Afghanistan Agonistes
by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online The growing consensus is that the United States and its NATO allies cannot prevail in their aim of creating a stable constitutional government in Afghanistan, free of radical Taliban insurrectionists who will facilitate terrorism beyond their borders and seek to reinstitute their medieval theocracy.
Obama’s Straws And Our Tired Back
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Say It Ain’t So, Barack Some of the more naïve who voted for Obama were taken back by his sudden rush to take over insurance companies, banks, student loans, and the auto industry.
Where Did the Tea-Party Anger Come From?
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Why is the Angry Public so Angry? I think we all know why the Tea Party movement arose — and why even the polls do not quite reflect the growing generic anger at incumbents in general, and our elites in particular.
McChrystal’s Tragedy: An Update on the Entire Mess
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media He Had to Go 1) McChrystal, in fact, is a brave and heroic figure deserving our respect. But among friends and with a mole in his midst, he still himself deprecated the commander in chief.
Saving Obama From Himself
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Do you remember candidate Barack Obama offering his hope-and-change platitudes in front of the fake Greek columns during the Democratic convention? Or earlier pontificating at the Victory Monument in Berlin?
War and History, Ancient and Modern: An Interview with Victor Davis Hanson
by Michael J. Totten www.michaeltotten.com I recently spoke with military historian and former classics professor Victor Davis Hanson in his office at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace at Stanford University.
The Law? How Quaint!
by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online We are well into revolutionary times, but perhaps not in the way we traditionally think of political upheaval.
A McChrystal Endnote
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner Obama had no choice but to do what he did, and the wise Petraeus move was obviously a mitigating factor.
The McChrystal Mess
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner Many have commented on the unfairness of it all, and made good points:
New Fatwa Calls on Men to Drink Women’s Breast-Milk
by Raymond Ibrahim PJ Media Last month, I wrote a PJM article dealing with some of Islam’s “problematic” practices, specifically those attributable to the Muslim prophet Muhammad.
‘Bush Did it’ Is Not a Foreign Policy
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Not being George W. Bush while apologizing for America’s purported sins is not a foreign policy.
The Incredibly Wonderful World of Our Sensitive Elites
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Life in Our Alternate Universe I listened to two hours of news the other night, then read a sampling of columnists, and learned the following.
Unprecedented: Egyptian Government Suppresses Christian Doctrine
by Raymond Ibrahim PJ Media It is not enough that the Egyptian government facilitates persecution of the Copts, Egypt’s indigenous Christian minority.
Obama’s Gulf War III
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Man-made Disasters The president recently addressed the nation on the oil slick, nearly two months into the disaster.
The Great Anglo-American Spat
by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Various irate British observers — from columnists like Peter Hitchens and Geoffrey Wheatcroft to parliamentarians and former cabinet officials — have recently declared the “special relationship” with America to be over.
Government by the Faculty Lounge
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media The Professors Are In Charge We are being run by the mindset of the faculty lounge, as if the philosophy or English department has taken over running the country. Let me adduce some random examples.
The New Wannabe Ottomans
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services A Turkish Islamic group — the “Humanitarian Relief Foundation,” often associated by Western intelligence agencies with terrorist sponsorship — orchestrated the recent Gaza flotilla.
Raising Cain over Israel
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner The Turkish Question Turkey thought that the Gaza flotilla would be yet another clever way of confronting Israel: They would hype the hoped-for “overreaction,” then posture as regional defender of the faith to the world’s outraged Muslims.
Thomas, Turkey, and the Liberation of Israel
by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online It is hard to become much more influential than the doyen of the White House press corps, who is given a ceremonial front-rows seat at press briefings and press conferences.
Beyond the Scopes Trial?
Singham’s new book misses the Christian foundation of law and much more. by Terry Scambray New Oxford Review God vs. Darwin: The War between Evolution and Creationism in the Classroom by Mano Singham (Rowman & Littlefield, 2009).