by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
We are told there are lots of reasons why borrowing $5 trillion in less than three years and federalizing healthcare have not yet restored prosperity. Read more →
Who Really Is “Anti-Science”?
by Bruce S. Thornton
FrontPage Magazine
In any national election we can depend on the usual liberal ad hominemattacks on Republicans and their candidates. Read more →
Defund the UN
by Bruce S. Thornton
Defining Ideas
Florida Republican Ileana Ros-Lehtinen has introduced in the House of Representatives the UN Transparency, Accountability, and Reform Act. Read more →
Illiberal Immigration
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
Recently, in symbolic fashion, spectators of Mexican ancestry in Pasadena’s Rose Bowl did not merely cheer on the Mexican national soccer team in a game against the US national team — such nostalgia would be natural and understandable for recent immigrants — but went much further and also jeered American players and, indeed, references to the United States. Read more →
California Abandons History for Melodrama
by Bruce S. Thornton
Advancing a Free Society
Just when you think California can’t get any wackier, the state legislature steps up and proves you wrong. Read more →
Obama’s Newspeak
The meaning of works, and history itself, are malleable when it comes to our president and his record.
by Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Online
The nightmare societies portrayed in the George Orwell novels 1984 and Animal Farm gave
America, of all places, is becoming Orwellian. The president repeatedly reminds the American people that under his leadership, the U.S. has produced a record level of new oil and natural gas. But didn’t Obama radically curtail leases for just such new energy production on federal lands? Have the edicts on the barn wall ofAnimal Farm been changed again, with the production of new oil and gas suddenly going from bad to good?
Does anyone remember that the Affordable Care Act was sold on the premise that it would guarantee retention of existing health plans and doctors, create 4 million new jobs, and save families $2,500 a year in premiums, all while extending expanded coverage to more people at a lower cost?
Only in Orwell’s world of doublespeak could raising taxes, while the costs of millions of health plans soars, be called “affordable.” Is losing your existing plan and doctor a way of retaining them? Read more →
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