The Tab Comes Due in 2011
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, and both the elder and younger George Bush all found the third and fourth years of their presidencies harder than the first and second. The nation and the world tired of speechmaking. The novelty of a new commander in chief faded; poll numbers went […]
Radical Muslims in America: All the Benefits and Still Turning to Jihad
by Raymond Ibrahim Hudson New York Recent remarks by Attorney General Eric Holder on the threat posed by “radicalized” American Muslims are revealing — not just because of what they say regarding the domestic situation, but for their international implications as well. According to Holder:
Rhetoric and Perceives Status
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner The Left in the last 48 hours has tried to make the argument that the Tucson shootings were the result of Tea Party angst, healthcare furor, talk radio, opposition to illegal immigration — almost any contemporary hot-button hoi polloi issue or any populist forum.
Slouching Toward Geezerhood
by Bruce S. Thornton RightNetwork.com This year the oldest Baby Boomer cohort turns 65, the first of 79 million people who promise to be the whiniest and most annoying crop of geezers in history. Not all of them, of course.
Making It Up As We Go Along
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Being There Gone is Bush the great Constitution-shredder. Tribunals, renditions, Predators, wiretaps, Iraq, Guantanamo, preventative detention — these are now either embraced or expanded. Iraq (“the surge is not working”) is Obama’s “greatest achievement.”
Political Vultures
The sick are of turning insanity into politics by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Very few Americans are fans of both The Communist Manifesto and Mein Kampf, as the Tucson killer, 22-year-old Jared Lee Loughner, apparently was. Fewer still post on the Internet fears about “brainwashing,” “mind control,” and “conscience dreaming”; have a long record of public […]
The New Sophists
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services In classical Athens, public life became dominated by clever and smart-sounding sophists. These mellifluous “really wise guys” made money and gained influence by their rhetorical boasts to “prove” the most amazing “thinkery” that belied common sense.
The Destiny of Cities
by Victor Davis Hanson City Journal (Autumn 2010) As the world steadily grows more urbanized, with 50 percent of its population no longer rural, it is more important than ever to ask how cities either perish or manage to survive.
Why America Must Defend South Korea
by Victor Davis Hanson Ricochet.com The Cold War is over. Why on earth should we expend American blood and treasure to defend South Korea? George Washington warned us about this kind of entanglement. Why should we expend American blood and treasure to defend South Korea? (Ricochet member Kenneth)
What to Expect From Mexico in 2011
by Victor Davis Hanson Ricochet.com We will see more of the same in 2011 in Mexico. The drug cartel killing spree raises a number of less discussed considerations.
A US Foreign Policy Marked by Competence and Strength
by Victor Davis Hanson Ricochet.com I would like to know if Victor sees any merit in the president’s attempt to appeal to ordinary Muslims via his bully pulpit? Does celebrating Ramadan in the White House or wishing Persians Happy New Year accomplish anything that can aid our efforts in the Middle East and elsewhere? If […]
Anatomy of a Media Bias: Nothing’s More Closed Than a Colonized Mind
by Bruce S. Thornton RightNetwork.com One of the pleasures of reading the New York Times is spotting the myriad ways liberal ideology shapes stories and presents as fact what is a debatable supposition. Global warming, for example, is a “crisis” about which the Timeshas already made up its mind.
The Manhattan Project of Illegal Immigration
by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Why do millions of Mexican nationals see America as racist, exploitative — and worth everything to get to and stay in?
Raging Against “Them”
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media It’s All Greek to Us In very un-Icelandic fashion, last week protestors in Athens tried to blow up a downtown courthouse.
The American 21st Century
by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online The current debt, recession, wars, and political infighting have depressed Americans into thinking their country soon will be overtaken by more vigorous rivals abroad. Yet this is an American fear as old as it is improbable.
The Face of Muhammad
by Raymond Ibrahim Middle East Quarterly Review of Images of Muhammad: Narratives of the Prophet in Islam across the Centuries by Tarif Khalidi (New York: Doubleday, 2009. Pp. 327).
How Did All That Happen?
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media The Improbables There are a number of improbables, anomalies, paradoxes, ironies, absurdities — call them what you wish — on the national scene that simply defy reason. We usually fault an ignorant media as culpable for creating narratives that have no basis in fact and yet are rarely questioned. […]
Wars of Religion
by Bruce S. Thornton RightNetwork.com This holiday season we have pretty much been spared the usual peevish cranks campaigning against any public celebration of Christmas. The attacks on public crèches, school pageants, Christmas music, and even the greeting “Merry Christmas” have been few this year.
When Reason Fades: From Illegal Immigration to Jeffrey Sachs
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Illegal Immigration, Race, and Chauvinism There is nothing about illegal immigration that should ipso facto involve matters of race, culture or ethnicity, given that it is a legal issue at heart.
Every Man a King
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services As the year in politics closed, Congress and President Obama were arguing over maintaining the Bush-era income tax rates.