Once Upon a Time…
Whatever happened to the old Barack Obama? by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Once upon a time, a fresh new politician, Barack Obama — black, young, eloquent, and hip — soared with rhetoric about hope and change. The people were mesmerized. What a contrast with the tongue-tied outgoing president, George W. Bush, and his […]
Not This Pig
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media And On It Goes I support the President on Afghanistan and am relieved he did not pull out of Iraq as once promised (all combat brigades out by March 1, 2008 — he said during his initial campaigning).
Obamacare’s Poison Pill
by Linda Halderman, M.D. Private Papers Three House committees just choked down the bitter pill of a compromise version of a healthcare reform bill, HR 3200. But for vulnerable patients — and taxpayers — the cure may be worse than the disease.
The Second World War–Seventy Years Later
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Seventy years ago this week, on Sept. 1, 1939, the Second World War broke out with the German invasion of Poland.
Van Jones’ Resignation
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner ‘Oooh. Van Jones, alright!’ Ah, the Dividends of a Yale Law degree:
Whining Will Get You Nowhere
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner The Tingle is Gone? Many of Obama’s problems are in the future.
From Preparedness to Appeasement and Back
Are we about to repeat this tired cycle? by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online By 1930 Verdun had been transmogrified almost into a dirty word in French schools.
What We Are Learning About the Era of Obama
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Means and Ends in the Age of Obama One of the stranger things about this eerie first eight months of the Obama administration is how brazenly its supporters have been about the noble ends justifying the disreputable means.
War–What War?
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services The anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan headed to Martha’s Vineyard this week, where President Obama is vacationing. Once again she is protesting our two wars abroad.
‘Senator High and Mighty’
by Victor Davis Hanson Forbes Magazine By now almost everyone has weighed in on the legacy of Sen. Ted Kennedy, who passed away this week after a year-long struggle with a cancerous brain tumor.
Obama and ‘Redistributive Change’
Forget the recession and the “uninsured.” Obama has bigger fish to fry. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online The first seven months of the Obama administration seemingly make no sense. Why squander public approval by running up astronomical deficits in a time of pre-existing staggering national debt?
Obama vs. Obama
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Actions often have unforeseen consequences. Throughout the campaign and the first few months of the new administration, Barack Obama adopted a number of personas and positions that only now may be coming back to haunt him.
‘The Fault Is Not in Our Stars, But in Ourselves’
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner Liberal columnists decrying the Obama administration’s supposed lack of partisan fortitude and eagerness for a nasty fight for healthcare seem oddly detached from reality.
Divine Debt Trumps All
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services In Greek mythology, even Olympian gods and heroes were subject to a higher divine power known loosely as “fate” — an allotted moira, or destiny, that could not be changed even by thunderbolt-throwing Zeus.
Obama’s Follies
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner The Race Card Gets Trumped I think almost everyone expected that once President Obama embarked on a highly partisan agenda at a time of record deficits in the midst of a recession, he was going to meet resistance.
The Strange Case of the Obama Meltdown
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media The Obama Meltdown — Symptoms/Diagnosis/Prognosis Strange things are happening to the Obama administration and quickly so. His polls are diving and may not stop at 50/50, the most precipitous drop in approval of a first-year President since Bill Clinton in 1993 (cf. Hillary care).
Who’s in Charge if Diplomacy?
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner ‘North Korea made a colossal mistake’ One of the stranger aspects of being overseas is following the upside-down logic of the International Herald Tribune, which around January mysteriously morphed from a shrill critic of the U.S. government to its official mouthpiece.
On Dishing it Out . . .
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner What is weird about the liberal hysteria to the obstreperous (and occasionally rude) town meetings is the complete amnesia about what constitutes reckless public discourse.
What Went Wrong?
Piling up debt, and hypocrisy, Obama & Co. are sinking. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online We are witnessing one of the more rapid turnabouts in recent American political history.
Our Road to Oceania
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services In George Orwell’s allegorical novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, the picture of “Big Brother” appears constantly in the adoring media.