by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
Attention, Little Knowledge
Obama himself at various times in his memoirs — never have presidential autobiographies sold so many copies, and yet have been so little read by the press — talked about people seeing in him what they wished. Continue reading “A Blank Slate”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
There have always been media biases and prejudices. Everyone knew that Walter Cronkite, from his gilded throne at CBS news, helped to alter the course of the Vietnam War, when, in the post-Tet depression, he prematurely declared the war unwinnible. Continue reading “The End of Journalism”
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
Questions Still Not Answered
Why didn’t Colin Powell and Co. jump ship in, say, June or July, and endorse Obama after many months of campaigning when his positions were already well known? Continue reading “The Campaign Takes a Very Strange Turn”
by Raymond Ibrahim
The American Thinker
Is al Qaeda trying to influence the American presidential election? Continue reading “Al Qaeda and the Election”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
Lame-duck Republican President Bush’s dismal poll ratings have descended to those of Harry Truman’s when he left office. Continue reading “The Obama Enigma”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
Soon this depressing campaign will be over, and we can reflect on what we learned from our two-month introduction to Sarah Palin. Continue reading “An Instructive Candidacy”
by Victor Davis Hanson
NRO’s The Corner
A weird campaign gets weirder
This campaign gets ever more surrealistic. For most of August and early September, Obama on the stump was complaining about the McCain campaign’s “lying” and “lies”; yet last night on CNN Ed Rollins and David Gergen were lamenting the “new” McCain who had authorized an ad that said Obama had “lied” about his relations with Bill Ayers. Continue reading “Obama and Friends”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
Who caused the American financial panic and the wild swings in our financial system — and what are we going to do about it in the long term after the markets settle down? Continue reading “It’s the Debt, Stupid”
by Raymond Ibrahim
Jihad Watch
Just recently, a high ranking Pakistani cleric, one Munib ur-Rehmen,asserted that “Islam does not allow anybody to take lives of innocent people by any means.” Continue reading “Islam and Innocence”
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
This is becoming a very strange campaign.
On CNN recently both David Gergen and Ed Rollins echoed the current mantra that the “old” noble McCain is gone — and a “new” nastier one has emerged, largely because of his attacks on Ayers, perhaps his planned future ads on Wright, and a few unhinged people shouting at his campaign stops. Continue reading “Jumping Ship”