by Victor Davis Hanson // PJ Media
There are many ways to learn about the bleaker aspects of human nature. One would be to run a pizza shop, or regularly to have to clean a public restroom. Perhaps giving close attention to the text of Thucydides might give a more abstract lesson. Also, the Old and New Testaments offer plenty of examples of the fallen state of man. Continue reading “Obama Bets Against Human Nature — and Usually Loses”
by Victor Davis Hanson // PJ Media
Critics of the president are convinced that Barack Obama will do lasting damage to the U.S. I doubt it. Continue reading “Obama Who?”
by Victor Davis Hanson
A Plodding Goddess
Like a broken record, for the last five years I have invoked the Greek concept of Nemesis, or divine retribution for unchecked hubris, to explain what was in store for the Obama administration. Continue reading “Nemesis, After All”
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
Suddenly, half the country is upset with Obama for the recent flurry of scandals. Even some in the media are perplexed Continue reading “Obama Is Just Obama”
by Victor Davis Hanson
NRO’s The Corner
There have been lots of comparisons, most hotly dismissed by the president’s defenders, between Nixon and Obama, but in some ways the latest scandals have the potential to match or even trump those of 1973–4. Continue reading “Nixon Is a Fair Comparison”
by Bruce S. Thornton
FrontPageMag.com
The three scandals dominating the news this week all reveal the moral and intellectual corruption at the heart of progressive ideology. Continue reading “What the Obama Scandals Reveal About Progressive Ideology”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
Bring up Iraq — and expect to end up in an argument. Conservatives are no different from liberals in rehashing the unpopular war, which has become a sort of whipping boy for all our subsequent problems. Continue reading “Iraq a Convenient Scapegoat”
by Bruce S. Thornton
FrontPage
The GOP’s continuing analysis of last November’s debacle has now sparked a debate about foreign policy. Continue reading “Where Does Republican Foreign Policy Go From Here?”
by Bruce Thornton
FrontPage Magazine
Foreign policy, the topic of tonight’s debate, was suddenly thrust into the voters’ consciousness by the murder of 4 Americans, including our ambassador, in Benghazi on the anniversary of 9/11. Intensifying the fallout of this event has been the Obama administration’s incoherent, clumsy, duplicitous, and rapidly unraveling attempt to blame the terrorist murders on a YouTube movie trailer lampooning Mohammed, in order to downplay the strength of the heavily armed jihadist outfits, some connected to al Qaeda, now swarming in Libya as a result of our overthrow of Muammar Gadhafi. Continue reading “The Stakes in Tonight’s Foreign Policy Debate”
by Bruce Thronton
Frontpage Magazine
The most depressing thing about the Obama administration’s foreign policy debacle unfolding in the Middle East is that for sixty years we’ve repeatedly experienced the same Islamist game plan for defeating us that is being employed today. There is no tactic currently being used by the Muslim Brothers and other jihadist groups that wasn’t perfected by the Palestinian Arabs in their fight to destroy Israel. Continue reading “The Palestinian Playbook”