Big Government’s Abuses of Power

Monitoring AP but not detaining Tamerlan Tsarnaev–there is a common theme. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Government is now so huge, powerful, and callous that citizens risk becoming virtual serfs, lacking the freedoms guaranteed by the Founders. Share This

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Persecution Myth? How the Present Explains the Past

by Raymond Ibrahim Originally published by World Magazine One of the traditional purposes for studying History has been to learn from it, to see how past events can shed light on the present. Share This

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Reap What You Sow

by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner In the next few weeks, we will probably hear more stories about journalists whose correspondence was monitored, and more creepy details about the corruption of the IRS. Share This

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The President Won–Sort Of

The administration spent the last six months of the campaign in cover-up mode. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online On September 11, 2012, Barack Obama was 1 point ahead of Mitt Romney in the ABC and Washington Post polls. Share This

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The Second Time As Farce

by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner The lengths to which some are going to excuse the IRS corruption (“the tea-party groups deserved extra scrutiny”), Share This

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Nixon Is a Fair Comparison

by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner There have been lots of comparisons, most hotly dismissed by the president’s defenders, between Nixon and Obama, but in some ways the latest scandals have the potential to match or even trump those of 1973–4. Share This

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It Can Happen Here

by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Shortly before the second-term inauguration of Barack Obama this January, I wrote [1] the following of my worries over the Obama way of doing business: Share This

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Obama’s Second-Term Embarrassments

“Hope and change” is looking like the 1973 Nixon White House. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online In Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign, he ran to the left of Hillary Clinton as a moral reformer. Share This

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