Learning through Pain by Victor Davis Hanson Victor Davis Hanson was a professor of classics at California State University, Fresno, and is currently the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow at Stanford University‘s Hoover Institution. //PJ Media – December 10, 2013 What will history make so far of our five-year voyage with Barack Obama? […]
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THE WALL STREET JOURNAL OBAMA’S GETTYSBURG ADDRESS BYPASS November 13, 2013 The White House recently whispered out the back door that President Obama would not appear in Pennsylvania next Tuesday at the ceremonies for the 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. The political betting had been that this was a big-speech venue whose
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Two Miserable Decades Don’t worry, it was even worse in the 1970s. Or was it? Jonathan V. Last September 30, 2013, Vol. 19, No. 04 EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: Everyday life wasn’t much better than economic life. Terrorism first came into vogue in the 1970s. Sometimes it
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Syria Obama and Syria: Stumbling Toward Damascus The President’s uneven Syria response has damaged his office and weakened the nation. It’s time for one more pivot By Joe Klein @JoeKleinTIME Sept.Send to Kindle <img src=”http://timeswampland.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/42-51235628.jpg?w=480&#038;h=320&#038;crop=1″ alt=”President Barack Obama walks along the colonnade of the White House from the residence to the Oval Office to start his
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September 11, 2013 Three-and-a-half More Years of Obama! By J.R. Dunn So the Syria “crisis” is reaching its culmination. Syria’s WMD’s are likely to be placed under the control of its patron, Russia, perhaps even with the cooperation of other disinterested, responsible states such as Iran, Cuba, and Venezuela. The world’s only superpower, for
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COMMENTARY The Citizen of the World Presidency Elliott Abrams Elliott Abrams is senior fellow for Middle Eastern studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. He served as deputy assistant to the president and deputy national-security adviser in the administration of President George W. Bush. He is the author, most recently, of Tested by Zion,
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August 12, 2013 The Clinton-Era Roots of the Financial Crisis Affordable-housing goals established in the 1990s led to a massive increase in risky, subprime mortgages. By PHIL GRAMM AND MIKE SOLONMr. Gramm, a former Republican chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, is senior partner of US Policy Metrics and a visiting scholar at the
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GEORGE W outclasses Barack and Bill, without even trying ◀ ▶ Former president George H.W. Bush, left, applauds with Laura Bush after former president George W. Bush‘s speech during the dedication of the George W. Bush Presidential Center Thursday, April 25, 2013, in Dallas. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip) President Barack Obama listens as former
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Charles Krauthammer The Bush legacy By Charles Krauthammer, Apr 25, 2013 The Washington Post Clare Boothe Luce liked to say that “a great man is one sentence.” Presidents, in particular. The most common “one sentence” for George W. Bush is: “He kept us safe.” Not quite right. With Bush’s legacy being reassessed as his
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