by Bruce S. Thornton
FrontPage Magazine
The failure of the Congressional budget “super-committee” to address our geometrically expanding debt and deficits should surprise no one. Read more →
Moral Equivalence Is Moral Evasion
Posted in: Bruce S. Thornton, Debt and Deficits, The Fiscal Cliff / Tagged: Arab-Israeli Conflict, Barack Obama, Budget, Class-Warfare, Congress, Medicaid, Medicare, Obamacare, Social Security, Taxes
Give ‘Em Hell, Barry
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
Recently both First Lady Michelle Obama and Labor Secretary Hilda Solis went to the key swing state of Florida to blast the president’s adversaries. Read more →
Is the President in Recovery?
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
President Obama does not care much about deficits — other than worrying that big debt might matter in his re-election campaign. Read more →
Posted in: Debt and Deficits, Economic Policy / Tagged: Barack Obama, Budget, Deficits, George Bush, Keynesian Economics, Obama's America, Private Sector, Recessions, Tea Party, The EU, Unemployment
Our Ten-Trillion-Dollar Man
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
Borrowing Is No Longer Stimulus?
The Congressional Budget Office not long ago forecast that Barack Obama’s $1 trillion-plus annual deficits — scheduled over the next decade — would result in almost another $10 trillion in aggregate debt. Read more →
Failure Is Very Much and Option
by Victor Davis Hanson
NRO’s The Corner
Lost in the furor over the budget is any discussion of the fact that, after a certain baseline point, redistributive payouts might be making things worse for those on the receiving end. Read more →
Posted in: Budget, The Left / Tagged: Budget, California, California Schools, Democrats, Social Services
The Put-Off, Postpone and Procrastinate Generation
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
The Obama administration figures that it has read the national mood well. This therapeutic generation of Americans loves to talk and worry about problems and then assumes that either someone else will solve them or they will go away on their own. Read more →
Posted in: America's Future, Political Culture / Tagged: American Culture, American Ideology, Barack Obama, Budget, Oil and Gas, Social Security, United States Economy
The Triumph of the Therapeutic Mind
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
Beyond the political posturing over state and federal budgets, there looms an age-old philosophical divide over human nature, perhaps defined as the therapeutic versus the tragic view of our existence. Read more →
Posted in: Civilization, Culture / Tagged: American Culture, American Ideology, Barack Obama, Budget, Social Services, Technology, United States Economy
Our Schizoid Foreign Policy
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
Are we stupid abroad by accident or design?
In the manner of a doctor, let us review the symptoms of our present foreign policy and then offer a diagnosis: Read more →
Posted in: Foreign Policy / Tagged: Anti-Ameircan, Barack Obama, Budget, Bush Administration, China, Deficits, Foreign Policy, Guantanamo, Iran, Libya, Russia, Terrorism, The Middle East
After Obama, the Deluge
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
President Obama established a bipartisan debt-reduction commission — and then ignored its findings, which called for unpopular reductions in entitlements and across-the-board spending cuts. Read more →
Posted in: Debt and Deficits, First Term Policies / Tagged: Barack Obama, Budget, Obama's America, Obamacare, Oil and Gas, Unemployment
Jerry Brown, Modern Sisyphus
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
California Gov. Jerry Brown must rapidly close a $25 billion budgetary shortfall. But right now it seems almost a hopeless task since the state’s disastrous budget is a symptom, not the cause, of California’s much larger nightmare. Read more →
Posted in: California / Tagged: Budget, California, California Schools, Debt, Illegal Aliens, Jerry Brown, Taxes, Unemployment
