Don’t Waste a Crisis

Absorbing as much of the economy as possible. by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Euphemism comes from the Greek word euphemia, which means “using the good word”—usually in place of the accurate bad one. Recently we’ve become experts at it. Share This

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An Uneasy Feeling

by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Yesterday.. All Americans must appreciate the outpouring of good will, unity, and hope for a successful Obama administration. But I had a certain feeling of uncertainty yesterday at the coverage of the festivities. Share This

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Bush Considered

American is a safer place thanks to his administration. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online A disinterested appraisal of Bush administration foreign policy will take years. For millions on the Left, events in Iraq, Guantánamo, and New Orleans rendered the 43rd president an ill-omened phantasma — omnipotent, ubiquitous, and responsible for all mischief big and

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Novus Ordo Seclorum

by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Presidential oddities Obama has been very good in lowering expectations by reminding us 24/7 that there are no easy solutions to the present fiscal meltdown. True enough. Share This

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Obama: The Great American Hope?

by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services There is great hope that President-elect Obama will change the course of U.S. foreign policy, create far greater goodwill toward America, and thereby ease world tensions. Such optimism is not based on former Sen. Obama’s foreign-policy experience. In essence, he has none. Share This

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Obama: The Great American Hope?

by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services There is great hope that President-elect Obama will change the course of U.S. foreign policy, create far greater goodwill toward America, and thereby ease world tensions. Such optimism is not based on former Sen. Obama’s foreign-policy experience. In essence, he has none. Share This

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From Gaza to Guantanamo

by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media A strange contrast If one can endure the creepy, multifarious Hamas recruiting videos of Gazan children with suicide belts, camouflage uniforms, and toy AK-47s shouting to “kill the Jews”, and then collates all that with the images of young Hamas males with hoods and masks, RPGs and rocket launchers,

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Carl Brockelmann: “Islamophobe” or Scholar?

by Raymond Ibrahim Jihad Watch Recently reading through Professor Carl Brockelmann’s History of the Islamic Peoples (1948), I was struck by a particular passage that, inasmuch as it is objective and thoroughly grounded in Islamic law and Muslim practice, if asserted now by any scholar of whatever caliber would surely only earn the label “Islamophobe.” Share This

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