His morality is to be judged by his professed aims, not his means of achieving them. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Presidential ethics are now situational. Obama is calling for a shield law to protect reporters from the sort of harassment that his attorney general, Eric Holder, and the FBI practiced against Fox […]
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by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media If only Barack Obama had something to say… After all, we have never had a president who descended the steps of Air Force One with such catlike agility, hands almost as paws lightly bouncing in synchronization with each elfish footstep. Share This
Our Make No Mistake About It/ Let Me Be Perfectly Clear President Read More »
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner The lengths to which some are going to excuse the IRS corruption (“the tea-party groups deserved extra scrutiny”), Share This
The Second Time As Farce Read More »
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Shortly before the second-term inauguration of Barack Obama this January, I wrote [1] the following of my worries over the Obama way of doing business: Share This
It Can Happen Here Read More »
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner When President Obama virtually ceases all new federal oil and gas leasing on public property, why would he then brag that despite his efforts, private companies on private land increased U.S. oil and gas production to new highs? Share This
The Baffling Logic of Barak Obama Read More »
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner The president did not really answer questions as much as lecture the nation at his press conference Tuesday about how everyone and everything are politicized except his own policies — as the same old themes and tropes always seem to reappear. Share This
An Ironic Press Conference Read More »
by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Barack Obama has a habit of trying to energize his legislative agenda by stoking the fires of emotionally charged current events — and in ways usually illogical and incoherent. Share This
Obama’s Psychodramas Read More »
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner If only the president might show the same audacity to weigh in on the murderous Tsarnaev brothers as he did when he expressed his displeasure during the ongoing Henry Louis Gates or Trayvon Martin matters Share This
Presidential Rhetoric Read More »
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner It is a bad idea to demonize your opponents with epithets such “shameful” and “lying,” given that the case was not made that proposed gun-control legislation would have prevented a Sandy Hook. Share This
The Dangers of Politically Inspired Moral Outrage–From Sandy Hook to What Next? Read More »
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services We can imagine what lies ahead in 2017 — no matter the result of either the 2014 midterm elections or the 2016 presidential outcome. Share This