Growing Worries about Our Pied Piper
Americans are catching on to Obama’s fiscal sins and rhetorical devices. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Recent news that President Obama’s approval ratings are beginning to slip is understandable. Even popular leaders lose appeal once they have to govern, and therefore offend, rather than merely promise and please.
The War Against the Producers
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Stimulus, Stimulus and Not a Drop… A “stimulus” of nearly a trillion dollars was proposed, without which we were told, unemployment would skyrocket and credit would tighten further.
A Thug’s Primer
How to win liberal friends and oppress your people. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online How strange that our rather nondescript, sober friends abroad do not garner attention from the current administration, yet overt enemies in Cuba, Nicaragua, Iran, Venezuela, and the West Bank most certainly do.
Our Chrysalis Stage
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Only Room for One Obama? I got a lot of flak the last year for writing two or three columns suggesting the Europeans and other Leftists abroad might be careful about what they wish for in Obama: he might well leap-frog over them, leaving them all with the world […]
What Is Wisdom?: Sarah Palin and Her Critics
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media They Say/We Say The debate over Palin is sort of ossified. The Left continues to ridicule her accent, family, and middling roots. The Right enjoys such authenticity — but enjoys even more the hysteria it incurs in liberals.
Missing Our Moment in Iran
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Last month, hundreds of thousands of Iranians took to the streets to protest a rigged presidential election. Our president was extremely cautious in his initial criticism of the Iranian government’s fierce crackdown against the protestors.
Sur-realpolitik
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner The Cap-and-Trade Stampede It was somewhere around 3-4 years ago that “global warming” suddenly morphed into “climate change” in vernacular speech.
Obama II vs. Obama I
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner I don’t think it has occurred to the divine ones that the administration now is at odds with the sort of ideology and attitudes Obama himself espoused on the campaign trail.
Thoughts on a Schizophrenic Society
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Such a Prudishly Crass Society I was watching cable television about 5 PM on a Friday night, channel surfing between commercials on the Western station.
Thuggery 101
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services President Barack Obama came into office apparently believing that his non-traditional background, charisma and good intentions could placate dictators hostile to America and ease global tensions.
The Armchair Alliance
by Victor Davis Hanson The New Criterion Review of Andrew Roberts Masters and Commanders: How Roosevelt, Churchill, Marshall, & Alanbrooke Won the War in the West (Allen Lane, 673 pp.)
Standing with Freedom
by Bruce S. Thornton FrontPage Magazine Remember when the liberal punditariat sneered at George Bush for putting Iran in the “axis of evil” in his 2002 State of the Union address?
Again, Why the Diffidence?
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner Obama — the Manichean? Of all the puzzling reasons one can adduce both for Barack Obama recent serial apologies abroad, and now his strange silence about human-rights abuses from Venezuela to Iran, I think one of the most likely is his Manichean notion of world affairs — one also […]
Recollections on a New Age Begun: We’ve All Metamorphosized to a Higher Plane
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Think of the hope and change of just the last six months that have changed all our lives.
What Do These Frist Six Months Mean?
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Where Are We Going? Abroad: I think the Europeans, who, remember, caught Obamania quite early, thought they were going to get more of the bipartisan American security shield, albeit with a charismatic multicultural veneer that would resonate with their citizens: no more Texas.
Thoughts on America and Iran
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner Thugophilia Isn’t Moral I think we are going to see, incrementally, perhaps, a rise in the ratings of former president Bush.
Reflections on the Iranian Enigma
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Thoughts on Iran 1) Why did we reject the Bush policy of non-engagement with a monster like Ahmadinejad, who oppressed his own and threatened nuclear destruction to Israel?
Obamaworld
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Are you confused by all that has changed since President Barack Obama took office in January? If so, you’re not alone.
Words Matter in the War on Terror
by Raymond Ibrahim PJ Media Knowledge is inextricably linked to language.
Voting Present on Iran
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Apparently the Obama administration is quietly watching the situation, serially voting present, and unwilling to say much until the final outcome is certain.