by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
The US stock market has nose-dived. Congress just approved the highest debt ceiling in American history, allowing the government to carry over $16 trillion in national debt, and prompting the credit-rating agency Standard & Poor’s to downgrade America’s multitrillion-dollar debt for the first time in 70 years. Continue reading “What If the President Liked Businesspeople?”
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
Borrowing Is No Longer Stimulus?
The Congressional Budget Office not long ago forecast that Barack Obama’s $1 trillion-plus annual deficits — scheduled over the next decade — would result in almost another $10 trillion in aggregate debt. Continue reading “Our Ten-Trillion-Dollar Man”
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”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
Is America’s preeminent world role over?
That’s what a recent New Yorker essay, based on interviews with presidential advisers, claimed. It characterized the new Obama foreign-relations style as “leading from behind” — given the supposed inevitable American decline and growing unpopularity. Continue reading “Back to the Pre-American World”
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
National Review Online
Every once in a while, the world is turned upside down in just a few years, whether by ideological ferment or force of arms. Continue reading “The World Turned Upside Down–Again”
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
“Leading From Behind”
A recent report in The New Yorker suggested that the Obama’s administration’s weird sort of/sort of not foreign policy is now gleefully self-described as “leading from behind.” Continue reading “OK, Let’s Decline”
by Victor Davis Hanson
NRO’s The Corner
I think there will be repercussions from the hit, and most of them will turn out to be good in terms of the War on Terror. Continue reading “Bin Laden Fallout”