by Victor Davis Hanson
The vast majority of the annual shooting homicides are committed by inner-city and minority youths below the age of 30. Continue reading “The New American Enemies List”
Tag: Boston Marathon
Western Cultural Suicide
We are blind to the contradictions in welcoming an immigrant but not making him one of us.
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
Multiculturalism — as opposed to the notion of a multiracial society united by a single culture — has become an abject contradiction in the modern Western world. Continue reading “Western Cultural Suicide”
An Ironic Press Conference
by Victor Davis Hanson
NRO’s The Corner
The president did not really answer questions as much as lecture the nation at his press conference Tuesday about how everyone and everything are politicized except his own policies — as the same old themes and tropes always seem to reappear. Continue reading “An Ironic Press Conference”
The Obama Borg
How “man-caused disasters” replaced Islamist terrorism in the Obama lexicon.
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
In Star Trek lore, the Borg was a collective of servile drone operatives that sought to assimilate other species into its “hive mind.” Continue reading “The Obama Borg”
The D-word
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
Deportation has become a near-taboo word. Yet the recent Boston bombings inevitably rekindle old questions about the way the US admits, or at times deports, foreign nationals. Continue reading “The D-word”
Obama’s Psychodramas
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
Barack Obama has a habit of trying to energize his legislative agenda by stoking the fires of emotionally charged current events — and in ways usually illogical and incoherent. Continue reading “Obama’s Psychodramas”
Near-Suicidal Immigration Policies
What does it take to get deported? More than you would think.
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
Deportation has become a near-taboo word. Yet the Boston bombings inevitably rekindle old questions about the way the U.S. admits, and at times deports, foreign nationals. Continue reading “Near-Suicidal Immigration Policies”
Obama’s Psychodramas
Unlike Sandy Hook and gun control, the Tsarnaev case teaches real lessons about immigration.
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
Barack Obama has a habit of trying to energize his legislative agenda by stoking the fires of emotionally charged current events — and in ways usually illogical and incoherent. Continue reading “Obama’s Psychodramas”
The Paradoxes of the Boston Bombings
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
Al-Qaedism
A certain American (or for that matter Westernized) resident or citizen — usually male, almost always young, born a Muslim, prone to guilt over temporary secularization or Westernization, as often (or more so) from Pakistan, a Russian Islamic province, the Balkans, Iran, the Philippines, or Africa as from the Arab Middle East, usually failing in American society, always absorbed within American popular culture and guilty over such absorption — at some moment channels his own sense of failure into radical Islam. Continue reading “The Paradoxes of the Boston Bombings”
The Islamist Pull
by Victor Davis Hanson
NRO’s The Corner
Although information is still too sketchy to draw any comprehensive conclusions (other than that the Boston killings are not, as recently suggested, fall out from sequestration, the NRA, lack of gun control, climate change, right-wing tea-party zealots, etc.), there emerges a familiar profile to the suspects that we have seen before. Continue reading “The Islamist Pull”