The Politics of Budget-Cutting
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services The voters just spoke. They think they want no more gargantuan deficits, massive public spending and exponential growth in government — or the specter of higher taxes to pay for all of it.
The Forgotten Anniversary
Declared in 1979 Iran’s war on the US continues. by Bruce S. Thornton RightNetwork.com Even in years when a national election doesn’t dominate our attention, we seldom think much about an event that happened the first week in November 31 years ago.
Dead Souls
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Millions of us shuffle around, sighing that most of what we hear pounded into our brains is either banal or as untrue as it is dangerous to identify it as such.
The Obama Fabulists
by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online During the 2008 campaign, Barack Obama was billed as a cool rationalist — a sober and judicious intellectual so unlike the inattentive and twangy “smoke ’em out” George W. Bush, so rational in contrast to the herky-jerky and frenetic John McCain.
Christians Behaving Like Islamists?
Egyptian Islamists project their own means and methods. by Raymond Ibrahim Hudson New York The persecution of Egypt’s Coptic minority is taking an ironic, and dangerous, turn: Islamist leaders are now projecting the worst traits of radical Islam onto Egypt’s Christians.
Stay Worried
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Economics 101 What worries me about President Obama is really one general issue: his very concrete enjoyment of the good life as evidenced by his golf outings, Martha’s Vineyard vacations, and imperial entourages that accompany him abroad, and yet his obvious distrust of the private sector and the success […]
What the Election Was Not About
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media I. Communication — As If You Would Have Liked My Agenda Had You Just Been More Informed President Obama’s postmortem press conference was a near disaster. He seemed subdued, but also sometimes petulant — still convinced that we, in fear and distrust, “lashed out” in anger at the doctor […]
It’s the President Stupid: The Referendum on Barack Obama
by Bruce S. Thornton RightNetwork.com The people have spoken, and what they have said concerns more than just the wrong-headed policies the Democrats have inflicted upon us in the past few years.
America Just Checked into Rehab
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services On Tuesday, voters rejected President Obama’s attempt to remake America in the image of an imploding Europe — not just by overwhelmingly electing Republican candidates to the House, but by preferring dozens of maverick conservatives who ran against the establishment.
Obama Doesn’t Get It
by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online President Obama came close, but he still just cannot admit that his radical policies and their effects on the economy are the cause of his devastating political rebuke.
Offensive Jihad: The One Incontrovertible Problem with Islam
by Raymond Ibrahim PJ Media A recent MEMRI report titled “Arab Columnists: Stop Talking About Offensive Jihad,” alludes to the ultimate problem between Islam and the non-Muslim world: offensive jihad, or jihad al-talab — the Islamic imperative to subjugate the world.
The World of Obama–A Glossary
by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online ACORN: Never heard of it Arizona: Resembles 1930s Italy
The Inexplicables
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media I. More Debt, Please? Please explain this: Barack Obama entered office; nationalized healthcare; ran up record $1 trillion deficits; promised to hike taxes on the rich; pushed cap and trade through the House; took over large chunks of banks, insurance companies, and auto corporations; made hard-left appointments from Van […]
American Groupspeak
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Juan Williams was just fired from NPR. His sin? He confessed to occasional anxiety when Muslims board airplanes, and then went on to explain why stereotyping is wrong.
WikiLeaks’ Selective Mortality
by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online There has never been anything quite like WikiLeaks in American military history.
The Great Divider–Or ‘Elections Have Consequences’
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Pillars of Sand The faux-Greek columns of 2008 have turned into pillars of sand, as the president’s Gallup ratings hit 43-2%, and his congressional majorities are on the verge of melting away — just two years after grand talk of a 50-year liberal regnum.*
Egypt Cuts a Deal: Christians Fed to Muslim ‘Lions’
by Raymond Ibrahim Hudson New York For centuries, the Copts — Egypt’s Christian, indigenous inhabitants — have been subject to persecution, discrimination, humiliation, and over all subjugation in their homeland (etymologically, “Copt” simply means “Egyptian”).
Whitewashing Islam: “Who Controls the Past Controls the Future”
by Bruce S. Thornton RightNetwork.com In 1984 George Orwell described how the abandonment of belief in objective truth makes possible a politicized history that legitimizes tyrannical power:
Three Wars, Little News
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services It is a busy time in America. The Major League Baseball playoffs are competing with the upcoming midterm elections for the public’s attention.
Evidence Against the Evidence
Meyer’s new book reveals the irrational about evolution by Terry Scambray New Oxford Review A review of Signature in the Cell: DNA and the Evidence for Intelligent Design by Stephen C. Meyer. Harper One, 2009.