Soldier-Citizens to the Rescue?
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Usually a handful of ex-soldiers seek political office every election cycle. But well over 20 Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans are running this fall for Congress alone.
Obama’s Good and Bad Words
by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Barack Obama once warned, “Don’t tell me words don’t matter!” He was right. They do.
Thoughts on Gorism
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media From the Sanctimonious to the Ridiculous I think sometime this year elite radical environmentalism died. And at about the same time perished also the notion of the man in the mansion as the man on the barricades. Let me explain.
Is There a Pattern Here or What?
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner The jihadist symptoms of Major Hasan were ignored; General Casey lamented the possible ramifications of Hasan’s killings to the army’s diversity program; the warnings of Mr. Mutallab’s father about his son’s jihadist tendencies were ignored but the latter’s Miranda rights were not;
Of Laureates and Cowboys
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services In politics, having power and keeping it often mean fudging a little on ideology.
A Nobel, Bad Idea
President Obama’s new nuclear policy is ill-timed and ill-conceived. by Victor Davis Hanson City Journal (April 2010) President Obama has announced a new American policy concerning the use of nuclear weapons (the “Nuclear Posture Review”).
The Remains of a California Day
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Yesterday I think I understood why California is in deep trouble. Let me walk you through another day out here.
The Remains of a California Day
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Yesterday I think I understood why California is in deep trouble. Let me walk you through another day out here.
Obama’s Nuclear Naivety
The problem is not nuclear weapons per se, but who has them. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online The Obama administration has celebrated its recent efforts to sign a nuclear-weapons accord with Russia and the hosting of a nuclear non-proliferation summit in Washington — all silhouetted against grandiose promises to seek the end of […]
It Takes an Army
Rodney Stark argues the Crusades were defensive wars by Terry Scambray The New Oxford Review A review of God’s Battalions: The Case for the Crusades by Rodney Stark (Harper One, 2009, 260 pp.).
Tomorrow’s Wars
Massively destructive engagements may again be on the horizon. by Victor Davis Hanson City Journal (Winter 2010) Have we not seen, then, in our lifetime the end of the Western way of war?” Two decades ago, I concluded The Western Way of War with that question.
How Could They Do That in Arizona
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media The Arizona Hysteria Racist! Nativist! Profiler! Xenophobe! Write or say anything about illegal immigration, and one should expect to be called all of that and more — even if a strong supporter of legal immigration.
Democracy at Risk
by Raymond Ibrahim American Thinker A review of The War of Ideas: Jihadism Against Democracy by Dr. Walid Phares (Macmillen, 2007, pp. 288) first appeared inThe America Thinker under the book’s title.
What’s Happening with Israel?
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Current American relations with our once-staunch ally Israel are at their lowest ebb in the last 50 years.
Obama Tries to Eradicate Radical Islam
by Raymond Ibrahim PJ Media The Obama administration has just announced its intent to ban all words that allude to Islam from important national security documents.
An Age of Untruth
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Can’t We All Just Get Along? Make no mistake about it, this is a dishonest age. That our daily lies are purportedly advanced in the cause of the common good, nevertheless do not make them any less lies.
Obama and the New Civility
The heated rhetoric of the Bush years gone. A new age has dawned. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online It was sometime early this year that Americans finally learned the rules of proper political discourse — another dividend from the Obama administration. We can all be grateful for our new bipartisan protocols, which will […]
Wa Marco Polo an ‘Islamophobe’?
by Raymond Ibrahim PJ Media If the same exact criticisms being made against Islam today were also made centuries ago, is it reasonable to automatically dismiss them all as “Islamophobic” — that is, as “unfounded fear of and hostility towards Islam,” as the Council on American Islamic Relations [1] would have it?
How Could We Be So Stupid? Let Us Count the Ways
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media We are going to pile up another $3 trillion in national debt in just the first two years of the Obama administration. If the annual deficit should sink below $1.5 trillion, it will be called fiscal sobriety.