The Real Tragedy of the Odyssey

EBL: The Odyssey and Michael Knowles Review

Tablet: The Odyssey: Epic movie or epic failure?

AoSHQ: Morning Report 07.21.26

VDH: Zelensky Takeaways

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RedState: Shock Poll Post Zelensky Blow Up (Zelensky choose poorly)

EBL: Ukrainian folk songs, Good: Europe can defend Ukraine from now on..., Lindsey Graham: Zelensky has destroyed the relationship between Ukraine and the United States 🤯, Zelensky Conference Turns Into 💩 Show 🤯, Ukrainian Beggars can't be choosers, Backstabbing Zelensky, Ukraine Resistance to Putin: Day 1, and Fat Vindman

TOM: Ain’t I Done Told Y’all? Democrats Pushed Zelenskyy to Sabotage White House Deal, Zelenskyy Self-Destructed, So Why Are Media Acting Like Trump Is to Blame?, and Zelenskyy Gets Pimp-Slapped on Live TV by Trump in White House Meeting

Instapundit: Offramps to nowhere, Mend the rift, and UK and EU and the "Collation of the Willing"?

Legal Insurrection: Trump pausing military aid to Ukraine and Trump holds all the cards...

Townhall:  What does Ukraine have to do to resent: Trump explains

Revolver: Why Lindsey Graham turned on Zelensky so fast...

RedState: Trump decides on Ukraine aid following Zelensky

AoSHQ: VDH and Morning Report 03.03.25

Federalist: Zelensky blows up peace talks

Mark Steyn: Give War A Chance

Secretary of State @marcorubio is one of President Trump’s best picks.

He has given a master class these past couple of weeks and has been a brilliant diplomat.

He left George Stephanopoulos speechless…

PEACE, NO MORE WARS, & America First!🇺🇸✌️☮️pic.twitter.com/lsHoCWMCyP

— Amy Kremer (@AmyKremer) March 2, 2025

Waltz tells what happened after the fight in the Oval Office - the Ukrainian team was in tears, but Zelensky stayed argumentative

Q: After the press left, you and Rubio told Zelensky he should leave the White House?

Waltz: We had a meeting, and advised the president that after… pic.twitter.com/JoN2zEGP8G

— Tymofiy Mylovanov (@Mylovanov) March 2, 2025

NSA Advisor Mike Waltz Crushing it right now on CNN.
“It was not clear that Zelensky shared our goal and bringing an end to this war”
“To come into the Oval Office with body language shaking your head & arms crossed is disrespectful”
“Hypocrite Democrats had no problem… pic.twitter.com/cK29NvntwC

— Johnny St.Pete (@JohnMcCloy) March 2, 2025

Victor Davis Hanson: "The FBI is beyond redemption"

Instapundit: Legal Insurrection: Victor Davis Hanson: "The FBI is beyond dedemption."

What the FBI has become is a disaster for the Nation.

EBL: MAGA FBI Panty Raid 😬☀️, So now the speculation is the FBI was searchingfor secret nuclear military codes in Trump's mementos...🤔😕😬, Mar-a-Lago Raid: It wasn't Merrick Garland, it was Christopher Wray?,  and So what were the DOJ and FBI up to today? 🤔😬

Breitbart: Chuck Grassley promises that a GOP Senate will investigate Mar-a-Lago Raid

Why Victor Davis Hanson Left National Review

 

Real Clear Politics: Victor Davis Hanson explains why he left...

It is not so much VDH left NR, but NR left VDH...

National Review is dead. It mostly died when WFB, Jr. passed away (although certainly in decline before that) and later when it abandoned Mark Steyn. And while I thought WFB, Jr. was a hero (like Rush Limbaugh did), you have to ask why so many alumni from NR betray conservative ideals. From David Brooks on down they tend to be the most craven sort of whores (happy to take a check to betray conservatism, regardless of who is in office). True conservatives from National Review?  There are a few, but not many. The whole #NeverTrumper hissy fit ultimately destroyed what was left of NR. VDH is better freelancing on his own.  

The only good thing you can say about National Review now is it is not quite as bad as William Kristol and the Weekly Standard (although NR alumni David French is right up there). It has essentially hit the same reef and the ship is taking on water fast. #Ahoy.

RedState was almost just as bad as the Weakly Standard, until Salem purged it.

Why do most National Review alumni suck ass? 🤷🏻‍♀️ https://t.co/3awfJWZrYz

— Evi L. Bloggerlady (@MsEBL) October 1, 2021

AoSHQ: Morning Report 10.06.21

Mark Judge: Fun Triggers The Stasi

Instapundit: VDH left NR for the same reason Sarah Hoyt stopped reading it...

Protein Wisdom: HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE F-BOMB

TOM: The Biden Administration’s Blame Game and the Sad Fate of #NeverTrump and Jonah Goldberg only steals from the best...

Who Is Attacking Conservatives?

Tucker Carlson is getting attacked by Media Matters. Anyone who has been paying attention knows that Media Matters is evil and depraved. 

We also saw this week Facebook banning ZeroHedge. Facebook fortunately backed own on that, but why did it happen in the first place? Why do these mistakes only happen to those on the right (or in ZeroHedge's case libertarian)?

Who needs Media Matters though when you have RealConservatives™attacking Victor David Hanson? Why would they do this? Because Hanson had the temerity of defending Trump.  

“Their entire purpose for existence is to take out conservatives. . . They’re a partisan hit squad trying to delegitimize & de-platform conservatives; serious-minded people should understand this is political warfare & tell MMFA to go pound sand.” https://t.co/sHUKmoEy2s

— Ned Ryun (@nedryun) March 12, 2019

Victory Girls: Tucker Carlson Will Not Apologize

Powerline: Facebook Bans ZeroHedge and Trump right about campus free speech executive order

AoSHQ: Media Matters: Jews, Japs, and Trannies, Oh My and Morning Report 03.13.19: This Is How We Got Obama

TOM: Rage Mob, Tucker Carlson: Still Not Sorry, Democrats and the 'Sailer Strategy', and Tucker Carlson: Sorry, Not Sorry

Obama was against Crooked Hillary before he was for her...

Instapundit: Victor Davis Hanson: On The Great Regression

Granite Grok: Obama was against Crooked Hillary before he was for her

Huffington Post: How can black people trust Hillary Clinton after her 2008 campaign? 

Hillary Clinton criticizes Obama's foreign policy: But the biggest mistake of all, Libya, was done under the recommendations of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton...

Does Obama even like Hillary Clinton?

Obama painted Clinton as a “corporate lawyer sitting on the board at Walmart” and famously cracked in a debate that he was “likable enough.”

Hillary Clinton and her husband were accused of being overly dismissive and using racially coded attacks against the freshman senator from Illinois.

Chuck Norris:  Not only would her presidency be “Obama, the Sequel,” but she would be an unbridled, more powerful, mega-wealthy, powder-keg Obama personality.

Memorial Day: Remember Pearl Harbor

Photograph of Ford Island and Battle Ship Row taken by Japanese Forces

Victor Davis Hanson responds to Barack Obama's upcoming Hiroshima Trip: 

What about Pearl Harbor?

Victor Davis Hanson: Hiroshima and Nagasaki must be considered in context

What Obama and Rhodes should read before going to Hiroshima https://t.co/0C3XXWteNr

— John Podhoretz (@jpodhoretz) May 10, 2016

President Obama Gives One Of The Most Repulsive Speeches In American History In Hiroshima https://t.co/JWtSYTqOSH pic.twitter.com/ciXMRg9t2O

— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) May 27, 2016

RedState: Obama: Do as I say, not as I do

EBL: When Barack Obama goes to Hiroshima, Happy Hiroshima Day, and Nagasaki (the right decision)

Twitchy: What If (doesn't Amazon Prime have a series showing this very thing)

Instapundit: Brian Williams is a disgrace and Job not done? What's next in store?

AoSHQ: Brian Williams can go fuck himself

The Last Refuge: The real reason for the last weekend of May

So why is Hillary Clinton backing the Iran Deal?

Come on Glenn, Roger and VDH, it is not just Barack Obama pulling Hillary's strings!

Here is another Sound of Music reference.  

Legal Insurrection: Feds move in on Hillary's server and thumb drives and perjury trap?

WHY HILLARY SUPPORTS THE IRAN DEAL: “Hillary Clinton is in such deep legal trouble over her e... http://t.co/H12nGpu9PE via @instapundit

— Instapundit.com (@instapundit) August 11, 2015

Instapundit: Paint me green and call me Esmeralda, the Clinton probe spreads to key allies and everyone must understand the American era is over and Obama is welcoming it

Lem's Levity: Top Secret Emails Found on Hillary's Server, Image most downloaded by foreign hackers of Hillary's emails, and Hillary to give her private email server to Justice

.@HillaryClinton 3/10/15: 'I did not email any classified material to anyone on my email. There is no classified material.' Yes, there is.

— Ron Fournier (@ron_fournier) August 11, 2015

The Corner/National Journal: Jonah, Sexton, and Fournier

Susannah Merry Hanson RIP

RIP: My condolences to her family and to her father Victor Davis Hanson

If only Hillary Clinton engaged al Qaeda like this…

Instapundit: Hillary Clinton up to her old tricks?

Instapundit and VDH ask if we are all Clintoned out…

300: Rise of an Empire (Trailer 2)

300: Rise of an Empire (Trailer 1)

Victor Davis Hanson on the Obama Breaking point...

Victor Hanson clarifies where the election is at quite well:  

In the first debate, Romney was not just far better-informed and spoken, but far more likeable. Joe Biden’s frenzied rudeness was the sort of debate performance that mesmerizes one by its very boorishness, eliciting a weird reaction in the room like “Come over and check this out: I can’t believe the Vice president of the United States is trumping The Joker” (after all, the sick Joker is more entertaining that the sober and judicious Batman) — but within hours leaves a bitter aftertaste in the mouth of something along the lines of “Surely, we could have done better than that rude buffoon?”The election is not over, but it is starting to resemble October 29 or November 1 in 1980, when, after just one debate, the nation at last decided that it really did not like Jimmy Carter very much or what he had done, and discovered that Ronald Reagan was not the mad Dr. Strangelove/Jefferson Davis of the Carter summer television ads. Like Carter, Obama both has no wish to defend his record (who would?) and is just as petulant. In the next three weeks, he has only three hours left to save his presidency.

This is very similar to what Brit Hume noted after the first Obama-Romney debate.  It was not that Romney overwhelmed Obama in debating style (although Romney did do well and Obama seemed flat), but that Obama lost that debate because Obama had a bad record to defend.

Of course, townhall debates can be unpredictable.  Both sides are unsure what sort of factor will Candy Crowley be at the event.   But unless Obama has some fabulous night tomorrow, Obama is being buried by his own record.

And given the first debate, what can Barack Obama really do?  Unlike the Reagan-Mondale debates (where Reagan had a bad first debate night), Reagan also had a record to actually defend (unlike Obama).  And he was Ronald Reagan:

h/t:  The Blogmocracy

The Boston Globe corrects itself: No proof of Elizabeth Warren being Native American...

The Boston Globe finally catches up to where most other people have been for a while now:

Correction: Because of a reporting error, a story in the May 1 Metro section and the accompanying headline incorrectly described the 1894 document that was purported to list Elizabeth Warren’s great-great-great grandmother as a Cherokee. The document, alluded to in a family newsletter found by the New England Historic Genealogical Society, was an application for a marriage license,  not the license itself. Neither the society nor the Globe has seen the primary document, whose existence has not been proven.

Translation of these smoke signals:  Elizabeth Warren appears to be a pale face!  


And the only proof of connection to the Cherokee so far:  One of her relatives helped round up the tribe for the Trail of Tears to Oklahoma.  


Update:  Bob Belevedere has a post linking to Victor Davis Hanson on this subject.  Definitely worth reading.  Bob and VDH are both spot on  (Bob's criticism is justified but at least VDH gets to where he needs to get).  


First Harvard woman of color?  Well technically pinkish is a color, but she was hardly the first woman.

A wonderful commentary on Christopher Hitchens...

Father Barron discusses Christopher Hitchens

H/T to Michael Potemra and K-Lo at the Corner

I will miss Christopher Hitchens.

Update:  How not to be an atheist activist.  The amazing thing about Christopher is most believers (of the religious bent) did not hate him for his atheism activism, and in fact, many loved him and were big fans.  Ironically it is the left that seemed to have more problems with Hitchens because they thought he betrayed their religious dogma.  

Update II:  Great comments by VDH