by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
Obama Mythologos
Barack Obama is a myth, our modern version of Pecos Bill or Paul Bunyan. What we were told is true, never had much basis in fact — a fact now increasingly clear as hype gives way to reality. Continue reading “‘When the Legend Becomes Fact, Print the Legend’”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
Nominating Mitt Romney is sort of like taking Grandma’s castor oil. Republicans are dreading the thought of downing their unpleasant-tasting medicine but worry that sooner or later they will have to. Continue reading “Romney: The Castor-Oil Candidate”
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
“They Did It!”
The president just concluded a frenzied “jobs” bus tour to explain why unemployment is at 9.1% — after borrowing nearly $5 trillion in stimulus the last three years. Continue reading “Atlas Is Sorta Shrugging”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
We are witnessing a widespread crisis of faith in our progressive guardians of the last 30 years. Continue reading “A Tottering Technocracy”
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”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
Given what we know now, I think Obama’s summer-2008 campaign speeches should have sounded something like this: Continue reading “An Honest Obama Campaign”
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
2011, not 1970?
We have had about a half-century of racial preferences and often unspoken but real quotas for hiring and admission based on racial identity. Continue reading “The End of an Idea: Why Affirmative Action Should Stop”
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
Gas Dreams Come True
High energy costs to the Obamites are only unfortunate in terms of overcoming short-term political challenges. Continue reading “Living the Obama Dream”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
Osama bin Laden is dead. The Middle East is in chaos. And radical Islam is floundering Continue reading “Tough Times for Radical Islam”
by Bruce S. Thornton
Advancing a Free Society
In his classic essay “Politics and the English Language,” George Orwell identified a “lack of precision” as the besetting sin of politicized writing, either through incompetence or indifference as to whether “words mean anything or not.” Continue reading “Imprecise Language Breeds Dangerous Policy”