by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
Barack Obama 1.0 had a solid record of hard-left governance as an Illinois state representative and US senator. He voted for partial-birth abortion, wanted all troops out of Iraq by March 2008, and proved himself the most partisan of the 100 members of the Senate, even to the left of the only Socialist senator, Bernie Sanders. Continue reading “Proteus-in-Chief”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
In classical Athens, public life became dominated by clever and smart-sounding sophists. These mellifluous “really wise guys” made money and gained influence by their rhetorical boasts to “prove” the most amazing “thinkery” that belied common sense. Continue reading “The New Sophists”
by Bruce S. Thornton
RightNetwork.com
One of the pleasures of reading the New York Times is spotting the myriad ways liberal ideology shapes stories and presents as fact what is a debatable supposition. Global warming, for example, is a “crisis” about which the Timeshas already made up its mind. Continue reading “Anatomy of a Media Bias: Nothing’s More Closed Than a Colonized Mind”