Redistribution

The Obamacare Ten-Step Self-Help Program

by Victor Davis Hanson // NRO’s The Corner As all the still underappreciated contours of Obamacare become known, and as those who hold employer-provided plans will soon discover their existing “scams” also do not pass ACA muster, the public will begin to understand that Obamacare is another redistributive zero-sum plan to transfer wealth from one segment …

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Explaining the Democrats’ Success

by Bruce Thornton Frontpage Magazine The election postmortem has identified all manner of causes for the Republicans’ defeat, from the “woman problem” and the “Hispanic problem,” as Peggy Noonan put it, to Romney’s fatcat persona and his inept campaign. But there’s a simpler reason, one consistent with the critics of democracy starting in ancient Athens …

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Why Does the Good Life End?

by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media A Look Back People just don’t disappear. Look at Germany in 1946 or Athenians in 339 B.C. Share This

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Atlas Is Sorta Shrugging

by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media “They Did It!” The president just concluded a frenzied “jobs” bus tour to explain why unemployment is at 9.1% — after borrowing nearly $5 trillion in stimulus the last three years. Share This

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Obama Verses Obama

by Victor Davis Hanson Defining Ideas President Barack Obama is more exasperated than ever as polls dip, critics multiply, and none of his massive borrowing seems to jump start a stalled economy. 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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St. Obama and the Debt Dragon

by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media “Reckless Fiscal Policies” Why did Obama only enumerate George W. Bush’s big spending as responsible for the out-of-control $14 trillion-plus debt, while not mentioning his own contribution of $5 trillion? Share This

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Collapse of a Rotten Edifice

by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Nemesis is always hot on the trail of hubris, across time and space, and the goddess has been particularly busy in destroying the carefully crafted images of Bono, John Edwards, Timothy Geithner, Al Gore, Eliot Spitzer, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Anthony Weiner, and a host of others. Share This

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