Obamafusion
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Why is Wall Street worried? — Let us count the ways. 1) The proverbial Wall Street capitalists believe that, with new federal income tax rates, the removal of FICA ceilings, increases in capital gains rates, decreases in deductions, and simultaneous tax raises, not only will Obama remove incentives for […]
The Wisdom of Crowds–In Ancient Greece
by Victor Davis Hanson Forbes.com A review of Democracy and Knowledge: Innovation and Learning in Classical Athensby Josiah Ober (Princeton University Press, 2008, 362pp.)
The Great Divider?
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Do As I Say—Not As I Do? I confess I did not believe Barack Obama entirely during the campaign when he bragged on working across the aisle and championing bipartisanship.
More on Rush
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner All these highbrow conservative attacks on Limbaugh keep missing the point.
The Triumph of Banality
Obama didn’t inven dishonesty in political discourse–but he has a talent for it. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online One of the most tired rhetorical tropes in Washington starts with, “We must . . . ” In the age of Obama, this is now usually followed by “Get the cost of our health care […]
A Funny Sort of Depression
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Are we headed to something like the Great Depression?
Enough Already
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner Many have weighed in on Eric Holder’s “cowards” slur.
A Year Like None Other
It usually takes decades to fit in all the tragicomedy of 2008. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online The three great stories of 2008 were the financial meltdown, the turn-about in Iraq, and the Chicago Way.
Perverse Thoughts about this Perverse Recession
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media I do not understand at all this going into debt for almost another trillion dollars, and then immediately promising to balance the budget soon (like blowing off your foot near an emergency room), or how “stimulate” differs from “borrow,” or why the more noble victim is the one who sought […]
Some Reflections in the Times of Hysteria
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Imagine… Had anyone said a few months ago that the federal government would step in to provide a trillion dollars to subsidize gasoline — to bring it down to $1.85 a gallon nationwide from prices that were exceeding $4 a gallon — we would have had a national debate.
War and Peace–and Deceit–in Islam
by Raymond Ibrahim PJ Media Editor’s note: Substantial portions of the following essay made up part of Mr. Ibrahim’s written testimony that was presented to Congress on February 12, 2009 Today, in a time of wars and rumors of wars emanating from the Islamic world — from the current conflict in Gaza, to the saber-rattling […]
An ‘Impulsive’ America?
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services President Barack Obama’s first TV interview was with the Dubai-based, partly Saudi-funded Al Arabiya satellite channel.
Our Battered American
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media I am meeting a few battered Americans these days. There are not many left, but those that are seem to sound alike. Yes, I think I am beginning to understand Mr. Battered American, and he sounds tired and a bit like this.
Pause and Take a Deep Breath
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Five Easy Pieces I. “Bush did it!” Sec. Clinton went abroad this week and immediately, and yes, gratuitously, blamed Bush.
Ancient Wisdom: Depression, Recession, Downturn…Whatever
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media My grandfather once said something to me around 1970 that I have never forgotten. He was born in my house in 1890 (or rather, I in his) — twenty years after his grandmother built the present home.
The Audacity of Irony
“Hope and change” meet reality. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online We have seen irony before, when the moralist Jimmy Carter chastised us with sermons about our paranoid, inordinate fear of Communism and our amoral unconcern with human rights, even as the dividends of his policies were the Soviets in Afghanistan and the Ayatollah […]
Hardly the Best and Brightest
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Most historians agree that earthquakes, droughts or barbarians did not unravel classical Athens or imperial Rome.
Consider the Source
Jihad has Islamic, and non-Islamic, roots. by Raymond Ibrahim Weekly Standard Review of The Mind of Jihad by Laurent Murawiec (Cambridge, 350 pp.)
Foreign Policy as Magical Thinking
by Bruce S. Thornton FrontPageMagazine.com President Obama’s foreign policy team is built around one key idea: the neglect of diplomacy by President Bush’s “cowboy” unilateralism has damaged American prestige, alienated our allies, and worsened our problems abroad, particularly with the Islamic jihadists.
More on the New Horizon
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Such a Strange Malady A strange thing, this Obama worship (cf. the New York Times op-ed on Sunday where the columnist imagined having sexual relations with Obama) and Bush hatred (cf. the Will Farrell Broadway show trashing Bush, and showing images of his purported penis).