Where Dreams Die
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media I was given a great gift — but see below — to travel throughout California the last week, by land and by air over the state. It was hard to determine whether the natural beauty of the landscape or the ingenuity of our ancestors was the more impressive.
Corrupt Language Breeds Bad History and Bad Policy
by Bruce S. Thornton Advancing a Free Society As the history of communism and fascism both illustrate, modern political tyranny has relied on fabricated history to legitimize its claims and actions, and such history in turn relies on the debasement of language.
Alligators, Moats and Other Such Nonsense
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services President Obama gave what was billed as an important speech on immigration last week near the border in El Paso, Texas. Unfortunately, it was one of the most demagogic moments in recent presidential history.
DSK’s Technocratic Socialism
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner The bizarre story of socialist IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn was almost storybook:
The Fog of Revolution
by Bruce S. Thornton Advancing a Free Society Apart from celebratory statements applauding what looks like to us democratic “people’s revolutions” against tyrannous autocrats, the uprisings sweeping across the Muslim Middle East have created great uncertainty for policy-makers as they try to calculate a response.
Muslim Jihad in Christian Ethiopia: Lessons for the West
by Raymond Ibrahim FrontPageMagazine.com Not only does recent jihadist rampage against Ethiopia’s indigenous Christians highlight the travails Christians encounter wherever Islam has a sizable population, but it offers several insights, including some which should concern faraway, secular nations with Muslim minorities. According to Fox News:
Bin Laden and the Eternal Hydra of War
by Raymond Ibrahim Hudson New York As we ponder the significance of Osama bin Laden’s death, it is well to reflect that Islamists are not the cause of hostilities; they are but symptoms of a much greater cause.
Hope and Change in the Middle East
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner This was the sort of split-the-difference address that the president is now famous for — long on Icarus-like soaring phraseology, very short on down-to-earth realities.
Adios, Pakistan
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner “I don’t care if someone is giving us money; we are not a purchasable commodity. We cannot be bought. We can live in hunger, but we won’t compromise our national interests.” – Bashir Bilour, a Pakistani senior minister, in angry response following an al-Qaeda reprisal for the American killing […]
The End of an Idea: Why Affirmative Action Should Stop
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media 2011, not 1970? We have had about a half-century of racial preferences and often unspoken but real quotas for hiring and admission based on racial identity.
Was Osama Bin Laden the Chicken or the Egg?
by Raymond Ibrahim PJ Media To posit the significance of Osama bin Laden’s demise, we must first decide which came first — the chicken or the egg?
A Teachable Moment on American-European Faultlines
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner The full story is not out on Dominique Strauss-Kahn and he is innocent of forcible sexual battery until proven guilty, but already the case has exposed an ancient abyss between European elite and American popular cultures — accentuated by the differences between New York’s rough-and-tumble media and legal worlds […]
Muslim ‘Inferiority Complex’ Kills Christians
by Raymond Ibrahim FrontPageMagazine.com Days ago in Egypt, throngs of Muslims (henceforth, “Islamists”), estimated at 3,000, fired guns and rifles and hurled Molotov cocktails at Coptic churches, homes, and businesses in the Imbaba region near Cairo:
The Fellow Travelers of Jihadism
by Bruce S. Thornton Advancing a Free Society The post-mortem revelations of Osama bin Laden’s daily habits have confirmed the orthodox narrative about the al-Qaeda chief.
Living the Obama Dream
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Gas Dreams Come True High energy costs to the Obamites are only unfortunate in terms of overcoming short-term political challenges.
Tough Times for Radical Islam
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Osama bin Laden is dead. The Middle East is in chaos. And radical Islam is floundering
Were Conquered Christians Really Liberated Muslims?
by Raymond Ibrahim FrontPageMagazine.com Imagine if a top American historian appeared on the MSM insisting that the only reason Europeans conquered the Americas was to “defend” the Native Americans — who somehow had adopted Christianity centuries before Jesus was born — from being persecuted by heathen tribes.
Fantasies, Present and Future
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Paradoxical President The Obama administration has offered a number of recent fantasies. Here are a few examples.
Islam’s Christian Scapegoats
by Raymond Ibrahim FrontPageMagazine.com After mentioning the sort of atrocities Christians in Pakistan suffer — including being killed by “blasphemy” laws, constantly “abused in public and harassed in the street by groups of Muslim youths,” ostracized and impoverished by the government — a recent Fox News report reminds us that Christian persecution is further exacerbated by anti-Americanism:
The World Turned Upside Down–Again
by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Every once in a while, the world is turned upside down in just a few years, whether by ideological ferment or force of arms.