by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
In George Orwell’s allegorical novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, the picture of “Big Brother” appears constantly in the adoring media. Continue reading “Our Road to Oceania”
Our Ongoing Catharsis
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
Presidential Popularity
After just eight months, the President is at a 50/50 cross-roads in the polls. The once hope-and-change exuberance has dissipated. Such unpopularity is hardly new; what is novel is the rapidity in which a 70%+ approval rating has plummeted to 50%. Continue reading “Our Ongoing Catharsis”
Why Muslim Charities Fund the Jihad
by Raymond Ibrahim
PJ Media
From what American schoolchildren are being taught [1] by their teachers to what Americans are being told by their presidents, concepts unique to Islam are nowadays almost always “Westernized.” Continue reading “Why Muslim Charities Fund the Jihad”
Prairie-Fire Anger
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
Why Are People in Revolt?
The approval ratings on nearly every one of the President’s key policy initiatives — cap-and-trade, healthcare overhaul, government takeover of industry and finance, deficit spending, stimulus — are already less than half of polled voters. Continue reading “Prairie-Fire Anger”
The New York Times’ Resident Voodoo Statistician
Another rational liberal can’t think straight.
by Bruce S. Thornton
FrontPage Magazine
The New York Times’ resident voodoo statistician, Charles Blow, is at it again, using “scientific” polling data as an excuse to indulge ideological prejudice. Continue reading “The New York Times’ Resident Voodoo Statistician”
Clinton’s North Korean Odyssey
by Bruce S. Thornton
FrontPage Magazine
More proof to our enemies that the U.S. is weak and vulnerable — courtesy of Bill Clinton. Continue reading “Clinton’s North Korean Odyssey”
Sailing to Byzantium
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
Rhodes
Millions of Euros have transformed Rhodes into a sort of Frankish and Venetian Disneyland. The medieval city has been completely rebuilt, or almost rebuilt — turrets, walls, streets, arches, courtyards — into a fascinating citadel as it might have appeared around 1500 or so. Continue reading “Sailing to Byzantium”
Obama’s Great Race to Change America
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
Why does President Obama want to implement radical changes in American foreign policy, environmental policy, education, health care, and the tax code all at once? Continue reading “Obama’s Great Race to Change America”
Bullying Israel
Interview by Jamie Glazov
FrontPageMag.com
Frontpage interviews Victor Davis Hanson, a classicist and historian at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, on why the Jewish state is the only country with which the U.S. has worse relations since Obama took office. Continue reading “Bullying Israel”
No Free Lunch
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
The Piper Must Be Paid
I think the natural tendency of the U.S. economy to rebound from recession, coupled with the enormous inflationary forces of borrowing another $2 trillion, will result in some sort of a brief economic recovery. Continue reading “No Free Lunch”