Oh, the Debt We Will See!

by Victor Davis Hanson

PJ Media

Going broke without style…

$3.6 trillion budget. $1.7 trillion annual deficit. $800 billion plus borrowing stimulus. $600 billion plus in outlays for new nationalized health care, and then another $600 billion again for cap-and-trade.  Continue reading “Oh, the Debt We Will See!”

Europeanizing Europe

With Obama, Europeans may have got more than they bargained for.

by Victor Davis Hanson

National Review Online

Last summer, with several other Americans, I went to a garden reception attended by some French barristers, generals, and assorted professionals in Versailles. Continue reading “Europeanizing Europe”

Fast and Thick in the Age of Obama

by Victor Davis Hanson

PJ Media

One big thing

In this fiscal crisis, the public wanted one big thing to quote Archilochus: A reform of the banking industry that offered federal-guaranteed lines of credit to ensure liquidity, and a new transparency so investors would at least know that their supposedly blue-chip AIG stocks or Lehman Brother portfolio was, in fact, a house of cards based on the serial reselling of sub-prime mortgages — and in the end hinged on whether a wage-earning Bill Smith in Merced could keep servicing an 8% loan on a $400,000, 3,000 San Francisco home that he bought with no down payment. Continue reading “Fast and Thick in the Age of Obama”

Recessional

by Victor Davis Hanson

PJ Media

Et tu, Brute?

Conservatives created Barack Obama and his vision of the Europeanization of America, and so have themselves to blame for the current recessional, as the present as we have known it fades into the past.. Continue reading “Recessional”

Accounting for California’s Suicide

by Victor Davis Hanson

Tribune Media Services

What went wrong in California? I think we can all agree on at least three observations. Continue reading “Accounting for California’s Suicide”

Taqiyya Revisited: A Response to the Critics

by Raymond Ibrahim

Jihad Watch

Having written at length on various aspects of Islam, it is always my writings concerning doctrinal deceit that elicit (sometimes irate) responses. Continue reading “Taqiyya Revisited: A Response to the Critics”

Obamafusion

by Victor Davis Hanson

PJ Media

Why is Wall Street worried? — Let us count the ways.

1) The proverbial Wall Street capitalists believe that, with new federal income tax rates, the removal of FICA ceilings, increases in capital gains rates, decreases in deductions, and simultaneous tax raises, not only will Obama remove incentives for innovation and productivity, but that he does not seem to care about — or perhaps appreciate — the consequences? Continue reading “Obamafusion”

The Wisdom of Crowds–In Ancient Greece

by Victor Davis Hanson

Forbes.com

A review of Democracy and Knowledge: Innovation and Learning in Classical Athensby Josiah Ober (Princeton University Press, 2008, 362pp.) Continue reading “The Wisdom of Crowds–In Ancient Greece”

The Great Divider?

by Victor Davis Hanson

PJ Media

Do As I Say—Not As I Do?

I confess I did not believe Barack Obama entirely during the campaign when he bragged on working across the aisle and championing bipartisanship. Continue reading “The Great Divider?”