A Weird Sort of Depression
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Bad and Not Bad Economic statistics paint a pretty grim picture: annual growth coming out of a recession at an anemic 2.4%; unemployment rising at 9.6%; and foreclosures again on the rise.
The Truths We Dare Not Speak About Illegal Immigration
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media In the last 48 hours almost everything that can be said about illegal immigration has been said. But I am more interested in a few truths that are never quite spoken.
Why Are We Beginning to Hate Congress?
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Recent polls show that more than 70 percent of the public holds an unfavorable view of Congress.
Liberalism and Islam?
Top Muslim cleric Qaradawi urges western Muslims to ‘liberalize’ outwardly, anyway. by Raymond Ibrahim PJ Media A recent episode of the popular Arabic show al-Sharia wa al-Haya (Law and Life), which airs weekly on Al Jazeera and features renowned Muslim scholar Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, addressed the important yet little known Muslim concept of taysir (pronounced “tey-seer”).
Obama’s Real Problem
Why the president’s poll numbers have declined. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online According to a popular myth, President Obama’s declining poll numbers are a consequence of his failure to be liberal enough.
The Art of Blowing It Bigtime
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner At the root of the president’s problems lies an erosion of public trust in his competence and his credibility.
Pampered Populists
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner It’s surreal to see President Obama play the class-warfare card against the Republicans while on his way to vacation on the tony Maine coast, and even more interesting to note that now gone are the days when the media used to caricature Bush I (“Poppy”) for boating in the […]
The Two Faces of the Ground Zero Mosque
by Raymond Ibrahim PJ Media Depending on whether Islamists address Americans or fellow Muslims, the same exact words they use often relay diametrically opposed meanings.
The New Racial Mess
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Weren’t we supposed to enter a new age of tolerance with the election of President Barack Obama?
Pity the Postmodern Cultural Elite
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media I think most of our problems transcend politics, which is increasingly a reflection of an elite, insider culture that is completely at odds with the majority of the country that it oversees.
Not Obama Is Not Enough
by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Republicans will shortly need to stand for something more than just being against much of the Obama agenda.
The Ministries of Truth Weigh In
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media The Hope and Change Edicts What are we to make of our current NASA chief, the distinguished retired Marine Corps major general and astronaut, Charles Bolden, who, in an interview with Al Jazeera, listed a “foremost” NASA objective as finding “a way to reach out to the Muslim world and […]
Holder’s Hypocrisy
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Attorney General Eric Holder has developed a bad habit of accusing others of acting in bad faith while doing so himself.
Our Year 2 A.B.
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Free at Last For any of those who went into a coma around January of last year and just woke up, let me explain this new era after Bush (A.B.), variously known as “this is our moment,” “we are the ones we’ve been waiting for,” and the era when […]
The Psychology of Recession
by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online I asked a businessman two weeks ago why he said that he was neither hiring nor buying new equipment. He started in on “rising taxes.”
American Decline Is a State of Mind
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services We are hearing of all sorts of reasons why the United States is doomed to decline.
The Ten-Step Reset Regimen for the President
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media I offer a ten-step healing program for our president in the spirit of our therapeutic age.
It Cannot Be That NASA Has Nothing Better To Do
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner NASA chief Charles Bolden, an impressive former Marine Corps major general and astronaut, recently waxed eloquent about his tripartite mission at the space agency he was entrusted with by President Obama.
Obama Fails to Square the Illegal-Immigration Circle
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner There was very little new in the president’s speech — certainly not his tired hope-and-change trope of blending legal and illegal immigration (“The scientific breakthroughs of Albert Einstein, the inventions of Nikola Tesla, the great ventures of Andrew Carnegie’s U.S. Steel and Sergey Brin’s Google — all this was […]
A Successful Trifecta
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner Light amid Darkness It is crazy to think that going back from Centcom to forces commander in Afghanistan is any sort of “demotion” for Petraeus, who quite naturally needed some sort of respite after the ordeal of endless 20-hour days in Iraq.