Has Tucker Carlson begun to push a new isolationism that is dividing the conservative movement? That’s among the questions addressed by Victor Davis Hanson, the Hillsdale College historian, in this new video. Hanson says Carlson’s isolationism mirrors that of Pat Buchanan, who ran for President against George H.W. Bush in 1992.
Also in this edition, should we support the United Nations handling food distribution in Gaza when so much of that food lands in the hands of Hamas?
Also, what’s the story with the Ivanpah Solar Power Plant closing in 2026? This comes after California spent more than $2 billion to build the plant. It’s closing because it’s said to be an inefficient boondoogle.
In addition, Hanson takes a look back at World War II, focusing on the Battle of Crete in 1941.
Can humans travel to anywhere on the planet within a single hour? Do we have unlimited energy available at our finger tips?
Those are long-standing dreams of science — dreams that Nikola Tesla underscored with his energy experiments as far back as the late 19th century.
But now, says retired U.S. Air Force Lieutenant General Steven L. Kwast, those dreams are within our grasp. Here, he lays out what’s possible in an address he gave back in 2019, discussing the newly created U.S. Space Force.
He claimed “We have tech today” that can “take you from anywhere on Earth, to anywhere else, in an hour…” That’s what he told listeners in an address, given Nov. 20, 2019, at Hillsdale College’s Allan P. Kirby Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship in Washington, D.C.
Many observers believed Kwast would become the first head of the U.S. Space Force, but he retired in the fall of 2019. Some say he had been blacklisted for speaking out on space-related issues. He declined to discuss those reports or the reasons for his retirement.
Still, consider the implications found in the words from his Hillsdale address: “The technology is on the engineering benches today. But most Americans and most members of Congress have not had time to really look deeply at what is going on here. But I’ve had the benefit of 33 years of studying and becoming friends with these scientists. This technology can be built today with technology that is not developmental to deliver any human being from any place on planet Earth to any other place in less than an hour.” Here’s an excerpt from his speech, which we found on the YouTube channel Tales From Out There.
The first person to fully realize the value of organizing around a political party was the eighth President of the United States, Martin Van Buren. The party he helped to create is still thriving today. Wilfred McClay, professor of history at Hillsdale College and author of Land of Hope, explains how Van Buren shaped America’s political destiny. More from PragerU.
Adam Andrzejewski is the founder and CEO of openthebooks.com, the world’s largest database of public sector spending, whether at the federal, state, or local level. Here, he addresses Hillsdale College National Leadership Seminars, held in various locations across the country two to three times each year and address issues of politics, economics, and culture.
In its never-ending assault on the GOP, the Left’s PR firm–aka, the mainstream media–has now turned its vitriol on Attorney General William Barr. Employing every dirty trick in the book in the last three and one-half years to smear the Trump Administration, the MSM continued its lunacy, wreaking havoc with Barr’s recent address at Hillsdale College.
During a discussion regarding the COVID-19 shutdown’s stay-at-home orders, Barr said, “Other than slavery, which was a different kind of restraint, this is the greatest intrusion on civil liberties in American history.” Terse, well-said and clear as day. Not to the MSM. Within hours after the delivery, the MSM’s fake-news machine was in high gear, blasting Barr for comparing the shutdown to slavery! Read the comment again, bozos. He specifically exempted slavery in his comparison. And, as usual, the Lefties in Congress chipped in with some choice words of their own.
This is just another example of the MSM’s lame efforts to poison the narrative–no fact-checking, no reason, no ethics. In the sage words of political pundit Sean Hannity, “Journalism in America is dead.” Nothing rings more true. Here’s more on “The Breakdown,” with host Mike Huckabee.
America is a shining example of sports’ transformative power. It’s about the games that are at the center of our social behavior, combined with our founding principles to enhance the American experience. It reveals what America is and can be. But our enemies know this, which is why the culture war has moved to our sports arenas and stadiums.
Says Jason Whitlock, columnist for Outkick.com and a TV and radio host, “Sports is in the same crosshairs as our founding fathers, under attack for past racial sins and unappreciated for their vital role in cultivating racial unity.” Even worse, Whitlock emphasizes, American sports have been infiltrated by China and Nike, its defacto parent company. Nike and the NBA’s China agenda helps explain why the sports giant’s pitchmen–LeBron James and Colin Kaepernick–smear the United States as inherently racist and evil. “One can make the argument that the NBA is no more than the in-house marketing department of Nike,” Whitlock says.
Here’s more of Whitlock’s powerful speech on the state of American sports, presented by Hillsdale College.
