For Obama, Inconvenient Law Is Irrelevant Law
The president dismantles immigration law that he finds incompatible with his own larger agenda. by Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Online There is a humane, transparent, truthful — and constitutional — way to address illegal immigration. Unfortunately, President Obama’s unilateral plan to exempt millions of residents from federal immigration law is none of those […]
The Forgotten Americans
Obama’s coalition is held together only by his personal mythography. by Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Online Political analysts still are arguing over why the Democratic party was washed away in the midterm election. Since 2008, ascendant progressives had been crowing over a fresh mosaic of energized minorities, newly franchised immigrants, single young urban […]
Meet the Snobocrats
Jonathan Gruber’s disdain for the proverbial masses is thematic of the last six years. by Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Online Last week, Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Jonathan Gruber, one of prominent architects of Obamacare, was exposed as little more than an elitist fraud. Gruber was caught on videotape expressing the haughty attitude […]
Explaining Away Obama
by Victor Davis Hanson // PJMedia The only mystery about the last six years is how much lasting damage has been done to the American experiment, at home and abroad. Our federal agencies are now an alphabet soup of incompetence and corruption [1]. How does the IRSever quite recover [2]? Will the Secret Service always […]
A Moral Primer
Obama’s legacy: government-induced chaos at home, moral equivalence abroad. by Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Online The last but long gasp of the Obama administration is characterized not so much by deceit and incompetence as by growing chaos. Everything appears to be coming apart. The chariot of state now veers up and down with […]
Thank You
Thank all of you so much for your kind messages and thoughts in these difficult times. You are all the only reason that I write, and your comments have brought our family such solace in untold ways. Sincerely your friend, Victor Davis Hanson
Susannah Merry Hanson: Obituary
Susannah Merry Hanson Susannah Merry Hanson, age 27, passed away suddenly on November 13 in Los Angeles, California after a brief illness. She was born in Selma, California on December 31, 1986. She is survived by her mother Cara Webb Hanson of Clovis and Santa Cruz; her father Victor Davis Hanson of Selma; her older sister […]
The End of NATO
by Victor Davis Hanson // Defining Ideas Declaring the North Atlantic Treaty Organization dead has been a pastime of analysts since the end of the Cold War. The alliance, today 28-members strong, has survived 65 years because its glaring contradictions were often overlooked, given the dangers of an expansionist and nuclear Soviet Union and its […]
Voting ‘no’ on Obama’s immigration policies
by Victor Davis Hanson // TSM Everyone finds a lesson in the Republican midterm tsunami. One message was that so-called comprehensive immigration reform and broad amnesty have little national public support. Polls have long shown that, but so do last week’s election results. Candidates in swing states who promised amnesties got no edge from such […]
Obamacare Architect Exposes Progressive Totalitarianism
by Bruce S. Thornton // FrontPage Magazine Professor Jonathan Gruber of MIT, who designed the Affordable Care Act, used to be the symbol of the Democrats’ technocratic bona fides, and an example of how big government with its “scientific” experts can solve social and economic problems from health care to a warming planet. Yet a recently […]
Obama Midwifes a Nuclear Iran
by Bruce S. Thornton // FrontPage Magazine The news that President Obama has sent a secret letter to Iranian leader Ayatollah Khamenei––apparently promising concessions on Iran’s nuclear program in exchange for help in defeating ISIS–– is a depressing reminder of how after nearly 40 years our leaders have not understood the Iranian Revolution. During the […]
Comparing the ‘war on terror’ with WWII
by Victor Davis Hanson // World Net Daily Over the years I’ve debated scholars and pundits on issues ranging from illegal immigration (no to open borders), George Bush’s troop levels in Iraq (don’t add and don’t subtract, but change tactics and force the Iraqis to step up), and World War II (the Red Army, for […]
Not the Beginning of the End, but Maybe the End of the Beginning
by Victor Davis Hanson // NRO-The Corner Race, class, and gender politics are not over, but maybe they are beginning to become just a bit stale. Part of the progressive problem was the huge disconnect between assimilationist reality and tribal rhetoric. While the president went on the reprobate Al Sharpton’s radio show divisively to gin […]
Book Review: Crucified Again; Exposing Islam’s New War on Christians by Raymond Ibrahim
by Terry Scambray // New Oxford Review Islam: Victors Vanquishing Victims Crucified Again; Exposing Islam’s New War on Christians by Raymond Ibrahim. Regnery, 2013. 247 pp. Throughout the Muslim world from Morocco to Nigeria to Indonesia – and even occasionally in Western Europe and North America, Christians are being harassed, tortured and murdered. As […]
The Democrats’ Waterloo
Their refusal to acknowledge the administration’s failures did not make them go away. by Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Online The Duke of Wellington said of his close-run victory over Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo that the French “came on in the same old way, and we sent them back in the same […]
Losers
by Victor Davis Hanson // NRO-The Corner 1. Barack Obama is now a toxic brand. Arrogance and incompetence are a fatal brew. If once his problem was his failed policies, now it is also his persona, especially the blame-gaming and sense of boredom on the job that borders on public petulance, as if he came into […]
Election Day: What’s at Stake
by Bruce S. Thornton // FrontPage Magazine The election and reelection of Barack Obama have seemingly realized the progressive dream of transforming America from its traditional Constitutional order to one more similar to Europe’s––an activist rather than a limited federal government, one whose power and reach extend into the market economy, trump state sovereignty, and […]
Sizing America Up
In today’s foreign-relations climate, even a Jimmy Carter would seem like a godsend. by Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Online A weak, lame-duck Barack Obama, who has now eroded a once exuberant Democratic party, will be even weaker in the next two years. If Democratic senators who had been his stalwart supporters — voting […]
Democrat Dilemmas
by Victor Davis Hanson // PJ Media Here is the problem with the old-style Obama strategy of slicing and dicing the electorate into aggrieved minorities and then gluing them back together to achieve a 51% majority. On almost every issue in this election that they should be running on, they simply cannot. And on those […]
Janet Yellen Shills for the Democrats
by Bruce Thornton // FrontPage Magazine At a conference last week, Federal Reserve Chairman Janet Yellen recycled a shopworn Democrat talking point about the supposed crisis of income inequality and stalled economic mobility. “The extent and continuing increase in inequality in the United States greatly concerns me,” Yellen said, going on to wonder “whether this […]