by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
‘Abandon All Hope, Ye Who Enter Here,” is the placard that Herman Cain must have read last week when he descended into the Sexual Harassment Inferno, from which he has not yet emerged. Continue reading “Cain Lost in the Labyrinth”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
First lady Michelle Obama the other day railed at “the few at the top,” who do all sorts of bad things. Continue reading “Who Are These Fat-Cat Few at the Top?”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
At any time in the 2,500-year history of Western diplomacy, has a head of state been advised by his host not to apologize for a long-ago act? I cannot think offhand of any instance until, apparently, two years ago. Continue reading “Obama’s Empty Apologetics”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
The election of Barack Obama brought all sorts of contradictions. A man with about the least prior executive experience in presidential history was suddenly acclaimed a “god” and the smartest man ever to assume the office. Continue reading “Ten Lessons from Obama”
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
There Is No There There
Zero jobs last month — a net change of zero job growth? It was just announced that last month’s unemployment is still above 9% — despite the nearly five trillion dollars in Keynesian pump-priming, the near zero interest rates, the expanded unemployment and food stamp support, and the government takeovers and subsidies of businesses. Continue reading “Zero Jobs 101: The Psychology of Alienating Employers”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
By Sunday afternoon, the Gallup tracking poll showed a 17-point spread in the president’s approval rating — 38 percent approval to 55 percent disapproval. Continue reading “A Vineyard Too Far”
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
How are we to make sense of flash mobbing, the London rioting, more hatred expressed for the Tea Party, more calls for ever more debt and spending, and Barack Obama’s dive below 40% approval in the polls? Let me backtrack a bit. Continue reading “Liberal Psychoses”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
A once civil and orderly England was recently torn apart by rioting and looting — at first by mostly minority youth, but eventually also by young Brits in general. Continue reading “Young Westerners–Deprives or Decadent?”
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
Progressive Angst
This week the president’s positive ratings are hovering around 40-42%; in some polls there is a 10% gap or more between negative and positive appraisals. I expect that they will go back up, and then even lower as the year wears on. Continue reading “The Politics of Liberals Bashing Obama”