Wa Marco Polo an ‘Islamophobe’?
by Raymond Ibrahim PJ Media If the same exact criticisms being made against Islam today were also made centuries ago, is it reasonable to automatically dismiss them all as “Islamophobic” — that is, as “unfounded fear of and hostility towards Islam,” as the Council on American Islamic Relations [1] would have it?
How Could We Be So Stupid? Let Us Count the Ways
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media We are going to pile up another $3 trillion in national debt in just the first two years of the Obama administration. If the annual deficit should sink below $1.5 trillion, it will be called fiscal sobriety.
So What Happened to Iraq?
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Six years ago, the conventional wisdom was that Ayad Allawi, then prime minister of the appointed Iraqi Interim Government, was a puppet of the United States.
Mr. Obama’s Nowhere Discussions
Obama needs to stop talking and start making hard policy decisions by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Barack Obama has a marvelous way of sounding innovative, fresh, and novel while offering stale, predictable bromides. His policies at home are an extension of LBJ’s old Great Society.
Why All the Wounded Fawns?
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner Why are charges of racism and political extremism suddenly in the air?
Thoughts on Allies Gone By
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner Whatever the protestations of the Obama administration, many in both Britain and Israel feel that 2009-10 marked a watershed, the beginning of an era in which America was no longer a special friend to either — whether gauged by serial symbolic snubs or real policy differences on things like […]
Obama’s Khrushchev? How Sick is That?
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner Roger Cohen wrote in the New York Times of Obama’s putdown of Netanyahu: “The former Soviet leader [Khrushchev] thought he could browbeat Kennedy only to discover, in Vienna, that the Kennedy charm was not unalloyed to steel (‘It will be a long, cold winter’). Netanyahu was the first foreign leader to […]
The War on Terror–Bush Without the Stetson
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner There is much to criticize about President Obama on foreign policy, but increasingly, despite all the “reset button” rhetoric and the obligatory nods to the Left, his anti-terrorism policies are becoming near identical extensions (if in cynical fashion) of George Bush’s.
A Tour Through Recession America
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media The last seven days I tried to jot down what I saw in some slices of America in recession — and much of its seems at odds with our general government narrative.
Damn the Evidence, Full Speed Ahead?
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner The strangest thing about Obama’s gargantuan, trillion-dollar-plus new healthcare entitlement is the timing.
The Ongoing Melodrama of Victims and Oppressors
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services President Obama, in the tradition of progressive Democratic leaders, believes government should ask the more economically fortunate citizens to be responsible for helping the less well off.
Is There a Rhyme or Reason to U.S. Foreign Policy?
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner During the 2008 campaign, the Obama group argued that Bush & Co. were insensitive to allies and had acted in clumsy, unilateral fashion, permanently damaging our stature in the world.
Our American Catharsis
Will Obama-time be a transitory experience or an enduring tragedy? by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online For years conservatives have railed about the creeping welfare state. They have tried to tag liberals with being soft on national security, both for courting those who faulted America and for faulting others who courted it.
The End of Trust
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Greek Bonds, Anyone? The world is getting a little edgy when very few investors are willing to buy Greek bonds — given what they know about Greek politics and productivity.
Spartacus, The Pacific, and the “Last of the Romans”
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Beefcake Beheading I have been catching up on the episodes of the new Starz series on Spartacus, the Thracian slave who terrified Rome between 73 to 71 B.C., through a mass servile uprising originating in Capua.
A Postmodern Presidency
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media A Pretentious Word for a World Without Rules Given thirty years of postmodern relativism in our universities, we were bound to get a postmodern president at some point.
Next Battle: Immigration
What we will–and will not–hear in the upcoming debate. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online After the healthcare fight, we can expect the Obama administration to use the same template to pass “comprehensive immigration reform.”
More Bottled Piety
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner This week’s talking point is the sudden danger of new right-wing violence, and the inflammatory push-back against healthcare.
Remembering the Pacific War
Today marks the 65th anniversary of the invasion of Okinawa. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Sixty-five years ago, on April 1, 1945, the United States Marines, Army, and Navy invaded Okinawa. The ensuing three months of combat resulted in the complete defeat and near destruction of imperial Japanese forces on the island, just […]