by Bruce S. Thornton // FrontPage Magazine
Anbar province, the region of Iraq that 1,300 American soldiers died pacifying, is at risk of being taken over by al Qaeda jihadists and their affiliate, the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant. Continue reading “The Fruit of Obama’s Abandonment of Iraq”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
Multiculturalism — as opposed to the notion of a multiracial society united by a single culture — has become an abject contradiction in the modern Western world. Continue reading “Western Cultural Suicide”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
The idea of a nuclear Iran — and of preventing a nuclear Iran — terrifies security analysts. Continue reading “Iran’s North Korean Furture”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
There is a different sort of racialist derangement spreading in the country — and it is getting ugly. Continue reading “The New Racial Derangement Syndrome”
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
Since the election, some fatalistic Washington conservative elites have accepted — and Obama operatives have rejoiced in — a supposedly new and non-white-male ethnic electorate: Americans will be categorized, and collectively so, on the basis of largely how they look and, to a lesser extent, how they sound. Republicans, then, better get with the new tribalism and remarket themselves to address the new minority monolith. Continue reading “Too Few Oppressors, Too Many Victims”
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
Where’s Mel Gibson When You Need Him?
George Miller’s 1981 post-apocalyptic film The Road Warrior [1] envisioned an impoverished world of the future. Tribal groups fought over what remained of a destroyed Western world of law, technology, and mass production. Survival went to the fittest — or at least those who could best scrounge together the artifacts of a long gone society somewhat resembling the present West. Continue reading “California: The Road Warrior Is Here”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Defining Ideas
Accepting inevitable national decline is the new pastime of both the media and government elite. Some of the pessimism revolves around current federal financial insolvency. Continue reading “‘Exceptional’ America”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
Americans — left, right, Democrats, and Republicans — are all sick of thankless nation-building in the Middle East. Yet democratization was not our first choice, but rather a last resort after other methods failed. Continue reading “We Give Up”
by Raymond Ibrahim
Stonegate Institute
Many in the media are indignant with Reverend Franklin Graham, head of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. Invited on “Morning Joe” last Tuesday to discuss Christian persecution, the hosts turned the focus to interrogating Graham on whether he thought President Barack Obama was Christian or not. Continue reading “Obama, ‘Son of Islam’?”
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
Until the appearance of Barack Obama on the national scene, I knew of “them” only from an old sci-fi movie in which huge ants (“Them!”) ate people. Continue reading “Are You ‘Them!’?”