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Explaining the Democrats’ Success

November 18, 2012 11:39 pm /

by Bruce Thornton

Frontpage Magazine

The election postmortem has identified all manner of causes for the Republicans’ defeat, from the “woman problem” and the “Hispanic problem,” as Peggy Noonan put it, to Romney’s fatcat persona and his inept campaign. But there’s a simpler reason, one consistent with the critics of democracy starting in ancient Athens — Obama and the Democrats promised voters more free stuff. Read more →

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Liberal Chickens

September 2, 2012 11:25 pm / Leave a Comment /

by Victor Davis Hanson

National Review Online

It could not last — the attendee of the Reverend Jeremiah Wright’s church sermonizing on tolerance; the practitioner of Chicago politics lecturing on civility; the most partisan voting record in the Senate as proof of a new promised bipartisanship; earlier books and speeches calling for hard-core progressivism as evidence of a no-more-red-state-blue-state conciliation. And in fact the disconnect did not last, and Barack Obama finds himself dealing with assorted chickens coming home to roost. Read more →

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Good News–What Good News?

July 6, 2012 11:00 pm / Leave a Comment /

by Victor Davis Hanson

PJ Media

I have a confession to make: I don’t quite understand the jubilation among the conservative-Republican forces during the last two months of the Obama crack-up, and here, unfortunately, is why: Read more →

Posted in: America's Future, Election 2012 / Tagged: , , , , , , , ,

Is the Country Unraveling?

July 4, 2012 11:06 pm / Leave a Comment /

by Victor Davis Hanson

PJ Media

The Thrill Is Gone

The last thirty days have made it clear that Barack Obama is not going to win the 2012 election by a substantial margin. The polls still show the race near dead even with over five months, and all sorts of unforeseen events, to come. But after the Obama meltdown of April and May, I don’t think he in any way resembles the mysterious Pied Piper figure of 2008, who mesmerized and then marched the American people over the cliff. Read more →

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The Liberal Super Nova

June 14, 2012 12:54 am /

by Victor Davis Hanson

PJ Media

Two parties, left and right, are central to good consensual government — one the perennial check on the other, both within the general boundaries of constitutional free-market capitalism. Read more →

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The Way of the Community Organizer

June 11, 2012 1:32 am / Leave a Comment /

by Victor Davis Hanson

NRO’s The Corner

As the campaign heats up, and the self-imposed restrictions of 2008 disappear, we will likely hear more about the once proud associations and friendships of Barack Obama that were all Trotskyized by the media ministries of truth during the unhinged summer of 2008. Read more →

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It Was the Power, Stupid!

May 12, 2012 4:12 pm / Leave a Comment /

by Victor Davis Hanson

PJ Media

I. Power — Always Was and Always Will Be

In my dumber days, between 2001-2008, I used to wonder why the Left relentlessly hammered the war on terror (e.g., renditions, tribunals, predators, preventative detention, Patriot Act, intercepts, wiretaps, Guantanamo Bay) when these measures had not only proven quite useful in preventing another 9/11-like attack, but had been sanctioned by both the Congress and the courts. In those ancient times, I was not as cynical as I am now. Read more →

Posted in: America's Future, Political Culture, The Left / Tagged: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Class Warfare the Last Refuge of a Failed Presidency

April 12, 2012 3:19 pm / Leave a Comment /

by Bruce S. Thornton

FrontPage Media

Now that Mitt Romney will be Obama’s opponent in November, the Democrats are rolling out the false narrative they will use to demonize Romney and obscure four years of failed economic policies that have created the worst recovery from a recession since the Great Depression. Read more →

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Beware of the Mob

April 8, 2012 3:28 pm / Leave a Comment /

by Victor Davis Hanson

PJ Media

Our Modern Lynch Mob

Democracies are in general prone to fits of the mob. Just read the Thucydidean account of the debate of Mytilene. Read more →

Posted in: Political Culture, The Left, First Term Policies / Tagged: , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

The Gaseous Policies of Barack Obama

March 12, 2012 10:19 pm / Leave a Comment /

by Victor Davis Hanson

PJ Media

“They” Did It (Again)!

There are no “oil men” in the White House. So the Obamites cannot, as in the past, blame Halliburton, BP, or Exxon for rigging gas prices out of the Oval Office. Read more →

Posted in: Energy, First Term Policies / Tagged: , , , , , , , ,
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