2009

by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services President Barack Obama’s first TV interview was with the Dubai-based, partly Saudi-funded Al Arabiya satellite channel. Share This

by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media I am meeting a few battered Americans these days. There are not many left, but those that are seem to sound alike. Yes, I think I am beginning to understand Mr. Battered American, and he sounds tired and a bit like this. Share This

by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Five Easy Pieces I. “Bush did it!” Sec. Clinton went abroad this week and immediately, and yes, gratuitously, blamed Bush. Share This

by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media My grandfather once said something to me around 1970 that I have never forgotten. He was born in my house in 1890 (or rather, I in his) — twenty years after his grandmother built the present home. Share This

“Hope and change” meet reality. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online We have seen irony before, when the moralist Jimmy Carter chastised us with sermons about our paranoid, inordinate fear of Communism and our amoral unconcern with human rights, even as the dividends of his policies were the Soviets in Afghanistan and the Ayatollah

by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Most historians agree that earthquakes, droughts or barbarians did not unravel classical Athens or imperial Rome. Share This

by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Such a Strange Malady A strange thing, this Obama worship (cf. the New York Times op-ed on Sunday where the columnist imagined having sexual relations with Obama) and Bush hatred (cf. the Will Farrell Broadway show trashing Bush, and showing images of his purported penis). Share This

by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services With much fanfare, President Barack Obama announced a new effort to end the endless Israeli-Palestinian struggle — by naming a brand-new Middle East envoy, former Sen. George Mitchell. Share This