We’ve Crossed the Rubicon
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media President Obama has crossed the Rubicon with the healthcare vote. The bill was not really about medicine; after all, a moderately priced, relatively small federal program could offer the poorer not now insured, presently not on Medicare or state programs like Medicaid or Medical, a basic medical plan.
Issues of the Day
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner A Pyrrhic Passage? At an outdoor rally today, the president described the healthcare debate as a referendum on the “character” of the country, and I do believe he was correct.
Reflections on the Revolution in America
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media America’s Extreme Make-over These are exciting though scary revolutionary times, akin to the constant acrimony in the fourth-century BC polis, mid-nineteenth century revolutionary Europe, or — perhaps in a geriatric replay — the 1960s.
Our Reset Reset Foreign Policy
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Almost every element of Barack Obama’s once-heralded new “reset” foreign policy of a year ago has either been reset or likely soon will be.
Is Tom Hanks Unhinged?
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Much has been written of the recent Tom Hanks remarks to Douglas Brinkley in a Time magazine interview about his upcoming HBO series on World War II in the Pacific. Here is the explosive excerpt that is making the rounds today.
Strange Happenings
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner Hillary Starbuckle What planet are we on? Hillary Clinton, of “suspension of disbelief” fame, now is complaining about the deleterious effect of domestic partisan discord on the conduct of foreign policy?
The Islamist Mindset: How it Rationalizes–and Promotes–‘Sex Sins’
by Raymond Ibrahim PJ Media Is it inconsistent for Muslim “holy warriors” to engage in voyeuristic acts of lasciviousness?
Save the State Worker?
On Receiving Another Request to Protest, Write a Letter, Give Money by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Fantasyland I am looking over a pile of form letters and going over emails of anguish, all decrying the cuts in state government.
No Allies–But Plenty of Enemies
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Almost 30 years after losing a war over the Falkland Islands, Argentina is once again warning Britain that it still wants back what it calls the Malvinas.
The ‘I Am Not George Bush’ Policy
All the borrowing at home and fighting abroad? by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online The first year of the Obama administration has been a vertiginous pile of confusions and contradictions. In hunting for a theme to its decision making, we might start with Obama’s relation to his predecessor.
We Have Rave on the Brain: The Present Mishmash
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media What’s going on with race relations? I just read an account of racial tension at UC San Diego, involving largely white students of a fraternity crassly parodying black history month.
Dronism
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media California is a rich state — as the world found out the last century. It has the best farmland in the world, much of it watered by gravity-fed irrigation from the Sierra. Its timber acreage is vast.
Politically Correct Killing?
Obama needs to clarify his anti-terrorism policy. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online By all accounts, President Obama has vastly increased the number of Predator drone strikes during his 13 months in office and expanded the theater of missile operations by thousands of square miles.
Obama–Too Little, Too Late
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services The United States may very well owe a crushing $20 trillion by 2020. And thus President Obama last week named a bipartisan commission to find ways to address our national debt.
Obama Fatigue
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Every President starts to wear on the public. But the omnipresent Obama has become wearisome in record time. Why?
On American Exceptionalism
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner 1) American exceptionalism — Perhaps it derives in part from our putting a higher premium on freedom and liberty than, as in the French and other European cases, egalitarianism and fraternity; also, we were truly the first multi-ethnic state that sought to embrace a common culture rather than carve out […]
Is There a Philosophy of Hypocrisy?
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Here are a few things that I think don’t quite compute.
Where Did Out Real Wealth Go?
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media The Greek Lesson No, I don’t mean the classical Greeks, but their present-day counterparts.
Beware of ‘Comprehensive’ Anything
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Before envisioning dramatic change, the Roman emperor Augustus is said to have warned, “Make haste slowly.” The reformer Augustus was eager for radical social transformation.
Some Thoughts on the War on Terror
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner The New, Upside-Down War on Terror Is there any logic in the confusion of the Obama administration’s actions and statements on fighting the war on terror?