by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner I don’t follow the Democratic thinking. Their president polls below 50 percent. The Democratically-controlled Congress polls less than 20 percent. Healthcare reform polls at about 45 percent support. Share This

by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Candidate Barack Obama promised immigration activists, “I think it’s time for a president who won’t walk away from something as important as comprehensive reform when it becomes politically unpopular.” Share This

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. Share …

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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.  Share This

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. Share This

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. Share This

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. Share This

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? Share This

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. Share This