by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
The Harder They Fall?
Who appointed over 40 ambassadors on the sole basis of campaign contributions, or has as many lobbyists in government as did any President in memory? Continue reading “Where Has the Thrill Gone?”
Author: victorhanson
Victor Davis Hanson is the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow in Residence in Classics and Military History at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, a professor of Classics Emeritus at California State University, Fresno, and a nationally syndicated columnist for Tribune Media Services. He is also the Wayne & Marcia Buske Distinguished Fellow in History, Hillsdale College, where he teaches each fall semester courses in military history and classical culture.
Lethal Weapon: Islamist Perfidy or Western Naivety?
by Raymond Ibrahim
PJ Media
In a blog entry for Islamist Watch, David J. Rusin shows how the word “jihad” continues to be euphemized in the West. Continue reading “Lethal Weapon: Islamist Perfidy or Western Naivety?”
Circling Sharks Smell American Blood
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
On his recent trip to Asia, President Obama found China, Japan and South Korea — like many nations these days — in no mood to hear more American lectures. Continue reading “Circling Sharks Smell American Blood”
Overcoming the Odds
by Linda Halderman, MD
The American Thinker
The Sick
It’s Saturday night in Pago Pago. As I write this from a little tropical hospital in the middle of the Pacific Ocean on a tiny island called American Samoa, I’m trying hard to make sense of the last 72 hours. Continue reading “Overcoming the Odds”
Nidal Hasan and Fort Hood: A Study in Muslims Doctrine
by Raymond Ibrahim
PJ Media
One of the difficulties in discussing Islam’s more troubling doctrines is that they have an anachronistic, even otherworldly, feel to them; that is, unless actively and openly upheld by Muslims, non-Muslims, particularly of the Western variety, tend to see them as abstract theory, not standard practice for today. Continue reading “Nidal Hasan and Fort Hood: A Study in Muslims Doctrine”
Palin-odes?
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
The Furor
The AP supposedly hired 11 fact-checkers to discredit Ms. Palin’s memoir (Did Fox News hire 11 to question the very questionable things found in the two Obama memoirs?) Continue reading “Palin-odes?”
Obama’s Prissy America
Why Obama’s America seems so self-centered?
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
The liberal writ was that a strutting “bring ’em on” George W. Bush for eight years did what he pleased on the international scene. Continue reading “Obama’s Prissy America”
Same Old, Same Old at Fort Hood
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan is accused of murdering last week 13 people (12 of whom were soldiers) and wounding another 30 at Fort Hood, Texas. It was not the first, nor will it be the last, domestic terrorist incident since Sept. 11, 2001. Continue reading “Same Old, Same Old at Fort Hood”
Thoughts from the Later Republic
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
Contrast Recent Media Coverage
The furor over Dick Cheney’s past severed involvement with Halliburton — the meowing over Bush-critic, liberal icon, ex-diplomat Peter Galbraith’s present, ongoing conflict-of-interest as profiteer and pundit/advisor involving a multimillion-dollar oil scam in Kurdistan. Continue reading “Thoughts from the Later Republic”
Is Fort Hood Really a “Tragedy?”
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
Something has gone terribly wrong in the entire reaction to the Ft. Hood massacres, as evidenced by the media, the administration, the military authorities, and perhaps the public at large. Continue reading “Is Fort Hood Really a “Tragedy?””