by Victor Davis Hanson // PJ Media Lady Gaga reportedly spent $25 million on pop art to jazz up her new and apparently underwhelming album. In contrast, Miley Cyrus’ sexual twerking at the MTV Music Video Awards earned her more millions by exposing her rather unimpressive anatomy. Both make the once vulgar Madonna seem like June Cleaver, but at least […]
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Stop worrying whether the president’s statements conform to ossified standards if truth. by Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Online What is the common denominator of the Obama administration’s serial scandals — the Justice Department’s spying on AP, the IRS targeting of conservative groups, the NSA surveillance, the lies about Benghazi and the ACA — and much of the White
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by Victor Davis Hanson // NRO’s The Corner An Obamcat administration is given nine, but not ten, lives: Share This
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by Victor Davis Hanson // PJ Media Most two-term presidents leave some sort of legacy. Ronald Reagan won the Cold War. George W. Bush prevented another 9/11, and constructed an anti-terrorism protocol that even his critical successor embraced and often expanded. Even our one-term presidents have achieved something. JFK got Soviet missiles out of Cuba. LBJ
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Charismatic career politicians don’t make the best commanders-in-chief. by Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Online The second terms of the latest three presidents have not been successful. Bill Clinton was impeached after his infamous lie to Americans, “I did not have sexual relations with that woman.” George W. Bush was blamed for the postwar violence
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The former hope-and-change president no longer gets a pass. by Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Online By 1968, President Lyndon Baines Johnson was finally done in by his “credibility gap” — the growing abyss between what he said about, and what was actually happening inside, Vietnam. “Modified limited hangout” and “inoperative” were infamous euphemisms that
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