by Victor Davis Hanson

PJ Media

Says It All

1) a new poll revealing a vast majority of investors see Obama as anti-business

2) Obama declaiming on what he has done and what he will do to create jobs

3) After a year Obama still has not yet figured out that his promiscuous talk of higher income, payroll, healthcare, and inheritance taxes, serial demonization of finance and business, and all sorts of new regulations, create a psychological climate in which the employer pulls in his horns and decides to ride things out—and this individual reaction is being repeated millions of times over, energized by the pique at everything trivial from Van Jones to apologies abroad to “Bush did it.” Continue reading “Post-election Thoughts” →

What Scott Brown’s election portends for the Obama Agenda

by Victor Davis Hanson

National Review Online

Dream up a gargantuan backlash against Barack Obama’s left-wing gospel, and you still could not invent the notion of a relatively unknown, conservative Scott Brown knocking off an Obama-endorsed, liberal, female attorney in liberal Massachusetts — in a race to fill the seat once held by Ted Kennedy. Continue reading “Why the Great and Growing Backlash?” →

by Victor Davis Hanson

PJ Media

It’s the Lying, Stupid?

“Lie” is a rather harsh word; the noun and its verb form leave little to context or extenuating circumstances. So I use it sparingly. Continue reading ““Let Me Be Perfectly Not Clear” and “Make Lots of Mistakes About It”” →

by Victor Davis Hanson

Tribune Media Services

Why in matters of stupid behavior do liberals and Democrats often get second and third chances from the media and general public not accorded to their conservative and Republican counterparts? Continue reading “Conservative Felonies, Liberal Misdemeanors” →

by Victor Davis Hanson

NRO’s The Corner

Many saw Obama’s polls dropping for a variety of reasons, and can anticipate what’s next. Continue reading “Anatomy of a Meltdown” →

by Victor Davis Hanson

NRO’s The Corner

What was often left unmentioned in Reid’s now much-publicized racial gaffe was not just his editorializing on skin color and dialect, but his allegation of cynicism on the part of Obama, highlighted by the qualifier in “with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one,” which suggests that Reid thought the Hawaiian-raised Obama inauthentically switched dialects to fit his audience. Continue reading “The Subtexts of Reid’s ‘Negro’ Moment” →

by Victor Davis Hanson

PJ Media

The Strange Thing About Nemesis…

…is that the deity picks its victims on the basis of irony and arrogance. For every media-frenzy about ethical lapses of columnist Armstrong Williams taking Bush administration money for hawking No Child Left Behind, there is a Jonathan Gruber [1], the MIT go-to pundit on healthcare, who raked in $400,000 from the Obama administration for … hawking ObamaCare. Continue reading “The Way Our World Works” →

by Victor Davis Hanson

PJ Media

That Damn Guantanamo!

Obama gave a rather incredible press conference about his review of security lapses. When he evoked Guantanamo, the president all at once (“make no mistake about it”) (a) promised to close it, (b) promised not to send any more detainees home to Yemen, and (c) claimed it was a recruiting tool for al Qaeda (i.e., apparently Bush’s Gulag had prompted the likes of Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab to try to blow up an airliner). Continue reading “Bush Did It! And, Really, Bush Did It! And Bush Really Did It!” →

by Victor Davis Hanson

Tribune Media Services

Sometimes long-festering problems collide — and explode — in a single memorable year. We can go as far back as the fifth century B.C. to see this phenomenon — and we may see it again in 2010. Continue reading “2010: Our Year of Decision” →

September 11 taught us many lessons. To our peril, we have forgotten them.

by Victor Davis Hanson

National Review Online

Most of the current acrimony over counterterrorism is stale. The debate is simply a rehash of issues that were discussed and, in fact, resolved early last decade.

Let us review them one more time. Continue reading “Beating the Dead Terrorist Horse” →