by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
Do As I Say—Not As I Do?
I confess I did not believe Barack Obama entirely during the campaign when he bragged on working across the aisle and championing bipartisanship. Continue reading “The Great Divider?”
More on Rush
by Victor Davis Hanson
NRO’s The Corner
All these highbrow conservative attacks on Limbaugh keep missing the point. Continue reading “More on Rush”
The Triumph of Banality
Obama didn’t inven dishonesty in political discourse–but he has a talent for it.
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
One of the most tired rhetorical tropes in Washington starts with, “We must . . . ” In the age of Obama, this is now usually followed by “Get the cost of our health care under control,” or “Invest in the education of our youth,” or “Spend wisely.” Continue reading “The Triumph of Banality”
A Funny Sort of Depression
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
Are we headed to something like the Great Depression? Continue reading “A Funny Sort of Depression”
Enough Already
by Victor Davis Hanson
NRO’s The Corner
Many have weighed in on Eric Holder’s “cowards” slur. Continue reading “Enough Already”
A Year Like None Other
It usually takes decades to fit in all the tragicomedy of 2008.
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
The three great stories of 2008 were the financial meltdown, the turn-about in Iraq, and the Chicago Way. Continue reading “A Year Like None Other”
Perverse Thoughts about this Perverse Recession
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
I do not understand at all this going into debt for almost another trillion dollars, and then immediately promising to balance the budget soon (like blowing off your foot near an emergency room), or how “stimulate” differs from “borrow,” or why the more noble victim is the one who sought to borrow too much for too much house and then defaulted, rather than he who chose to borrow less for less house and paid his mortgage on time each month and now subsidizes the less responsible. (The former apparently will still have the larger house, the latter the smaller.) Continue reading “Perverse Thoughts about this Perverse Recession”
Some Reflections in the Times of Hysteria
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
Imagine…
Had anyone said a few months ago that the federal government would step in to provide a trillion dollars to subsidize gasoline — to bring it down to $1.85 a gallon nationwide from prices that were exceeding $4 a gallon — we would have had a national debate. Continue reading “Some Reflections in the Times of Hysteria”
War and Peace–and Deceit–in Islam
by Raymond Ibrahim
PJ Media
Editor’s note: Substantial portions of the following essay made up part of Mr. Ibrahim’s written testimony that was presented to Congress on February 12, 2009
Today, in a time of wars and rumors of wars emanating from the Islamic world — from the current conflict in Gaza, to the saber-rattling of nuclear-armed Pakistan and soon-to-be Iran — the need for non-Muslims to better understand Islam’s doctrines and objectives concerning war and peace, and everything in between (treaties, diplomacy), has become pressing. Continue reading “War and Peace–and Deceit–in Islam”
An ‘Impulsive’ America?
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
President Barack Obama’s first TV interview was with the Dubai-based, partly Saudi-funded Al Arabiya satellite channel. Continue reading “An ‘Impulsive’ America?”