by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
On September 11, 2012, Barack Obama was 1 point ahead of Mitt Romney in the ABC and Washington Post polls. Continue reading “The President Won–Sort Of”
by Victor Davis Hanson
NRO’s The Corner
The lengths to which some are going to excuse the IRS corruption (“the tea-party groups deserved extra scrutiny”), Continue reading “The Second Time As Farce”
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 Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
Shortly before the second-term inauguration of Barack Obama this January, I wrote [1] the following of my worries over the Obama way of doing business: Continue reading “It Can Happen Here”
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
National Review Online
In Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign, he ran to the left of Hillary Clinton as a moral reformer. Continue reading “Obama’s Second-Term Embarrassments”
by Victor Davis Hanson
NRO’s The Corner
Before Jay Carney or the president go out again they really need to sit down and get their stories straight: When the IRS apologizes, it is not a matter of “if.” Continue reading “All Leaks Bad–Except Some”
by Victor Davis Hanson
NRO’s The Corner
If it is proven that the IRS thwarted some groups from obtaining tax-exempt status in fear that their traditional or conservative messages might hurt the 2012 Obama campaign (especially if it did so under pressure from White House-affiliated operatives), Continue reading “A Tainted Campaign?”
by Victor Davis Hanson
NRO’s The Corner
Senator Harry Reid may be right that we should wait for the full sordid details before demanding resignations from an increasingly politicized and now apparently confessional IRS (yet the proof of the pudding is that groups such as Media Matters, Think Progress, Moveon.org, and Organizing for America don’t seem to be the sorts subject to unusual IRS scrutiny), but he has lost all moral authority to pontificate about restraint in matters of the IRS Continue reading “There Is No There There?”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
We’ve had some unusual Cabinet secretaries in past administrations — Earl Butz, John Mitchell and James Watt come to mind — but never anything quite like the present bunch. Continue reading “Cabinets Gone Wild”