by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
Here’s the conclusion to the saga of Obama. I left off [1] with Chapter Four and why the Obama locomotive went off the rails after only a year. Continue reading “Our Obama Saga–Part Two. Chapters Five-Six”
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
Here’s the conclusion to the saga of Obama. I left off [1] with Chapter Four and why the Obama locomotive went off the rails after only a year. Continue reading “Our Obama Saga–Part Two. Chapters Five-Six”
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
Chapter One — The Liberal Hope and Dream
I think our Obama’s collective story will some day be written something like this. The leftwing anointed vision of America got stalled with the failures of the Great Society, and the high tax, big government discontent of the 1970s and 1980s. Continue reading “Our Obama Saga. Part One–Chapters One to Four”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
A year ago Barack Obama inherited a recession brought on by financial panic following the collapse of the housing bubble. Continue reading “Thrashing the Job Makers”
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
I think we could see what was coming. This presidency has about as much subtlety in plot as a grade-B western, soap opera, or teenage tantrum. Continue reading “As Predictable as Clockwork–the Obama Three-step”
by Raymond Ibrahim
Middle East Quarterly (Winter 2010)
Islam must seem a paradoxical religion to non-Muslims. On the one hand, it is constantly being portrayed as the religion of peace; on the other, its adherents are responsible for the majority of terror attacks around the world. Continue reading “How Taqiyya Alters Islam’s Rules of War: Defeating Jihadist Terrorism”
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
All politicians fudge on their promises. But this president manages to transcend the normal political exaggeration and dissimulation. Continue reading “The Obamarang”
by Victor Davis Hanson
NRO’s The Corner
Obama and Populism
I could believe President Obama’s postmortem take that the same populist sentiment that propelled Scott Brown to office also earlier sent him to the White House — if we saw fresh liberal Democrats winning seats in places like Alabama against entrenched Washington Republican insiders. But I don’t think that is happening quite yet. Continue reading “Our Populist President?”
by Victor Davis Hanson
NRO’s The Corner
A year ago, a number of “moderate” Republicans and Democratic stalwarts, in the gush of the inauguration, warned us of new Democratic majorities for years to come. Continue reading “Obama in Free Fall”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
There is little need any more to offer consistent opposition to Barack Obama, since he himself is already running hard against the many previous incarnations of Barack Obama. Continue reading “Obama versus Obama”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
In Plato’s ideal society, philosopher kings and elite Guardians shepherded the rabble to force them to do the “right” thing. Continue reading “Our Philosopher-King Obama”