by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
What Might Have Happened
Remember Obama’s initial signature speech (e.g., “there is not a liberal America and a conservative America — there is the United States of America”), and all the subsequent conciliatory talk of no blue state, no red state America? Continue reading “Obama’s Path Not Taken”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
From 1933 to 1960, America had nearly three decades of fairly successful presidencies — through the Great Depression, World War II, the Cold War, and the threat of nuclear Armageddon. Continue reading “Presidents Aren’t What They Used to Be”
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
Debt Matters
Over the last two decades it became an article of popular faith that budget deficits did not matter that much. Continue reading “The Psychology of Debt: Obama’s Rendezvous with Political Reality”
by Raymond Ibrahim
Jihad Watch
While not formally connected, two books I recently finished reading — St. Francis of Assisi and the Conversion of Muslims and Defying Death: Zakaria Botross, Apostle to Islam — complement each other very well, specifically by establishing continuity between medieval and modern Islam, and, in so doing, demonstrating that Islamic intolerance has a long pedigree. Continue reading “Continuity: St. Francis of Assisi, Fr. Zakaria Botros, and Islam”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
You don’t produce wool by skinning the sheep. But that seems to be the present strategy to get small businesses to begin hiring, buying, and expanding. Continue reading “On Shearing Sheep”
by Victor Davis Hanson
NRO’s The Corner
Look Back in Anger at Iraq
It is striking how Obama references past mistakes on Afghanistan and emphasizes the now-tired “reset”-button themes — striking because of what is left unsaid. Continue reading “War and Taxes”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
When Michael Jackson tragically died two weeks ago, millions were shocked. Continue reading “Who Was Michael Jackson?”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
Recent news that President Obama’s approval ratings are beginning to slip is understandable. Even popular leaders lose appeal once they have to govern, and therefore offend, rather than merely promise and please. Continue reading “Growing Worries about Our Pied Piper”
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
Stimulus, Stimulus and Not a Drop…
A “stimulus” of nearly a trillion dollars was proposed, without which we were told, unemployment would skyrocket and credit would tighten further. Continue reading “The War Against the Producers”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
How strange that our rather nondescript, sober friends abroad do not garner attention from the current administration, yet overt enemies in Cuba, Nicaragua, Iran, Venezuela, and the West Bank most certainly do. Continue reading “A Thug’s Primer”