Defense Spending Is a ‘Shovel Ready’ Investment
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services President Obama has just ordered massive cutbacks in defense spending, eventually to total some $500 billion. There is plenty of fat in a Pentagon budget that grew after 9/11, but such slashing goes way too far.
Mr. Obama’s 99%: Are We Poor or Just Unequal or Both or Neither?
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media The 2012 campaign is heating up and we can see the outlines of an impending us/them class war. But in our strange 21st-century world, lots of crazy things blur the president’s 1%/99% divide.
Cutting the Military Is a Bad Idea
by Victor Davis Hanson Ricochet.com After World War II, Harry Truman and Louis Johnson wanted to cut the Marine Corps; by winter 1950 what was left of it almost single-handedly saved the reputation of the collapsing US military in Korea.
Muslim Brotherhood Seeks ‘Mastership of World’
by Raymond Ibrahim Jihad Watch Although many Muslim leaders openly articulate their efforts as part of a larger picture — one that culminates in the resurrection of a caliphate adversarial by nature to all things non-Muslim — many Western leaders see only the moment, either out of context or, worse, in a false context built atop wishful […]
Diplomacy Carterizes
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner Reset/Outreach R.I.P It is not surprising how little foreign policy comes up in the debates, given the sorry state of the economy.
The Coin Toss on EU Crisis For Germany: Heads We Lose, Tails You Win
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner Watching the current EU dramatics over southern Mediterranean debt reminds me of the farm crisis of 1982–4 when lots of big farming concerns around here defaulted on what they owed banks.
The Case for Military Action Against Iran
by Bruce S. Thornton FrontPage Magazine Iran’s 30-year war against the United States may be reaching its decisive moment. Signs of the worsening crisis abound.
Obama’s Postmodern Vision
by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online There has been for months a popular parlor game of tallying instances in which President Obama seems to have either ignored or simply bypassed federal law.
Iran on the Brink
by Bruce S. Thornton Defining Ideas Just in the last few months, events have hastened to a crisis in Iran’s long confrontation with the West.
Postmodern Populism
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner Newt Gingrich soaring in the polls 90 days ago — with an inspired strategy of critiquing Obama, reprimanding the left-wing media during the debates, playing down his ego while showing mastery of the issues, and calling for an end to internecine bickering — stumbled for a while under the natural negative […]
Far from the Madding Islamists’ Ignoble Strife
by Raymond Ibrahim Jihad Watch Review of Militant Islamist Ideology: Understanding the Global Threat by Youssef Aboul-Enein (Naval Institute Press, 2010. 288 pp.).
2011: Out with a Whimper, Not a Bang
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services It proved as hard to break up the bankrupt European Union as it was to create it.
Being There–the Obama Sequel
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Rip Van Obama President Obama went into a deep slumber in December. When he woke up this January, he found himself back even in the polls, with neither a press conference nor another overhyped presidential televised address to be heard.
Islam’s Slave-Soldiers Return to Egypt
by Raymond Ibrahim Stonegate Institute The myths of a “patriotic” or “altruistic” Egyptian military carefully protecting the “rights” of its citizenry — the narrative of the mainstream media of the January 25 Revolution — are long gone.
2012: Crisis and Opportunity Await
by Bruce S. Thornton FrontPage Magazine This year will be a time of crisis and opportunity. The incompetence of President Obama is now manifest to all but his most devoted followers, who remain trapped in their progressive Jonestown, chanting the bankrupt mantra of “hope and change” as they stir the vats of government Kool-Aid.
Goodbye, Mr. Hitchens
by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online I used to talk with Christopher Hitchens from time to time between 2003 and 2010. But as in the case of most who knew him, I was an acquaintance of someone with far more acquaintances than I had.
The New Old Europe
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Nearly ten years ago, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld provoked outrage by referring to “Old Europe.”
The No News Stories of 2011
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media The German Stereotype There were lots of stories that left a lot unsaid. The Germany/EU debt imbroglio was one of them.
Lessons on the Long Road to Hijab
by Raymond Ibrahim Jihad Watch A caricature, which first appeared on CagleCartoons.com, has been making the rounds on the Arabic blogosphere, and points to how democratic elections are serving to Islamize Egypt: average women enter the ballot box — “overseen” by the Muslim Brotherhood — only to emerge thoroughly veiled, thoroughly Islamized.
America’s Two-Front War
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media America has the slows. Sometime about mid-2009 America began changing psychologically. True, to the naked eye, America retained the old hustle and bustle, but in an insidious fashion it began to think a bit differently.