One-Eighth of Americans on ‘Nutritional Aid’
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner Concerning the news that there is no longer any stigma attached to food stamps, and that one in eight Americans is on the “nutritional aid” program: One would think that if real need explained increased usage, “Black Friday” would have been a bust.
Glenn Beck, Where Art Thou?
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner Rarely has a single scandal summed up nearly all the current pathologies of the corrupt Washington scene, combining insider bailouts, revolving-door influence peddling, racial-identity politics, subsidies for failing institutions that have a proven record of partisan Democratic politics, and Democratic efforts to reward wealthy friends under the guise of […]
Riding the Back of the Tiger
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media …is what America has done since 1941. Obama wants to get off. Fine. Many of our countrymen are tired of the ride.
Voting Present on Iran
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Iran just announced a radical expansion of its uranium-enrichment facilities. The news followed the recent disclosure of the country’s previously secret nuclear facility near the city of Qom — and came just two days after the International Atomic Energy Agency’s censure of Iran for its failure to halt […]
Our Present Anxieties
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media These Guys Are Really Sensitive, Aren’t They? I thought that former Vice President Al Gore’s vein-bulging attacks on Bush & Co. marked a new “no rules in the arena” era of politics.
Change We Can Believe In
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media So, fellow critics of Obama, what would we do instead? It is easy to harp, as Obama did in 2007-8, but hard to govern, as Obama learned in 2009. So for all the criticism, let us put up some sample proposals of our own.
Resetting the Reset Button
As promised, Obama has set our diplomacy on a new track. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online After ten months of “Bush did it” diplomacy, the Obama administration needs to reset its reset button.
Dean Obama
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner That was such a strange speech. Deploring partisanship while serially trashing Bush at each new talking point.
We Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services When it comes to the problems facing this country, an old slogan comes to mind: “You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet.”
Candid Camera Moments
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner There are a number of isolated incidents that, in the great scheme of things, should be seen as rather trivial. But they are gaining symbolic importance, which is working against President Obama.
Bowing, Dithering and Trashing America
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner When Reality Catches up to Rhetoric The growing problem for the Obama administration is that the public has finally caught on that the president’s tough rhetoric and soaring oratory don’t match reality.
A Manifest Disaster
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner Two points about the strange decision to bring the 9/11 terrorists to New York:
Why the Liberal Anger Over the Asian Tour?
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner There is a surprising amount of liberal discomfort, here and abroad, with the underwhelming nature of President Obama’s Asian tour.
Thanks to the Forgotten Part-time Teacher
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner Last week within about an hour, I got a form email from a UC administrator deploring California’s cuts to higher education, asking for money, and pleading for support for the university — even as YouTube was airing the UCLA student protests over tuition hikes.
The New War against Reason
by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Barack Obama promised us not only transparency, but also a new respect for science. In soothing tones, he asserted that his administration was “restoring scientific integrity to government decision-making.”
Where Has the Thrill Gone?
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media The Harder They Fall? Who appointed over 40 ambassadors on the sole basis of campaign contributions, or has as many lobbyists in government as did any President in memory?
Lethal Weapon: Islamist Perfidy or Western Naivety?
by Raymond Ibrahim PJ Media In a blog entry for Islamist Watch, David J. Rusin shows how the word “jihad” continues to be euphemized in the West.
Circling Sharks Smell American Blood
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services On his recent trip to Asia, President Obama found China, Japan and South Korea — like many nations these days — in no mood to hear more American lectures.
Overcoming the Odds
by Linda Halderman, MD The American Thinker The Sick It’s Saturday night in Pago Pago. As I write this from a little tropical hospital in the middle of the Pacific Ocean on a tiny island called American Samoa, I’m trying hard to make sense of the last 72 hours.
Nidal Hasan and Fort Hood: A Study in Muslims Doctrine
by Raymond Ibrahim PJ Media One of the difficulties in discussing Islam’s more troubling doctrines is that they have an anachronistic, even otherworldly, feel to them; that is, unless actively and openly upheld by Muslims, non-Muslims, particularly of the Western variety, tend to see them as abstract theory, not standard practice for today.