The Obama Rope-a-dope

by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services After 2010, will he be Carter or Clinton? That is the ongoing parlor game now played among pundits over how President Obama will react to a probable shellacking of the Democrats in midterm elections next month. Share This

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From the Unbelievable to the Passé

by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media From time to time I stop and wonder how the unbelievable can become the accepted. Let me list four arbitrary, but still representative, examples of what I mean. Share This

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The Gift of Obama’s Foreign Policy

by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online The Obama reset foreign policy has, in an unintended way, brought clarity to America’s traditional role in the world. After 2004, “blame Bush” proved an easy way for Europeans and American liberals to delude themselves into thinking the world’s problems neither predated nor transcended George W. Bush: Share

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Rep. Loretta Sanchez and the Bathos of Race

by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Race on the Brain Again Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-CA) recently caused a mini-controversy (they always are mini- if the offender is a self-declared progressive “person of color”). Share This

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Americans Still Cling to Ignorance

by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services The bookish, twice-unsuccessful Democratic presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson once sighed that if most thinking people supported him, it still wouldn’t be enough in America because “I need a majority.” Share This

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President 40/60

by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media I think Barack Obama will soon dip below a 40% approval rating. He’s nearing there now. Why? A mixture of both the personal and political. Here are five good reasons: Share This

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Jihadists Get the Veto

by Bruce S. Thornton RightNetwork.com The best lack all conviction while the worst are full of passionate intensity – Yeats, The Second Coming Florida pastor Terry Jones called off his Koran-burning after President Obama and others in his administration joined the chorus of Americans asking him not to go through with it. Share This

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Carly Fiorina: Robber Baron, Traitor–and Outsourcer!

by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online One of Sen. Barbara Boxer’s sharpest charges against challenger Carly Fiorina is that, as CEO of Hewlett-Packard, she allowed thousands of jobs to be outsourced overseas — depriving U.S. workers of income while piling up profits for executive grandees like herself. Share This

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Policies Based on Illusion

by Bruce S. Thornton City Journal The great historian of Soviet Russia, Robert Conquest, once wrote something about the dangers of naïve diplomacy that I’m reminded of daily. Share This

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