by Victor Davis Hanson
NRO’s The Corner
What’s Hollywood to Do?
Over the last eight years we saw Fahrenheit 911, Syriana, Redacted,Rendition, Stop Loss, Lions for Lambs, In the Valley of Elah, and a host of other movies released about the U.S. war on terror and the Iraqi conflict. Continue reading “Entertainment Gone Awry”
by Victor Davis Hanson
NRO’s The Corner
The Gloves Come Off?
I think the new combativeness coming out of the White House will only increase — given growing unhappiness over increased joblessness, the omnipresence of old Clinton-era attack dogs, new public doubts that vast new government programs are really the answer to what was in part a government Freddie- and Fannie-inspired crisis, and, especially, the sheer novelty of anyone questioning the messianic Barack Obama. Continue reading “The Blues: Disappointment in the Era of Hope and Change”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
Big new taxes. Big new spending. Big new government. This seems to be the proposed cure for the Wall Street-inspired recession. Continue reading “Big Government Medicine”
by Raymond Ibrahim
PJ Media
President Barack Obama and I have one thing in common shared by few Americans: we were brought up by at least one parent — biological or step is irrelevant — who was born and raised in an Islamic milieu. Intimately aware of the inevitable effects of this, I must question Obama’s sincerity in his approach to the Islamic world. Continue reading “Obama’s Puzzling Approach to the Muslim World”
by Victor Davis Hanson
NRO’s The Corner
The Gates incident seems to have had little to do with race but a lot to do with the natural human misunderstandings that happen every day in police scenes — and its final twist has everything to do with insider privilege and aristocratic disdain. Continue reading “What Was That ‘Stupidity’ All About?”
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
What Might Have Happened
Remember Obama’s initial signature speech (e.g., “there is not a liberal America and a conservative America — there is the United States of America”), and all the subsequent conciliatory talk of no blue state, no red state America? Continue reading “Obama’s Path Not Taken”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
From 1933 to 1960, America had nearly three decades of fairly successful presidencies — through the Great Depression, World War II, the Cold War, and the threat of nuclear Armageddon. Continue reading “Presidents Aren’t What They Used to Be”
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
Debt Matters
Over the last two decades it became an article of popular faith that budget deficits did not matter that much. Continue reading “The Psychology of Debt: Obama’s Rendezvous with Political Reality”
by Raymond Ibrahim
Jihad Watch
While not formally connected, two books I recently finished reading — St. Francis of Assisi and the Conversion of Muslims and Defying Death: Zakaria Botross, Apostle to Islam — complement each other very well, specifically by establishing continuity between medieval and modern Islam, and, in so doing, demonstrating that Islamic intolerance has a long pedigree. Continue reading “Continuity: St. Francis of Assisi, Fr. Zakaria Botros, and Islam”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
You don’t produce wool by skinning the sheep. But that seems to be the present strategy to get small businesses to begin hiring, buying, and expanding. Continue reading “On Shearing Sheep”