From Preparedness to Appeasement and Back
Are we about to repeat this tired cycle? by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online By 1930 Verdun had been transmogrified almost into a dirty word in French schools.
What We Are Learning About the Era of Obama
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Means and Ends in the Age of Obama One of the stranger things about this eerie first eight months of the Obama administration is how brazenly its supporters have been about the noble ends justifying the disreputable means.
War–What War?
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services The anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan headed to Martha’s Vineyard this week, where President Obama is vacationing. Once again she is protesting our two wars abroad.
‘Senator High and Mighty’
by Victor Davis Hanson Forbes Magazine By now almost everyone has weighed in on the legacy of Sen. Ted Kennedy, who passed away this week after a year-long struggle with a cancerous brain tumor.
Obama and ‘Redistributive Change’
Forget the recession and the “uninsured.” Obama has bigger fish to fry. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online The first seven months of the Obama administration seemingly make no sense. Why squander public approval by running up astronomical deficits in a time of pre-existing staggering national debt?
Obama vs. Obama
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Actions often have unforeseen consequences. Throughout the campaign and the first few months of the new administration, Barack Obama adopted a number of personas and positions that only now may be coming back to haunt him.
‘The Fault Is Not in Our Stars, But in Ourselves’
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner Liberal columnists decrying the Obama administration’s supposed lack of partisan fortitude and eagerness for a nasty fight for healthcare seem oddly detached from reality.
Divine Debt Trumps All
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services In Greek mythology, even Olympian gods and heroes were subject to a higher divine power known loosely as “fate” — an allotted moira, or destiny, that could not be changed even by thunderbolt-throwing Zeus.
Obama’s Follies
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner The Race Card Gets Trumped I think almost everyone expected that once President Obama embarked on a highly partisan agenda at a time of record deficits in the midst of a recession, he was going to meet resistance.
The Strange Case of the Obama Meltdown
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media The Obama Meltdown — Symptoms/Diagnosis/Prognosis Strange things are happening to the Obama administration and quickly so. His polls are diving and may not stop at 50/50, the most precipitous drop in approval of a first-year President since Bill Clinton in 1993 (cf. Hillary care).
Who’s in Charge if Diplomacy?
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner ‘North Korea made a colossal mistake’ One of the stranger aspects of being overseas is following the upside-down logic of the International Herald Tribune, which around January mysteriously morphed from a shrill critic of the U.S. government to its official mouthpiece.
On Dishing it Out . . .
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner What is weird about the liberal hysteria to the obstreperous (and occasionally rude) town meetings is the complete amnesia about what constitutes reckless public discourse.
What Went Wrong?
Piling up debt, and hypocrisy, Obama & Co. are sinking. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online We are witnessing one of the more rapid turnabouts in recent American political history.
Our Road to Oceania
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services In George Orwell’s allegorical novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, the picture of “Big Brother” appears constantly in the adoring media.
Our Ongoing Catharsis
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Presidential Popularity After just eight months, the President is at a 50/50 cross-roads in the polls. The once hope-and-change exuberance has dissipated. Such unpopularity is hardly new; what is novel is the rapidity in which a 70%+ approval rating has plummeted to 50%.
Why Muslim Charities Fund the Jihad
by Raymond Ibrahim PJ Media From what American schoolchildren are being taught [1] by their teachers to what Americans are being told by their presidents, concepts unique to Islam are nowadays almost always “Westernized.”
Prairie-Fire Anger
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Why Are People in Revolt? The approval ratings on nearly every one of the President’s key policy initiatives — cap-and-trade, healthcare overhaul, government takeover of industry and finance, deficit spending, stimulus — are already less than half of polled voters.
The New York Times’ Resident Voodoo Statistician
Another rational liberal can’t think straight. by Bruce S. Thornton FrontPage Magazine The New York Times’ resident voodoo statistician, Charles Blow, is at it again, using “scientific” polling data as an excuse to indulge ideological prejudice.
Clinton’s North Korean Odyssey
by Bruce S. Thornton FrontPage Magazine More proof to our enemies that the U.S. is weak and vulnerable — courtesy of Bill Clinton.
Sailing to Byzantium
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Rhodes Millions of Euros have transformed Rhodes into a sort of Frankish and Venetian Disneyland. The medieval city has been completely rebuilt, or almost rebuilt — turrets, walls, streets, arches, courtyards — into a fascinating citadel as it might have appeared around 1500 or so.