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VICTOR DAVIS HANSON – WRONG AND MORE WRONG

Sunday, July 6th, 2025

 

Wrong and more wrong: How America’s ‘experts’ burned their last shreds of credibility

By Victor Davis Hanson   July 5, 2025

From the economy to the border to climate and beyond, the degreed classes are repeatedly proven wrong — yet arrogantly refuse to learn from their past flawed predictions, Victor Davis Hanson writes.Getty Images

 

The first six months of the Trump administration have not been kind to the experts and the degree-holding classes.

Almost daily during the tariff hysterias of March, we were told by university economists and most of the PhDs employed in investment and finance that the United States was headed toward a downward, if not recessionary, spiral.

Most economists lectured that trade deficits did not really matter.

Or they insisted that the cures to reduce them were worse than the $1.1 trillion deficit itself.

They reminded us that free, rather than fair, trade alone ensured prosperity.

So, the result of Trump’s foolhardy tariff talk would be an impending recession.

America would soon suffer rising joblessness, inflation — or rather a return to stagflation — and likely little, if any, increase in tariff revenue as trade volume declined.

Instead, recent data show increases in tariff revenue.

Personal real income and savings were up.

Job creation exceeded prognoses.

There was no surge in inflation.

The supposedly “crashed” stock market reached historic highs.

Common-sense Americans might not have been surprised: The prior stock market frenzy was predicated on what was, in theory, supposed to have happened rather than what was likely to occur.

After all, if tariffs were so toxic and surpluses irrelevant, why did our affluent European and Asian trading rivals insist on both surpluses and protective tariffs?

Most Americans recalled that the mere threat of tariffs and Trump’s jawboning had led to several trillion dollars in promised foreign investment and at least some plans to relocate manufacturing and assembly back to the United States.

Would that change in direction not lead to business optimism and eventually more jobs?

Would countries purposely running up huge surpluses through asymmetrical trade practices not have far more to lose in negotiations than those suffering gargantuan deficits?

Were Trump’s art-of-the-deal threats of prohibitive tariffs not mere starting points in negotiations that would eventually lead to likely agreements more favorable to the United States than in the past, and moderate rather than punitive tariffs?

Would not the value of the huge American consumer market mean that our trade partners, who were racking up substantial surpluses, would agree they could afford modest tariffs and trim their substantial profit margins rather than suicidally price themselves out of a lucrative market entirely?

Illegal immigration: wrong again

Economists and bureaucrats were equally wrong on the border.

We were told for four years that only “comprehensive immigration reform” would stop illegal immigration.

Most Americans differed: They knew firsthand we had more than enough immigration laws, but had elected as President Joe Biden, who deliberately destroyed borders and had no intention of enforcing existing laws.

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VIDEO – VICTOR DAVIS HANSON’S ANALYSIS OF THE TRUMP PRESIDENCY

Thursday, July 3rd, 2025

 

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“People Should Be Preparing, This Is So Serious | Victor Davis Hanson”

In this video, Victor Davis Hanson exposes the left’s contradictions in their attacks on Donald Trump and his trade policies. In this video, Hanson dives deep into how progressive critics consistently misrepresent Trump’s use of tariffs, portraying them as reckless or harmful without acknowledging their strategic purpose. He argues that the left’s opposition isn’t based on economic facts, but on a broader ideological rejection of Trump’s America-first agenda. Hanson contends that Trump’s presidency didn’t just disrupt global trade norms—it exposed how deeply entrenched and emotionally charged the left’s narrative has become. Ultimately, this video unpacks how Trump’s unorthodox methods—and the left’s fierce reaction to them—shine a light on the deeper political and cultural divide in America.

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MAMDANI’S NEW YORK WIN RATTLES DEMOCRAT PARTY

Thursday, June 26th, 2025

 

Zohran Mamdani’s commanding finish in New York mayoral primary rattles the Democratic Party

By Seth McLaughlin   June 25, 2025

Avowed socialist Zohran Mamdani’s win in the Democratic primary for New York mayor delivered a massive victory for the Democratic Party’s insurgent wing and knocked the party establishment back on its heels.

Old-school Democrats had lined up behind disgraced ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who conceded.

The commanding performance by Mr. Mamdani, who is running on promises of free public transit and child care, reflects the changing demographics of New York City.

Hank Sheinkopf, a New York-based Democratic strategist, said it also showcased how the “most pampered generation in history” wants to redefine a leaderless Democratic Party.

“If you’re an older Democrat, it’s very bad news. It tells you your time is coming to a conclusion,” he said. “Clintonism is finally dead. It is now the party of the AOCs with the Godfather as Bernie Sanders.”

Mr. Mamdani, a 33-year-old Muslim state assemblyman, anchored his campaign on making New York City more affordable. He promoted a socialist-inspired wish list of free child care, free bus service, rent freezes and public-owned grocery stores.

He advocated for raising the city’s minimum wage to $30 per hour and increasing taxes on businesses and the wealthiest New Yorkers to help pay for it.

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VICTOR DAVIS HANSON- WHY TRUMP’S STRIKE WORKED

Monday, June 23rd, 2025

 

Victor Davis Hanson: Why Trump’s Iran Strike Worked
The surviving command may wish to redirect public ire from themselves onto the theocrats. That may be the only way to end this evil regime and the ruin it has brought everything it has touched.
June 23, 2025

It is difficult to imagine any other Republican or Democratic president taking such a risk to hit Iran’s nuclear infrastructure. The Middle East is understandably viewed as the graveyard of presidential misadventures, where an administration’s good polls crash and sometimes do not revive.

Jimmy Carter’s reelection hopes blew up after the failed 1980 rescue mission. Iran-Contra almost sabotaged Ronald Reagan. Even the successful 1991 Gulf War ended poorly with the survival of Iraq’s Saddam Hussein, the ensuing endless “no fly zones”—and a repudiated George H.W. Bush in 1992.

George W. Bush lost control of his presidency with the devolution of the 2003 Iraq War. Joe Biden’s polls never recovered from the skedaddle from Kabul, Afghanistan.

But President Donald Trump’s limited and defined agenda—and unpredictability—was a different operation and may avoid such a fate.

His administration has likely destroyed most of the Iran nuclear infrastructure at Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan. So far, the only Iranian response seems to have been a half-hearted attempt to strike a US base in Qatar. All signs point to that being a limited and largely symbolic retaliation: Tehran even gave Qatar advance notice of the attack and the base had been evacuated.

The initial success of Trump’s strike on Iran can be appreciated by the poverty of both foreign and domestic criticism. The American left claimed the bombing was unnecessary and without provocation. More likely it was long overdue given the 1979 storming of the U.S. embassy in Tehran, Iran; the mass-murdering of Americans at the Beirut embassy and Marine Corps barracks in 1983; the blowing up of thousands of Americans in Iraq; and the plans to assassinate Trump. In short, the Iranian theocracy has for nearly half a century waged a one-sided war against America, without much retaliation—until now.

Indeed, the terrorist Iranian regime alone largely explains why there are still so many American bases in Syria, Iraq, and the Gulf, even after the erosion of al-Qaeda and ISIS capabilities.

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DHS ISSUES TERRORISM ADVISORY

Sunday, June 22nd, 2025

 

Tom Homan, the immigration czar,  said just today that in addition to the Islamic  sleeper cells that have been in our country for many years, there were 2 million gotaways that escaped into our country during the Biden open border  years.  They have no idea who they are or where they are now.   Be aware of your surroundings and if  you see something, say something.   Nancy
 

DHS issues terrorism advisory alert amid U.S. attack on Iran

By Stephan Dinan   June 22, 2025

America is at a heightened risk of attacks after the U.S. bombed nuclear targets in Iran, Homeland Security said in a new terrorism advisory alert Sunday, pointing in particular to the possibility of a hacking incident.

The notice said “hacktivists,” who are operating independently but with sympathy for Iran, and regime-connected hackers may decide the time is ripe.

And Homeland Security said it’s on the lookout in case Iran issues a “religious ruling calling for retaliatory violence” against the U.S.

“The likelihood of violent extremists in the Homeland independently mobilizing to violence in response to the conflict would likely increase if Iranian leadership issued a religious ruling calling for retaliatory violence against targets in the homeland,” the department said.

Some Iran-connected groups dubbed as terrorists by the U.S. had already issued calls for violence against the U.S. and Americans in the Middle East after Israel’s initial strike on Iran’s nuclear infrastructure.

President Trump’s decision to target three nuclear production sites with U.S. aircraft followed those initial Israeli attacks.

Homeland Security said Israel’s involvement increases the likelihood of antisemitic attacks, which have already been running at an elevated pace after Hamas’s murderous 2023 attack on Israel and that nation’s violent reprisals in Gaza.

 

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TRUMP: IRAN MUST MAKE PEACE OR FUTURE ATTACKS WILL BE FAR GREATER

Saturday, June 21st, 2025

 

Trump: Iran must make peace or future attacks will be far greater and a lot easier

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President Donald Trump has addressed the nation following the U.S. completing successful airstrikes on key Iranian nuclear facilities.

On Saturday, Trump addressed the nation, alongside Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth.

Trump said that U.S. strikes in Iran were a “spectacular military success.”

“Tonight, I can report to the world that the strikes were a spectacular military success. Iran’s key nuclear enrichment facilities have been completely and totally obliterated,” Trump said in his first public remarks since the strikes were carried out.

The president went on to warn Iran that if peace was not met, future worse attacks would be coming.

“Iran, the bully of the Middle East, must now make peace. If they do not, future attacks will be far greater and a lot easier,” Trump said in a Saturday night address to the nation. “This cannot continue. There will be either peace or there will be tragedy for Iran, far greater than we have witnessed over the last eight days. Remember, there are many targets left.”

Trump warned that the U.S. could “go after those other targets with precision, speed, and skill,” which he said could be done “in a matter of minutes.”

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HOW ISRAEL LURED IRAN’S TOP GENERALS TO THEIR DEATHS

Thursday, June 19th, 2025

 

How Israel Lured Iran’s Top Generals to Their Deaths Will Blow Your Mind

By Bonchie   June 18, 2025
As of Wednesday, the Israeli operation to destroy Iran’s nuclear program and its ballistic missile capabilities continued apace, with launchers and production facilities becoming prime targets.
n perhaps the most dominant, decisive show of military force this century, the IDF managed to gain air superiority in the first three days of strikes and has been able to loiter over Tehran without consequence. I’m not sure enough people truly appreciate how insane it is that the Israelis have not lost a single plane yet. Once again, the incredible gulf between American and Russian military technology is being laid bare. To say Iran was a paper tiger would be an insult to paper tigers.
With that said, we are learning some stunning details about how things got to this point. In the early hours of the war, it was reported that dozens of top Iranian military leaders were taken out in a single strike, and how that strike came to be is just as incredible as the result. According to a new report, the subterfuge used to get all those IRGC generals into a single bunker is like something right out of a spy novel.

Amit Segal told the Call Me Back podcast on Monday: “What Israel did was create a fake phone call for 20 members of the air force senior staff an calling them to a specific bunker in Tehran.”

This meant there was no one to give the order to fire the initial salvo of 1,000 ballistic missiles as Iran had previously threatened to do, he added.

The added bonus for the Israelis was that Iranian military leadership was essentially crippled from the moment of Israel’s first strike against the world’s top sponsor of terrorism.

As The Chronicle reported, Mossad had used “falsified communications through Iranian channels” to call the meeting — which successfully lured “the entire senior leadership of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Aerospace Force, including Commander General Amir Ali Hajizadeh, his deputies, and key technical personnel, into a fortified bunker outside Tehran.”

Mossad, Israel’s intelligence service, infiltrated Iranian backchannels and then placed 20 different fake phone calls to IRGC leaders. Those calls instructed them to all meet a reinforced bunker in Tehran, an order none of them questioned. It’s safe to speculate that Mossad agents were on the ground to confirm their arrival, and shortly after, the entire place was blown sky-high.

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CHINA WARNS OF ‘POTENTIAL GRAVE CONSEQUENCES’

Friday, June 13th, 2025

 

All   This is a very serious situation  and there may possibly be retaliation against the U.S. We have known for years that there are Islamic terrorist sleeper cells here in the U.S.  Also, does anyone know where the 40,000 military age Chinese men are that came into our country under the Biden open border policy ?  I heard Trump last year say that he considers these men to be a Chinese  standing army right here in our midst.
We all need to be vigilant and the old saying, If you see something, say something ‘ is excellent advice for all of us.  Nancy

China criticizes Israeli strikes

 on Iran, warns of ‘potential grave consequences’

By Guy Taylor    June 13, 2025

China on Friday criticized Israel’s airstrike against Iran, which has emerged during recent years as a key strategic partner of the Chinese Communist Party as Chinese government-linked companies invest heavily in the Iranian economy and lead the world in Iranian crude oil purchases.

Beijing “opposes actions that violate Iran’s sovereignty, security and territorial integrity” and is “deeply concerned about the potential grave consequences of the operations,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Lin Jian told reporters.

His comments underscored the precariousness of the current dynamics in the Middle East, as well as the prospect that the situation could dangerously devolve into global conflict.

There is a consensus in some American national security circles that China and Russia, as well as North Korea, would likely back Tehran against the U.S., Israel and other Western allies should the present hostilities spiral into world war.

The notion of such an alignment hung in the backdrop Friday as world leaders watched for signs of whether Iran may attempt to target both Israel and the U.S. in retaliation for Israel’s airstrikes, which decimated several Iranian nuclear sites and killed the top commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Maj. Gen. Hossein Salami.

News of his death has triggered global headlines and brought to the fore a level of regional anxiety comparable to that which gripped the Middle East during the days after a U.S. drone strike killed Mr. Salami’s predecessor, Qassem Soleimani, in October of 2020.

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RISING LION – ISRAEL STRIKES IRAN

Friday, June 13th, 2025

 

‘Rising Lion’: Israel Launches Massive Military Campaign Against Iranian Nuclear Program, Senior Officials

IDF touts ‘preemptive, precise, combined offensive based on high-quality intelligence to strike Iran’s nuclear program’

by Adam Kredo    June 12, 2025

Israel launched the opening salvo in a massive military campaign against Iran and its nuclear program late Thursday evening, bombing dozens of military targets that included the homes of senior Iranian political and military officials, as well as two major nuclear sites.

Iranian state TV reported that the Israeli strikes appear to have killed at least four officials, including Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps commander Hossein Salami. The former IRGC leader said earlier Thursday that the Islamic Republic was “fully ready for any scenario” ahead of the Israeli operation. Also killed, according to Iranian media, were Gholamali Rashid, deputy commander in chief of the Iranian armed forces, and armed forces chief of staff 

Mohammed Bagheri.

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed that the operation is designed to derail Iran’s pursuit of a nuclear weapon.

“We struck at the heart of Iran’s nuclear enrichment program,” he said. “We struck at the heart of Iran’s nuclear weaponization program. We targeted Iran’s main enrichment facility in Natanz. We targeted Iran’s leading nuclear scientists working on the Iranian bomb. We also struck at the heart of Iran’s ballistic missile program.”

The Israel Defense Forces confirmed the start of an “aerial campaign against Iran’s nuclear program” that is expected to last for several days and is codenamed “Rising Lion.”

Other targets include Tehran’s long-range missile capabilities, which can easily reach Israel and penetrate its air defenses.

“This operation is a preemptive, precise, combined offensive based on high quality intelligence to strike Iran’s nuclear program and other military targets,” the IDF said during a Thursday evening briefing. “The State of Israel will not allow a regime whose objective is to destroy the State of Israel to obtain weapons of mass destruction.”

Israel is targeting Tehran’s “nuclear plants,” as well as its “military headquarters” across the country, military commanders, and long-range missile sites, the IDF said.

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DUKE PARENTS AND FACULTY RESPOND TO HATE FILLED INDOCTRINATION

Friday, May 23rd, 2025

 

Duke Parents and Faculty Respond to Hate-Filled Indoctrination at School; Will Federal Government Act?

More than 100 Duke University alumni and parents have signed a letter to the university, expressing serious concerns about what they describe as “extremism” by Frances Hasso, Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies.

The letter encapsulates details that I initially reported. It articulates serious concerns regarding Hasso’s upcoming instruction of the school’s Global Palestine course this Fall. They write:

Professor Hasso has a long and public history of hostility and antipathy toward Israel and Zionists. In just the past year and a half, Professor Hasso has questioned allegations of rape and sexual torture of Israelis from Hamas on October 7 asserting “No one was raped on October 7.” Hasso recently shared a post alleging that “Israel keeps trying to kill Israeli hostages… all as [an] excuse to prolong the Genocidal plan of erasing two million Palestinians from Gaza. Israel’s priorities are Nazi’s war-time policies – fastracking Genocide (Final Solution).” She also previously posted on X: “HAMAS OFFICIALLY DEFEATS ISRAEL!” and “The US empire cannot end soon enough.”

The alumni and parents add:

Surely Duke can find a more qualified and objective teacher for such a sensitive subject matter… At an absolute minimum, it should be co-taught by a historian with a background in Israeli and Middle Eastern studies to counter Professor Hasso’s extremism.

 

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