The Politics of Liberals Bashing Obama

by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Progressive Angst This week the president’s positive ratings are hovering around 40-42%; in some polls there is a 10% gap or more between negative and positive appraisals. I expect that they will go back up, and then even lower as the year wears on. Share This

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Ibrahim, Fighting for Free Speech

Raymond Ibrahim 1, CAIR o (by KO) by Jamie Glazov FrontPage Magazine Frontpage Interview’s guest is Raymond Ibrahim, associate director of the Middle East Forum, author of The Al Qaeda Reader, and editor of FPM’s new section on Muslim Persecution of Christians. Share This

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Time for a Foreign Policy Paradigm Shift

by Bruce S. Thornton FrontPage Magazine The greatest danger in foreign policy is a reliance on worn out paradigms and unexamined assumptions. This received wisdom acts as a mental filter that ignores new developments and lets through only that information which fits the preordained narrative. Share This

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A Tottering Technocracy

by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online We are witnessing a widespread crisis of faith in our progressive guardians of the last 30 years. Share This

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Paralytic Western Society

by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner It is fascinating to see how postmodern Western societies react to wide-scale rioting, looting, and thuggery aimed at innocents. Share This

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Spare Us the Sermons, Mr. President

by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services During the recent debt crisis, President Obama talked about the need for bipartisan compromise and, as in the past, urged civility. Share This

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The Inexplicables

by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media There are a number of things I don’t fathom about contemporary American popular culture and politics. Here is a small sample. Share This

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The War against Real but Forgotten Evil

by Terry Scambray Private Papers A review of Moral Combat: Good and Evil in World War II, by Michael Burleigh (Harper Collins, 2011, 562 pp.) Share This

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Snapshot of a Sick Society

by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Quite often a brief news story sums up the collective pathologies of postmodern American society. Here is a recent tragic news item from my local paper, followed by some commentary: Share This

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Principle and the Possible

by Bruce S. Thornton Advancing a Free Society The continuing stalemate over raising the debt ceiling is provoking a lot of voters into Mercutio’s “a pox on both your houses” response. Share This

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