by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
The Department of Agriculture no longer serves as a lifeline to millions of struggling homestead farmers. Continue reading “The Department of Food Subsidies”
Tag: Barack Obama
The Art of Appreciating America From Abroad
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
Sense Out of Nonsense — A Ten-step Plan
I’ve been following the news the last two weeks — Weinergate, the dismal “unexpected” economic news, the new wars in Libya and Yemen — from Europe while leading about 60 on a military history tour of Italy, Corsica, Sardinia, and Sicily. Continue reading “The Art of Appreciating America From Abroad”
Obama’s Illiberal Foreign Policy
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
The incoming hope-and-change Obama administration advanced the narrative that at home and abroad it cared far more for people than profits. Continue reading “Obama’s Illiberal Foreign Policy”
Obama’s Bow to the Muslim World, Round II
by Bruce S. Thornton
FrontPage Magazine
In September 1938 English Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, explaining why he was flying to Germany a third time in order to make peace with Germany, recited the old nursery rhyme: “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try, try again.” Continue reading “Obama’s Bow to the Muslim World, Round II”
Reelecting Obama
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
We are beginning to see the contours of the upcoming 2012 reelection campaign of Barack Obama. Whether always officially sanctioned or not, Obama’s campaign will focus on three general themes: a) the 2008 meltdown of the economy on Bush’s watch; b) conservative heartlessness in gutting cherished entitlement programs; and c) racial bias behind any criticism of Barack Obama. Continue reading “Reelecting Obama”
An American Versailles
The liberal message ia all style and impotence.
by Victor Davis Hanson
NRO’s The Corner
Editor’s Note: What follows is a collection of recent Corners from VDH.
The Shape of 2012 to Come
The outburst from Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at the so-called Shanghai Cooperation Organization should close the chapter on the much bandied about “outreach” to Iran voiced by candidate Obama in 2008. Continue reading “An American Versailles”
Our Reactionary President
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
Barack Obama is the most reactionary president in the recent history of the United States. Obama seems intent on turning back the clock to the good old days of the 1960s and 1970s, when rigid political orthodoxy, not an open mind, once guided government. Continue reading “Our Reactionary President”
The Metaphysics of Contemporary Theft
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
Same Old, Same Old…
Last week was another somewhat depressing chapter in a now long saga of living where I was born. I returned to the farm from leading a European military history tour, and experienced the following — mind you, after a number of thefts the month prior (barn, shop, etc.): Continue reading “The Metaphysics of Contemporary Theft”
The Factory of Selective Moral Outrage
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
Democrats in Congress recently went all-out to try to pass the Dream Act, an amnesty for illegal-alien students willing to enroll — and stay — in college. Most of those who opposed it were derided as heartless at best, racist at worse. Continue reading “The Factory of Selective Moral Outrage”
Collapse of a Rotten Edifice
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
Nemesis is always hot on the trail of hubris, across time and space, and the goddess has been particularly busy in destroying the carefully crafted images of Bono, John Edwards, Timothy Geithner, Al Gore, Eliot Spitzer, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Anthony Weiner, and a host of others. Continue reading “Collapse of a Rotten Edifice”