http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/hanson/ en-us Thu, 10 Jul 2008 09:41:23 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2043312/posts Almost everyone is talking about Barack Obama’s flip-flops, as the Senate’s most liberal member steadily moves to the political center and disowns firebrands like Rev. Jeremiah Wright and Fr. Michael Pfleger. But less noticed is that Obama is not just deflating John McCain’s efforts to hold him to his long liberal record, but also embracing much of the present agenda of an unpopular President Bush on a wide variety of fronts. Take social issues. Obama is now a gun-rights advocate. Like Bush, he applauded the Supreme Court’s overturning of a Washington, D.C., ordinance banning the possession of handguns. The senator,... Primetime Politics http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2043312/posts#comment Thu, 10 Jul 2008 09:41:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2022886/posts Victor Davis Hanson, a former classics professor, is a renowned conservative scholar of ancient history and military affairs who's recently become a nationally syndicated columnist and blogger. The author of 17 books with titles like "A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War," "An Autumn of War" and "Mexifornia: A State of Becoming," he is the senior fellow in residence in classics and military history at the Hoover Institution on the Stanford University campus. Hanson, whose scholarship and interest in individual freedom recently earned him a 2008 Bradley Prize worth $250,000 from the Bradley... FrontPageMagazine.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2022886/posts#comment Thu, 29 May 2008 11:41:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2001066/posts "You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them...And they fell through the Clinton Administration, and the Bush Administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations." Here is what Sen. Obama now says... National Review Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2001066/posts#comment Sun, 13 Apr 2008 22:27:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1990879/posts . . . Over the past four days, I asked seven or eight random (Asian, Mexican-American, and working-class white) Americans in southern California what they thought of Obama’s candidacy — and framed the question with, “Don’t you think that was a good speech?” The answers, without exception, were essentially: “Forget the speech. I would never vote for Obama after listening to Wright.” In some cases, the reaction was not mild disappointment, but unprintable outrage. . . . The sure thing of Democrats winning big in the House and Senate is now in danger of a scenario in which a would-be... NRO (National Review Online) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1990879/posts#comment Mon, 24 Mar 2008 21:09:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1984931/posts Gaza erupted in celebration last week to the news that a Palestinian had murdered Jewish religious students in Jerusalem. And almost daily terrorists send rockets from Gaza into nearby Israeli cities, hoping to kill civilians and provoke Israeli counter-responses — and perhaps start another Middle East war. This is not the way some imagined Gaza two and half years after the Israelis withdrew both civilians and soldiers from the territory in September 2005. At the time, the Palestinian Authority controlled Gaza, but in early 2007, Hamas took over in a violent civil war, claiming legitimacy after once winning a popular... Primetime Politics http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1984931/posts#comment Thu, 13 Mar 2008 10:11:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1973166/posts Kosovo Was Then, This Is Now... [Victor Davis Hanson] Quite apart from the undeniable merits of independence, in political terms Kosovo 2008 is not quite Kosovo of 1998. Let us count the post-9/11 ways: 1. The rise of radical Islam, especially in Europe, has made Western publics edgy about Muslim-identified states, especially inside Europe. 2. Russia is no longer a basket case, but rearming, aggressive, overflowing with petro-dollars, and eager to use oil — and more — as a weapon. 3. Milosevic is long dead. 4. For six years there has been a steady anti-American drumbeat in Europe and caricatures... National Review Corner http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1973166/posts#comment Wed, 20 Feb 2008 05:15:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1971170/posts Vikings Go On Rampage At Lodge Presumedly seeking revenge against the Mid-Atlantic Hockey League for calling it quits in the middle of the season, several players with the Jamestown Vikings trashed the historic Vikings Lodge on the corner of Washington and West Fourth Street early Thursday, leaving most of the building in shambles. Trash and debris were everywhere, especially on the second and third floors where the stench of beer and rotting food was almost overpowering. Bar stools were smashed through doors, and virtually every piece of glass in the building had been shattered, the broken shards unavoidable underfoot. ‘‘They... The Post Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1971170/posts#comment Sat, 16 Feb 2008 00:06:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1939334/posts Last week’s U.S. National Intelligence Estimate states, with “high confidence,” that Iran quit trying to get a nuclear bomb in late 2003. That’s exactly the opposite of what the NIE reported just two years ago, when it claimed Iran’s ruling mullahs were still developing nuclear weapons. The reaction here at home to the new NIE was a good deal clearer than the often mealy-mouthed wording of the report. By an overwhelming margin, according to a Rasmussen poll conducted after the new NIE report’s findings were made public, Americans don’t buy that Iran has quit trying to go nuclear. They may... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1939334/posts#comment Fri, 14 Dec 2007 12:18:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1927331/posts C-SPAN2 (Book TV) airing a Manhattan Institute immigration panel featuring conservative heavy hitters Heather MacDonald, Victor Davis Hanson, and Steven Malanga, coauthors of The Immigration Solution. Panel was taped on 10/29/07 and reairs on Sunday at 2 a.m. and at noon, ET. Program is one hour. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1927331/posts#comment Sun, 18 Nov 2007 01:01:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1916123/posts At first glance, it would seem a straightforward thing to stop a relatively weak but volatile Iran from obtaining a nuclear bomb. It would also seem to be something a concerned world community would be actively working to do. After all, the Sunni Arab states surrounding Iran don’t want a Shiite nuclear power on their borders. Europe, which isn’t all that far from Tehran and lacks a missile-defense shield, certainly doesn’t want to be in range of Iran’s missiles. Israel can’t tolerate an Iranian theocracy both promising to wipe it off the map and then brazenly obtaining the means to... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1916123/posts#comment Thu, 25 Oct 2007 12:07:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1882545/posts Hanson cites Bible urination as reason to stop immigration Thursday Aug 16 10:00 AEST By Hal Crawford ninemsn http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=286783 A resurgent Pauline Hanson has called for an end to Muslim immigration to Australia in a fiery television appearance peppered with references to female genital mutilation, terrorism and urinating on Bibles. Ms Hanson, the 53-year-old former One Nation leader, appeared on Nine's TODAY to promote her new Pauline's United Australia Party. ninemsn http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1882545/posts#comment Fri, 17 Aug 2007 14:02:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1863558/posts Is “ho”—the rapper slang for the slur “whore”—a bad word? Always, sometimes, or just when an obnoxious white male like Don Imus says it? But not when the equally obnoxious Snoop Dogg serially employs it? Is the Iraq war, as we are often told, the “greatest mistake” in our nation’s history? Because Israel and the United States have a bomb, is it then O.K. for theocratic Iran to have one too? Americans increasingly cannot seem to answer questions like these adequately because they are blissfully uneducated. They have not acquired a broad knowledge of language, literature, philosophy, and history. Sometime... american.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1863558/posts#comment Tue, 10 Jul 2007 13:31:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1779361/posts We’re sorry to see the lively debate on Iraq between Max Boot and Victor Davis Hanson end today. You can follow the debate’s fascinating progress below: Boot I • Hanson I • Boot II • Hanson II • Boot III • Hanson III • Boot IV • Hanson IV Click on Source for links Commentary magazine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1779361/posts#comment Mon, 5 Feb 2007 13:31:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1775841/posts WASHINGTON, D.C. (ELCA) -- As the U.S. Congress debates its response to the dispatch of additional troops to Iraq, the Rev. Mark S. Hanson, presiding bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), sent a message Jan. 26 to ordained and professional lay leaders of the ELCA, asking them to engage ELCA congregations in dialogue on the war and to continue to pray for peace. In his letter, "A Call to Conversation on Iraq," Hanson encouraged ELCA members to engage in the national debate on the nature and direction of the Iraq war with "intentionality, seriousness and vigor." "We... ELCA News Service http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1775841/posts#comment Tue, 30 Jan 2007 01:44:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1771850/posts Let me start black history month a few weeks early. Barack Obama has plans of running for President of the United States, But will he be the first Black President or the 8th Black President? I know this posting will stir controversty but George Washington was not the first President of the U.S. Let's take a look at history. A "Black" Man, A Moor, John Hanson Was the First President of the United States! 1781-1782 A.D.??? George Washington was really the 8th President of the United States! George Washington was not the first President of the United States. In fact,... The TMB http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1771850/posts#comment Mon, 22 Jan 2007 22:38:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1747258/posts December 01, 2006, 0:00 a.m. War StoriesTwo versions of what we should do next. By Victor Davis Hanson Five years after September 11, and three-and-a-half years after toppling Saddam Hussein, the U.S. is almost as angry at itself as it is at the enemy. Two quite antithetical views of the war on terror — and indeed, the entire American role in the Middle East — are now crystallizing. Ideology and political affiliation are no longer necessarily touchstones to either opinion — not at a time when The Nation and The American Conservative share the same views on Iraq and... National Review Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1747258/posts#comment Sat, 2 Dec 2006 01:58:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1731042/posts ELCA NEWS SERVICE November 2, 2006 ELCA Presiding Bishop, LWF President Preaches in Historic 'Black Church' 06-165-JB [Click for larger image] ELCA Presiding Bishop and LWF President Mark Hanson greets pastors and parishioners at the Black Church in Transylvania following his Reformation Day sermon. BRASOV, Transylvania (ELCA) -- Preaching in a historic Lutheran church here on Reformation Day, Oct. 31, was a "great privilege" and "very moving" experience, said the Rev. Mark S. Hanson, presiding bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) and president of the Lutheran World Federation (LWF), as he concluded an eight-day visit to Hungary... ELCA News Service http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1731042/posts#comment Thu, 2 Nov 2006 22:07:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1709008/posts I just arrived back to California after a wonderful five-week teaching stint at Hillsdale College in Michigan—to blue skies, raisins safely in the roll, the farm in good shape thanks to the renter and my son, and constant televised clips from Bill Clinton’s embarrassing, but staged rant. Why when leaving office did we hear little, if any, second guessing—much less criticism of their successors—from Gerry Ford, Ronald Reagan, or George Bush, Sr.—but lots of self-serving revisionism from Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton? Ford and the elder Bush, after all, were both defeated at the polls and might have voiced hurt... Pajamas Media http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1709008/posts#comment Wed, 27 Sep 2006 03:52:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1706563/posts But what does the newly released tape tell us? Was 9/11 a result of American support for Israel? Or the presence of our troops in Saudi Arabia, or the U.N. embargo of Iraq -- the grievances that bin Laden himself in 1998 cited as grounds for murdering Americans? Not according to two of the captioned "Martyrs of the Manhattan Raid," who spoke freely in this newly released tape. Saudi nationals Hamza al-Ghamdi (who helped crash Flight 175 into the South Tower of the World Trade Center) and Wail al-Shehri (who joined Mohammed Atta on Flight 11 to topple the North... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1706563/posts#comment Fri, 22 Sep 2006 20:58:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1703064/posts Depressing Times Oriana Fallaci, RIP, the Pope, and a Sad Age Rarely has the death of a public intellectual affected me as much as the passing of Oriana Fallaci. I never met her, and only received a brief note once from her accompanying a copy of The Rage and the Pride. The story of her career is well known, but her death, at this pivotal time, was full of paradoxes and yet instruction as well. Radical Islam is, among other things, a patriarchal movement, embedded particularly in the cult of the Middle-Eastern male, who occupies a privileged position in a... Work and Days http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1703064/posts#comment Sun, 17 Sep 2006 15:35:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1666172/posts The Bush administration should stop repeating that it is fighting the war on terror for truth, justice and the American way. Instead, the president and his staff should be blunt and explain that, since September 11, 2001, it has had to choose between options that are bad or far worse. By all means, the administration should invite critics to suggest constructive alternatives to the way it has handled this war. But it should also point out that those who have honed in on flaws in current U.S. antiterror policies have so far been bereft of other workable ideas. Take the... WashTimes http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1666172/posts#comment Sat, 15 Jul 2006 12:53:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1598422/posts They’re just as bad as we are, only worse. The prison at Guantanamo Bay was designed to interrogate terrorists and jihadists swept up from the battlefield: the idea was to keep them as prisoners of war in a war that was undeclared, and as enemy combatants without uniforms or officers. It had a no-win mandate, and will probably close soon due to international outcries about its supposed barbarity. Yet, for all the fury about its existence, not a single detainee has died there in over four years of operation. In contrast, the European Milosevic just dropped dead while under custody... National Review Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1598422/posts#comment Fri, 17 Mar 2006 23:00:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1579539/posts It is easy to damn the 1930s appeasers of Hitler — such as Stanley Baldwin and Neville Chamberlain in England and Edouard Daladier in France — given what the Nazis ultimately did when unleashed. But history demands not merely recognizing the truth post facto, but also trying to reconstruct the rationale of something that now in hindsight seems inexplicable. Appeasement in the 1930s was popular with the European public for a variety of reasons. All of them are instructive in our hesitation about stopping a nuclear Iran, or about defending the right of Western newspapers to print what they wish... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1579539/posts#comment Thu, 16 Feb 2006 08:06:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1518190/posts Did Joseph Wilson expose his own wife as a CIA employee months before columnist Robert Novak published that information? Fox News military analyst and retired Major General Paul E. Vallely is being threatened with a lawsuit for saying that the answer is yes, and that he was there when Wilson confirmed her CIA status. What's more, Vallely tells Accuracy in Media that he is prepared if necessary to go to court to prove it. He may have to. Wilson's attorney, Christopher Wolf, categorically rejects Vallely's claim. He tells AIM, "It never happened I can assure you that. Vallely is making... Accuracy in Media http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1518190/posts#comment Tue, 8 Nov 2005 19:54:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1494538/posts On Sunday, October 2 at 10:45 pm A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War Victor Davis Hanson Description: Author and military historian Victor Davis Hanson speaks about his new book, "A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War." It chronicles the 27-year battle fought around 400 B.C. between Athens and Sparta. Mr. Hanson draws some parallels between the Greek war and the wars of today, including the present war in Iraq. The book classifies the Peloponnesian War as one consisting of enormous battles (on land and at... Book TV Schedule http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1494538/posts#comment Sat, 1 Oct 2005 00:25:08 GMT