Thomas, Turkey, and the Liberation of Israel

by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online It is hard to become much more influential than the doyen of the White House press corps, who is given a ceremonial front-rows seat at press briefings and press conferences. Share This

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Beyond the Scopes Trial?

Singham’s new book misses the Christian foundation of law and much more. by Terry Scambray New Oxford Review God vs. Darwin: The War between Evolution and Creationism in the Classroom by Mano Singham (Rowman & Littlefield, 2009). Share This

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What Did You Say About Muhammad?

by Raymond Ibrahim PJ Media Which is more likely to elicit an irate Muslim response: 1) public cartoons of the Muslim prophet Muhammad, or 2) public proclamations that Muhammad was a bisexual, sometime transvestite and necrophile, who enjoyed sucking on the tongues of children, commanded a woman to “breastfeed” an adult man, and advised believers

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Katrinization

by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner There has been a lot of noise about the oil plume and the proper responsibility of government, but the real lesson is that, during Bush’s two terms, the media began to hold presidents culpable for many things that used to be attributed to tragedy, and also for things that

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Twin Disasters

The strange attitude of the administration to immigration and debt. by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner The Wages of Multiculturalism How strange that the president of Mexico, while a guest on the lawn of the White House, would attack the laws of a U.S. state, while his own country’s immigration laws and policies in relation

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Our 1979

by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media The Year That Was It has been sort of a topos to evoke the specter of 1979. I’ve done it repeatedly, as have other observers. Share This

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America 101 with Dean Obama

by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media America Is Now a Campus, and Obama Is Our Dean This is the strangest presidency I have seen in my lifetime. Share This

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History Down the Danube

by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Nuremberg: Triumph of Will A German remarked on our Tour 2010 that he found it odd that, given all the graffiti one sees, there is never any defacement on the great stone stage at Nuremberg (patterned by Albert Speer after the Pergamon altar) that is immortalized in so many

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Reflections on Small Town America

by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Kingsburg, California, is a sort of small town that modernism forgot, at least by the measure of the usual landscapes of the Central Valley. Share This

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Marinestan

by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services HBO’s 10-part series on the Pacific campaign of World War II just ended. That story of island-hopping was mostly about how the old breed of U.S. Marines fought diehard Japanese infantrymen face-to-face in places like Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Saipan, Peleliu, Iwo Jima, Guam and Okinawa. Share This

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