Ten Random, Politically-Incorrect Thoughts
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media 1. Four years of high-school Latin would dramatically arrest the decline in American education.
Failure Is Not an Option
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services We all remember the advice about failure we received from our parents and teachers. “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.” “Learn from your mistakes.” “Failure breeds success.”
Is It All That Bad?
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Some openings for Obama 1) Iraq. Far fewer American soldiers died in combat in Iraq over the last forty days than were murdered in Obama’s Chicago during the commensurate period.
Campaign Rhetoric, Election Reality
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner The King Is Dead; Long Live the King! One dilemma for Obama is that his campaign was especially apocalyptic about America: Bush ruined everything.
The Same Old Change
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services We will likely see a lot of political “readjustments” come January, once President-elect Barack Obama and many new Democratic congressmen assume office, and the Republican administration leaves.
Which Way Will Obama Go?
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner The Great Guessing Game Will Obama, the old ideologue from Chicago, go hard left, OR, as the repackaged moderate of the campaign, “rule” (his campaign’s word, not mine) with Augustan moderation, OR, as a cut-the-difference “healer,” simply vote present — even as each faction now cries for its own […]
Upside Down World
by Victor Davis Hanson PajamasMedia.com It doesn’t compute Everyone knows that by and large the black and Hispanic communities are not in block voting sympathetic to gay marriage much less overt homosexuality. Living at ground zero of the illegal immigration influx, I see such attitudes voiced openly and unashamedly.
Win One For the Messiah!
Excuse me if I remain unmoved by the misguided religious fervor. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Just one punch of the ballot is all it took. Now suddenly almost every one, here and abroad, is supposed to appreciate the newfound morality of the American people, change their own prior wicked ways, and do […]
Make Haste Slowly, President Obama?
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Festina lente. Make haste slowly. That was the motto of the revolutionary minded young Augustus who soon grasped that he needed to build upon Rome’s past, rather than dismantle it.
The Day After
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Reconciliation I wish President-elect Obama well, and hope that even his critics can concede that he waged a successful and often brilliant (if not shrewdly stealthy) campaign.
Be Careful What You Wish For
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner A New Face For weeks we’ve been told that the Iraqis were playing tough and demanding time-lines for American withdrawal, the subtext being that mean George Bush was once again conniving for permanent imperial bases.
America Compared to What?
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services After the September financial meltdown, many abroad, and some at home, immediately — and with undisguised glee — blamed America’s problems on cowboy excess and forecast the end of American global influence.
A Blank Slate
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Attention, Little Knowledge Obama himself at various times in his memoirs — never have presidential autobiographies sold so many copies, and yet have been so little read by the press — talked about people seeing in him what they wished.
The End of Journalism
In 2008, journalism died and advocacy media took its place. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online There have always been media biases and prejudices. Everyone knew that Walter Cronkite, from his gilded throne at CBS news, helped to alter the course of the Vietnam War, when, in the post-Tet depression, he prematurely declared the […]
The Campaign Takes a Very Strange Turn
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Questions Still Not Answered Why didn’t Colin Powell and Co. jump ship in, say, June or July, and endorse Obama after many months of campaigning when his positions were already well known?
Al Qaeda and the Election
by Raymond Ibrahim The American Thinker Is al Qaeda trying to influence the American presidential election?
The Obama Enigma
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Lame-duck Republican President Bush’s dismal poll ratings have descended to those of Harry Truman’s when he left office.
An Instructive Candidacy
What Sarah Palin taught us about ourselves. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Soon this depressing campaign will be over, and we can reflect on what we learned from our two-month introduction to Sarah Palin.
Obama and Friends
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner A weird campaign gets weirder This campaign gets ever more surrealistic. For most of August and early September, Obama on the stump was complaining about the McCain campaign’s “lying” and “lies”; yet last night on CNN Ed Rollins and David Gergen were lamenting the “new” McCain who had authorized […]
It’s the Debt, Stupid
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Who caused the American financial panic and the wild swings in our financial system — and what are we going to do about it in the long term after the markets settle down?