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This is a Christmas edition.

So hopefully it will be heard either before or right after Christmas.

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Victor is a author, scholar, columnist, essayist and political and cultural critic.

And of course he is our favorite provocateur of the left.

He is also and more seriously, I suppose, the Martin and Nile Anderson senior fellow in a military history and classics at the Hoover Institution and the Wayne and Marsha Busky Distinguished Fellow in History at Hillsdale College.

Today we've got a lot on the agenda, but we are going to finish up with Victor on his optimism of the things that we can do to change the course that seems to be laid by the left in this country.

And so we'll get to the news first and then we'll continue with that optimism after these messages.

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Well, Victor, I thought we'd look at some of the latest news today and then we would continue on our journey of positive things. The most current. I was going to add one thing.

So on the ultra website, I'm trying to vary the topic. So some of my angry readers and this week I had a, I guess, a defense against wiki lies, which tried to doctor people's biography and make false accusations.

I gave it kind of a test case in one column. It's only available to ultra. And then I usually try to write every third week on farm life. It's a political.

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