by Bruce S. Thornton
RightNetwork.com
From its beginnings in ancient Athens, democracy has been bedeviled by weaknesses that paradoxically arise from its defining genius. Continue reading “Why Patriotism Is Indispensable for Democracies”
Rep. Loretta Sanchez and the Bathos of Race
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”
Americans Still Cling to Ignorance
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”
President 40/60
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”
Jihadists Get the Veto
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”
Carly Fiorina: Robber Baron, Traitor–and Outsourcer!
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!”
Policies Based on Illusion
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”
Multiculturalism
by Victor Davis Hanson
RightNetwork.com
Multiculturalism is now the final arbiter of all liberal sensitivity. Let me explain. Continue reading “Multiculturalism”
A Nation of Peasants?
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?”
Obama Made Us Do It!
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!”