Top Muslims Condemn Ground Zero Mosque as a ‘Zionist Conspiracy’
by Raymond Ibrahim PJ Media In a recent article, I argued that the Ground Zero mosque is counterproductive to Islam.
Please, No More Teachable Moments
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services The president of the United States has it hard enough without needlessly wading into, and fanning, local controversies.
The Enigma of Our Age: From Arizona to Ground Zero
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media The recent controversies over the Ground Zero mosque and Arizona’s anti-illegal immigration law are windows into our collective souls. Think of the paradoxes.
The Cynical Brilliance of Imam Rauf
by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Almost everything about the proposed Ground Zero mosque was cynically brilliant.
Race on the Brain
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner The postmortem of the Sherrod affair will prove it to have been a net negative for the Obama administration — and not just because of its herky-jerky reaction to various reported and then re-reported statements.
Democratic Leadership?
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner Not Quite the Clinton Solution In all the talk about returning to the Clinton income-tax tables, I have been confused on one small point: As I remember the Gingrich-Clinton years, the tax raises were followed by spending freezes and caps, and some time later we had balanced budgets, […]
Teachable Moments
Why we know socialism works for the few, not the many. by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner Moveable Feast: From Marbella to Martha’s Vineyard Is not there some old Harry Truman Democrat still around to advise the new Democratic aristocracy to live it down a bit in these tough times?
The Weeping, Wailing, and Gnashing of Teeth
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Posse on the Horizon The usual rush to the exits from a sinking administration is now ongoing.
Everyone a Bigot?
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Anti-Hispanic, anti-gay, anti-Muslim, anti-black — it is hard to keep track of all the recent allegations of bigotry.
Ground Zero for Mosque Resistance
by Karen Lugo Redcounty.com There is still time — and there are many reasons — to stop the Ground Zero Mosque. The location of a mega-mosque so close to Ground Zero has focused critical attention on the issue of mosque placements all across the United States.
Obama: Fighting the Yuppie Factor
by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online In October 1987, Newsweek ran a cover story on would-be presidential candidate George H. W. Bush with the blaring headline “Fighting the Wimp Factor.”
Dershowitz vs. Hanson: On the Anti-Defamation League and the Ground Zero Mosque
Frontpagemag.com [Editor’s note: Alan Dershowitz submitted an article to Frontpagemag.com criticizing the Anti-Defamation League’s opposition to the plans for a mosque to be built at Ground Zero. We decided to run the piece with a rebuttal by Victor Davis Hanson. An extra round between the two follows.]
Ground Zero Mosque
Why it is counterproductive to the Islamist cause. by Raymond Ibrahim PJ Media While vexing to many, the mega mosque set to be built two blocks from Ground Zero has produced one interesting but unintended consequence: like the 9/11 strikes a decade before it, the “9/11 mosque” is also creating a stir, is making people think and […]
A Rather Angry America
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Unemployment is still high, growth low, deficits huge. States are cutting out everything from streetlights to paving. Public pensions are exploding everywhere.
Illogical Immigration
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Some 11 million to 15 million illegal aliens are now residing in America, most after crossing into America unlawfully.
Obama: Not the Great Stone Face
by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online In 1850 Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote an allegory about a series of small-town would-be heroes who the gullible public claimed resembled the Great Stone Face on the side of a New Hampshire mountain.
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”).