by Bruce S. Thornton
FrontPage Magazine
The global warming apocalypse and its Elmer Gantry, Al Gore, may have faded from public view lately, but that old-time green religion is still making mischief. President Obama has just delayed until after November’s election a decision on the Canadian Keystone XL pipeline. Continue reading “How Marxism Killed Keystone”
by Victor Davis Hanson
NRO’s The Corner
The Race Going into South Carolina
The primary race that has just started and should still be wide open is already supposedly almost over — but still isn’t quite. Continue reading “South Carolina Debate: A Perfect Distraction”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
President Obama has just ordered massive cutbacks in defense spending, eventually to total some $500 billion. There is plenty of fat in a Pentagon budget that grew after 9/11, but such slashing goes way too far. Continue reading “Defense Spending Is a ‘Shovel Ready’ Investment”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
It proved as hard to break up the bankrupt European Union as it was to create it. Continue reading “2011: Out with a Whimper, Not a Bang”
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
America has the slows. Sometime about mid-2009 America began changing psychologically. True, to the naked eye, America retained the old hustle and bustle, but in an insidious fashion it began to think a bit differently. Continue reading “America’s Two-Front War”
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
National Review Online
In the last three years, the president has taught us a great deal about America, the world, and himself. Continue reading “Obama 101”
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
Playing With Fire
Occupy Wall Street follows three years of sloppy presidential name-calling — “millionaires and billionaires,” slurs about Las Vegas and the Super Bowl, profit-mad, limb-lopping doctors, introspection that now is not the time for profits [1] and at some point we should cease making money, spread the wealth, punish our enemies, and all the old Obama boilerplate. Someone finally got the message about the evil 1%. Continue reading “Occupy What?”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
Not long ago, candidate Obama promised to cool the planet and lower the rising seas. Continue reading “Global Warming–RIP?”
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”