by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
Rip Van Obama
President Obama went into a deep slumber in December. When he woke up this January, he found himself back even in the polls, with neither a press conference nor another overhyped presidential televised address to be heard. Continue reading “Being There–the Obama Sequel”
by Bruce S. Thornton
FrontPage Magazine
The failure of the Congressional budget “super-committee” to address our geometrically expanding debt and deficits should surprise no one. Continue reading “Moral Equivalence Is Moral Evasion”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
Richard Nixon went to Red China with political impunity. Had a Democrat tried that, he would have been branded a Commie appeaser. Continue reading “Obama Unbound”
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
Barack Obama has done the United States a great, though unforeseen, favor. He has brought to light, as no one else could, many of the pernicious assumptions of our culture from the last half-century. Continue reading “The Great Obama Catharsis”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
Consider the myriad paradoxes of the Obama age. Unprecedented government borrowing is out of control, unsustainable, and finally causing financial markets to panic. Continue reading “Obama’s Paradoxes”
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
During the 2008 campaign Barack Obama ran more against lame-duck President Bush than against his Republican opponent, John McCain. Continue reading “Bush Did It! Bush Didn’t Do It!”
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
Last week the president gave a speech on the deficit [1], rightly trying to convince Americans that it is now beyond unsustainable. Yet his theme was that the Republicans’ attempts to reduce it were cold-hearted, endangering the most vulnerable among us, such as those with Down’s Syndrome, while protecting the proverbial “rich” from commensurate sacrifice. Continue reading “Patient Obama”
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
The wealthier and more leisured American society has become, the more it has developed some terrible habits that will have to end if we are going to return to fiscal sobriety and a unified culture. I am pessimistic on that count, but here are a few examples: Continue reading “Some Very Bad American Habits”