Dancing Around Landmines: The Obama Al-Arabiya Interview
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media President Barack Obama is being praised for choosing an Arabic TV network for his first formal television interview: the Dubai-based, Saudi-owned Al-Arabiya news channel. I think we can all appreciate the thinking behind such bold outreach, given that the media at home has chortled to the world that our […]
Unreal Expectations?
President Obama Asked for Them by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services For nearly three months since the election, we have been warned by President Obama, his staff and the media not to burden him with unreal expectations that no mere mortal could meet.
Don’t Waste a Crisis
Absorbing as much of the economy as possible. by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Euphemism comes from the Greek word euphemia, which means “using the good word”—usually in place of the accurate bad one. Recently we’ve become experts at it.
Israel’s Fight for Survival
by Bruce S. Thornton FrontPage Magazine Israel’s fight for survival is not only against Hamas, Hezbollah, and their state sponsors Syria and Iran.
An Uneasy Feeling
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Yesterday.. All Americans must appreciate the outpouring of good will, unity, and hope for a successful Obama administration. But I had a certain feeling of uncertainty yesterday at the coverage of the festivities.
Bush Considered
American is a safer place thanks to his administration. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online A disinterested appraisal of Bush administration foreign policy will take years. For millions on the Left, events in Iraq, Guantánamo, and New Orleans rendered the 43rd president an ill-omened phantasma — omnipotent, ubiquitous, and responsible for all mischief big and […]
Novus Ordo Seclorum
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Presidential oddities Obama has been very good in lowering expectations by reminding us 24/7 that there are no easy solutions to the present fiscal meltdown. True enough.
Obama: The Great American Hope?
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services There is great hope that President-elect Obama will change the course of U.S. foreign policy, create far greater goodwill toward America, and thereby ease world tensions. Such optimism is not based on former Sen. Obama’s foreign-policy experience. In essence, he has none.
Obama: The Great American Hope?
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services There is great hope that President-elect Obama will change the course of U.S. foreign policy, create far greater goodwill toward America, and thereby ease world tensions. Such optimism is not based on former Sen. Obama’s foreign-policy experience. In essence, he has none.
From Gaza to Guantanamo
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media A strange contrast If one can endure the creepy, multifarious Hamas recruiting videos of Gazan children with suicide belts, camouflage uniforms, and toy AK-47s shouting to “kill the Jews”, and then collates all that with the images of young Hamas males with hoods and masks, RPGs and rocket launchers, […]
Try a Little Honesty in 2009
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services The country is still divided over the government bailout of the Big Three automakers.
Carl Brockelmann: “Islamophobe” or Scholar?
by Raymond Ibrahim Jihad Watch Recently reading through Professor Carl Brockelmann’s History of the Islamic Peoples (1948), I was struck by a particular passage that, inasmuch as it is objective and thoroughly grounded in Islamic law and Muslim practice, if asserted now by any scholar of whatever caliber would surely only earn the label “Islamophobe.”
At New Animal Farm
Life won’t be all that bad by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media By July, we will come to feel that 2009 will be one of the most upbeat years in our history, as what used to be the news media begins to get behind America and report on all the mysteriously wonderful things that are […]
A Media Morality Tale
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner The putative Caroline Kennedy candidacy for senator has had the odd effect of reopening the media can of worms treatment of Gov. Palin.
On Vikings and Victims: White-Guilt in Context
by Raymond Ibrahim American Thinker All-permeating “white-guilt” did not appear out of thin air. It has taken a sustained propaganda effort, a wide-ranging mobilization of education and culture, to inculcate and sustain self-loathing among American Caucasians. Like the Coca-Cola TM brand, white-guilt needs endless repetition to remain struck in the thought and behavioral processes of […]
A Lose-Lose World
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner Creepy times There is something especially nauseating about the latest Middle East war — scenes of worldwide Islamic protests with photos of Jews as apes, protesters (in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida of all places!)
The Gaza Rules
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services The Israelis just struck back hard at Hamas in Gaza. In response, the United Nations, the European Union and the Arab world (at least publicly) expressed their anger at the killing of over 300 Palestinians, most of whom were terrorists and Hamas officials.
Surreal Gaza
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media The world reacts I spent today reading accounts of Gaza —NY Times, AP, Reuters, etc. There are no terrorists, just militants.
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.
Obstructed View
by Terry Scambray Touchstone: A Journal of Mere Christianity Science’s Blind Spot: The Unseen Religion of Scientific Naturalism by Cornelius Hunter. (Brazos Press, 2007)