Did O’Reilly Finally Go Too Far?
By Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Online Earlier this month, premier Fox newsman Bill O’Reilly became unhinged on live television. A red-faced O’Reilly loudly and repeatedly called his invited guest, Washington Post columnist and fellow conservative Fox News journalist George Will, a “hack” and accused him of lying. It was a surreal moment, with […]
Why Won’t We Call This Islamist Terrorism?
This isn’t an attack on “humanity.” It’s a war against the West. by Victor Davis Hanson // Politico (Europe Edition) President Obama summed up the jihadist killing in Paris as “an attack not just on Paris.” But rather, he assured us, “This is an attack on all of humanity and the universal values we share.” But is […]
The University Gone Feral
On campus, social norms no longer apply. By Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Online The university, long exempted from social norms and rules, has gone wild in the 21st century — or rather, regressed to pre-puberty. The University of Missouri campus police now request that students — a group not known for polite vocabulary […]
Waging The War on ‘Terror,’ Vichy-style
by Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Online A few hours before the catastrophic attack in Paris, President Obama had announced that ISIS was now “contained,” a recalibration of his earlier assessments of “on the run” and “Jayvees” from a few years back. In the hours following the attack of jihadist suicide bombers and mass […]
A Tale of Two Shootings
by Victor Davis Hanson // PJ Media In August of 2014 Michael Brown, 18, 6-foot-4, 290 lbs., robbed a store in Ferguson [1], Missouri. Brown (who apparently had recently used marijuana) assaulted the clerk, then walked down the middle of the street before being stopped by city police officer Darren Wilson, who tentatively matched Brown […]
Conventional wisdom proves ignorance in the presidential race
by Victor Davis Hanson//Tribune Media Services The current presidential campaign is blowing up lots of political myths. For years, the conventional lament was that the “wrong” Bush had run for president in 2000. George W. Bush was supposedly tongue-tied. He was said to be polarizing. He was derided as too much the twangy, conservative Texas […]
Tooth-Gnashing in the Republican Establishment
By Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Online Republicans should be upbeat. They control by large margins the state legislatures and governorships. The Supreme Court is a bit more conservative than liberal. The House and Senate are both run by Republicans. President Obama, after veritably wrecking his party, has for some time scarcely polled above […]
Can California Be Saved?
by Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Online Crime is back up in California. Los Angeles reported a 20.6 percent increase in violent crimes over the first half of 2015 and nearly an 11 percent increase in property crimes. Last year, cash-strapped California taxpayers voted for Proposition 47, which so far has let thousands of convicted […]
The Middle East and Orwellian Historical Arguments
When lies are the foundation of policies. by Bruce S. Thornton // FrontPage Magazine Many of our policy debates and conflicts both domestic and foreign call on history to validate their positions. At home, crimes from the past like slavery and legal segregation are used to justify present policies ranging from racial set asides to […]
Moral Equivalence in the Middle East
The West has developed a dangerous concern for ‘proportionality.’ by Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Online In the current epidemic of Palestinian violence, scores of Arab youths are attacking, supposedly spontaneously, Israeli citizens with knives. Apparently, edged weapons have moreKoranic authority, and, in the sense of media spectacle, they provide greater splashes of blood. Thus […]
Are Sanctuary Cities the New Confederates?
by Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Online There are now 340 sanctuary cities in the United States — and the list is growing. All of them choose to ignore federal immigration law by refusing to report detained undocumented immigrants to federal authorities under most circumstances.
Obama’s Schizophrenic Foreign Policy
An analysis of a recipe for serial disasters. by Bruce S. Thornton // FrontPage Magazine What are the roots of Barack Obama’s foreign policy? Some focus on the man and his flaws of character, particularly his inability to learn from his mistakes and to adjust his ideas to changing facts on the ground. Others see […]
The Road to Middle East Perdition
From reset to the Iran deal, Obama’s mistakes are so comprehensive they almost look deliberate. by Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Online How did Vladimir Putin — with his country reeling from falling oil prices, possessing only a second-rate military, in demographic free-fall, and suffering from an array of international sanctions — find himself […]
A Liberal’s Ten Commandments
To better advance their causes, liberals should follow these modest Ten Commandments to live the rather “progressive” lives that they advocate for the rest of us. by Victor Davis Hanson // PJ Media The best way for liberals to advance their various causes would be to take a pledge to live the rather progressive lives […]
Barack Churchill, 1939
“Certainly we do not need a disproportionate response to Herr Hitler that initiates a cycle of violence on both sides. We need to tamp down the rhetoric.” by Victor Davis Hanson // PJ Media I have nothing to offer you, except blood, sweat, and arugula. Winston Churchill, well before he became prime minister in May […]
Don’t Trust Putin in the Mideast
by Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Online Contrary to the principles of American foreign policy of the last 70 years, President Barack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry tacitly invited Russia to “help” monitor things in the Middle East. Now they are learning that there are lots of Middle East scenarios far worse than […]
Why the Iran Deal Ensures War
The Iran agreement will remake the Middle East — for the worse. by Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Online There are several scenarios the Obama administration may be entertaining as it pursues its diplomacy in the Middle East. It may believe that the new agreement with Iran will lead to “engagement” with reform-minded theocrats. The […]
Obama: Nihilist or Just Incompetent?
Who knows; the only mystery left is how much damage will the last gasp of 2016 bring? by Victor David Hanson // PJ Media Three things so far have saved Obama’s otherwise unfortunate tenure; all came over his own objections. One, after the 2010 midterm tsunami, the newly elected House Republicans put a lid on […]
Pope Francis’s Hypocritical Politicking
by Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Online Unpopular though it may be to say so, I, for one, grew exhausted by the non-stop pronouncements /commentaries of Pope Francis. The spiritual leader of 1 billion Catholics — roughly half of the world’s Christians — Francis just completed a high-profile, endlessly publicized visit to the United States.
The Underbelly Of The California Drought
by Victor Davis Hanson // Eureka It is September in California, year four of a scorching drought. Forest fires are blackening the arid state, from Napa Valley to the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Fly over the High Sierra and about every tenth evergreen below appears dead. Even the high mountain lakes and reservoirs are about empty […]