reasonable assurances that the incoming attacks could not be stopped.