Civilization’s Lies
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media One of the sad characteristics of contemporary Western society is the tendency to embrace noble lies. These are assertions and acts that don’t square with reality, with what we see and hear — and are voiced for apparently noble social purposes. Here are a few politically-incorrect examples.
The Usual Straw Men
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner Cap-and-trade, statist healthcare, and an end to “don’t ask, don’t tell” for thee.
It’s Not about Poverty
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner Katie Couric and the New Populism With all the talk of corporate greed and inequality, did people like Katie Couric think that in tough times they were immune from the laws of populist outrage?
Our Obama Saga–Part Two. Chapters Five-Six
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Here’s the conclusion to the saga of Obama. I left off [1] with Chapter Four and why the Obama locomotive went off the rails after only a year.
Our Obama Saga. Part One–Chapters One to Four
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Chapter One — The Liberal Hope and Dream I think our Obama’s collective story will some day be written something like this. The leftwing anointed vision of America got stalled with the failures of the Great Society, and the high tax, big government discontent of the 1970s and 1980s.
Thrashing the Job Makers
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services A year ago Barack Obama inherited a recession brought on by financial panic following the collapse of the housing bubble.
As Predictable as Clockwork–the Obama Three-step
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media I think we could see what was coming. This presidency has about as much subtlety in plot as a grade-B western, soap opera, or teenage tantrum.
How Taqiyya Alters Islam’s Rules of War: Defeating Jihadist Terrorism
by Raymond Ibrahim Middle East Quarterly (Winter 2010) Islam must seem a paradoxical religion to non-Muslims. On the one hand, it is constantly being portrayed as the religion of peace; on the other, its adherents are responsible for the majority of terror attacks around the world.
The Obamarang
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media All politicians fudge on their promises. But this president manages to transcend the normal political exaggeration and dissimulation.
Our Populist President?
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner Obama and Populism I could believe President Obama’s postmortem take that the same populist sentiment that propelled Scott Brown to office also earlier sent him to the White House — if we saw fresh liberal Democrats winning seats in places like Alabama against entrenched Washington Republican insiders. But I […]
Obama in Free Fall
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner A year ago, a number of “moderate” Republicans and Democratic stalwarts, in the gush of the inauguration, warned us of new Democratic majorities for years to come.
Obama versus Obama
Will the real Barack Obama please stand up? by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online There is little need any more to offer consistent opposition to Barack Obama, since he himself is already running hard against the many previous incarnations of Barack Obama.
Our Philosopher-King Obama
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services In Plato’s ideal society, philosopher kings and elite Guardians shepherded the rabble to force them to do the “right” thing.
God and the Godless
by Terry Scambray New Oxford Review Review of The Devil’s Delusion: Atheism and Its Scientific Pretensions by David Berlinski (Crown Forum, 2008. 225 pp).
Post-election Thoughts
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Says It All 1) a new poll revealing a vast majority of investors see Obama as anti-business 2) Obama declaiming on what he has done and what he will do to create jobs 3) After a year Obama still has not yet figured out that his promiscuous talk of […]
Why the Great and Growing Backlash?
What Scott Brown’s election portends for the Obama Agenda by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Dream up a gargantuan backlash against Barack Obama’s left-wing gospel, and you still could not invent the notion of a relatively unknown, conservative Scott Brown knocking off an Obama-endorsed, liberal, female attorney in liberal Massachusetts — in a race […]
“Let Me Be Perfectly Not Clear” and “Make Lots of Mistakes About It”
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media It’s the Lying, Stupid? “Lie” is a rather harsh word; the noun and its verb form leave little to context or extenuating circumstances. So I use it sparingly.
Conservative Felonies, Liberal Misdemeanors
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Why in matters of stupid behavior do liberals and Democrats often get second and third chances from the media and general public not accorded to their conservative and Republican counterparts?
Anatomy of a Meltdown
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner Many saw Obama’s polls dropping for a variety of reasons, and can anticipate what’s next.
The Subtexts of Reid’s ‘Negro’ Moment
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner What was often left unmentioned in Reid’s now much-publicized racial gaffe was not just his editorializing on skin color and dialect, but his allegation of cynicism on the part of Obama, highlighted by the qualifier in “with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one,” which suggests that […]