President Obama’s First 70 Days
It really does all make sense. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online In just the first 70 days of the new administration, a number of Obama supporters have expressed some dismay at their new president.
The Good–Part III
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media After those depressing six “bad” and “ugly” trends, here are three things that bring at least some optimism in otherwise trying times.
American Mob Rule
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services In the last three months, we’ve been reduced to something like the ancient Athenian mob — with opportunistic politicians sometimes inciting, sometimes catering to an already angry public.
The Ugly–Part Two
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media After outlining some “bad” trends — the conservative abandonment of budgetary restraint, the new liberal-Wall-Street nexus, the rise of therapeutic excuse-making for substandard behavior — I now offer three “ugly” trends.
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly–Part One
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media In the spirit of optimism, let’s review some good, some bad, and some downright ugly things about this present age. I’ll give three examples of each. For today, here’s the “bad.” Later this week, I’ll post the “ugly,” and then on the weekend the “good.”
Dr. Obama: First, Do No Harm
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services When it comes to our complex economy, President Barack Obama would do well to heed the physician’s ancient commandment to first “do no harm.”
Thoughts About Depressed Americans
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Why are so many Americans so depressed about things these days? It is perhaps not just the economy.
The “Depression” for Us Idiots
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media I confess I don’t know all that much about the theory of economics, and have done some unwise things in the strict financial sense the last thirty years — remodeled an ancient family farm house that will never be appraised at what was sunk into it, both farmed and rented […]
Can’t We All Agree?
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media What hope and change would all of us, conservatives and liberals alike, welcome from President Obama? Here are some suggestions, surreal and serious, trivial and quite important.
Bush Did It
What a difference an election makes. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online President Bush was ridiculed today by critics of the Guantanamo Bay detention facility when he suggested that his administration no longer was incarcerating “unlawful combatants,” but was instead in the process of renaming them as mere “detainees.”
Jihad, Martyrdom, and the Torments of the Grave
by Raymond Ibrahim PJ Media Why do some Muslims become suicide bombers or “martyrs”?
Yes, We Can If They Did It and We Are Liked Now
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner Anatomy of vero possumus It is odd that after five weeks we can pretty much see the next four years:
Now Obama Tells Us?
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Imagine that last fall before being elected, Barack Obama had outlined the positions he has embraced since being inaugurated as president. An honest campaign speech could have gone something like this:
Oh, the Debt We Will See!
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Going broke without style… $3.6 trillion budget. $1.7 trillion annual deficit. $800 billion plus borrowing stimulus. $600 billion plus in outlays for new nationalized health care, and then another $600 billion again for cap-and-trade.
Europeanizing Europe
With Obama, Europeans may have got more than they bargained for. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Last summer, with several other Americans, I went to a garden reception attended by some French barristers, generals, and assorted professionals in Versailles.
Fast and Thick in the Age of Obama
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media One big thing In this fiscal crisis, the public wanted one big thing to quote Archilochus: A reform of the banking industry that offered federal-guaranteed lines of credit to ensure liquidity, and a new transparency so investors would at least know that their supposedly blue-chip AIG stocks or Lehman […]
From vs. Limbaugh
by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online In the end, the controversy boils down to an argument of the moment versus one of the ages.
Recessional
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Et tu, Brute? Conservatives created Barack Obama and his vision of the Europeanization of America, and so have themselves to blame for the current recessional, as the present as we have known it fades into the past..
Accounting for California’s Suicide
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services What went wrong in California? I think we can all agree on at least three observations.
Taqiyya Revisited: A Response to the Critics
by Raymond Ibrahim Jihad Watch Having written at length on various aspects of Islam, it is always my writings concerning doctrinal deceit that elicit (sometimes irate) responses.