“Gas prices in many parts of the country are nearing $4 a gallon; it could get even worse as unrest spreads throughout the oil-exporting Middle East. Yet the Obama administration once again seems to see no crisis. It has curtailed new leases for offshore oil exploration for seven years and exempted thousands of acres in the West from new drilling. It will not reconsider opening up small areas of Alaska with known large oil reserves.” YearsCountrySeemsKnownMiddleAreasCrisisWestSevenSpreadOilEastOpeningAdministrationGasExplorationMiddle EastReservesSeven YearsAlaskaOpening UpAcresUnrestGallonsDrillingLeaseGas PricesOffshoreExporting Author:Victor Davis Hanson
“This is something that Donald Trump has been very effective at exploiting because throughout our history, one of the things that was important to galvanize the country against a perceived threat has been philology.” Has BeensImportantCountryTrumpThreatPhilology Author:Victor Davis Hanson
“There's just no - nothing like this country, which is the only, really, multiracial country that's tried to share in a common culture in the history of civilization that's pulled it off. A lot of the times, we want perfection. If we're not perfect, we're not good.” IfsWantCountryCulturePerfectCommonShareCivilizationPerfectionNot PerfectMultiracialCommon Culture Author:Victor Davis Hanson
“A country that cannot count its own illegal aliens - estimates range from 8-12 million - with a porous 2,000 mile border is not secure despite twelve carrier battle groups. We must accept that it is a cornerstone of Mexican foreign policy to export illegally each year a million of its own to the United States to avoid needed reform at home and to influence American domestic policy.” YearsCountryStatesHomeUnitedAcceptingMillionsUnited StatesGroupsInfluencePolicyNeededBattleMilesDespiteSecureAliensReformRangeBordersIllegalForeign PolicyTwelveMexicanCornerstonesCarrierIllegal AliensDomestic Policy Author:Victor Davis Hanson
“Obama's immigration legacy will be the juxtaposition of his serial insistence that he was not a king or an emperor, and could not contravene the Constitution by granting a blanket amnesty, with his efforts to do just that when it was no longer politically inexpedient. I don't think a president has ever quite so habitually warned the country of the dangers that would soon emanate from himself.” ThinkingCountryPresidentEffortDangerKingsConstitutionImmigrationLegacyBlanketEmperorNotableSerialsInsistenceAmnestyEmanateJuxtaposition Author:Victor Davis Hanson
“California is now a valuable touchstone to the country, a warning of what not to do. Rarely has a single generation inherited so much natural wealth and bounty from the investment and hard work of those more noble now resting in our cemeteries-and squandered that gift within a generation.” CountryHardPoliticsNaturalWealthGenerationsHard WorkInvestmentValuableNobleCaliforniaWarningCemeteryBountyTouchstones Author:Victor Davis Hanson
