Are You ‘Them!’?
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Until the appearance of Barack Obama on the national scene, I knew of “them” only from an old sci-fi movie in which huge ants (“Them!”) ate people.
The Libyan Non-Model
by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online It is a good thing that Moammar Qaddafi is gone, even if by barbaric means. So what did we learn from the 2011 misadventure, given that some are advocating much the same sort of action against Syria and Iran? Answer: Not much.
The Muslim Brothers Get Paid to Threaten America
by Bruce S. Thornton FrontPage Magazine Remember last year’s giddy bipartisan enthusiasm over the “Arab Spring”?
Obama’s Assault on America’s Prestige
by Bruce S. Thornton FrontPage Magazine In 1868, a British army led by Sir Robert Napier sailed from India to Abyssinia (Ethiopia) to rescue several English and European hostages from the mentally unstable, sadistic King Theodore.
Harvard Promotes the Palestinians’ Slow-Motion ‘Final Solution’
by Bruce S. Thornton FrontPage Media There is no idea so hateful or useless that some university somewhere won’t hold a conference on it. The latest example of this unfortunate truism is the recently announced “Israel/Palestine and the One-State Conference” scheduled for early March at the Harvard Kennedy School.
Which Way Greece?
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner One question that rarely arises about Greece is “where did all those hundreds of billions of Euros really go?” I think most visitors could easily answer that they were not all squandered on pensions and inflated government staffs and salaries.
The 2012 Election Circus–the Acts, the Players, the Hype
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media The Latest Scandals Taxes: What does it matter that Gingrich released one year of his tax records? Any candidate can prep them a year in advance.
A Post-American World?
by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online In a scathing denunciation of Mitt Romney last week, Fareed Zakaria praised Barack Obama for his nuanced understanding of what Zakaria has called the “Post-American World”:
The Final Countdown: Israel vs. Iran
by Bruce S. Thornton FrontPage Magazine The 33-year farce of Western appeasement of Iran may be reaching its denouement. For the last few months, the pace of events have quickened as the West sanctions and threatens, and Iran blusters about closing the Strait of Hormuz, cutting off oil to Europe, and unleashing its terrorist proxies.
The Un-Obama
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Barack Obama’s favorability in the polls fell when he acted like himself — overexposed, hard-left in his press conferences, and boastful about legislative achievements like Obamacare and a stimulus of more than $1 trillion.
Culture Matters
by Bruce S. Thornton City Journal Review of Why the West is Best: A Muslim Apostate’s Defense of Liberal Democracy, by Ibn Warraq, (Encounter, 2011, 286 pp.)
A Campaign Dictionary
by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online The bogeyman of the Washington insider is often a target of the Gingrich campaign, but we have as yet no definition. To be an “insider,” should the candidate have served in the federal government for, say, ten years?
When Elections Fail, Jihad
by Raymond Ibrahim Jihad Watch The Obama administration supports “democracy” and “self determination” in the Middle East — two euphemisms that, in the real world, refer to “mob-rule” and “Islamic radicalization,” respectively.
What We Do Not Want to Hear Anymore
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media NO MAS, MR. PRESIDENT The State of the Union could have been written [1] by a computer program. All the now familiar Obama furniture was in the room: the mock outrage at “them,” the psychodramatic first-person boasting (as in, “I will oppose..,” “I will not work with…,” “I will decline…,” “I […]
Fidelity and the Presidency
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services The news media seem obsessed with the serial affairs of a younger Newt Gingrich back in the last century.
The Unlearned Lessons of Daniel Pearl’s Murder
by Bruce S. Thornton FrontPage Magazine Ten years ago this week, Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl was kidnapped by Islamic terrorists in Pakistan, after he had been lured into what he thought was an interview with Sheikh Mubarak Ali Gilani about the links between al Qaeda and the “shoe bomber” Richard Reid.
The Perils of Obama’s Foreign Policy
by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online The mystery remaining about the Obama administration’s foreign policy is not whether it has worked, but whether its failures will matter all that much.
Why the President Should Speak Out Against Religious Persecution
by Raymond Ibrahim Christian Solidarity International On January 24, during his State of the Union Address, the president of the United States has a chance to expose the plight of religious minorities living in Muslim majority nations.
How Marxism Killed Keystone
by Bruce S. Thornton FrontPage Magazine The global warming apocalypse and its Elmer Gantry, Al Gore, may have faded from public view lately, but that old-time green religion is still making mischief. President Obama has just delayed until after November’s election a decision on the Canadian Keystone XL pipeline.
Civilization in Reverse
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services In Greek mythology, the prophetess Cassandra was doomed both to tell the truth and to be ignored. Our modern version is a bankrupt Greece that we seem to discount.