Dr. Jekyll and Mr. President
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services In matters of foreign policy during the president’s first 100 days, we have seen two Barack Obamas.
Obama’s Abominable Obeisance: Cultural Perspectives
by Raymond Ibrahim PJ Media Is Obama’s deep bow (with slightly bent knee) to the Saudi king as bad as it seems?
Confessions of a Contrarian
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media I. I am not on the Obama bus I followed the Obama senatorial campaign and even his early career in Chicago, and confess I was not impressed.
Obamatopia
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media One wonders whether President Obama, for all the soaring rhetoric, grasps why certain nations really do hate us. Does he think a Grozny, Darfur, Rwanda, Serbia, or Tibet happen in reaction to U.S. global sinful conduct?
The Obama Administration and the Monopoly on Education
by Bruce S. Thornton First Principles Part two of a symposium on the educational impact of Obama and the New Progressivism. Read part one on the economic prospects and part three on culture.
Crazy Times–Crazier Ones to Follow
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services We are in a weird age. Do the smart thing, we were told, and invest in a 401(k) retirement account. Buy into the American dream and own your own home. But lately it seems that those who put their money in low-earning passbook savings accounts or rented rather […]
The World Likes Us, It Really Likes Us!
by Bruce S. Thornton FrontPageMagazine.com Watching Obama’s recent journeys to Europe and Latin America, I was reminded of actress Sally Field’s embarrassing acceptance speech at the 1985 Academy Awards:
Textbook Lies About Islam
by Raymond Ibrahim PJ Media In recent House hearings dedicated to examining Islamic extremism, I stressed that the fundamental stumbling block to effective policy-making is educational and epistemological.
One Tour Too Many
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner I don’t know whether this was the intent or not, but Obama’s weird trip to Latin America — characterized by constant anti-American outbursts from heads of state eager to blame their own failures on Yanquis — probably killed any notion that any sane American would support either further free-trade agreements […]
Piratical Thoughts
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Pirates (the word peiraô is Greek for ‘to try’ or ‘make the attempt’) were common in the ancient world. They appear everywhere from Hellenistic novels to stories about Pompey’s clean-up of the Cilician robbers. Some random thoughts.
Can We Get Beyond Race?
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner The Washington Post informs us of the presidential visit to Latin American with a headline “Race a Dominant Theme at Summit.” It then goes on to describe how Obama resonates with those leaders of “indigenous” heritage in Latin America.
Our New Sort of War
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services President Obama proclaims no more of George Bush’s “war on terror,” even as he silently keeps most of it in place. The result is as confusing as it soon will be dangerous.
President of the World
The globe is hearing a deeply pessimistic view of what America was and is. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Given Obama’s performance on his recent trip, three developments were quite astounding.
The Politics of Blame
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services It should have been easy for Democrats to connect depleted 401(k) accounts and lost home equity with the buccaneers of Wall Street who supposedly prompted the panic.
President 50/50
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Our Philosopher Organizer The most successful practitioner of community organizing looks around for what he thinks is a problem, chastises both sides and allots absolutely equal blame, gives exalted moral lectures about compromise and understanding, and then waltzes away well paid, praised for his moderation, but having accomplished nothing.
The Postnational, Postmodern, Post-everything Presidential Trip
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media 1. Do They all Do This? A good argument could be made that Jacques Chirac was deeply unpopular (along with his foreign minister Dominque de Villepin) in the U.S. and the U.K. Even more so was Gerhard Schröder, and to a lesser extent his postmodern foreign minister Joschka Fischer, veteran of […]
The Presidential First Stone
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner In this great age of atonement, in a mere two or three days the world has been reminded that (1) the U.S. has been arrogant; (2) dismissive and derisive to Europe; (3) was a slave-owning society; (4) practiced genocide against native Americans; (5) did not let blacks vote; (6) […]
Another Times Blowhard
by Bruce S. Thornton FrontPageMagazine.com Every so often The New York Times runs an op-ed by the appropriately named Charles M. Blow. Blow’s shtick is to dig up some statistical nugget and then draw all manner of portentous conclusions this data supposedly support.
G-20 Outtakes
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Poodle Redux. Blair was denigrated as Bush’s poodle, although his eloquence and influence over Bush were clear to all. In contrast, Gordon Brown is embarrassingly obsequious to Obama, in a way Blair never was around Bush.
Europe Got Obama–Now What?
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services “Yes, we can!” Germans shouted in unison with candidate Barack Obama at their Victory Column in Berlin this past summer.