President Obama applies the same principles abroad that he does at home. by Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Online At home President Obama is well known for his preference for perceived parity over liberty. Most of his domestic agenda —Obamacare, executive-order amnesties, open borders, near-zero interest rates, quantitative easing, the piling up of $9 trillion […]
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Exploring the many reasons why the slogan “Black Lives Matter” will be gone within a year. What will replace it? by Victor Davis Hanson // PJ Media In the post-civil rights era of the last half-century, a number of black triumphalist slogans and movements have come and gone. “Black is beautiful” was an informal self-help
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by Victor Davis Hanson // NRO – The Corner President Obama just said this about Donald Trump’s disparagement of the last seven years: “In the echo chamber that is presidential politics, everything is dark and everything is terrible.” Presidential candidates “don’t seem to offer many solutions for the disasters that they perceive, but they’re quick
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Here and abroad, the Obama administration damages whatever it touches. by Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Online The next president and Congress will inherit what President Obama left behind. Whether Democrat or Republican, the president will have no choice other than to try to undo much of what Obama has wrought. But can he
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by Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Online Do you remember Lewis “Scooter” Libby? In 2003, the Department of Justice appointed a special counsel to investigate allegations that Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff, unlawfully disclosed the covert status of CIA operative Valerie Plame. Share This
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He’s giving fed-up Republicans something other candidates are not. by Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Online Donald Trump has at least three things going for him. One, the mood of the country remains foul and fed-up — and volatile to the point that conventional wisdom is hardly reliable. Two, Trump has turned invective and narcissism
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Polls show that racial relations have gotten much worse under Barack Obama. Why has that happened? by Victor Davis Hanson // PJ Media Why do polls show that racial relations have gotten much worse under Barack Obama, who won the White House with over 95% of the black — and 45% of the white —
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Obama’s Unpresidential Iran Speech: The speech was mean-spirited and dishonest ─ and may have been counterproductive. by Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Online President Obama’s speech last week advocating congressional approval of the Iran deal was mostly made-up history mixed with invective. Indeed, he talked far more roughly about his congressional partners than he did
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The Iran Deal is not Munich, but the same foolishness of Western leaders is close enough to warn us what happens next. And it will not be good. by Victor Davis Hanson // PJ Media The Iranian deal has called to mind the Munich Agreement of 1938. Then Britain and France signed away the sovereignty
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“If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun.” by Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Online Barack Obama is the first American president from Chicago. That fact will be the trailblazing Obama’s most lasting legacy. Chicago has long been stereotyped as a city where any-means-necessary politics have ruled, and where excess is
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