by Victor Davis Hanson // PJMedia One way of reinventing reality is to warp the meaning of words. No president in memory has waged such a war on the English language as has Barack Obama — changing the meaning of vocabulary to hide what he fears might otherwise be unpopular. Share This
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Obama has fundamentally transformed America, all right — but not as he intended. by Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Online A perfect storm brought into power Barack Obama, a previously little-known Illinois community organizer. He had at best a mediocre record as a state legislator and rookie senator. Yet he quickly dazzled the liberal
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Obama’s hubristic promises have been followed by a total discrediting of his ideology. by Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Online Barack Obama will end his tenure with the ruin of Hope and Change. The implosion was brought about not by the marginalization of Hope and Change, but by the power of the U.S. government
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The president dismantles immigration law that he finds incompatible with his own larger agenda. by Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Online There is a humane, transparent, truthful — and constitutional — way to address illegal immigration. Unfortunately, President Obama’s unilateral plan to exempt millions of residents from federal immigration law is none of those
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Jonathan Gruber’s disdain for the proverbial masses is thematic of the last six years. by Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Online Last week, Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Jonathan Gruber, one of prominent architects of Obamacare, was exposed as little more than an elitist fraud. Gruber was caught on videotape expressing the haughty attitude
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by Victor Davis Hanson // PJMedia The only mystery about the last six years is how much lasting damage has been done to the American experiment, at home and abroad. Our federal agencies are now an alphabet soup of incompetence and corruption [1]. How does the IRSever quite recover [2]? Will the Secret Service always
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Obama’s legacy: government-induced chaos at home, moral equivalence abroad. by Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Online The last but long gasp of the Obama administration is characterized not so much by deceit and incompetence as by growing chaos. Everything appears to be coming apart. The chariot of state now veers up and down with
by Victor Davis Hanson // TSM Everyone finds a lesson in the Republican midterm tsunami. One message was that so-called comprehensive immigration reform and broad amnesty have little national public support. Polls have long shown that, but so do last week’s election results. Candidates in swing states who promised amnesties got no edge from such
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Their refusal to acknowledge the administration’s failures did not make them go away. by Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Online The Duke of Wellington said of his close-run victory over Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo that the French “came on in the same old way, and we sent them back in the same
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In today’s foreign-relations climate, even a Jimmy Carter would seem like a godsend. by Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Online A weak, lame-duck Barack Obama, who has now eroded a once exuberant Democratic party, will be even weaker in the next two years. If Democratic senators who had been his stalwart supporters — voting