His foreign-policy errors result not from incompetence but from a conscious agenda. by Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Online Lots of questions arise about the muddled foreign policy of the Obama administration. Critics suggest that America’s friends have now become enemies, and enemies friends. Others cite incompetence and naïveté rather than deliberate agendas as the […]
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What you can do if you don’t care what anybody says. by Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Online Senator Robert Menendez (D., N.J.) was a vocal critic both of President Obama’s executive-action opening to Cuba and his nuclear non-proliferation talks with Iran. In the midst of his loud opposition, he found himself suddenly the target
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by Victor Davis Hanson // PJ Media Last week I reviewed some rules to navigate [1] in our race-obsessed culture. Here are three final statutes. 3) Class Is Irrelevant In our racialist society, race always trumps class. In that sense, we do live in a classless society — at least as far as racial matters
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by Victor Davis Hanson // PJ Media Even some Democrats in Congress have come to the conclusion that after the brouhaha over Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s speech before Congress, President Obama wants to radically downgrade the long American special relationship with democratic Jewish Israel — and perhaps has a dislike of the idea of Israel.
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by Bruce S. Thornton // FrontPage Magazine Barack Obama’s foreign policy will go down in U.S. history as one of the most dangerously inept ever. Created by equal amounts of ignorance, arrogance, and partisan politics, the president’s policies have left behind a world in which rivals and enemies are on the march, while allies and
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We need a meritocratic, ethnically blind system — the opposite of the status quo. by Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Online A federal judge has temporarily blocked President Obama’s executive order that overrode existing immigration law. The result is more acrimony and chaos. It is a good time to remember that there are more than
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by Victor Davis Hanson // NRO- The Corner Some, like Ezra Klein, have posited that Rudy Giuliani’s suggestion that Obama may not be patriotic and Scott Walker’s hesitation to assert that Obama is a Christian illustrate a sort of unhinged Obama Derangement Syndrome. Aside from the fact that Obama himself characterized President George W. Bush
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Every time Obama “contextualizes,” Putin and ISIS grow bolder. by Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Online Not too long ago, most Russians were reportedly unhappy with Vladimir Putin. His crackdown on freedom and his kleptocratic economy were hardly popular. Most likely, given theirdruthers, Russians were not all that interested in Putin’s risky and costly dream
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by Victor Davis Hanson // NRO- The Corner It is disheartening to listen to Obama and his administration voices childishly reiterating that ISIS has nothing to do with Islam because it does not represent the majority of Muslims or what Westerners perceive as normative values distilled from the Koran. No radical ideology, religious or otherwise, starts
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Imagine Obama as an American president in 1939. by Victor Davis Hanson // PJMedia “The United States has made significant gains [2] in our struggle against violent extremism in Europe. We are watching carefully aggressions in Czechoslovakia, Austria, and in Eastern Europe. My diplomatic team has made it very clear that aggression against neighbors is
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