by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media The Demise of David Letterman I had a number of exchanges on the Palin-Letterman controversy (see below). Where to start on David Letterman’s attack on Palin on her visit to New York to do charitable work, accompanied by her 14-year-old daughter Willow? Share This
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by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media I Am Afraid I No Longer Believe . . . …That we have an inquisitive American media as we once knew it. There has emerged something as bad as state-sanctioned coercion — which we could at least identify, and thus struggle against. Share This
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by Raymond Ibrahim Jihad Watch During the pope’s recent Mideast visit, the media reported that he has “deep respect for Islam.” That exact phrase appeared in the Associated Press, AFP,BBC, Jerusalem Post, Washington Times, and Al-Jazeera. Share This
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by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder has scolded Americans for being “cowards” and not talking more about race. Share This
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by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Obama Versus the Way of the Universe I wish the President well, but he is butting up against human nature. And that is a fight one cannot win. Share This
Therapeutic efforts to disguise the truth never really work. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online President Obama made an earnest effort — as is his way in matters of discord — to split the difference with the Islamic world. Share This
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by Raymond Ibrahim Jihad Watch I recently taped and am watching a documentary, “The Crusades: Crescent and the Cross,” on the History Channel. Share This
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by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Postmodern Truth One of the chief tenets of postmodernism is relativism — the notion that neither morality nor wisdom is absolute and definable, but instead simply predicated on what those with power and advantage say they are. Share This
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Sotomayor and the defense of racial identity as judicial wisdom. by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner When Words Don’t Mean Anything Rather than an attempt to defend empirically Sotomayor’s suggestion that Latinas are superior, in the judicial sense, to white men, we have been given a variety of postmodern contexts, constructing what she “really” meant:
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner Is It Going to Be Race and Resentment — All the Time? Michelle Obama is now weighing in on the Sotomayor nomination, and I think it will prove a serious political mistake, since she is reverting back to her “me too” campaign mode, in that she emphasizes both race
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