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Victor Davis Hanson
Lose-Lose When You Talk About Race
The Gates affair was ultimately made worse by uninformed presidential grandstanding.
Obama’s Path Not Taken
During the campaign, Obama made it a point to reassure centrists on taxes, defense, energy, and spending. Once he stopped, his standing in Congress and the polls began dropping.
Obama’s Rendezvous with Political Reality
Based on recent history, large deficits may be just as damaging to an administration as high unemployment and inflation.
Stimulus, Stimulus, and Not a Drop…
How can rewarding unproductive areas of the economy and punishing the engines of the economy possibly work?
The American Metamorphosis
We are in the chrysalis stage — and we will come out looking very different than when we entered the Obama cocoon.
Some Hypocrisies Are Not Hypocrisies: Sanford, Edwards, and Co.
The strange unevenness in attitudes toward conservative and liberal adultery — and other transgressions.
Our Schizophrenic Society
Are we Victorians or Libertines? Rugged individualists or parasites? In today's America, it's hard to tell.
We’ve All Metamorphosized to a Higher Plane
Just as promised, we truly have evolved into a more enlightened society under Obama.
Why Should Obama Speak Out on Iran? Let Me Count the Ways
If there was ever a time to get Reaganesque, this is the moment. (Also read Claudia Rosett, Richard Fernandez, Phyllis Chesler, and Ron Rosenbaum on the volatile and historic events unfolding in Iran.)
What Do These First Six Months Mean?
Obama's "transformational" foreign policy has made America a less trusted ally and an easy mark for our enemies.
Voting ‘Present’ on Iran
Obama sticks with his approach, even as the day's events prove him to be misguided.
The Iranian Enigma
Does it show solidarity with the Iranian people to court a nut who rigs elections? (See also Roger Simon: Iran: NYT's Roger Cohen is the New Walter Duranty)
A Reckoning Coming for Obama
By the time the president is disabused of all his naive assumptions about the world, will it be too late for America?
Our Postmodern Presidency
For the first time, we have a president who ascribes to relativism as his philosophy of governance.
Lost in the Labyrinth of Race
This whole Sotomayor-fueled debate is a mess. And a rather mean and nasty mess at that.
What Does Europe Do Better Than We Do?
It's a beautiful, exciting place packed with history — and yes, they still do some things right.
Euroamericans? Is That What We Aspire To?
I hope that smart cars and motorbikes are not the envisioned future of the United States.
Politicians in Glass Houses Hurling Stones
The more one hears or reads about a fanatically angry official or pundit on a moral crusade, the more likely they were involved in just the sort of behavior they are railing against.
Cracks in the Obama Facade
After less than four months in office, I think we're beginning to see fissures in the president's Pentelic statuary.
Do the Democrats Have Amnesia?
They are certainly having trouble remembering 2002, when they were desperate to show the public they too could prevent another 9/11 and keep us safe.
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