March 2009

Now Obama Tells Us?

by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Imagine that last fall before being elected, Barack Obama had outlined the positions he has embraced since being inaugurated as president. An honest campaign speech could have gone something like this: Share This

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Oh, the Debt We Will See!

by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Going broke without style… $3.6 trillion budget. $1.7 trillion annual deficit. $800 billion plus borrowing stimulus. $600 billion plus in outlays for new nationalized health care, and then another $600 billion again for cap-and-trade.  Share This

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Europeanizing Europe

With Obama, Europeans may have got more than they bargained for. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Last summer, with several other Americans, I went to a garden reception attended by some French barristers, generals, and assorted professionals in Versailles. Share This

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Fast and Thick in the Age of Obama

by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media One big thing In this fiscal crisis, the public wanted one big thing to quote Archilochus: A reform of the banking industry that offered federal-guaranteed lines of credit to ensure liquidity, and a new transparency so investors would at least know that their supposedly blue-chip AIG stocks or Lehman

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Recessional

by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Et tu, Brute? Conservatives created Barack Obama and his vision of the Europeanization of America, and so have themselves to blame for the current recessional, as the present as we have known it fades into the past.. Share This

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Obamafusion

by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Why is Wall Street worried? — Let us count the ways. 1) The proverbial Wall Street capitalists believe that, with new federal income tax rates, the removal of FICA ceilings, increases in capital gains rates, decreases in deductions, and simultaneous tax raises, not only will Obama remove incentives for

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