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.
The Age of Adolescence
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Never-never Land One of the great themes of the 1960s was to “do your own thing.” But usually “liberation” distilled down to creating your own rules and norms to justify allowing the appetites and passions to run free, while offering some sort of exalted cover for being either gross […]
The Dangers of Democracy
by Bruce S. Thornton FrontPage Magazine The parliamentary elections that have begun in Egypt will impress only the most starry-eyed of democracy champions.
Is Illegal Immigration Moral?
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services We know illegal immigration is no longer really unlawful, but is it moral?
Reflections on an Ailing Society
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Buffettism Warren Buffett is once more calling for higher tax rates, in advising the Congress to revoke the Bush-era tax rates and apparently to return to those of the Clinton administration — reminiscent of the elder Gates touring the country stumping for a reinstatement of a substantial inheritance tax.
In Defense of Defense
by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Two bedrock beliefs of traditional conservatism are fiscal discipline and strong national defense.
The George W. Bush Fixation
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Barack Obama remains fixated by George W. Bush. For nearly two years, President Obama and his team have prefaced their explanations for the tough economy, tough finances and tough situation abroad with a “Bush did it” chorus.
All the New That Is Unfit to Print
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media When News is No News Here are a few important developments that remain strangely ignored. I say strangely, but most readers understand why some news becomes news and some does not.
Muslims Project Islam’s Worst Traits
Israel and the Jews routinely attack in their press. by Raymond Ibrahim Hudson New York Times Sometime back, I noted that Muslims have been projecting the worst aspects of Islam(ism) onto the Copts, Egypt’s Christian minority.
California’s Assorted Rocks and Hard Places
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media News came out on Thursday that the California budget deficit is actually closer to $25 billion, twice what we are told.
Voting Present Beats Losing
by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Obamism was repudiated in the midterm election. Not since 1938 has the Democratic party lost so many House seats.
The Politics of Budget-Cutting
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services The voters just spoke. They think they want no more gargantuan deficits, massive public spending and exponential growth in government — or the specter of higher taxes to pay for all of it.
The Forgotten Anniversary
Declared in 1979 Iran’s war on the US continues. by Bruce S. Thornton RightNetwork.com Even in years when a national election doesn’t dominate our attention, we seldom think much about an event that happened the first week in November 31 years ago.
Dead Souls
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Millions of us shuffle around, sighing that most of what we hear pounded into our brains is either banal or as untrue as it is dangerous to identify it as such.
The Obama Fabulists
by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online During the 2008 campaign, Barack Obama was billed as a cool rationalist — a sober and judicious intellectual so unlike the inattentive and twangy “smoke ’em out” George W. Bush, so rational in contrast to the herky-jerky and frenetic John McCain.