In the End, There Is Only the Debt
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner Amid all the fighting over healthcare, Obama’s new promises, the Israeli spat, the Frum controversy, et al., looms the national debt. We can ignore it; get angry at it and say, “What the hell, I’ll quadruple it!”; have our “experts” write sophistic treatises about how it either doesn’t matter or […]
We Are All Pods Now
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Were We Podded in Our Sleep? I think I went to sleep about a year ago, just woke up, and realized that either I or the world has been changed, snatched as it were. [1]
Israel: One of Many
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner Some strong supporters of both Obama and Israel are disappointed in the latest hysterical Biden-Clinton-Obama smack-down over the settlement issue. But why, I don’t know — this is a logical, not an aberrant, development from President Obama.
Chicago Does Socialism
Connect the dots of Obama’s first year–an ugly picture emerges. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online We can have a rational debate on any one item on President Obama’s vast progressive agenda, arguing whether adjectives like “statist” or “socialist” fairly describe his legislative intent. But connect all the dots and lines of the past […]
Is It Go Easy or Go for Broke, Mr. President?
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services After the bloodletting over the healthcare bill, President Obama is now at a crossroads.
As Predictable As the Sun Rising
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Giddy About Remaking America If we assume that Obama & Co. wish to radically remake the United States — along the lines of a European socialist society, or perhaps to the left even of a Belgium or Denmark — then the past 14 months were as predictable as the […]
Let the Games Begin?
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner I don’t follow the Democratic thinking. Their president polls below 50 percent. The Democratically-controlled Congress polls less than 20 percent. Healthcare reform polls at about 45 percent support.
Another Partisan Push for Another ‘Comprehensive Reform’?
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Candidate Barack Obama promised immigration activists, “I think it’s time for a president who won’t walk away from something as important as comprehensive reform when it becomes politically unpopular.”
We’ve Crossed the Rubicon
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media President Obama has crossed the Rubicon with the healthcare vote. The bill was not really about medicine; after all, a moderately priced, relatively small federal program could offer the poorer not now insured, presently not on Medicare or state programs like Medicaid or Medical, a basic medical plan.
Issues of the Day
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner A Pyrrhic Passage? At an outdoor rally today, the president described the healthcare debate as a referendum on the “character” of the country, and I do believe he was correct.
Reflections on the Revolution in America
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media America’s Extreme Make-over These are exciting though scary revolutionary times, akin to the constant acrimony in the fourth-century BC polis, mid-nineteenth century revolutionary Europe, or — perhaps in a geriatric replay — the 1960s.
Our Reset Reset Foreign Policy
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Almost every element of Barack Obama’s once-heralded new “reset” foreign policy of a year ago has either been reset or likely soon will be.
Is Tom Hanks Unhinged?
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Much has been written of the recent Tom Hanks remarks to Douglas Brinkley in a Time magazine interview about his upcoming HBO series on World War II in the Pacific. Here is the explosive excerpt that is making the rounds today.
Strange Happenings
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner Hillary Starbuckle What planet are we on? Hillary Clinton, of “suspension of disbelief” fame, now is complaining about the deleterious effect of domestic partisan discord on the conduct of foreign policy?
The Islamist Mindset: How it Rationalizes–and Promotes–‘Sex Sins’
by Raymond Ibrahim PJ Media Is it inconsistent for Muslim “holy warriors” to engage in voyeuristic acts of lasciviousness?
Save the State Worker?
On Receiving Another Request to Protest, Write a Letter, Give Money by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Fantasyland I am looking over a pile of form letters and going over emails of anguish, all decrying the cuts in state government.
No Allies–But Plenty of Enemies
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Almost 30 years after losing a war over the Falkland Islands, Argentina is once again warning Britain that it still wants back what it calls the Malvinas.
The ‘I Am Not George Bush’ Policy
All the borrowing at home and fighting abroad? by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online The first year of the Obama administration has been a vertiginous pile of confusions and contradictions. In hunting for a theme to its decision making, we might start with Obama’s relation to his predecessor.
We Have Rave on the Brain: The Present Mishmash
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media What’s going on with race relations? I just read an account of racial tension at UC San Diego, involving largely white students of a fraternity crassly parodying black history month.
Dronism
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media California is a rich state — as the world found out the last century. It has the best farmland in the world, much of it watered by gravity-fed irrigation from the Sierra. Its timber acreage is vast.