by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services In Greek mythology, even Olympian gods and heroes were subject to a higher divine power known loosely as “fate” — an allotted moira, or destiny, that could not be changed even by thunderbolt-throwing Zeus. Share This

by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner The Race Card Gets Trumped I think almost everyone expected that once President Obama embarked on a highly partisan agenda at a time of record deficits in the midst of a recession, he was going to meet resistance. Share This

by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media The Obama Meltdown — Symptoms/Diagnosis/Prognosis Strange things are happening to the Obama administration and quickly so. His polls are diving and may not stop at 50/50, the most precipitous drop in approval of a first-year President since Bill Clinton in 1993 (cf. Hillary care). Share This

by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner ‘North Korea made a colossal mistake’ One of the stranger aspects of being overseas is following the upside-down logic of the International Herald Tribune, which around January mysteriously morphed from a shrill critic of the U.S. government to its official mouthpiece. Share This

by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner What is weird about the liberal hysteria to the obstreperous (and occasionally rude) town meetings is the complete amnesia about what constitutes reckless public discourse. Share This

Piling up debt, and hypocrisy, Obama & Co. are sinking. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online We are witnessing one of the more rapid turnabouts in recent American political history. Share This

by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services In George Orwell’s allegorical novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, the picture of “Big Brother” appears constantly in the adoring media. Share This

by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Presidential Popularity After just eight months, the President is at a 50/50 cross-roads in the polls. The once hope-and-change exuberance has dissipated. Such unpopularity is hardly new; what is novel is the rapidity in which a 70%+ approval rating has plummeted to 50%. Share This

by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Why Are People in Revolt? The approval ratings on nearly every one of the President’s key policy initiatives — cap-and-trade, healthcare overhaul, government takeover of industry and finance, deficit spending, stimulus — are already less than half of polled voters. Share This