Dissecting Obama
Editors’ note: This is a transcript of a speech delivered by Victor Davis Hanson at the recent David Horowitz Freedom Center’s Santa Barbara Retreat. It was given without a prepared text. To watch the...
View ArticleThe Varieties of Liberal Enthusiasm
This article is reprinted from City Journal Cast your mind back to January 2009, when Barack Obama became the president of the United States amid much rejoicing. The hosannas—covering the inauguration...
View ArticleBetraying Iranian Women
On April 28, 2010, the Islamic Republic of Iran was elected to the United Nation’s Commission on the Status of Women (CSW). Possibly the world’s worst abuser of women, the Shariah-ruled country in...
View ArticleWhat is Memorial Day?
Memorial Day is a great and wonderful way to remember our patriotic heroes who sacrificed their lives to help us breathe the air of freedom. This day is observed with families and friends visiting...
View ArticleThe Last Full Measure of Devotion
While official observance of Memorial Day – then Decoration Day – began in 1868, the seeds of our national day of remembrance were planted five years earlier, in a small Pennsylvania college town...
View ArticleSolving the CIA’s PC Problems
In an earlier article (“PC Casualities”), I examined the dire effects of more than a decade of political correctness at the CIA. The most visible effect was the tragic death of seven CIA employees...
View ArticleJerusalem Is Not a Settlement
Israel celebrated “Jerusalem Day” last week, which commemorates the 1967 reunification of the city following the Six Day War. The celebrations and speeches were especially poignant in view of the...
View ArticleFriedman’s China Odyssey
What is Tom Friedman’s deal with the People’s Republic of China? During a recent appearance on Meet the Press, he praised Beijing’s hybrid capitalist-statist-nationalist-communist dictatorship by...
View ArticlePaying Palestinians Not To Work With Jews
Mahmoud Abbas and his Palestine Authority, we are told, comprise the moderate Palestinian alternative to the Hamas-driven vision of mayhem and terror in Gaza. This assurance is repeated despite...
View ArticleBen Affleck Lives on $1.50 Per Day
One of the left’s favorite linguistic touchstones is differentiating between the economically “lucky” and the economically “unlucky.” Sometimes, they substitute “blessed” for lucky; other times, they...
View Article“The Stoning of Soraya M.” Out on DVD
Following on the heels of the recent International Women’s Day comes the DVD release of the remarkable and unforgettable film The Stoning of Soraya M. Based on the true story of a woman falsely...
View ArticleVermont Schools to Celebrate Islamic Feast
The Burlington, Vermont School District does not give students a day off to commemorate the September 11 attacks, but on Friday, September 10, 2010 Burlington schools will close early for the weekend...
View ArticleObama’s War Against Israel
There’s a joke making the rounds in my suburban Chicago neighborhood about the clash between the Obama administration and the Netanyahu government: Why did Vice-President Joe Biden get angry when...
View ArticleAssault at Muslim Capitol Day
If Ahmed Bedier’s United Voices for America (UVA) was a peaceful organization, with the series of events which occurred earlier this month, you wouldn’t have known it. On the day termed by the group...
View ArticleSurviving the Sixties (Not)
In 1695, the Puritan divine Timothy Cruso, after whom Defoe may have titled his famous novel, wrote: “The days wherein we live are extremely evil, but we have yet a sad and doleful prospect of the...
View ArticleWhat Have you Done?
An open letter to Americans: As a Canadian, I’ve been observing for some time now, with great concern and even greater disbelief, the political farce enacted day after day in your country. And I keep...
View ArticleSabotaging the Tea Parties
One of the popular signs spotted at Tea Party protests across the country over the past year goes like this: “It doesn’t matter what this sign says. You’ll call it racism, anyway!” It’s a pithy,...
View ArticleAmerica Already a Green Exemplar
On this Earth Day, like every Earth Day, you’ll hear an awful lot about what you ought to do in order to save a planet supposedly in peril, but precious little about what you have already done. This...
View ArticleDump Doomsday Dogma
Earth Day turns 40 today, April 22, a good time for scientists, politicians, journalists and the public to dump climate-change orthodoxy. Too many facts are interfering with the familiar story line....
View ArticleMay Day in Iran
The desperate economic situation in Iran is causing workers to lose their jobs or go months without pay, pushing them into the opposition camp. On International Labor Day on May 1, Iranians demanding...
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