Our Present Anxieties
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media These Guys Are Really Sensitive, Aren’t They? I thought that former Vice President Al Gore’s vein-bulging attacks on Bush & Co. marked a new “no rules in the arena” era of politics.
Change We Can Believe In
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media So, fellow critics of Obama, what would we do instead? It is easy to harp, as Obama did in 2007-8, but hard to govern, as Obama learned in 2009. So for all the criticism, let us put up some sample proposals of our own.
Resetting the Reset Button
As promised, Obama has set our diplomacy on a new track. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online After ten months of “Bush did it” diplomacy, the Obama administration needs to reset its reset button.
Dean Obama
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner That was such a strange speech. Deploring partisanship while serially trashing Bush at each new talking point.
We Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services When it comes to the problems facing this country, an old slogan comes to mind: “You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet.”
Candid Camera Moments
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner There are a number of isolated incidents that, in the great scheme of things, should be seen as rather trivial. But they are gaining symbolic importance, which is working against President Obama.
Bowing, Dithering and Trashing America
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner When Reality Catches up to Rhetoric The growing problem for the Obama administration is that the public has finally caught on that the president’s tough rhetoric and soaring oratory don’t match reality.
A Manifest Disaster
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner Two points about the strange decision to bring the 9/11 terrorists to New York:
Why the Liberal Anger Over the Asian Tour?
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner There is a surprising amount of liberal discomfort, here and abroad, with the underwhelming nature of President Obama’s Asian tour.
Thanks to the Forgotten Part-time Teacher
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner Last week within about an hour, I got a form email from a UC administrator deploring California’s cuts to higher education, asking for money, and pleading for support for the university — even as YouTube was airing the UCLA student protests over tuition hikes.
The New War against Reason
by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Barack Obama promised us not only transparency, but also a new respect for science. In soothing tones, he asserted that his administration was “restoring scientific integrity to government decision-making.”
Where Has the Thrill Gone?
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media The Harder They Fall? Who appointed over 40 ambassadors on the sole basis of campaign contributions, or has as many lobbyists in government as did any President in memory?
Lethal Weapon: Islamist Perfidy or Western Naivety?
by Raymond Ibrahim PJ Media In a blog entry for Islamist Watch, David J. Rusin shows how the word “jihad” continues to be euphemized in the West.
Circling Sharks Smell American Blood
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services On his recent trip to Asia, President Obama found China, Japan and South Korea — like many nations these days — in no mood to hear more American lectures.
Overcoming the Odds
by Linda Halderman, MD The American Thinker The Sick It’s Saturday night in Pago Pago. As I write this from a little tropical hospital in the middle of the Pacific Ocean on a tiny island called American Samoa, I’m trying hard to make sense of the last 72 hours.
Nidal Hasan and Fort Hood: A Study in Muslims Doctrine
by Raymond Ibrahim PJ Media One of the difficulties in discussing Islam’s more troubling doctrines is that they have an anachronistic, even otherworldly, feel to them; that is, unless actively and openly upheld by Muslims, non-Muslims, particularly of the Western variety, tend to see them as abstract theory, not standard practice for today.
Palin-odes?
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media The Furor The AP supposedly hired 11 fact-checkers to discredit Ms. Palin’s memoir (Did Fox News hire 11 to question the very questionable things found in the two Obama memoirs?)
Obama’s Prissy America
Why Obama’s America seems so self-centered? by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online The liberal writ was that a strutting “bring ’em on” George W. Bush for eight years did what he pleased on the international scene.
Same Old, Same Old at Fort Hood
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan is accused of murdering last week 13 people (12 of whom were soldiers) and wounding another 30 at Fort Hood, Texas. It was not the first, nor will it be the last, domestic terrorist incident since Sept. 11, 2001.
Thoughts from the Later Republic
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Contrast Recent Media Coverage The furor over Dick Cheney’s past severed involvement with Halliburton — the meowing over Bush-critic, liberal icon, ex-diplomat Peter Galbraith’s present, ongoing conflict-of-interest as profiteer and pundit/advisor involving a multimillion-dollar oil scam in Kurdistan.