Barack Obama

The President Who Never Was

by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media A Teen-age President in Search of an Adult Identity Barack Obama keeps looking for a presidential identity not his own [1]. In 2008, he wished to be JFK—whom he often referenced as a youthful and charismatic figure supposedly similar to himself. Share This

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A Tale of Two Surges

by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services From 2007 to 2009, a surge of 20,000 troops under the generalship of David Petraeus saved a mostly lost war in Iraq. Share This

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Obama 101

by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online In the last three years, the president has taught us a great deal about America, the world, and himself. Share This

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Moral Equivalence Is Moral Evasion

by Bruce S. Thornton FrontPage Magazine The failure of the Congressional budget “super-committee” to address our geometrically expanding debt and deficits should surprise no one. Share This

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Obama’s Economic Quackery

by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Sometimes the wrong medicine can make a struggling patient far sicker than he would have been had he been allowed to recover naturally. Western medicine began with the premise that the physician either must know how to cure the patient or simply leave him alone — but above

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The Arab Winter Approaches

by Bruce S. Thornton Defining Ideas The revolutions against Arab autocracies — dubbed the “Arab Spring” — have been greeted in America with bipartisan celebration. Share This

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Why Does America Defend the Weak and Small?

by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Recently, an open mike caught French president Nicolas Sarkozy and American president Barack Obama jointly trashing Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Sarkozy scoffed, “I cannot stand him. He’s a liar.” Share This

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Obama’s Imaginarium

by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media The presidency of Barack Obama is full of funny things that need not follow any sort of logic. Share This

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The American Way of War

by Victor Davis Hanson Defining Ideas William Shawcross, the British journalist, historian, and human rights advocate — once a fierce critic of the Nixon-Kissinger years, now a defender of the West’s struggle against radical Islam — has written the best book yet on the dilemmas Western governments face in dealing with Islamic terrorists.1 Share This

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What America Does Best

by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online We are in a fresh round of declinism — understandably, after borrowing nearly $5 trillion in less than three years and having very little to show for it. Share This

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