by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
Not long ago, candidate Obama promised to cool the planet and lower the rising seas. Continue reading “Global Warming–RIP?”
Tag: Oil and Gas
Can Israel Survive?
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
Will Israel survive? That question hasn’t really been asked since 1967. Continue reading “Can Israel Survive?”
The Middle East Mess
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
Libya, Iraq, Syria, Iran, and the All the Same Old, Same Old Mess
Each country in the Middle East poses unique challenges. That said, gender apartheid, religious intolerance, tribalism, dictatorship, statism, and lack of transparency and free expression are widely shared in the region, and mean that any particular policy will almost immediately collide with some two millennia of habit and custom antithetical and often hostile to the values of the West. Continue reading “The Middle East Mess”
St. Obama and the Debt Dragon
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
“Reckless Fiscal Policies”
Why did Obama only enumerate George W. Bush’s big spending as responsible for the out-of-control $14 trillion-plus debt, while not mentioning his own contribution of $5 trillion? Continue reading “St. Obama and the Debt Dragon”
There Are No Socialists
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
Are There Really Socialists?
Two unconnected developments were announced this past week. President Obama is releasing oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, despite the absence of a global embargo or horrific natural disaster — and despite a litany of assertions from 2008 that drilling and increased supply might only have a marginal effect on prices. Continue reading “There Are No Socialists”
The Evidence of a Bankrupt Populism
by Victor Davis Hanson
NRO’s The Corner
Editor’s Note: These passages are drawn from recent articles on The Corner.
Obama’s Real Legacy
Barack Obama’s cries from the heart as a senator about the possibility of a Bush intervention in Iran being a de facto violation of the War Powers Act have been widely circulated — juxtaposed to his sophistic gymnastics about bombs over Libya not really being much more than “kinetic action” and thus exempt from the Act. Continue reading “The Evidence of a Bankrupt Populism”
Reelecting Obama
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
We are beginning to see the contours of the upcoming 2012 reelection campaign of Barack Obama. Whether always officially sanctioned or not, Obama’s campaign will focus on three general themes: a) the 2008 meltdown of the economy on Bush’s watch; b) conservative heartlessness in gutting cherished entitlement programs; and c) racial bias behind any criticism of Barack Obama. Continue reading “Reelecting Obama”
An American Versailles
The liberal message ia all style and impotence.
by Victor Davis Hanson
NRO’s The Corner
Editor’s Note: What follows is a collection of recent Corners from VDH.
The Shape of 2012 to Come
The outburst from Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at the so-called Shanghai Cooperation Organization should close the chapter on the much bandied about “outreach” to Iran voiced by candidate Obama in 2008. Continue reading “An American Versailles”
An Honest Obama Campaign
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
Given what we know now, I think Obama’s summer-2008 campaign speeches should have sounded something like this: Continue reading “An Honest Obama Campaign”
Hope and Change in the Middle East
by Victor Davis Hanson
NRO’s The Corner
This was the sort of split-the-difference address that the president is now famous for — long on Icarus-like soaring phraseology, very short on down-to-earth realities. Continue reading “Hope and Change in the Middle East”