October 2010

The Ultimate Lesson of Egypt’s Fake Photo

by Raymond Ibrahim PJ Media One of the most widely circulated newspapers in the world, Egypt’s Al Ahram, recently ran a fake picture depicting Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak walking in front of US President Barack Obama and a pack of other Mideast leaders. In fact, based on the original photo, Mubarak, the octogenarian, appeared trailing last. Share This

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Anatomy of Petulance

by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media I was fascinated watching the recent Obama campaign stops, particularly the contrast with 2008. Gone are the faux columns and classical backdrops. Share This

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Deficits and Depression

by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services We will learn in November just how angry the public is about a lot of things, from higher taxes to massive unemployment. Share This

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Politics Upside Down

by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Something Is Different Suddenly the same-old, same-old does not work this year. Share This

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How to Turn a Recession into a Depression

by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online It is hard for a president to turn a recession into a long-term downturn in the United States, given the inherent resiliency of private enterprise and America’s open and free markets. But if you were to try, you might do something like the following. Share This

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Slurs Replace Reasoned Debate

by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media A McCarthyite Attack from the Stanford Daily Recently, the Stanford Daily [1] accused me of being a racist for comments on the university in general that appeared here on Works and Days, and were later excerpted in the Wall Street Journal [2]. Here is the passage I wrote now in question: Share This

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Zombie Ideology

Ideas, old and dead, are still walking around. by Bruce S. Thornton RightNetwork.com Explaining the continued death-grip of progressive ideology on significant numbers of people despite its manifest intellectual exhaustion, incoherence, and senility compels one to rely on analogies. Share This

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The Obama Rope-a-dope

by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services After 2010, will he be Carter or Clinton? That is the ongoing parlor game now played among pundits over how President Obama will react to a probable shellacking of the Democrats in midterm elections next month. Share This

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From the Unbelievable to the Passé

by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media From time to time I stop and wonder how the unbelievable can become the accepted. Let me list four arbitrary, but still representative, examples of what I mean. Share This

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