Yes, We Can If They Did It and We Are Liked Now
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner Anatomy of vero possumus It is odd that after five weeks we can pretty much see the next four years:
Now Obama Tells Us?
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Imagine that last fall before being elected, Barack Obama had outlined the positions he has embraced since being inaugurated as president. An honest campaign speech could have gone something like this:
Oh, the Debt We Will See!
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Going broke without style… $3.6 trillion budget. $1.7 trillion annual deficit. $800 billion plus borrowing stimulus. $600 billion plus in outlays for new nationalized health care, and then another $600 billion again for cap-and-trade.
Europeanizing Europe
With Obama, Europeans may have got more than they bargained for. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Last summer, with several other Americans, I went to a garden reception attended by some French barristers, generals, and assorted professionals in Versailles.
Fast and Thick in the Age of Obama
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media One big thing In this fiscal crisis, the public wanted one big thing to quote Archilochus: A reform of the banking industry that offered federal-guaranteed lines of credit to ensure liquidity, and a new transparency so investors would at least know that their supposedly blue-chip AIG stocks or Lehman […]
From vs. Limbaugh
by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online In the end, the controversy boils down to an argument of the moment versus one of the ages.
Recessional
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Et tu, Brute? Conservatives created Barack Obama and his vision of the Europeanization of America, and so have themselves to blame for the current recessional, as the present as we have known it fades into the past..
Accounting for California’s Suicide
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services What went wrong in California? I think we can all agree on at least three observations.
Taqiyya Revisited: A Response to the Critics
by Raymond Ibrahim Jihad Watch Having written at length on various aspects of Islam, it is always my writings concerning doctrinal deceit that elicit (sometimes irate) responses.
Obamafusion
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Why is Wall Street worried? — Let us count the ways. 1) The proverbial Wall Street capitalists believe that, with new federal income tax rates, the removal of FICA ceilings, increases in capital gains rates, decreases in deductions, and simultaneous tax raises, not only will Obama remove incentives for […]
The Wisdom of Crowds–In Ancient Greece
by Victor Davis Hanson Forbes.com A review of Democracy and Knowledge: Innovation and Learning in Classical Athensby Josiah Ober (Princeton University Press, 2008, 362pp.)
The Great Divider?
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Do As I Say—Not As I Do? I confess I did not believe Barack Obama entirely during the campaign when he bragged on working across the aisle and championing bipartisanship.
More on Rush
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner All these highbrow conservative attacks on Limbaugh keep missing the point.
The Triumph of Banality
Obama didn’t inven dishonesty in political discourse–but he has a talent for it. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online One of the most tired rhetorical tropes in Washington starts with, “We must . . . ” In the age of Obama, this is now usually followed by “Get the cost of our health care […]
A Funny Sort of Depression
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Are we headed to something like the Great Depression?
Enough Already
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner Many have weighed in on Eric Holder’s “cowards” slur.
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.
Perverse Thoughts about this Perverse Recession
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media I do not understand at all this going into debt for almost another trillion dollars, and then immediately promising to balance the budget soon (like blowing off your foot near an emergency room), or how “stimulate” differs from “borrow,” or why the more noble victim is the one who sought […]
Some Reflections in the Times of Hysteria
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Imagine… Had anyone said a few months ago that the federal government would step in to provide a trillion dollars to subsidize gasoline — to bring it down to $1.85 a gallon nationwide from prices that were exceeding $4 a gallon — we would have had a national debate.
War and Peace–and Deceit–in Islam
by Raymond Ibrahim PJ Media Editor’s note: Substantial portions of the following essay made up part of Mr. Ibrahim’s written testimony that was presented to Congress on February 12, 2009 Today, in a time of wars and rumors of wars emanating from the Islamic world — from the current conflict in Gaza, to the saber-rattling […]