Rhetoric and Perceives Status

by Victor Davis Hanson

NRO’s The Corner

The Left in the last 48 hours has tried to make the argument that the Tucson shootings were the result of Tea Party angst, healthcare furor, talk radio, opposition to illegal immigration — almost any contemporary hot-button hoi polloi issue or any populist forum. Continue reading “Rhetoric and Perceives Status”

Making It Up As We Go Along

by Victor Davis Hanson

PJ Media

Being There

Gone is Bush the great Constitution-shredder. Tribunals, renditions, Predators, wiretaps, Iraq, Guantanamo, preventative detention — these are now either embraced or expanded. Iraq (“the surge is not working”) is Obama’s “greatest achievement.” Continue reading “Making It Up As We Go Along”

Anatomy of a Media Bias: Nothing’s More Closed Than a Colonized Mind

by Bruce S. Thornton

RightNetwork.com

One of the pleasures of reading the New York Times is spotting the myriad ways liberal ideology shapes stories and presents as fact what is a debatable supposition. Global warming, for example, is a “crisis” about which the Timeshas already made up its mind. Continue reading “Anatomy of a Media Bias: Nothing’s More Closed Than a Colonized Mind”

The Manhattan Project of Illegal Immigration

by Victor Davis Hanson

National Review Online

Why do millions of Mexican nationals see America as racist, exploitative — and worth everything to get to and stay in? Continue reading “The Manhattan Project of Illegal Immigration”