Why Patriotism Is Indispensable for Democracies
by Bruce S. Thornton RightNetwork.com From its beginnings in ancient Athens, democracy has been bedeviled by weaknesses that paradoxically arise from its defining genius. Share This
2010
Rep. Loretta Sanchez and the Bathos of Race
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Race on the Brain Again Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-CA) recently caused a mini-controversy (they always are mini- if the offender is a self-declared progressive “person of color”). Share This
Americans Still Cling to Ignorance
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services The bookish, twice-unsuccessful Democratic presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson once sighed that if most thinking people supported him, it still wouldn’t be enough in America because “I need a majority.” Share This
President 40/60
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media I think Barack Obama will soon dip below a 40% approval rating. He’s nearing there now. Why? A mixture of both the personal and political. Here are five good reasons: Share This
Jihadists Get the Veto
by Bruce S. Thornton RightNetwork.com The best lack all conviction while the worst are full of passionate intensity – Yeats, The Second Coming Florida pastor Terry Jones called off his Koran-burning after President Obama and others in his administration joined the chorus of Americans asking him not to go through with it. Share This
Carly Fiorina: Robber Baron, Traitor–and Outsourcer!
by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online One of Sen. Barbara Boxer’s sharpest charges against challenger Carly Fiorina is that, as CEO of Hewlett-Packard, she allowed thousands of jobs to be outsourced overseas — depriving U.S. workers of income while piling up profits for executive grandees like herself. Share This
Policies Based on Illusion
by Bruce S. Thornton City Journal The great historian of Soviet Russia, Robert Conquest, once wrote something about the dangers of naïve diplomacy that I’m reminded of daily. Share This
Multiculturalism
by Victor Davis Hanson RightNetwork.com Multiculturalism is now the final arbiter of all liberal sensitivity. Let me explain. Share This
A Nation of Peasants?
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Traditional peasant societies believe in only a limited good. The more your neighbor earns, the less someone else gets. Profits are seen as a sort of theft. They must be either hidden or redistributed. Envy rather than admiration of success reigns. Share This
Obama Made Us Do It!
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Running Away from the Record Even the bogeyman George Bush has a finite shelf life. It is as if he is now somehow last fall’s Halloween goblin that we are still supposed to worry about months later during the Fourth of July. Share This