December 2010

In Defense of the Liberal Arts

by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services The liberal arts face a perfect storm. The economy is struggling with obscenely high unemployment and is mired in massive federal and state deficits. Budget-cutting won’t spare education. Share This

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Now What?

by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media “What do we do now?” – Robert Redford as Bill McKay, in the 1972 film,The Candidate* We still remember a messianic Barack Obama criss-crossing all 57 states promising “millions of new green jobs” and to “close Guantanamo.” Share This

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On Ewald Stadler: Another European Who Gets Islam

by Bruce s. Thornton RightNetworks.com Those of us who are hard on Europeans for their cringing appeasement of Muslim aggression need to acknowledge and support the brave few who speak out against it. The late Oriana Fallaci challenged her fellow Europeans to recognize the threat that unassimilated Muslim immigrants and an illiberal Islamic doctrine posed …

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Two Californias

by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online The last three weeks I have traveled about, taking the pulse of the more forgotten areas of central California. Share This

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Julian Assange’s EgoLeaks

by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Julian Assange, the public face of WikiLeaks, is, among many things, cowardly. Courageousness would involve meeting with Iranian dissidents, Russian journalists, Pakistani Christians, or Chinese human-rights activists — and then releasing any confidential information that they might have about the torment institutionalized by their countries’ authoritarian regimes. Share …

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Why Not Soak the Rich

by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services For the last two years, $250,000 in annual income has been an arbitrary line in the sand of a renewed class war. Those above it must have their income taxes raised. Those below it are deemed more virtuous and so deserving of a tax cut. Share This

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Liberal Math

by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media I grew up in a Democratic household. Share This

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Modern Stupidity

by Bruce S. Thornton RightNetwork.com We moderns have managed to combine an incredible mastery of technical knowledge and information with an astonishing ignorance of the traditional wisdom once possessed by an illiterate village elder, and evident for all to see on every page of history. Share This

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