by Victor Davis Hanson
NRO’s The Corner
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. Read more →
Secretaries Gone Wild
Posted in: Debt and Deficits / Tagged: Al Sharpton, Barack Obama, California, Debt, Deficits, Eric Holder, Farming, Global-Warming, Illegal Immigration, Oil and Gas, Race, Solyndra, Steven Chu, Unemployment, United States Economy
Change–and Some Hope
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
Rays of Sun Amid the Storm
The Rasmussen Tracking Poll recently had Romney up 50 to 42 over Obama. At this early juncture, such polls mean nothing — except as diagnostic indices of why perhaps both candidates go up and down in popularity. Read more →
When Administrations Implode
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
Administration meltdowns are hardly novel. In almost every presidency there comes a moment when sheer chaos, whether self-induced or the result of an outside crisis, takes hold. Read more →
Posted in: Punditry, First Term Policies / Tagged: America's Decline, Barack Obama, Debt, Deficits, Foreign Policy, Iran-Contra, Obamacare, Oil and Gas, Unemployment, United States Economy, War on Women
Campaigning on Grievances
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
In 2008, a mostly unknown Barack Obama ran for president on an inclusive agenda of “hope and change.” That upbeat message was supposed to translate into millions of green jobs, fiscal sobriety, universal healthcare, a resetting of Bush foreign policy, and racial unity. Read more →
The Second Oil Revolution
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
The world was reinvented in the 1970s by soaring oil prices and massive transfers of national wealth. It could be again if the price of petroleum crashes — a real possibility given the amazing estimates about the new gas and oil reserves on the North American continent. Read more →
Posted in: Energy, Economy, Foreign Policy / Tagged: Deficits, Energy, Foreign Policy, Green Energy, Oil and Gas, Persian Gulf, Terrorism, The Middle East, Unemployment, United States Economy, Yom Kippur War
‘Exceptional’ America
by Victor Davis Hanson
Defining Ideas
Accepting inevitable national decline is the new pastime of both the media and government elite. Some of the pessimism revolves around current federal financial insolvency. Read more →
Obama’s Surreal Campaign
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
As the election year heats up, we seem not to have noticed the surreal nature of the campaign. Read more →
Posted in: Campaign 2012 / Tagged: Barack Obama, Deficits, Foreign Policy, Hillary Clinton, Illegal Immigration, Jobless Recovery, Mitt Romney, Obamacare, Oil and Gas, Petroleum, Unemployment, United States Economy
Please, A Little Honesty about Illegal Immigration
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
President Barack Obama recently assured El Salvador that the United States would not deport the more than 200,000 Salvadorans residing illegally in the United States. Read more →
Posted in: Immigration / Tagged: Barack Obama, Central America, Hispanics, Illegal Aliens, Illegal Immigration, Latin America, Mexico, Social Services, Unemployment
2012: Crisis and Opportunity Await
by Bruce S. Thornton
FrontPage Magazine
This year will be a time of crisis and opportunity. The incompetence of President Obama is now manifest to all but his most devoted followers, who remain trapped in their progressive Jonestown, chanting the bankrupt mantra of “hope and change” as they stir the vats of government Kool-Aid. Read more →
Strangers in a Stranger Land
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
Trostky-ization
In ancient Rome, when the emperor or an especially distasteful elite died, his image on stone and in bronze was removed. And by decree there arose adamnatio memoriae, a holistic effort to erase away his entire prior existence. Read more →
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