by Bruce Thornton
FrontPage Magazine
Norway’s Nobel Committee added yet another absurd pick to its long list of politicized and shameful Peace Prize awards. Giving the prize to the disintegrating European Union is not as despicable as giving it to the bloodstained terrorist Yasser Arafat, or as laughably naive as bestowing it on the communist fraud Rigoberta Menchú. Continue reading “The Nobel Committee and Its Orwellian Peace Prize”
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. Continue reading “Beware of the Mob”
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
The First Symptoms of Hatred — 2004 to 2008
For about seven years the nation lost its collective mind — and was only partially coming-to in November 2010. Continue reading “The Great Madness of 2004-10”
by Victor Davis Hanson
NRO’s The Corner
Editor’s Note: These passages are drawn from recent articles on The Corner.
Mexifornia, Quite Literally!
“I love this country, it has given me everything that I have, and I’m proud to be part of it,” said Victor Sanchez, a 37-year-old Monrovia resident wearing a Mexico jersey. “But yet, I didn’t have a choice to come here, I was born in Mexico, and that is where my heart will always be.” Continue reading “Foreign Thoughts”