by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner It Would Have Been Easier Just to Tell the Truth Given the recent arrests of several jihadist plotters, we can be thankful that Obama did not, as once promised in various early manifestations, end renditions, wiretaps, intercepts, and the Patriot Act (“shoddy and dangerous”). Share This
Criticisms of Obama are increasingly met by cries of “Racist!” Are his critics racists? by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online The charge of racism has been leveled against critics of President Obama’s healthcare reform by everyone from New York Times columnists, racial activists, and Democratic legislators to senior statesmen like Jimmy Carter (“It’s a racist attitude”),
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by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner One can understand an American president’s lobbying for an American city to obtain the Olympics, but the blitz by the Obamas proved a PR nightmare. Let us count the ways: Share This
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by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner Reflections on the Speech to Congress If one were to sum up the Obama speech to the joint session of Congress, it is the same old, same old formula: “I am a uniquely post-American fresh start; the era of Bush and our dreadful past is over; and because this
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by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media How to distill the news? After watching it far too much the past nine months, I offer five random conclusions from what I think is going on in the age of Obama. Share This
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by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media War II Thoughts We can learn a lot about our present dilemmas through looking at the past. This month I’m teaching an intensive class on World War II, and again reminded how history is never really history. Share This
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by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services California is in an uproar over water. Nearly a quarter-million acres worth of contracted federal irrigation deliveries have been cut from the big farms of the west side of the San Joaquin Valley in central California. Share This
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media The World’s President The President’s U.N.* talk was more of the same, same old formula: Me, me, me/then Bush blew it/then I came/and, presto, the waters parted. Share This
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Is the commander-in-chief really president of the University of America? by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online If you are confused by the first nine months of the Obama administration, take solace that there is at least a pattern. Share This
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by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Policies No, Obama Maybe… Barack Obama is charismatic. He can charm, and has mastered the art of set cadence, pause, articulation, and voice modulation, in the manner of a JFK. Share This
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