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Is the President in Recovery?

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

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Our Ten-Trillion-Dollar Man

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

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The Great Madness of 2004-10

by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media The First Symptoms of Hatred — 2004 to 2008 For about seven years the nation lost its collective mind — and was only partially coming-to in November 2010. Share This

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The Global Fairness Madness

by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Whether in the fights over the US debt limit or the rioting in Athens, the common global theme is not poverty in absolute terms, but more often fairness — as in having about the same amount of things as others do. Share This

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Appeasing Jihadists

A policy of guilt and flattery will not temper terrorists. by Bruce S. Thornton Defining Ideas In 1937, the London Times editor Geoffrey Dawson wrote to his correspondent in Geneva, “I do my best, night after night, to keep out of the paper anything that might hurt [German] susceptibilities . . . . I have always been …

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Reelecting Obama

by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online We are beginning to see the contours of the upcoming 2012 reelection campaign of Barack Obama. Whether always officially sanctioned or not, Obama’s campaign will focus on three general themes: a) the 2008 meltdown of the economy on Bush’s watch; b) conservative heartlessness in gutting cherished entitlement programs; …

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Bush Did It! Bush Didn’t Do It!

by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online During the 2008 campaign Barack Obama ran more against lame-duck President Bush than against his Republican opponent, John McCain. Share This

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An Honest Obama Campaign

by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Given what we know now, I think Obama’s summer-2008 campaign speeches should have sounded something like this: Share This

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The First-Person Presidency

by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Here are a few excerpts from President Obama’s speech on Sunday night about the killing of Osama bin Laden. Share This

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Libya Is Not Iraq

by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online The Left is terribly embarrassed about the US intervention in Libya. We have preemptively attacked an Arab Muslim nation that posed little threat to the national-security interests of the United States. Share This

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