by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
Five Easy Pieces
I. “Bush did it!”
Sec. Clinton went abroad this week and immediately, and yes, gratuitously, blamed Bush. Continue reading “Pause and Take a Deep Breath”
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
Five Easy Pieces
I. “Bush did it!”
Sec. Clinton went abroad this week and immediately, and yes, gratuitously, blamed Bush. Continue reading “Pause and Take a Deep Breath”
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
My grandfather once said something to me around 1970 that I have never forgotten. He was born in my house in 1890 (or rather, I in his) — twenty years after his grandmother built the present home. Continue reading “Ancient Wisdom: Depression, Recession, Downturn…Whatever”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
We have seen irony before, when the moralist Jimmy Carter chastised us with sermons about our paranoid, inordinate fear of Communism and our amoral unconcern with human rights, even as the dividends of his policies were the Soviets in Afghanistan and the Ayatollah Khomeini in Iran — and even greater global misery than before. Continue reading “The Audacity of Irony”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
Most historians agree that earthquakes, droughts or barbarians did not unravel classical Athens or imperial Rome. Continue reading “Hardly the Best and Brightest”
by Raymond Ibrahim
Weekly Standard
Review of The Mind of Jihad by Laurent Murawiec (Cambridge, 350 pp.) Continue reading “Consider the Source”
by Bruce S. Thornton
FrontPageMagazine.com
President Obama’s foreign policy team is built around one key idea: the neglect of diplomacy by President Bush’s “cowboy” unilateralism has damaged American prestige, alienated our allies, and worsened our problems abroad, particularly with the Islamic jihadists. Continue reading “Foreign Policy as Magical Thinking”
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
Such a Strange Malady
A strange thing, this Obama worship (cf. the New York Times op-ed on Sunday where the columnist imagined having sexual relations with Obama) and Bush hatred (cf. the Will Farrell Broadway show trashing Bush, and showing images of his purported penis). Continue reading “More on the New Horizon”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
With much fanfare, President Barack Obama announced a new effort to end the endless Israeli-Palestinian struggle — by naming a brand-new Middle East envoy, former Sen. George Mitchell. Continue reading “Been There, Done That: Policy in the Middle East”
by Victor Davis Hanson
NRO’s The Corner
The Problem
Following the speaker’s prediction of 500 million jobs lost a month, Secretary of Energy Chu now warns there will be no more vineyards in California soon, indeed, no more agriculture at all as we know it. Continue reading “The Apocalyptic Style”
by Bruce S. Thornton
FrontPageMagazine.com
George Bush’s vigorous defense of our national security and vocal pride in our values and goodness went a long way to getting rid of the “kick me” sign liberal America has hung on our collective back. Continue reading “Unwarranted Self-Abasement”