The Obamaites’ About-Face
by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Californians have been experiencing ten days of the wettest, snowiest weather in recent memory. In the usually arid San Joaquin Valley, flooding is ubiquitous. The high Sierra passes are locked in snow well before the first of the year.
“No Labels,” No Democracy
by Bruce S. Thornton RightNetwork.com Earlier this month, Republican David Frum and Democrat William A. Galston published a manifesto in the Washington Post announcing the birth of a new political movement, No Labels, the first meeting of which was December 13.
2011 Politically-Incorrect Resolutions
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media The Pride of Solvency I think the American people are not only scared of collective state and national debt, but sick of it as well.
Paradoxes of the Present Age, Profound and Trivial
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Sometimes reality seems at odds with perceived wisdom. Yet these disconnects rarely seem to enter public discussion. Here are a few examples, big and small.
Swedish Jihad Revelations
by Raymond Ibrahim Hudson New York Back in 2004, in one of his most recognized messages to America, Osama bin Laden, responding to then President George Bush Jr.’s claims that al Qaeda hates freedom, rhetorically asked, “If so [if al Qaeda hates freedom], let him [Bush] explain to us why we have not attacked Sweden, for example.”
In Defense of the Liberal Arts
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services The liberal arts face a perfect storm. The economy is struggling with obscenely high unemployment and is mired in massive federal and state deficits. Budget-cutting won’t spare education.
Now What?
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media “What do we do now?” – Robert Redford as Bill McKay, in the 1972 film,The Candidate* We still remember a messianic Barack Obama criss-crossing all 57 states promising “millions of new green jobs” and to “close Guantanamo.”
On Ewald Stadler: Another European Who Gets Islam
by Bruce s. Thornton RightNetworks.com Those of us who are hard on Europeans for their cringing appeasement of Muslim aggression need to acknowledge and support the brave few who speak out against it. The late Oriana Fallaci challenged her fellow Europeans to recognize the threat that unassimilated Muslim immigrants and an illiberal Islamic doctrine posed […]
Our “Pay No Attention to that Man Behind the Curtain” Moment
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Straws and the Camel’s Back At some point in late 2010 once optimistic independent voters, moderate Republicans, and centrist Democrats stopped listening.
Two Californias
by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online The last three weeks I have traveled about, taking the pulse of the more forgotten areas of central California.
Julian Assange’s EgoLeaks
by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Julian Assange, the public face of WikiLeaks, is, among many things, cowardly. Courageousness would involve meeting with Iranian dissidents, Russian journalists, Pakistani Christians, or Chinese human-rights activists — and then releasing any confidential information that they might have about the torment institutionalized by their countries’ authoritarian regimes.
Why Not Soak the Rich
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services For the last two years, $250,000 in annual income has been an arbitrary line in the sand of a renewed class war. Those above it must have their income taxes raised. Those below it are deemed more virtuous and so deserving of a tax cut.
Islamists Target Christians ‘Wherever They Can Reach Them’
by Raymond Ibrahim PJ Media In 2006, when Pope Benedict quoted history deemed unflattering to Islam, Christians around the Muslim world paid the price: anti-Christian riots ensued, churches were burned, and a nun was murdered in Somalia.
Modern Stupidity
by Bruce S. Thornton RightNetwork.com We moderns have managed to combine an incredible mastery of technical knowledge and information with an astonishing ignorance of the traditional wisdom once possessed by an illiterate village elder, and evident for all to see on every page of history.
An Existential Dilemma
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner Unemployment is at 9.8 percent, and the figure is even higher when the long-term unemployed and dispirited are added in. What does President Obama do now?
Missing W: When the President Was an Adult
by Bruce S. Thornton RightNetwork.com Watching the recent interviews with George W. Bush on the occasion of the release of his memoirs has reminded me what it is like to have an adult for president.
Jerry Brown’s Last Hurrah
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services The most interesting current political question is not whether Barack Obama will triangulate after his party’s midterm shellacking — he probably won’t — but what in the world California’s new old governor, Jerry Brown, will do in January 2011.
The Confused Morality of WikiLeaks
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner The latest WikiLeaks trove raises once more the following two issues — the circumstances of the release of classified documents and their contents.
The Consequences of Bad Ideas
Advantage: Russia. Disadvantage: The United States. The Obama Way. by Bruce S. Thornton RightNetwork.com The New START Treaty with Russia that President Obama is eager to have the Senate ratify is a bad idea for a lot of reasons. We can start with the details of the treaty itself.