Criticism and Conciliation
by Raymond Ibrahim National Review Online Though he early indicated that this would be an honest, heart-to-heart talk — “we must say openly the things we hold in our hearts, and that too often are said only behind closed doors” and “let me speak as clearly and plainly as I can about some specific issues […]
Obama’s New Liberal Realism
Obama abandoned Wilsonianism to avoid supporting Iranian democracy. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online President Obama has largely drawn praise for his tepid response to the mass uprisings in Iran challenging the reelection of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Just Make Stuff Up
President Obama’s war on the truth. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online In the first six months of the Obama administration, we have witnessed an assault on the truth of a magnitude not seen since the Nixon Watergate years.
Are Judaism and Christianity as Violent as Islam?
by Raymond Ibrahim Middle East Quarterly (Summer 2009) “There is far more violence in the Bible than in the Qur’an; the idea that Islam imposed itself by the sword is a Western fiction, fabricated during the time of the Crusades when, in fact, it was Western Christians who were fighting brutal holy wars against Islam.”
Dupes
Jamie Glazov exposes the Left’s long history of cozying up to political murderers. by Bruce S. Thornton City Journal United in Hate: The Left’s Romance with Tyranny and Terror by Jamie Glazov (WND Books, 264 pp.)
Our Historically Challenged President
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services In his speech last week in Cairo, President Obama proclaimed he was a “student of history.” But despite Barack Obama’s image as an Ivy-League-educated intellectual, he lacks historical competency, both in areas of facts and interpretation.
The World Turned Upside Down
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner They’re rioting in Iran over a probably fraudulent election and the use of violence to suppress dissent — part of the “robust” debate that President Obama just welcomed.
David Letterman, Rev. Wright, and Thoughts on a Creepy Culture
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media The Demise of David Letterman I had a number of exchanges on the Palin-Letterman controversy (see below). Where to start on David Letterman’s attack on Palin on her visit to New York to do charitable work, accompanied by her 14-year-old daughter Willow?
I No Longer Quite Believe . . .
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media I Am Afraid I No Longer Believe . . . …That we have an inquisitive American media as we once knew it. There has emerged something as bad as state-sanctioned coercion — which we could at least identify, and thus struggle against.
Respecting the Faithful vs. Respecting the Faith
by Raymond Ibrahim Jihad Watch During the pope’s recent Mideast visit, the media reported that he has “deep respect for Islam.” That exact phrase appeared in the Associated Press, AFP,BBC, Jerusalem Post, Washington Times, and Al-Jazeera.
The Diversity Mess
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder has scolded Americans for being “cowards” and not talking more about race.
The Reckoning
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Obama Versus the Way of the Universe I wish the President well, but he is butting up against human nature. And that is a fight one cannot win.
The Age of Middle East Atonement
Therapeutic efforts to disguise the truth never really work. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online President Obama made an earnest effort — as is his way in matters of discord — to split the difference with the Islamic world.
The History Channel’s Distortion of the Crusades
by Raymond Ibrahim Jihad Watch I recently taped and am watching a documentary, “The Crusades: Crescent and the Cross,” on the History Channel.
America’s First Postmodern Presidency
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Postmodern Truth One of the chief tenets of postmodernism is relativism — the notion that neither morality nor wisdom is absolute and definable, but instead simply predicated on what those with power and advantage say they are.
Who’s To Judge?
Sotomayor and the defense of racial identity as judicial wisdom. by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner When Words Don’t Mean Anything Rather than an attempt to defend empirically Sotomayor’s suggestion that Latinas are superior, in the judicial sense, to white men, we have been given a variety of postmodern contexts, constructing what she “really” meant:
The Sotomayor Nomination
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner Is It Going to Be Race and Resentment — All the Time? Michelle Obama is now weighing in on the Sotomayor nomination, and I think it will prove a serious political mistake, since she is reverting back to her “me too” campaign mode, in that she emphasizes both race […]
Reflections on an Age Now Fading . . .
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Goodbye, Europe We are on our third, and last, leg of this year’s tour, and headed today from Chania, Crete to Athens.
The Muslim World Address
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner President Obama has a much-publicized upcoming talk in Cairo that is rather pretentiously packaged as an address to the “Muslim world.”
Israel’s Cuban Missile Crisis–All the Time
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Why would the Iranian government spend billions of dollars on trying to develop a few first-generation nuclear bombs (as nearly everyone believes is the case) when the country is so poor that it has to ration gasoline?