Offensive Jihad: The One Incontrovertible Problem with Islam
by Raymond Ibrahim PJ Media A recent MEMRI report titled “Arab Columnists: Stop Talking About Offensive Jihad,” alludes to the ultimate problem between Islam and the non-Muslim world: offensive jihad, or jihad al-talab — the Islamic imperative to subjugate the world.
The World of Obama–A Glossary
by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online ACORN: Never heard of it Arizona: Resembles 1930s Italy
The Inexplicables
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media I. More Debt, Please? Please explain this: Barack Obama entered office; nationalized healthcare; ran up record $1 trillion deficits; promised to hike taxes on the rich; pushed cap and trade through the House; took over large chunks of banks, insurance companies, and auto corporations; made hard-left appointments from Van […]
American Groupspeak
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Juan Williams was just fired from NPR. His sin? He confessed to occasional anxiety when Muslims board airplanes, and then went on to explain why stereotyping is wrong.
WikiLeaks’ Selective Mortality
by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online There has never been anything quite like WikiLeaks in American military history.
The Great Divider–Or ‘Elections Have Consequences’
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Pillars of Sand The faux-Greek columns of 2008 have turned into pillars of sand, as the president’s Gallup ratings hit 43-2%, and his congressional majorities are on the verge of melting away — just two years after grand talk of a 50-year liberal regnum.*
Egypt Cuts a Deal: Christians Fed to Muslim ‘Lions’
by Raymond Ibrahim Hudson New York For centuries, the Copts — Egypt’s Christian, indigenous inhabitants — have been subject to persecution, discrimination, humiliation, and over all subjugation in their homeland (etymologically, “Copt” simply means “Egyptian”).
Whitewashing Islam: “Who Controls the Past Controls the Future”
by Bruce S. Thornton RightNetwork.com In 1984 George Orwell described how the abandonment of belief in objective truth makes possible a politicized history that legitimizes tyrannical power:
Three Wars, Little News
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services It is a busy time in America. The Major League Baseball playoffs are competing with the upcoming midterm elections for the public’s attention.
Evidence Against the Evidence
Meyer’s new book reveals the irrational about evolution by Terry Scambray New Oxford Review A review of Signature in the Cell: DNA and the Evidence for Intelligent Design by Stephen C. Meyer. Harper One, 2009.
That Strange Summer of 2008
Our president revealed himself to be doctrinaire ideologue. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Historians will look back at the 2008 campaign in the light of the 2010 midterm elections. Almost everything the president has done in the last two years is simply a continuance of that now strangely distant summer.
Fire Juan Williams Right Now!: Our Sneering Liberal Culture in a Nutshell
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media The Juan Williams Firing — Or a Primer on Elite Liberal Thinking There were lots of slants on NPR’s firing of news analyst Juan Williams that reflect how surreal cultural liberalism has become. Let us walk through ten of them.
‘I Love Your Hate’: Osama bin Laden Seduces the Left
by Bruce S. Thornton RightNetwork.com Al Qaeda headman Osama bin Laden recently released yet another of his promotional communiqués, and like the last decade’s worth of his propaganda, this one too is designed not so much to appeal to his fellow Muslims, but to exploit the received wisdom and political fashions of the American left […]
Parson Obama
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Puritanism 2.0 Puritanism can grate even more once its practitioners have lost their god. If 19th-century liberals were courageously at the forefront of abolition, religiously inspired college education, and the notion of American budgetary parsimony
The Ultimate Lesson of Egypt’s Fake Photo
by Raymond Ibrahim PJ Media One of the most widely circulated newspapers in the world, Egypt’s Al Ahram, recently ran a fake picture depicting Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak walking in front of US President Barack Obama and a pack of other Mideast leaders. In fact, based on the original photo, Mubarak, the octogenarian, appeared trailing last.
Anatomy of Petulance
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media I was fascinated watching the recent Obama campaign stops, particularly the contrast with 2008. Gone are the faux columns and classical backdrops.
Deficits and Depression
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services We will learn in November just how angry the public is about a lot of things, from higher taxes to massive unemployment.
Politics Upside Down
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Something Is Different Suddenly the same-old, same-old does not work this year.
How to Turn a Recession into a Depression
by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online It is hard for a president to turn a recession into a long-term downturn in the United States, given the inherent resiliency of private enterprise and America’s open and free markets. But if you were to try, you might do something like the following.
Blogosphere Assails the ‘Stanford Daily’
Private Papers Editor’s Note: We took these remarks directly from the Daily. They do not reflect the opinion of Private Papers, but are admittedly very supportive of VDH.