Posts Tagged ‘Victor Davis Hanson’
Wednesday, April 24th, 2013
So much new Boston Bomber information has come to light that I thought I’d put a big old LinkSwarm on just that topic:
It’s the Jihad, stupid.
Mother of the Boston bombers: “If they are going to kill him. I don’t care. My oldest son is killed, so I don’t care. I don’t care is my youngest son is going to be killed today. I want the world to hear this. And, I don’t care if I am going to get killed too. And I will say Allahu Akbar!” Media: Just what is she trying to say? I don’t understand! It’s like she’s speaking in code!
Mark Steyn: “As is now traditional in these stories, we’re now being told that the Brothers Tsarnaev are merely the latest card-carrying members of Local 473 of the Amalgamated Union of Lone Wolves.”
Kurt Schlichter: “’Extraordinary’ is the natural condition of Americans.”
John Hindraker asks why does evil make liberals stupid?
The Boston bombers were living the life of welfare queens.
After it bombed in Boston, the bombing brothers were looking forward to taking their show to Broadway.
Here’s all about the mosque at the center of the bombing investigation. If it’s at the center, I guess that makes it the Ground Zero Mosque…
Speaking of which, the mastermind behind the original is buying up more New York City property in the area.
Victor Davis Hanson: What the Tsarnaev case teaches about immigration.
Naturally, clueless apologists set up a #FreeJahar tag on Twitter. As Aaron Gardner noted: “If twitter had been around in the time of Jesus there would have been a #FreeBarabbas tag.” And just imagine the reality show potential! “It’s down to two! No one will want to miss the stunning climax of Survivor: Golgatha!”
To me, Free Jahar sounds like a heartwarming, direct-to-DVD Disney film about a boy and his magic genie trying to free an Islamic whale.
Russia tried to warn us about the Tsarnaev brothers. Repeatedly. By the standards of perfect hindsight liberals applied to Bush43 after 9/11, doesn’t that make Obama a traitor?
A Venn diagram of terrorist watch lists.
So who was Misha, the radical Islamist who became Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s mentor?
Via Michael Totten comes Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s Amazon wish list. Hard to tell from that whether he wanted to become a terrorist, a singer or a Mafia wiseguy…
I’m seeing a report that the Boston Bomber Brothers are members of a Wahabist terrorist cell Problem: That report comes from DEBKA, a site that has a track record only slightly better than Infowars, so take it with a shaker full of salt.
Speaking of Infowars, guess what site Tamerlan Tsarnaev like to read?
The Onion: “I’m starting to think that maybe when Tamerlan first said ‘Let’s bomb the Boston Marathon,’ I should have said no.”
While you were paying attention to Boston, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police broke up a plot to bomb a passenger train.
Tags:Bombing, Boston, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Ground Zero Mosque, Islam, Jihad, Kurt Schlichter, LinkSwarm, Mark Steyn, Media Watch, New York City, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Victor Davis Hanson
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Tuesday, January 29th, 2013
Instead of going out and doing the heavy lifting myself on a Texas vs. California update, Victor Davis Hanson [[Corrected. – LP]] has done another of his California is totally screwed pieces, and it’s a cornucopia of facts on California’s decline.
A few tidbits:
Salinas just named an elementary school after a serial cop killer
Racist Latino gangs are now driving black families straight out of Compton
“Hundreds of thousands of the working and upper-middle class, mostly from the interior of the state, have fled — maybe four million in all over the last thirty years, taking with them $1 trillion in capital and income-producing education and expertise. Apparently, they tired of high taxes, poor schools, crime, and the culture of serial blame-gaming and victimhood.”
“One of every three welfare recipients lives in California.”
Read the whole thing.
Tags:Border Controls, California, Crime, Democrats, Economics, fraud, liberal racism, Victor Davis Hanson, waste, Welfare State
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Wednesday, October 31st, 2012
Six days to the election, and I’ve spent most of the night handing out candy. Six days until we choose to follow the successful Texas Red State path of low taxes and limited government, or the failing Blue State California path of bankruptcy and bigger government.
CalPERS sues Compton to force the bankrupt city to keep donating to the underfunded, soon-to-be-bankrupt state pension fund.
Incarcerating someone in a California prison guards costs and average of $47,000 a year. Ridiculous guard salaries and perks.
Texas has one of the lowest State-Local debt burdens in the country.
For a contrarian view, Victor David Hanson offers up reasons not to leave California.
Nothing at all to do with politics, but I can’t resist noting that the “Dream Team” Los Angeles Lakers have hit a little snag on their way to going undefeated in the regular season. Meanwhile, the completely gutted and rebuilt Houston Rockets are 1-0. You take your satisfaction where you can find it…
Tags:2012 Election, Budget, California, CalPERs, Economics, Elections, Texas, Victor Davis Hanson
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Monday, February 14th, 2011
And they’re every bit as warm as those for Spiderman: Turn off the Dark:
Mary Steyn: “For the last three weeks, the superpower has sent the consistent message to the world that (as Bernard Lewis feared some years ago) America is harmless as an enemy and treacherous as a friend.”
Niall Ferguson in Newsweek (yes, it’s evidently still being published):
“Last week, for the second time in his presidency, Barack Obama heard those footsteps, jumped up to grasp a historic opportunity … and missed it completely….This failure was not the result of bad luck. It was the predictable consequence of the Obama administration’s lack of any kind of coherent grand strategy, a deficit about which more than a few veterans of U.S. foreign policy making have long worried….The defining characteristic of Obama’s foreign policy has been not just a failure to prioritize, but also a failure to recognize the need to do so. A succession of speeches saying, in essence, ‘I am not George W. Bush’ is no substitute for a strategy.”
Michael A. Walsh in the New York Post: “No matter how things shake out in Egypt, one thing has become depressingly clear: Something is very wrong with the American intelligence services.”
Investor’s Business Daily:
“As our once-stable ally Egypt hurtles down a path leading into the dark unknown, the U.S. can blame itself. The White House apparently did little after our intelligence agencies warned late last year that President Hosni Mubarak’s government was wobbly. Like Jimmy Carter’s handling of Central America, the U.S. backed a revolution, hoping it would make the revolutionaries our friends.”
Victor Davis Hanson in National Review: “For nearly three weeks, the Biden/Clinton/Obama policy concerning the tottering Mubarak regime was contradictory, incoherent, and predicated entirely on the perceived pulse of the demonstrations.”
Like Julie Taymor’s production (which I have not seen, but I have seen enough of Ms. Taymor’s previous work to trust the reviews of it I’ve read), Obama’s foreign policy is far more concerned with flash and spectacle than the boring matter of actual substance. Unfortunately, there’s no chance that Obama’s foreign policy will fold in previews, and we can’t make things better by getting Bono and The Edge to write us a few new tunes…
Tags:Egypt, Foreign Policy, Hosni Mubarak, Jihad, Mark Steyn, Michael A. Walsh, Middle East, Niall Ferguson, Obama, Spiderman: Turn off the Dark, Victor Davis Hanson
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