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
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
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
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,
Try a Little Honesty in 2009
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services The country is still divided over the government bailout of the Big Three automakers. Share This
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
At New Animal Farm
Life won’t be all that bad by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media By July, we will come to feel that 2009 will be one of the most upbeat years in our history, as what used to be the news media begins to get behind America and report on all the mysteriously wonderful things that are
A Media Morality Tale
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner The putative Caroline Kennedy candidacy for senator has had the odd effect of reopening the media can of worms treatment of Gov. Palin. Share This
On Vikings and Victims: White-Guilt in Context
by Raymond Ibrahim American Thinker All-permeating “white-guilt” did not appear out of thin air. It has taken a sustained propaganda effort, a wide-ranging mobilization of education and culture, to inculcate and sustain self-loathing among American Caucasians. Like the Coca-Cola TM brand, white-guilt needs endless repetition to remain struck in the thought and behavioral processes of
A Lose-Lose World
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner Creepy times There is something especially nauseating about the latest Middle East war — scenes of worldwide Islamic protests with photos of Jews as apes, protesters (in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida of all places!) Share This