by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
We all remember the advice about failure we received from our parents and teachers. “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.” “Learn from your mistakes.” “Failure breeds success.” Continue reading “Failure Is Not an Option”
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
Some openings for Obama
1) Iraq. Far fewer American soldiers died in combat in Iraq over the last forty days than were murdered in Obama’s Chicago during the commensurate period. Continue reading “Is It All That Bad?”
by Victor Davis Hanson
NRO’s The Corner
The King Is Dead; Long Live the King!
One dilemma for Obama is that his campaign was especially apocalyptic about America: Bush ruined everything. Continue reading “Campaign Rhetoric, Election Reality”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
We will likely see a lot of political “readjustments” come January, once President-elect Barack Obama and many new Democratic congressmen assume office, and the Republican administration leaves. Continue reading “The Same Old Change”
by Victor Davis Hanson
NRO’s The Corner
The Great Guessing Game
Will Obama, the old ideologue from Chicago, go hard left, OR, as the repackaged moderate of the campaign, “rule” (his campaign’s word, not mine) with Augustan moderation, OR, as a cut-the-difference “healer,” simply vote present — even as each faction now cries for its own version of “Let Obama be Obama”? Continue reading “Which Way Will Obama Go?”
by Victor Davis Hanson
PajamasMedia.com
It doesn’t compute
Everyone knows that by and large the black and Hispanic communities are not in block voting sympathetic to gay marriage much less overt homosexuality. Living at ground zero of the illegal immigration influx, I see such attitudes voiced openly and unashamedly. Continue reading “Upside Down World”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
Just one punch of the ballot is all it took. Now suddenly almost every one, here and abroad, is supposed to appreciate the newfound morality of the American people, change their own prior wicked ways, and do what they must for newly elected Barack Obama. Continue reading “Win One For the Messiah!”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
Festina lente. Make haste slowly. That was the motto of the revolutionary minded young Augustus who soon grasped that he needed to build upon Rome’s past, rather than dismantle it. Continue reading “Make Haste Slowly, President Obama?”
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
Reconciliation
I wish President-elect Obama well, and hope that even his critics can concede that he waged a successful and often brilliant (if not shrewdly stealthy) campaign. Continue reading “The Day After”
by Victor Davis Hanson
NRO’s The Corner
A New Face
For weeks we’ve been told that the Iraqis were playing tough and demanding time-lines for American withdrawal, the subtext being that mean George Bush was once again conniving for permanent imperial bases. Continue reading “Be Careful What You Wish For”