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
Moral Equivalence Is Moral Evasion Read More »
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
Give ‘Em Hell, Barry Read More »
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services President Obama does not care much about deficits — other than worrying that big debt might matter in his re-election campaign. Share This
Is the President in Recovery? Read More »
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Borrowing Is No Longer Stimulus? The Congressional Budget Office not long ago forecast that Barack Obama’s $1 trillion-plus annual deficits — scheduled over the next decade — would result in almost another $10 trillion in aggregate debt. Share This
Our Ten-Trillion-Dollar Man Read More »
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner Lost in the furor over the budget is any discussion of the fact that, after a certain baseline point, redistributive payouts might be making things worse for those on the receiving end. Share This
Failure Is Very Much and Option Read More »
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services The Obama administration figures that it has read the national mood well. This therapeutic generation of Americans loves to talk and worry about problems and then assumes that either someone else will solve them or they will go away on their own. Share This
The Put-Off, Postpone and Procrastinate Generation Read More »
by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Beyond the political posturing over state and federal budgets, there looms an age-old philosophical divide over human nature, perhaps defined as the therapeutic versus the tragic view of our existence. Share This
The Triumph of the Therapeutic Mind Read More »
by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Are we stupid abroad by accident or design? In the manner of a doctor, let us review the symptoms of our present foreign policy and then offer a diagnosis: Share This
Our Schizoid Foreign Policy Read More »
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services President Obama established a bipartisan debt-reduction commission — and then ignored its findings, which called for unpopular reductions in entitlements and across-the-board spending cuts. Share This
After Obama, the Deluge Read More »
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services California Gov. Jerry Brown must rapidly close a $25 billion budgetary shortfall. But right now it seems almost a hopeless task since the state’s disastrous budget is a symptom, not the cause, of California’s much larger nightmare. Share This
Jerry Brown, Modern Sisyphus Read More »