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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Rage On–and On and On…
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Occupy Wall Street? I’ve been following the Wall Street protests, in New York and elsewhere. I read as well of the Democratic Party’s sorta interest in turning the anger of a few into a left-wing Tea-Party-like movement of many. Share This
Obama Unbound
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Richard Nixon went to Red China with political impunity. Had a Democrat tried that, he would have been branded a Commie appeaser. Share This