Where Has the Thrill Gone?
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media The Harder They Fall? Who appointed over 40 ambassadors on the sole basis of campaign contributions, or has as many lobbyists in government as did any President in memory?
Lethal Weapon: Islamist Perfidy or Western Naivety?
by Raymond Ibrahim PJ Media In a blog entry for Islamist Watch, David J. Rusin shows how the word “jihad” continues to be euphemized in the West.
Circling Sharks Smell American Blood
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services On his recent trip to Asia, President Obama found China, Japan and South Korea — like many nations these days — in no mood to hear more American lectures.
Overcoming the Odds
by Linda Halderman, MD The American Thinker The Sick It’s Saturday night in Pago Pago. As I write this from a little tropical hospital in the middle of the Pacific Ocean on a tiny island called American Samoa, I’m trying hard to make sense of the last 72 hours.
Nidal Hasan and Fort Hood: A Study in Muslims Doctrine
by Raymond Ibrahim PJ Media One of the difficulties in discussing Islam’s more troubling doctrines is that they have an anachronistic, even otherworldly, feel to them; that is, unless actively and openly upheld by Muslims, non-Muslims, particularly of the Western variety, tend to see them as abstract theory, not standard practice for today.
Palin-odes?
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media The Furor The AP supposedly hired 11 fact-checkers to discredit Ms. Palin’s memoir (Did Fox News hire 11 to question the very questionable things found in the two Obama memoirs?)
Obama’s Prissy America
Why Obama’s America seems so self-centered? by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online The liberal writ was that a strutting “bring ’em on” George W. Bush for eight years did what he pleased on the international scene.
Same Old, Same Old at Fort Hood
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan is accused of murdering last week 13 people (12 of whom were soldiers) and wounding another 30 at Fort Hood, Texas. It was not the first, nor will it be the last, domestic terrorist incident since Sept. 11, 2001.
Thoughts from the Later Republic
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Contrast Recent Media Coverage The furor over Dick Cheney’s past severed involvement with Halliburton — the meowing over Bush-critic, liberal icon, ex-diplomat Peter Galbraith’s present, ongoing conflict-of-interest as profiteer and pundit/advisor involving a multimillion-dollar oil scam in Kurdistan.
Is Fort Hood Really a “Tragedy?”
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Something has gone terribly wrong in the entire reaction to the Ft. Hood massacres, as evidenced by the media, the administration, the military authorities, and perhaps the public at large.
Obama’s “Bush Did It” Narrative: An Interview with VDH
by Janie Glazov FrontPage Magazine FP: Victor Davis Hanson, welcome to Frontpage Interview. I’d like to talk to you today about radical Islam and the Obama administration’s ability and inclination, or lack thereof, to confront it.
Who Are ‘They’?
by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online To Obama, “they” are responsible for all our troubles. Problem is, “they” are most of us.
Sacrificing Americans
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner Many in the media are arguing there is nothing more to the Major Hasan mass murder than derangement and the various personal “issues” that “set him off.”
What If?–Mr. President
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Not in Good Form Based on a few of President Obama’s statements, this was not a particularly good week for the administration.
Afghan Mythologies
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services As President Obama decides whether to send more troops to Afsghanistan, we should remember that most of the conventional pessimism about Afghanistan is only half-truth.
The Discreet Charm of the Left-wing Plutocracy
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Gorism The news of this week made mention of Al Gore as our soon-to-be, first carbon billionaire. Accounts included both his earlier and contemporary angry denials that he was greedy, or had used his vast network of government contacts to influence public loans, contracts, and regulations, in parlaying a […]
Fort Hood
A now familiar horror story. by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media News accounts are spotty; emotions run high; reliable information is rare; rumor abounds. Nevertheless, what are we to make of Maj.
Afghanistan and the Trojan War
by Herbert Jordan Private Papers For perspective on the war in Afghanistan, President Obama ought to take a look through the lens of the oldest geopolitical conflict in the history of Western civilization, in which Greek warriors crossed the Aegean Sea to Asia Minor, besieged the citadel of Troy, and ultimately prevailed after ten gruelling […]
A Very Interesting Next Three Years
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Up Is Now Down, Down Up If one were to collate the public statements and actions of many in the Obama administration, one would conclude that the most conciliatory past language masks the most divisive, polarizing administration in recent history — a fact born out by most polls.
Voting Present on Illegal Immigration
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Immigration activists and Hispanic groups are demanding that President Obama deliver on his promised comprehensive package of immigration reform.