Valley Public Radio Interview (20:54)
An interview with Joe Moore about The Savior Generals: How Five Great Commanders Saved Wars That Were Lost – From Ancient Greece to Iraq.
Same old warfare?
by Victor Davis Hanson // TLS A Review of three books: Saltpeter: The mother of gunpowder by David Cressy (Oxford University Press, 237pp) Napalm by Robert M. Neer (Belknap Press, 310pp) Warrior Geeks: How twenty-first-century technology is changing the way we fight and think about war by Christopher Coker (US: Columbia University Press, 330pp)
Facing Facts about Race
Young black males are at greater risk from their peers than from the police or white civilians. by Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Online Last week President Obama weighed in again on the Trayvon Martin episode. Sadly, most of what he said was wrong, both literally and ethically.
Lying in the Age of Obama
By Victor Davis Hanson // PJ Media A Nation of Liars The attorney general of the United States lied recently to Congress [1]. He said he knew of no citizen’s communications that his department had monitored. Lie! In fact, Holder knew [2] that his subordinates were targeting reporters. He also did not tell the truth about the New Black Panthers case [3]. He […]
Race-Industry Leeches
by Bruce S. Thornton // FrontPage Magazine The trial of George Zimmerman is over, but the persecution of him by the race industry isn’t. The Department of Justice is currently combing through the case to find some pretext, no matter how specious, for charging Zimmerman with a violation of civil-rights laws. No matter that the FBI […]
Syria’s Graphic Beheading Videos
by Raymond Ibrahim // FrontPage Magazine Based on a widely circulated video and statements from the Vatican, it was believed that Fr. Francois Murad, a Catholic Syrian priest, was recently beheaded in Syria. It was not long before others “vigorously denied” the story, saying that the Christian priest was actually shot dead. And now that’s fast […]
Crucified Again — Venn Institute Interviews Raymond Ibrahim
Raymond Ibrahim [Note: The following interview was conducted by the Venn Institute with Raymond Ibrahim] Raymond Ibrahim is a widely published author, public speaker, and Middle East and Islam expert, and author most recently of Crucified Again: Exposing Islam’s New War on Christians. Follow him on Twitter @RaymondIbrahim5 Venn Institute: Most Americans see persecution of Christians and other minorities […]
By Hook, Crook, or Comic Book
Mexico continues to encourage its citizens to migrate to the U.S., even thought it doesn’t need to. by Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Online There are many strange elements in the current debate over illegal immigration, but none stranger than the general failure to discuss the role of Mexico. Are millions of Mexican citizens still trying […]
How Dare You?! The Supremacist Nature of Muslim ‘Grievances’
by Raymond Ibrahim // Jerusalem Post In 2012 in Pakistan, as Christian children were singing carols inside their church, Muslim men from a nearby mosque barged in with an axe, destroyed the furniture, desecrated the altar, and beat the children. Their justification for such violence? “You are disturbing our prayers…. How dare you use the mike and speakers?”
Obama’s Authoritarians
Mouthing Sixties-style anti-Western slogans is the way to win the president’s heart. by Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Online There were many paradoxes left after the protests of the 1960s. One of the worst was American elites’ hypocrisy toward authoritarianism abroad. Most Americans granted that anti-Communist strongmen like Ferdinand Marcos, Augusto Pinochet, Mohammad Reza Shah […]
President Obama’s New American Vocabulary
by Victor Davis Hanson // PJ Media Of all the many changes that the Obama administration has enacted over the last five years, the least remarked upon are the strange changes in our vocabulary. To fathom the shifting meaning of words, here is a guide to the new Obama lexicon. Affordable Care Act: Mostly unaffordable, uncaring, and inactive. […]
Muslim Brotherhood Out, Killing Christians In
by Raymond Ibrahim // Gatestone Institute “I tell the Christians one word: We will set you on fire!” — Egyptian Muslim lady “In scattered locations across Egypt, mobs of hard-line Muslims,” according to Morning Star News, “enraged over the deposing of the country’s Islamist president [Muhammad Morsi] this week attacked Christian homes, business[es] and church buildings […]
Supposed Crimes of the Mind
With hate speech, it’s the perceived ideology of the perpetrator that matters most. by Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Online When do insensitive words destroy reputations? It all depends. Celebrity chef Paula Deen was dropped by her TV network, her publisher, and
Revolutionary Tribunals
Our courts have too often become expressions of the popular will. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online In ancient Athens, popular courts of paid jurors helped institutionalize fairness. If a troublemaker like Socrates was thought to be a danger to the popular will, then he was put on trial for inane charges like “corrupting […]
Nemesis, After All
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media A Plodding Goddess Like a broken record, for the last five years I have invoked the Greek concept of Nemesis, or divine retribution for unchecked hubris, to explain what was in store for the Obama administration.
The Lost Meaning of Independence Day
by Bruce S. Thornton Front Page Magazine Independence Day is a time of backyard barbeques and fireworks, department-store sales and blockbuster movies, patriotic bunting and flying the flag––in short, a time of leisure and consumption, with a few obligatory nods to the momentous event that July 4 is supposed to celebrate. But as the years […]
The Press and Dr. Faustus
Too late, American journalists realize their mistake. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online In the old Dr. Faustus story, a young scholar bargains away his soul to the devil for promises of obtaining almost anything he wants.
Obama’s Bluster Pulpit
The president’s saber-rattling in the Middle East makes America look weak and puts the world in danger by Victor Davis Hanson Defining Ideas At the turn of the century, Teddy Roosevelt famously advised statesmen to “speak softly and carry a big stick.”
Obama’s Proxy War on Mideast Christians
by Raymond Ibrahim PJ Media With the recent decision to arm the opposition fighting Syrian President Assad, the United States has effectively declared a proxy war on Syria’s indigenous Christians—a proxy war that was earlier waged on Christians in other Mideast nations, resulting in the abuse, death, and/or mass exodus of Christians.
Liberal Apartheid
The elite mostly lead a reactionary existence of talking one way and living another. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online One of the strangest things about the modern progression in liberal thought is its increasing comfort with elitism and high style. Over the last 30 years, the enjoyment of refined tastes, both material and […]