by Bruce S. Thornton
Advancing a Free Society
As usual, the mainstream media are getting wrong the significance of President Obama’s release of his actual birth certificate. Continue reading “The Unexamined President and His Media Enablers”
Make the Rich Pay!
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
Last week, President Obama reversed course once again and now wants to raise taxes on the “rich” making above $250,000 per year. Continue reading “Make the Rich Pay!”
Humanitarian Beheading
by Victor Davis Hanson
Ricochet
There are a number of videos circulating about from “free Libya” showing grotesque head-loppings, executions, torture and desecration of bodies, of African mercenaries who apparently were captured or killed by the rebels in Libya. Continue reading “Humanitarian Beheading”
Failure Is Very Much and Option
by Victor Davis Hanson
NRO’s The Corner
Lost in the furor over the budget is any discussion of the fact that, after a certain baseline point, redistributive payouts might be making things worse for those on the receiving end. Continue reading “Failure Is Very Much and Option”
The Nature of Arab Unrest
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
Across the Middle East, millions are rebelling against their poverty and lack of freedom, blaming their corrupt leaders, who have ransacked their countries’ treasuries and natural wealth. Continue reading “The Nature of Arab Unrest”
California Abandons History for Melodrama
by Bruce S. Thornton
Advancing a Free Society
Just when you think California can’t get any wackier, the state legislature steps up and proves you wrong. Continue reading “California Abandons History for Melodrama”
The Silent Extermination of Iraq’s ‘Christian Dogs’
Raymond Ibrahim
FrontPageMagazine.com
Last week an Iraqi Muslim scholar issued a fatwa that, among other barbarities, asserts that “it is permissible to spill the blood of Iraqi Christians.” Continue reading “The Silent Extermination of Iraq’s ‘Christian Dogs’”
Patient Obama
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
Last week the president gave a speech on the deficit [1], rightly trying to convince Americans that it is now beyond unsustainable. Yet his theme was that the Republicans’ attempts to reduce it were cold-hearted, endangering the most vulnerable among us, such as those with Down’s Syndrome, while protecting the proverbial “rich” from commensurate sacrifice. Continue reading “Patient Obama”
Libya Is Not Iraq
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
The Left is terribly embarrassed about the US intervention in Libya. We have preemptively attacked an Arab Muslim nation that posed little threat to the national-security interests of the United States. Continue reading “Libya Is Not Iraq”
Dreamland, USA
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
Barack Obama just gave a belated but stern warning about escalating debt — a few weeks after he presented a 2011 budget with a $1.6 trillion annual deficit, the largest shortfall in American history. Continue reading “Dreamland, USA”