Tag Archives: Gallup

A Vineyard Too Far

August 31, 2011 7:33 pm / Victor Davis Hanson

by Victor Davis Hanson

National Review Online

By Sunday afternoon, the Gallup tracking poll showed a 17-point spread in the president’s approval rating — 38 percent approval to 55 percent disapproval. Read more →

Posted in: Economic Policy / Tagged: Barack Obama, Class-Warfare, Fat Cats, Gallup, Identity Politics, Martha's Vineyard, Obama's America, Osama bin Laden, Unemployment, United States Economy, Wall Street

Liberal Psychoses

August 25, 2011 7:52 pm / Victor Davis Hanson

by Victor Davis Hanson

PJ Media

How are we to make sense of flash mobbing, the London rioting, more hatred expressed for the Tea Party, more calls for ever more debt and spending, and Barack Obama’s dive below 40% approval in the polls? Let me backtrack a bit. Read more →

Posted in: The Left / Tagged: Approval Rating, Barack Obama, California, Democrats, FDR, Gallup, JFK, London, Martha's Vineyard, Mexican-American, New Deal, Postwar Era, Public School System, Tea Party, Vietnam

One Hundred years after the Treaty of Versailles ended World War I, Victor Davis Hanson argues that the effects of the agreement are widely misunderstood. In this episode, we look at Versailles in the context of the wider war (and the wartime diplomacy of the era), examine the American role in World War I, parse the claim that the First World War was little more than a tragic mistake, and scrutinize claims that modern geopolitical tensions have parallels to those of 1914.

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