by Victor Davis Hanson
Forbes Magazine
By now almost everyone has weighed in on the legacy of Sen. Ted Kennedy, who passed away this week after a year-long struggle with a cancerous brain tumor. Continue reading “‘Senator High and Mighty’”
Obama and ‘Redistributive Change’
Forget the recession and the “uninsured.” Obama has bigger fish to fry.
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
The first seven months of the Obama administration seemingly make no sense. Why squander public approval by running up astronomical deficits in a time of pre-existing staggering national debt? Continue reading “Obama and ‘Redistributive Change’”
Obama vs. Obama
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
Actions often have unforeseen consequences. Throughout the campaign and the first few months of the new administration, Barack Obama adopted a number of personas and positions that only now may be coming back to haunt him. Continue reading “Obama vs. Obama”
‘The Fault Is Not in Our Stars, But in Ourselves’
by Victor Davis Hanson
NRO’s The Corner
Liberal columnists decrying the Obama administration’s supposed lack of partisan fortitude and eagerness for a nasty fight for healthcare seem oddly detached from reality. Continue reading “‘The Fault Is Not in Our Stars, But in Ourselves’”
Divine Debt Trumps All
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
In Greek mythology, even Olympian gods and heroes were subject to a higher divine power known loosely as “fate” — an allotted moira, or destiny, that could not be changed even by thunderbolt-throwing Zeus. Continue reading “Divine Debt Trumps All”
Obama’s Follies
by Victor Davis Hanson
NRO’s The Corner
The Race Card Gets Trumped
I think almost everyone expected that once President Obama embarked on a highly partisan agenda at a time of record deficits in the midst of a recession, he was going to meet resistance. Continue reading “Obama’s Follies”
The Strange Case of the Obama Meltdown
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
The Obama Meltdown — Symptoms/Diagnosis/Prognosis
Strange things are happening to the Obama administration and quickly so. His polls are diving and may not stop at 50/50, the most precipitous drop in approval of a first-year President since Bill Clinton in 1993 (cf. Hillary care). Continue reading “The Strange Case of the Obama Meltdown”
Who’s in Charge if Diplomacy?
by Victor Davis Hanson
NRO’s The Corner
‘North Korea made a colossal mistake’
One of the stranger aspects of being overseas is following the upside-down logic of the International Herald Tribune, which around January mysteriously morphed from a shrill critic of the U.S. government to its official mouthpiece. Continue reading “Who’s in Charge if Diplomacy?”
On Dishing it Out . . .
by Victor Davis Hanson
NRO’s The Corner
What is weird about the liberal hysteria to the obstreperous (and occasionally rude) town meetings is the complete amnesia about what constitutes reckless public discourse. Continue reading “On Dishing it Out . . .”
What Went Wrong?
Piling up debt, and hypocrisy, Obama & Co. are sinking.
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
We are witnessing one of the more rapid turnabouts in recent American political history. Continue reading “What Went Wrong?”