Immigration: If the Bill Passes
Both Obama’s record and the results of past immigration “reforms” paint a bleak picture. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online There are lots of reasons to believe that most of what is promised in the current so-called comprehensive immigration-reform bill won’t be honored if it is passed by the full Congress and signed by […]
Can the Human Mind Explain Itself?
by Terry Scambray New Oxford Review A Review of Mind & Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False, Thomas Nagel. Oxford University Press, 2012. 128 pages. $24.95
Lies Subvert Demovracy
Obama and his team have subverted the government they pledged to serve. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Truth is the lifeblood of democracy. Without honesty, the foundations of consensual government crumble.
The President’s Boilerplate Address to Berliners
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner Aside from the usual Obama “hope and change/yes we can” boilerplate platitudes, there were also the same old disturbing and disingenuous statements in his Berlin speech.
Christendom’s Greatest Cathedral to Become a Mosque
by Raymond Ibrahim PJ Media While unrest in Turkey continues to capture attention, more subtle and more telling events concerning the Islamification of Turkey — and not just at the hands of Prime Minister Erdogan but majorities of Turks — are quietly transpiring.
John McCain’s Syria Delusions
by Bruce S. Thornton FrontPage Magazine Following the president’s announcement that we will provide small arms and ammunition to the rebels fighting Bashar al-Assad in Syria, Senator John McCain has intensified his drumbeat for war and demanded even more extensive U.S. involvement, particularly a no-fly zone.
Illegal Immigration: Elite Illiberality
The elite charm of comprehensive immigration reform. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online The divide over immigration reform is not primarily a Left/Right or Democratic/Republican divide; instead, it cuts, and sharply so, across class lines.
Intervention in Syria Is a Very Bad Idea
by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Syria is turning out to be a sort of Spanish Civil War of our age, with Hezbollah and Iran playing the role of fascist Italy and Germany, and the Islamic nations and jihadists that of Stalin’s Russia, as the moderates disappear and the messy conflict becomes a proxy […]
The New American Enemies List
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media The vast majority of the annual shooting homicides are committed by inner-city and minority youths below the age of 30.
Saudi Police Arrest Flying, Naked, African ‘Sorceress’
by Raymond Ibrahim FrontPage Magazine Last month, according to Emirates247 , “A Saudi court sentenced two Asian housemaids to 10 years in jail and ordered their lashed 1,000 times each after they were found guilty of indulging in sorcery at their employers’ houses
Ready for Battle
Five generals who turned the tide. by Victorino Matus The Weekly Standard The military historian Victor Davis Hanson was in Washington, D.C., to promote his latest book, The Savior Generals: How Five Great Commanders Saved Wars That Were Lost—From Ancient Greece to Iraq.
Muslim Persecution of Christians: March, 2013
by Raymond Ibrahim Gatestone Institute The Islamic jihad against Christians in Nigeria is proving to be the most barbaric.
America’s Vast Margin of Error
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services The Obama administration is facing scandals everywhere — using the IRS to punish political enemies, seizing the phone records of Associated Press and Fox News reporters, monitoring phone and email accounts of millions, and making up stories about what happened in Benghazi.
A Brief History of Media Bias
Who said that newspapers are supposed to report the news in an objective and fact-based way? by Bruce S. Thornton Defining Ideas The revelation that the Department of Justice acquired and read the phone records of Associated Press editors and reporters does not change the obvious fact that the mainstream media have been reliable supporters […]
Pick Your Scandal
Violating Americans’ privacy while failing to identify the terrorists among us. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online All can agree that the Obama administration is mired in myriads of scandals, but as yet no one can quite figure out what they all mean and where they will lead.
Obama Is Just Obama
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Suddenly, half the country is upset with Obama for the recent flurry of scandals. Even some in the media are perplexed
You Don’t Say . . .
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner Barack Obama in his weekly radio address accused opponents of comprehensive immigration reform of rank partisan politics:
“The Hoplite Narrative,” by Victor Davis Hanson
A chapter from Men of Bronze: Hoplite Warfare in Ancient Greece Edited by Donald Kagan & Gregory F. Viggiano
Obama’s Ethical Gymnastics
His morality is to be judged by his professed aims, not his means of achieving them. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Presidential ethics are now situational. Obama is calling for a shield law to protect reporters from the sort of harassment that his attorney general, Eric Holder, and the FBI practiced against Fox […]
The Stagnant Mediterranean
Socialism and Islamism don’t foster a climate of economic growth and security. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online From the heights of Gibraltar you can see Africa about nine miles away to the south — and gaze eastward on the seemingly endless Mediterranean, which stretches 2,400 miles to Asia.