by Victor Davis Hanson
Private Papers
Angry Reader #2 writes:
Typical crank piece by the professor, full of crap that people who don’t know California (but loathe it anyway) will eat up. Continue reading “Angry Reader #2”
The Wages of Libya
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
We have had ambassadors murdered abroad before, but we have never seen anything quite like the tragic fate of Chris Stevens. Amid all the controversy over Libya, we have lost sight of the human — and often horrific — story of Benghazi: a US ambassador attacked, cut off and killed alone, after being abused by frenzied terrorists, and a Continue reading “The Wages of Libya”
The Abortion Question: Vice Presidential Responses Fall Short
by Craig Bernthal
Private Papers
Martha Raddatz: “This debate is, indeed, historic. We have two Catholic candidates, first time, on a stage such as this. And I would like to ask you both to tell me what role religion has played in your own personal views on abortion.” Continue reading “The Abortion Question: Vice Presidential Responses Fall Short”
What the Debates Taught Us
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
The president of the United States in the last debate chose to go on the attack against his challenger, Mitt Romney — and once again largely failed to convince the American people that he was the more presidential alternative. Continue reading “What the Debates Taught Us”
Do We Believe Anymore?
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
Our Age of Disbelief
We live in an age of disbelief, in which citizens increasingly do not believe what their government says or, for that matter, what is accepted as true by popular culture. Continue reading “Do We Believe Anymore?”
Are We Becoming Medieval?
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
A tourist mecca like Venice now boasts that it dreams of breaking away from an insolvent Italy. Similarly Barcelona, and perhaps the Basques and the Catalonians in general, claim they want no part of a bankrupt Spain. Scotland fantasizes about becoming separate from Great Britain. The Greek Right dreams of a 19th-century Greece without Asian and African immigrants who do not look Greek. Continue reading “Are We Becoming Medieval?”
A Bright and Shining Libyan Lie
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
Almost everything we have been told about Libya over the last two years is untrue. Continue reading “A Bright and Shining Libyan Lie”
The Stakes in Tonight’s Foreign Policy Debate
by Bruce Thornton
FrontPage Magazine
Foreign policy, the topic of tonight’s debate, was suddenly thrust into the voters’ consciousness by the murder of 4 Americans, including our ambassador, in Benghazi on the anniversary of 9/11. Intensifying the fallout of this event has been the Obama administration’s incoherent, clumsy, duplicitous, and rapidly unraveling attempt to blame the terrorist murders on a YouTube movie trailer lampooning Mohammed, in order to downplay the strength of the heavily armed jihadist outfits, some connected to al Qaeda, now swarming in Libya as a result of our overthrow of Muammar Gadhafi. Continue reading “The Stakes in Tonight’s Foreign Policy Debate”
The Return of the Angry Reader
by Victor Davis Hanson
Private Papers
In response to a column on Libya one reader wrote:
But Hanson’s argument here is much bigger than the embassy killings. Except, I’m not entirely clear what the thesis is. Is he saying it was a mistake to go into Libya? Is he saying it was right that we went into Libya to stop the genocide that was going to occur, but that Obama bungled it? Continue reading “The Return of the Angry Reader”
The Nobel Committee and Its Orwellian Peace Prize
by Bruce Thornton
FrontPage Magazine
Norway’s Nobel Committee added yet another absurd pick to its long list of politicized and shameful Peace Prize awards. Giving the prize to the disintegrating European Union is not as despicable as giving it to the bloodstained terrorist Yasser Arafat, or as laughably naive as bestowing it on the communist fraud Rigoberta Menchú. Continue reading “The Nobel Committee and Its Orwellian Peace Prize”