Israel’s Fight for Survival

by Bruce S. Thornton

FrontPage Magazine

Israel’s fight for survival is not only against Hamas, Hezbollah, and their state sponsors Syria and Iran. Continue reading “Israel’s Fight for Survival”

An Uneasy Feeling

by Victor Davis Hanson

PJ Media

Yesterday..

All Americans must appreciate the outpouring of good will, unity, and hope for a successful Obama administration. But I had a certain feeling of uncertainty yesterday at the coverage of the festivities. Continue reading “An Uneasy Feeling”

Bush Considered

American is a safer place thanks to his administration.

by Victor Davis Hanson

National Review Online

A disinterested appraisal of Bush administration foreign policy will take years. For millions on the Left, events in Iraq, Guantánamo, and New Orleans rendered the 43rd president an ill-omened phantasma — omnipotent, ubiquitous, and responsible for all mischief big and small. Continue reading “Bush Considered”

Novus Ordo Seclorum

by Victor Davis Hanson

PJ Media

Presidential oddities

Obama has been very good in lowering expectations by reminding us 24/7 that there are no easy solutions to the present fiscal meltdown. True enough. Continue reading “Novus Ordo Seclorum”

Obama: The Great American Hope?

by Victor Davis Hanson

Tribune Media Services

There is great hope that President-elect Obama will change the course of U.S. foreign policy, create far greater goodwill toward America, and thereby ease world tensions. Such optimism is not based on former Sen. Obama’s foreign-policy experience. In essence, he has none. Continue reading “Obama: The Great American Hope?”

Obama: The Great American Hope?

by Victor Davis Hanson

Tribune Media Services

There is great hope that President-elect Obama will change the course of U.S. foreign policy, create far greater goodwill toward America, and thereby ease world tensions. Such optimism is not based on former Sen. Obama’s foreign-policy experience. In essence, he has none. Continue reading “Obama: The Great American Hope?”

From Gaza to Guantanamo

by Victor Davis Hanson

PJ Media

A strange contrast

If one can endure the creepy, multifarious Hamas recruiting videos of Gazan children with suicide belts, camouflage uniforms, and toy AK-47s shouting to “kill the Jews”, and then collates all that with the images of young Hamas males with hoods and masks, RPGs and rocket launchers, screaming about the death to come to Israel with the now boilerplate “Day of Death” and “Day of Punishment” Continue reading “From Gaza to Guantanamo”

Try a Little Honesty in 2009

by Victor Davis Hanson

Tribune Media Services

The country is still divided over the government bailout of the Big Three automakers. Continue reading “Try a Little Honesty in 2009”

Carl Brockelmann: “Islamophobe” or Scholar?

by Raymond Ibrahim

Jihad Watch

Recently reading through Professor Carl Brockelmann’s History of the Islamic Peoples (1948), I was struck by a particular passage that, inasmuch as it is objective and thoroughly grounded in Islamic law and Muslim practice, if asserted now by any scholar of whatever caliber would surely only earn the label “Islamophobe.” Continue reading “Carl Brockelmann: “Islamophobe” or Scholar?”

At New Animal Farm

Life won’t be all that bad

by Victor Davis Hanson

PJ Media

By July, we will come to feel that 2009 will be one of the most upbeat years in our history, as what used to be the news media begins to get behind America and report on all the mysteriously wonderful things that are suddenly taking place. Continue reading “At New Animal Farm”