Barack Obama

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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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

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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

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Cain Lost in the Labyrinth

by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online ‘Abandon All Hope, Ye Who Enter Here,” is the placard that Herman Cain must have read last week when he descended into the Sexual Harassment Inferno, from which he has not yet emerged. Share This

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Give ‘Em Hell, Barry

by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Recently both First Lady Michelle Obama and Labor Secretary Hilda Solis went to the key swing state of Florida to blast the president’s adversaries. Share This

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Who Are These Fat-Cat Few at the Top?

by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services First lady Michelle Obama the other day railed at “the few at the top,” who do all sorts of bad things. Share This

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