Our Ongoing Catharsis
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Presidential Popularity After just eight months, the President is at a 50/50 cross-roads in the polls. The once hope-and-change exuberance has dissipated. Such unpopularity is hardly new; what is novel is the rapidity in which a 70%+ approval rating has plummeted to 50%.
Why Muslim Charities Fund the Jihad
by Raymond Ibrahim PJ Media From what American schoolchildren are being taught [1] by their teachers to what Americans are being told by their presidents, concepts unique to Islam are nowadays almost always “Westernized.”
Prairie-Fire Anger
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Why Are People in Revolt? The approval ratings on nearly every one of the President’s key policy initiatives — cap-and-trade, healthcare overhaul, government takeover of industry and finance, deficit spending, stimulus — are already less than half of polled voters.
The New York Times’ Resident Voodoo Statistician
Another rational liberal can’t think straight. by Bruce S. Thornton FrontPage Magazine The New York Times’ resident voodoo statistician, Charles Blow, is at it again, using “scientific” polling data as an excuse to indulge ideological prejudice.
Clinton’s North Korean Odyssey
by Bruce S. Thornton FrontPage Magazine More proof to our enemies that the U.S. is weak and vulnerable — courtesy of Bill Clinton.
Sailing to Byzantium
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Rhodes Millions of Euros have transformed Rhodes into a sort of Frankish and Venetian Disneyland. The medieval city has been completely rebuilt, or almost rebuilt — turrets, walls, streets, arches, courtyards — into a fascinating citadel as it might have appeared around 1500 or so.
Obama’s Great Race to Change America
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Why does President Obama want to implement radical changes in American foreign policy, environmental policy, education, health care, and the tax code all at once?
Bullying Israel
Interview by Jamie Glazov FrontPageMag.com Frontpage interviews Victor Davis Hanson, a classicist and historian at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, on why the Jewish state is the only country with which the U.S. has worse relations since Obama took office.
No Free Lunch
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media The Piper Must Be Paid I think the natural tendency of the U.S. economy to rebound from recession, coupled with the enormous inflationary forces of borrowing another $2 trillion, will result in some sort of a brief economic recovery.
The Great American Debt
We commit suicide by debt addiction, China rakes in IOUs. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online With our national debt at $11 trillion and climbing at a projected rate of $1 to $2 trillion a year, examine the brilliant manner in which Americans justify borrowing much of this money from abroad, particularly from the […]
The End of Post-Racialism
by Bruce S. Thornton FrontPageMagazine.com So much for Obama striking a new tone on race. President Obama’s response during his press conference to the arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates — that the Cambridge police officer “acted stupidly,” despite Obama’s confession that he didn’t know what really had happened — should lay to rest […]
Our Angry Aristocracy
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Scolding Americans for our various sins is proving popular among an elite group of self-appointed moralists.
Lose, Lose When You Talk About Race
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Why the Gates Affair Bored Us President Obama and the subject of race remind me of the proverbial camel’s back and straws: the American people shrugged off “typical white person”, then forgave the clingers speech.
Mediterranean Reflections on What Went Wrong
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Italy… I have been traveling as a lecturer on a Hillsdale College Byzantium Cruise (from Venice to Athens, with several stops in the Adriatic, Mediterranean, and Aegean) for the last few days, and here are some eccentric reflections on civilizations of the past.
Entertainment Gone Awry
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner What’s Hollywood to Do? Over the last eight years we saw Fahrenheit 911, Syriana, Redacted,Rendition, Stop Loss, Lions for Lambs, In the Valley of Elah, and a host of other movies released about the U.S. war on terror and the Iraqi conflict.
The Blues: Disappointment in the Era of Hope and Change
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner The Gloves Come Off? I think the new combativeness coming out of the White House will only increase — given growing unhappiness over increased joblessness, the omnipresence of old Clinton-era attack dogs, new public doubts that vast new government programs are really the answer to what was in part […]
Big Government Medicine
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Big new taxes. Big new spending. Big new government. This seems to be the proposed cure for the Wall Street-inspired recession.
Obama’s Puzzling Approach to the Muslim World
by Raymond Ibrahim PJ Media President Barack Obama and I have one thing in common shared by few Americans: we were brought up by at least one parent — biological or step is irrelevant — who was born and raised in an Islamic milieu. Intimately aware of the inevitable effects of this, I must question […]
What Was That ‘Stupidity’ All About?
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner The Gates incident seems to have had little to do with race but a lot to do with the natural human misunderstandings that happen every day in police scenes — and its final twist has everything to do with insider privilege and aristocratic disdain.
Obama’s Path Not Taken
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media What Might Have Happened Remember Obama’s initial signature speech (e.g., “there is not a liberal America and a conservative America — there is the United States of America”), and all the subsequent conciliatory talk of no blue state, no red state America?