Video: Mark Steyn ad libitum

Man skal indtil C-Span for at se video:

In Depth with Mark Steyn

C-SPAN | BookTV | Feb 5, 2012

Author and columnist Mark Steyn talked about topics such as American culture, free speech, terrorism, the economy, and the worldwide demographic shift to Muslims. He responded to telephone calls and electronic commmunications.

Mark Steyn is a regular guest host of Rush Limbaugh’s radio show, a visiting fellow in journalism at Hillsdale College, and the author of nine books: Broadway Babies Say Goodnight: Musicals Then and Now (1997); The Face of the Tiger: And Other Tales from the New War (2002); From Head to Toe: An Anatomical Anthology (2004); America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It (2006); Mark Steyn’s Passing Parade: Obituaries & Appreciations (2006); Mark Steyn’s American Songbook (2008); A Song for the Season (2008); Lights Out: Islam, Free Speech and the Twilight of the West (2009); After America: Get Ready for Armageddon (2011).

Startes HER – åbner C-Spans hjemmeside – værten hedder Peter Slen. Varighed 2 timer og 56 minutter.

Uploadet 6. februar 2012:

Mark Steyn The Undocumented Anchorman Fills In For Rush Limbaugh On Post Super Bowl Sunday

Mark Steyn In For Rush Giving His Take Of The Clint Eastwood Halftime In America Ad

Mark Steyn In For Rush Giving Us Breaking News On Dead Zulu Singer Held Hostage By Zombies

Og igen: Der er ingen overbefolkning

Det kan ikke siges for tit. Overbefolkning er ikke et problem. En nation skal have bæredygtighed, hvad folketallet anbelanger. Arbejdskraftens reproduktion. Et stabilt fødselstal hos landets oprindelige befolkning må være målet – ungefær 2,1 barn per kvinde for Danmarks vedkommende:

Five Myths About the World’s Population

By Nicholas Eberstadt | November 6, 2011

1. The world is overpopulated.

Sure, 7 billion is a big number. But most serious demographers, economists and population specialists rarely use the term “overpopulation” — because there is no clear demographic definition.

For instance, is Haiti, with an annual population growth rate of 1.3 percent, overpopulated? If it is, then was the United States overpopulated in 1790, when the new country was growing at more than 3 percent per year? And if population density is the correct yardstick, then Monaco, with more than 16,000 people per square kilometer, has a far greater problem than, say, Bangladesh and its 1,000 people per square kilometer.

Back in the 1970s, some scholars tried to estimate the “optimum population” for particular countries, but most gave up. There were too many uncertainties (how much food would the world produce with future technologies?) and too many value judgments (how much parkland is ideal?).

Mere HER hos AEI eller her i The Washington Post.

Andre kilder: djøf-bladet,

Overbefolkning og klimaproblemer? Ikke det, der ligner…

Alarmisterne hyler ganske vist op, men vi kan sagtens få mad, vand, varme og elektricitet allesammen. Men tag lige at spise nogle flere kartofler til hverdag:

Global Warming – RIP

By Victor Davis Hanson – October 27, 2011

Not long ago, candidate Obama promised to cool the planet and lower the rising seas. Indeed, he campaigned on passing “cap-and-trade” legislation, a radical, costly effort to reduce America’s traditional carbon energy use.

The theory was that new taxes and greater regulations would make Americans pay more for fossil-fuel energy — a good thing if it reduced our burning of coal, oil and gas. Obama was not shy in admitting that under his green plans, electricity prices would “necessarily skyrocket.” His energy secretary, Steven Chu, at one point had even said, “Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe” — that is, about $8-$10 per gallon. Fairly or not, the warming movement seemed to cast a tiny elite imposing costs on a poorer and supposedly less informed middle class.

Mere HER i RealClearPolitics. Kan også læses her hos Orange County Register. The Patriot Post her.

The World at 7 Billion

This month, the 7 billionth person will be born on a planet already strapped for resources. To mark this extraordinary milestone, TIME explores the most pressing population issues of the day, from the quest for sustainable energy sources to a look at what our biggest cities could look like in the decades to come

By Bryan Walsh – Oct. 26, 2011

Maybe it’s just the fact that the official day has been set for Oct. 31 — Halloween — but there’s a distinct whiff of panic and fear around the expected birth of the 7 billionth person on the planet. Here’s Roger Martin, chair of the NGO Population Matters, writing in the Guardian recently:

The 7 Billion Day is a sobering reminder of our planet’s predicament. We are increasing by 10,000 an hour. The median UN forecast is 9.3 billion by 2050, but the range varies by 2.5 billion — the total world population in 1950 — depending on how we work it out.

Mere HER i Time Magazine.

It’s a Small World

The United Nations is celebrating a planet with seven billion people. But some projections now warn that the global population may actually start shrinking.

By Colum Lynch | October 26, 2011

Sometime around Halloween, the United Nations will celebrate the birth of the world’s 7th billion baby. As U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon told world leaders in New York last month, the 7th billion baby will most likely be poor and will inhabit an earth buffeted by the ravages of global warming, desertification, and dwindling food shortages.

Sounds swell. Given this kind of apocalyptic rhetoric, it’s no surprise that much of the media’s focus has been on the strain of an over-populated planet, one where more than 79 million people are added each year to the human family, overwhelming already overcrowded cities, fighting it out over a dwindling pool of natural resources.

But what if the world’s population actually shrank?

Mere HER i Foreign Policy.

It’s Libel – Except When Mike Does It

Paul Driessen – October 26, 2011

Lewis Carroll died too soon. Just imagine the fun he’d have with the cliquish clan of climate catastrophe researchers who seek to control science, debate and public policy on global warming and energy – and then get outraged when someone challenges their findings, methodologies or integrity.

On October 1, Dr. Michael Mann of Pennsylvania State University and “hockey stick” fame published an angry riposte in Colorado’s obscure Vail Daily Voices (circulation 15,000), expressing his umbrage over an article that had appeared in the free coffee shop newspaper a day earlier.

Mere HER i Family Security Matters.

Global Warming: An Obituary

Alan Caruba – October 26, 2011

I used to write obituaries when I was a young journalist and I daresay they are one of the best read sections of any newspaper. We have arrived at a time when the obituaries for global warming (now falsely called climate change) are increasing.

The October 25th edition of The Wall Street Journal sports an editorial titled “The Post-Global Warming World” commenting on the fact that the 17th annual United Nations-sponsored climate change conference in November is likely to be an even greater flop than recent ones. Few, if any, nations will sign on to the huge hoax of reducing carbon dioxide (CO2) to save the world from burning to a crisp.

Mere HER hos Family Security Matters.

Global Warming Is Real

James Delingpole – October 27, 2011

We know it’s getting warmer. That’s not the point

“The planet has been warming,” says a new study of temperature records, conducted by Berkeley professor Richard Muller. I wonder what he’ll be telling us next: that night follows day? That water is wet? That great white sharks have nasty pointy teeth? That sheep go “baaaa”?

No, the only surprising part of the results of the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature Project is the good professor’s chutzpah in trying to present them as new or surprising – let alone any kind of blow to the people he calls “skeptics” (or, when speaking to his friends at the Guardian, “deniers”).

Mere HER hos Family Security Matters.

Andre kilder: Foreign Policy,

Video: Niall Ferguson om 6 killer apps

En del er nyt, noget er hørt før. Fra juli 2011:

Niall Ferguson: The 6 killer apps of prosperity

Over the past few centuries, Western cultures have been very good at creating general prosperity for themselves. Historian Niall Ferguson asks: Why the West, and less so the rest? He suggests half a dozen big ideas from Western culture — call them the 6 killer apps — that promote wealth, stability and innovation. And in this new century, he says, these apps are all shareable.

TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world’s leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the “Sixth Sense” wearable tech, and “Lost” producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com

Reservelink: TED,

Fremtidens demografi

Fødselstallet falder. Overalt på planeten:

The World Will Be More Crowded – With Old People

Actually, the children aren’t our future.

By Phillip Longman | Sept/Oct 2011

Demography is not destiny, as is sometimes claimed. The human race could be wiped out by a plague or an asteroid, or transformed by some new technology. But no matter what, today’s patterns of fertility, migration, and mortality fundamentally determine how much society will or can change for many generations to come.

And what demography tells us is this: The human population will continue to grow, though in a very different way from in the past. The United Nations’ most recent “mid-range” projection calls for an increase to 8 billion people by 2025 and to 10.1 billion by century’s end.

Mere HER i Foreign Policy.

Audio: Victor Davis Hanson om Victor Davis Hanson

En svensker er en dansker uden hjerne? Det bliver der sagt i denne audio fra R. J. Moeller Show, der mest af alt handler om Davis Hanson selv:

Victor Davis Hanson

A professor of the classics for more than two decades in the California State University system, Dr. Hanson is a columnist at National Review, a senior fellow of military history at Stanford’s Hoover Institution, and the author of more than a dozen books.

VDH, as he’s affectionately known in conservative circles, graciously lent us a 1/2 hour of his time and we covered everything from his monthly lunches with Dr. Thomas Sowell to his Swedish ancestry to the current state of American higher education.

Startes HER – åbner Windows Media Player. Varer 34 minutter.

Andre kilder: A Voice in the Wilderness,

Video: Victor Davis Hanson om krig og lederskab

Et specielt emne her – hvorledes man fører krig. Fra The Heritage Foundation 1.  juli 2011:

Video: Victor Davis Hanson Explains What Real Leadership Is

Doing the right thing often involves doing the unpopular thing, historian and conservative commentator Victor Davis Hanson said yesterday at a Heritage Foundation event in Denver. And the American people are looking for this sort of leadership.

Looking back to the Civil War, World War II and even conflicts in antiquity for examples, Hanson explained that many of history’s great leaders had little regard for their reputations or personal fortunes.

Spol frem 20 minutter frem. Der går flere minutter, før der sker noget. Derefter introduktion og indledende bemærkninger, som man roligt kan springe over:

Opdatering 6. juli 2011:

An Exceptional Fourth of July

Victor Davis Hanson – June 30, 2011

Confidence in the average free citizen made America absolutely exceptional.

For the last 235 years, on the Fourth of July, Americans have celebrated the birth of the United States, and the founding ideas that have made it the most powerful, wealthiest, and freest nation in the history of civilization.

Mere HER hos National Review Online. The Patriot Post her. RealClearPolitics her. Townhall her.

Video: War against Baby Girls

Fra AEI 14. juni 2011 – selektiv abort er et omsiggribende problem:

A Worldwide War against Baby Girls: Sex-Selective Abortion Goes Global

Sex-selective abortion–terminating a pregnancy based on gender–is a modern phenomenon. As the expense of sex-selection technology like ultrasound plummets, it is being used in a growing number of countries, almost universally to eliminate girls, and generally with the assistance of health care professionals. In her new book, Unnatural Selection (PublicAffairs, June 2011), Mara Hvistendahl, a Beijing-based correspondent for Science magazine, documents how this practice has severely altered the natural balance of boys and girls in increasingly many societies, including China, South Korea, Vietnam, India, and the Caucasus republics. Is the worst yet ahead? Is there hope for reversing this scourge? Join us for what promises to be an enlightening–and sobering–discussion with the author and AEI scholar Nicholas Eberstadt.

Panel: Mara Hvistendahl, Nicholas Eberstadt, Danielle Pletka

Den islamiske verden fører også krig imod kvinder:

For Girls, Idealism Can Be Deadly

Dr. Laina Farhat-Holzman – June 15, 2011

President Kennedy urged American youth to consider a stint in the Peace Corps where they could help the world’s poor and spread American values. Thousands have heeded this call, and for many, their time abroad was a valuable learning experience. But for many others, mostly young women, there was a big problem that was swept under the carpet until now: rape. 

The idea that women and men are equally human and entitled to equal opportunities and dignity is very new. The United States and Europe have pioneered this social revolution, but in some places around the world, this notion is either unknown or vigorously rejected. Sub-Saharan Africa and the Muslim world are the worst offenders.

Mere HER hos Family Security Matters.

Og så er ovenstående endda rent flueknepperi. Hvis halvdelen af alle mænd i et samfund har 2 koner, hvem skal den anden halvdel så gifte sig med? Flerkoneri er det største problem af dem alle…

Det Sydkinesiske Hav

Problemer i en overrendt del af Stillehavet - forfatteren hedder Denmark:

Crowded Waters

The superpower battle for regional supremacy in the South China Sea is heating up once again.

By Abraham M. Denmark | June 7, 2011

For the last two years, a quiet showdown has played out over the South China Sea, the body of water bordered by China, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Brunei, the Philippines, and Taiwan. This little-known body of water is of vast strategic importance: Fully one-third of the world’s maritime trade traverses the South China Sea, and some optimistic estimates of its untapped stores of oil and natural gas would make it a second Persian Gulf. The South China Sea is also a major highway linking the oil fields of the Middle East and the factories of East Asia, with more than 80 percent of China’s oil imports (and large percentages for Japan and South Korea as well) flowing over its waters. As influential Asia-watcher Robert D. Kaplan has put it, the South China Sea’s importance to the region makes it the “Asian Mediterranean.”

Mere HER i Foreign Policy.

Opdatering 14. juni 2011:

Turbulent Waters in the South China Sea

Mounting territorial aggression destabilizes the region and puts the global economy at risk

By Michael Auslin – June 14, 2011

If China were a U.S. congressman, it would be Tweeting threatening pictures of its biceps to its rivals.

Beijing recently warned Vietnam and the Philippines not to explore for oil in disputed waters that China claims, and late last month Chinese naval patrol craft allegedly cut the surveying cable of a Vietnamese seismic research boat. Manila’s recent grievances against China are similarly severe. The Philippine government claims that China has harassed its exploration vessels, illegally unloaded supplies to build an oil rig in disputed waters and sent fighter jets into its airspace.

Mere HER i Wall Street Journal. Artiklen er endnu ikke lagt frem her hos AEI, men det plejer at ske.

Video: Allen West, Caroline Glick & Douglas Feith

Uploadet for få timer siden – tre uhyre interessante videoer:

Rep. Allen West: Defense in a Time of Economic Danger

Rep. Allen West (R-FL) spoke to the Center for Security Policy’s National Security Group on Capitol Hill on the topic of defense budget cuts, how much to spend on deterrence, and much more. He spoke at a special event which also included former Undersecretary of Defense Douglas Feith and the Center’s Senior Fellow for Middle East Affairs, Caroline Glick.

Caroline Glick: Whither the ‘Arab Spring’?

The Center’s Senior Fellow for Middle East Affairs, Caroline Glick, spoke to the Center for Security Policy’s National Security Group on Capitol Hill on the topic of the recent ‘Arab Spring’ in the Middle East and what it means for Israel and the United States. She spoke at a special event which also included Rep. Allen West and former Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Doug Feith.

Om the transnational law movement:

Doug Feith: Embracing Transnationalism, Bypassing the Senate

Douglas J. Feith, former Undersecretary of Defense for Policy under the Bush administration, spoke to the Center for Security Policy’s National Security Group on Capitol Hill on the topic of international law. The State Department’s top lawyer, Harold Koh, is a strong proponent of following the “norms” of international law. Now, the Obama administration is making the case that a part of the Geneva Convention that the US has NEVER ratified should be accepted in the United States. He spoke at a special event which also included Rep. Allen West and the Center’s Senior Fellow for Middle East Affairs, Caroline Glick.

Andre kilder: The Jewish Tribune, Center for Security Policy,

Mellemøsten: Christopher Hitchens pessimisme

What I Don’t See at the Revolution

As someone who has witnessed many stages of upheaval, whether in Eastern Europe, Asia, or South Africa, the author puts forth a wary prognosis for the brave Egyptians who thronged Tahrir Square: they likely haven’t got the resources to break the chains of tyranny.

By Christopher Hitchens – April 2011

When anatomizing revolutions, it always pays to consult the whiskered old veterans. Those trying to master a new language, wrote Karl Marx about the turmoil in France in the 19th century, invariably begin haltingly, by translating it back into the familiar tongue they already know. And with his colleague Friedrich Engels he defined a revolution as the midwife by whom the new society is born from the body of the old.

Surveying the seismic-looking events in Tunis and Cairo in January and February of this year, various observers immediately began by comparing them to discrepant precedents. Was this the fall of the Arab world’s Berlin Wall? Or was it, perhaps, more like the “people power” movements in Asia in the mid-1980s? The example of Latin America, with its overdue but rapid escape from military rule in the past decades, was also mentioned. Those with longer memories had fond recollections of the bloodless “red carnation” revolution in Portugal, in 1974: a beautiful fiesta of democracy which also helped to inaugurate Spain’s emancipation from four decades in the shadow of General Franco.

Mere HER i Vanity Fair.

Video: Donald Trump – præsidentkandidat i 2012

Donald Trump meddeler, at han seriøst overvejer at stille op til det amerikanske præsidentvalg, som afholdes den 6. november 2012 og at den officielle meddelelse nok kommer i juni. Udsendelsen her handler bla. om USAs konkurrenceevne, OPEC, Mellemøsten, præsident Obama og mere. 

Newsmax har flere artikler i tilknytning til interviewet, – bla. her, her og her.

Fra 30. og 31.  januar 2011, men først uploadet på YouTube den 21. februar 2011 i to dele – Kathleen Walter interviewer:

Donald Trump: I’ll Probably Run for President in ’12

Jan. 30, 2011 — Real estate mogul Donald Trump tells Newsmax.TV he probably will announce his candidacy for president in June. The New York billionaire is confident he can restore the United States to glory after President Barack Obama has made America “a laughingstock.”

Trump Won’t Tape ‘The Apprentice’ in White House

Jan. 31, 2011 — In part two of an exclusive Newsmax.TV interview, Donald Trump explains where housing, oil, and gold prices are headed. ‘The Apprentice’ host gives viewers a sneak peak at the upcoming season, which features celebs, and says, if elected president, he wouldn’t tape the show at The White House.

Opdatering den 17.maj 2011: Trump siger nu, at han ikke stiller op alligevel, skriver The Washington Times.

Pax Americana?

America Primed

February 23, 2011 – Robert D. Kaplan, Stephen S. Kaplan

THE PAST century has seen a multi-polar world through the end of World War II, a bipolar world through the end of the Cold War and a dissipating unipolar world since. Economic multipolarity is already a reality. And, in military terms, America’s unipolar dominance over the air and sea-lanes will not last forever, given the rise of naval powers across Asia. Moreover, the advantages that accrue to terrorists and insurgents, for whom war is a way of life and who kill indiscriminately, have put tremendous strain on the U.S. security establishment. America’s prospects for global primacy appear bleak.

But in spite of the seemingly inevitable and rapid diminution of U.S. eminence, to write America’s great-power obituary is beyond premature. The United States remains a highly capable power. Iraq and Afghanistan, as horrendous as they have proved to be—in a broad historical sense—are still relatively minor events that America can easily overcome. The eventual demise of empires like those of Ming China and late-medieval Venice was brought about by far more pivotal blunders.

Mere HER i The National Interest.

Arab democracy and the return of the Mediterranean world

By Robert D. Kaplan – February 27, 2011

With the toppling of autocratic regimes in Egypt and Tunisia – and other Arab dictators, such as Libya’s, on the ropes – some have euphorically announced the arrival of democracy in the Middle East. But something more subtle may develop. The regimes that emerge may call themselves democracies and the world may go along with the lie, but the test of a system is how the power relationships work behind the scenes.

In states with relatively strong institutional traditions, such as Tunisia and Egypt, a form of democracy may in fact develop. But places that are less states than geographical expressions, such as Libya and Yemen, are more likely to produce hybrid regimes. Within such systems – with which history is very familiar – militaries, internal security services, tribes and inexperienced political parties compete for influence. The process produces incoherence and instability even as it combines attributes of authoritarianism and democracy. This is not anarchy so much as a groping toward true modernity.

Mere HER i The Washington Post.

Mark Durie om dårlige påhit

Om hvad appeaseniks, halalhippier og humanitærpopulister render rundt og tror:

A Dozen Bad Ideas for the 21st Century

By Mark Durie – February 9, 2011

Here is a list of false beliefs and modes of thought which make it hard for people in the West to come to terms with the challenge of Islam today.  If you are deeply attached to any of these ideas or ways of thinking, you will have difficulty accepting the truth about Islam’s teachings and their impact.

1. The belief that all religions are the same. They are not.  Different faiths make different claims about what is true, and about what is right and wrong and produce radically different societies.  The same is true for different political ideologies: consider the different trajectories of North and South Korea.  Atheists have helped entrench this belief, because to acknowledge material differences between religions would undermine the atheist (and radical secularist) narrative.

Mere HER på Mark Duries blog eller her hos Ruthfully Yours.

Video: Bernard Lewis om muslimer og terror

Fra TVO programmet, Allan Gregg In Conversation. Nyt interview fra i år:

Bernard Lewis on what it means to be Muslim

January 1, 2011  |  Length: 27:02  |  TVO

Bernard Lewis is considered the West’s leading historian and interpreter of the Middle East. With fears of terrorism still of concern to Ontario, Bernard Lewis talks about the forces that drive terrorism. His latest book is “The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror.”

Kan også ses på YouTube her.

Artikler af og om Victor Davis Hanson

Jeg har lige læst de fleste af Victor Davis Hansons artikler fra december og samlet lidt af det bedste fra de sidste to – tre uger – så nu er der lidt at vælge imellem:

How Did All That Happen?

December 28, 2010 – by Victor Davis Hanson

The Improbables

There are a number of improbables, anomalies, paradoxes, ironies, absurdities — call them what you wish – on the national scene that simply defy reason. We usually fault an ignorant media as culpable for creating narratives that have no basis in fact and yet are rarely questioned. Here are some of the glaring examples and you decide how the unlikely became the gospel.

1. How did 20-minutes-of-fame Julian Assange construct the façade of an idealistic crusading electronic muckraker?

He seems much more likely a part P.T. Barnum showman/part celebrity narcissist. While promising to embarrass a number of banks and capitalist CEOs, he just contracted for $1.7 million in book deal advances — after enjoying his house “arrest” at the mansion of a supportive aristocrat, and after protesting the unwanted fame that has come his way rather than to be shared among the WikiLeaks board.

Mere HER hos Pajamas Media eller her i Victor Davis Hanson’s Private Papers. Den næste artikel gav Jeffrey Sachs anledning til at angribe Victor Davis Hanson på amerikansk tv. Man kan se videoen fra MSNBC her  – jeg vil ikke have det smuds embedded her på selve bloggen. Bemeldte artikel:

The Obamaites’ About-Face

By Victor Davis Hanson – December 22, 2010

Like Orwell’s farm animals, we have awakened to see the new commandments on the barnyard wall.

Californians have been experiencing ten days of the wettest, snowiest weather in recent memory. In the usually arid San Joaquin Valley, flooding is ubiquitous. The high Sierra passes are locked in snow well before the first of the year. If the United Kingdom is dealing with the irony of its elites’ recently warning of an end to snow on a now snowy island, out here our version of that embarrassment is water everywhere after Energy Secretary Chu warned us that our farms would blow away and that he could envision an end altogether of California agriculture — logically, he asserted, given that 90 percent of the annual Sierra snowpack would soon disappear.

Mere HER i National Review Online eller her i Victor Davis Hanson’s Private Papers.

When Reason Fades — From Illegal Immigration to Jeffrey Sachs

December 23, 2010 – by Victor Davis Hanson

Illegal Immigration, Race, and Chauvinism

There is nothing about illegal immigration that should ipso facto involve matters of race, culture or ethnicity, given that it is a legal issue at heart. I think the great majority of opponents of open borders would be equally worried should 12 million illegal immigrants come here from a now bankrupt Ireland, Greece, or Portugal. That an illegal alien from a European country would claim my allegiance or empathy on the basis of ethnic solidarity would have zero currency.

So for most of us, the question is primarily a legal one — if federal statutes are not followed, what sanctity is left in the law itself? I am reminded of that classic exchange between Crito and Socrates, when the former urges the latter to break out of jail, disobey the law and its death sentence, and ignore what they both feel was an unfair verdict. Socrates, inter alia, reminds Crito that the individual cannot pick and choose his own level of compliance with those statutes he finds distasteful or inconvenient.

Mere HER i Pajamas Media eller her i Victor Davis Hanson’s Private Papers. Mange har reageret på anbrebet på Victor Davis Hanson. Her er en af dem:

Jeffrey Sachs’ Vicious Attack on Victor Davis Hanson Goes on “Morning Joe” Without Condemnation. Joe and MSNBC Must Apologize!

December 23, 2010 – by Ron Radosh

As readers of my blog know, I usually watch MSNBC’s Morning Joe program most days, because it’s the only early morning show that sometimes has serious and meaningful discussions about American politics.

Today, however, was one of the program’s most low points.

Mere HER i Pajamas Media eller her hos Free Republic. Og lidt om uddannelsessystemet og venstrefløjen i USA:

In Defense of the Liberal Arts

By Victor Davis Hanson – December 16, 2010

The therapeutic Left and the utilitarian Right both do disservice to the humanities.

The liberal arts face a perfect storm. The economy is struggling with obscenely high unemployment and is mired in massive federal and state deficits. Budget cutting won’t spare education.

The public is already angry over fraud, waste, and incompetence in our schools and universities. And in these tough times, taxpayers rightly question everything about traditional education — from teachers’ unions and faculty tenure to the secrecy of university admissions policies to which courses really need to be taught.

Mere HER i National Reviw Online eller her i Townhall. Den næste artikel har fået fantastisk meget omtale:

Two Californias

By Victor Davis Hanson – December 15, 2010

Abandoned farms, Third World living conditions, pervasive public assistance — welcome to the once-thriving Central Valley.

The last three weeks I have traveled about, taking the pulse of the more forgotten areas of central California. I wanted to witness, even if superficially, what is happening to a state that has the highest sales and income taxes, the most lavish entitlements, the near-worst public schools (based on federal test scores), and the largest number of illegal aliens in the nation, along with an overregulated private sector, a stagnant and shrinking manufacturing base, and an elite environmental ethos that restricts commerce and productivity without curbing consumption.

Mere HER i National Review Online eller her i Victor Davis Hanson’s Private Papers. Artiklen ovenfor om “Two Californias” bliver rost af blandt andre Thomas Sowell:

Mascot Politics

Thomas Sowell – January 4, 2011

Dr. Victor Davis Hanson’s quietly chilling article, “Two Californias,” in National Review Online, ought to be read by every American who is concerned about where this country is headed. California is leading the way, but what is happening in California is happening elsewhere– and is a slow poison that is being largely ignored.

Mere HER i Townhall eller her hos Investors. Og en interessant fortælling om Grækenland og Californien:

Raging Against “Them”

January 2, 2011 – by Victor Davis Hanson

It’s All Greek to Us

In very un-Icelandic fashion, last week protestors in Athens tried to blow up a downtown courthouse. Over a year after the Hellenic meltdown, the Greek newspapers still reflect the popular fury—protests, strikes, senseless violence—at the mandatory cutbacks, the public sector layoffs, and the high-interest needed to attract investors to shaky Greek bonds. And yet amid the furor, 60% of the public still polls in favor of the European Union. How are we to diagnose the drowning non-swimmer who eagerly grasps—and yet hates—the life preserver?

National Review Online HER eller her i Victor Davis Hanson’s Private Papers. Og om Mexikanske indvandrere:

The Manhattan Project of Illegal Immigration

by Victor Davis Hanson – January 4, 2011

Why do millions of Mexican nationals see America as racist, exploitative — and worth everything to get to and stay in?

We all are familiar with the debates surrounding illegal immigration: absolute versus flexible laws; amnesty versus deportation or earned citizenship; closed versus open borders; entitlement dependency versus work no one else will do.

We also know the debates over the causation of this perfect storm that has resulted in 12 to 15 million illegal aliens residing in the United States. Was it the Right’s desire for cheap labor or the Left’s wish for more constituents, or both?

Mere HER i Victor Davis Hanson’s Private Papers eller her i National Review Online.

Paradoxes of the Present Age, Profound and Trivial

by Victor Davis Hanson – December 22, 2010

Sometimes reality seems at odds with perceived wisdom. Yet these disconnects rarely seem to enter public discussion. Here are a few examples, big and small.

The Axis of Evil and Unending Wars

The Korean mess [1] reminds us again of who was and who was not in the ill-famed “axis of evil” as articulated in January 2002. Germany, Japan, and Vietnam were not, all once bitter foes of the United States. The former two were defeated and their hostility ended in reformed, postwar democratic governments. The latter won a political victory over the United States, and the question whether there would be a South Vietnam analogous to an independent South Korea was answered in the negative.

Mere HER i Victor Davis Hanson’s Private Papers eller her hos Pajamas Media.

Edward Luttwak om Korea-konflikten

The Guns of December

It’s about time South Korea started shooting back.

By Edward Luttwak | December 21, 2010

It is hard to recall a better example of successful deterrence than what failed to happen on Monday, Dec. 20, on the Korean peninsula. That was the planned date of a South Korean artillery drill on Yeonpyeong Island, just seven and half miles from the North Korean mainland, but 50 miles from Inchon, the nearest South Korean port. Determined to intimidate Seoul into calling off the artillery exercise — 94 minutes of live fire — Pyongyang issued a veritable cascade of threats.

First, the North Korean Foreign Ministry officially declared that because the South was so reckless, the matter would be left entirely in the hands of the military command, which had been given full freedom of action. Ratcheting it up from there, the North Korean military spokesman declared that if the South fired its guns at all, their reaction would be: fierce, devastating, drastic, and/or catastrophic, depending on the translation. But the highest note in the crescendo came from Sin Son-ho, the dapper North Korean ambassador to the United Nations, who solemnly warned that if war broke out, it would not be confined to the Korean peninsula and might easily spread worldwide.

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Video: Yaakov Kirschen på Yale University

For anden gang på kort tid, – en forelæsning med manden bag “Dry Bones” – uploadet for et par dage siden:

Yaakov Kirschen – “Memetics and the Viral Spread of Antisemitism…”

Title: “Memetics and the Viral Spread of Antisemitism Through ‘Coded Images’ in Political Cartoons”

Speaker: Yaakov Kirschen, Visiting Fellow (Artist in Residence), YIISA; Cartoonist – “Dry Bones”

Date: Thursday, October 21, 2010

Location: The Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism (YIISA), Yale University, New Haven, CT

Video: Robert D. Kaplan om landene omkring Det Indiske Ocean

Robert Kaplan er en travl mand for tiden, - han er overalt. Her er noget at vælge imellem:

Author Robert Kaplan discusses new book and the rise of the Indian Ocean

Robert Kaplan, author of “Monsoon: The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power” sat down in October 2010 with Nicholas Burns, director of the Belfer Center’s Future of Diplomacy Project, to discuss the growing importance of the Indian Ocean in international affairs.

Monsoon: The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power with Robert Kaplan

On October 25, 2010, Robert Kaplan visited the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs to discuss his new book, “Monsoon: The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power.” Kaplan current serves as a senior fellow at the Center for New American Security and as national correspondent for The Atlantic.

Interview med Victor Davis Hanson

The Saturday Interview: Victor Davis Hanson ‘therapeutic’ culture heart of U.S. problem

By Kevin Libin - Dec. 10, 2010

Victor Davis Hanson has a tragic view of the universe. It comes naturally. As a former professor of classics, decades of working with Homer, Sophocles, Virgil and Horace, Greek history and studying ancient warfare, he says, have taught him that there are certain “immutable laws.” We all age and die. Humans are selfish. Power is might.

Of course, being a farmer has a way of nurturing a certain fatalism, too. Though he’s a winner of the National Humanities Medal and the $250,000 Bradley Prize for intellectual accomplishment, when Mr. Hanson’s not working at Stanford’s Hoover Institution, he’s on the three-hour drive to, or at, his San Joaquin valley raisin grape farm in Selma County, the poorest county in California.

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