by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
Race on the Brain Again
Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-CA) recently caused a mini-controversy (they always are mini- if the offender is a self-declared progressive “person of color”). Continue reading “Rep. Loretta Sanchez and the Bathos of Race”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
The bookish, twice-unsuccessful Democratic presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson once sighed that if most thinking people supported him, it still wouldn’t be enough in America because “I need a majority.” Continue reading “Americans Still Cling to Ignorance”
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
I think Barack Obama will soon dip below a 40% approval rating. He’s nearing there now.
Why? A mixture of both the personal and political. Here are five good reasons: Continue reading “President 40/60”
by Bruce S. Thornton
RightNetwork.com
The best lack all conviction while the worst are full of passionate intensity – Yeats, The Second Coming
Florida pastor Terry Jones called off his Koran-burning after President Obama and others in his administration joined the chorus of Americans asking him not to go through with it. Continue reading “Jihadists Get the Veto”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
One of Sen. Barbara Boxer’s sharpest charges against challenger Carly Fiorina is that, as CEO of Hewlett-Packard, she allowed thousands of jobs to be outsourced overseas — depriving U.S. workers of income while piling up profits for executive grandees like herself. Continue reading “Carly Fiorina: Robber Baron, Traitor–and Outsourcer!”
by Bruce S. Thornton
City Journal
The great historian of Soviet Russia, Robert Conquest, once wrote something about the dangers of naïve diplomacy that I’m reminded of daily. Continue reading “Policies Based on Illusion”
by Victor Davis Hanson
RightNetwork.com
Multiculturalism is now the final arbiter of all liberal sensitivity. Let me explain. Continue reading “Multiculturalism”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
Traditional peasant societies believe in only a limited good. The more your neighbor earns, the less someone else gets. Profits are seen as a sort of theft. They must be either hidden or redistributed. Envy rather than admiration of success reigns. Continue reading “A Nation of Peasants?”
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
Running Away from the Record
Even the bogeyman George Bush has a finite shelf life. It is as if he is now somehow last fall’s Halloween goblin that we are still supposed to worry about months later during the Fourth of July. Continue reading “Obama Made Us Do It!”
by Raymond Ibrahim
PJ Media
Islamist enmity for infidels, regularly manifested in the jihad, is by now moderately well known. Lesser known, however, but of equal concern, is the mandate for Muslims to be loyal to fellow Muslims and Islam — a loyalty that all too often translates into disloyalty to all things non-Muslim, including the American people and their government. Continue reading “The Specter of Muslim Disloyalty in America”