Liberty
Leno on Gitmo
Jay Leno had a particularly good idea last night – a suggestion for President Obama on how to close Guantanamo Bay…
Guantanamo Bay detention camp
United States military prison at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba
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Hanson explores the president’s hypocrisy
Victor Davis Hanson‘s latest column at National Review Online documents the disconnect between President Obama’s words and deeds. Barack Obama has a habit of identifying a supposed crisis in collective…
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Hanson documents a ‘new age of falsity’
Victor Davis Hanson‘s latest column at National Review Online reminds us how much political discourse has changed in the past four years. If an unemployment rate of 7.9 percent and…
Education
Liberal arts — not just what political ‘liberals’ want to teach
Given the controversy surrounding Gov. Pat McCrory’s recent comments about taxpayer subsidies for college students pursuing degrees in fields such as gender studies, you might appreciate this excerpt from the…
Liberty
A Bush administration A.G. critiques Obama’s treatment of sensitive intelligence
Writing for the latest Commentary magazine, former U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey presents a disturbing assessment of the Obama administration’s efforts to protect sensitive intelligence. [F]ollowing the killing of Osama…
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Welcome to our Gitmo, contd.
I strolled out before dawn this morning to see if I could confirm the initial impressions I expressed in today’s Daily Journal column. Sadly, for the most part, yes. Many…
Elections & Public Integrity
Hanson counters the popular notion that economic conditions will decide the outcome of the 2012 presidential race
Our sagging economy has attracted most of the attention during this presidential campaign season, but Victor Davis Hanson‘s latest National Review Online column suggests the economy might not serve as…
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Newsweek explores Obama’s embrace of drone warfare
If you enjoyed Scott Silliman’s recent presentation to the John Locke Foundation on drone warfare, you might be interested in Newsweek‘s new feature on the Obama administration’s approach to the…
Elections & Public Integrity
On the cover of the Rolling Stone …
Jonathan S. Tobin of Commentary read the latest Rolling Stone so you didn’t have to; he found some interesting clues about President Obama’s re-election strategy: President Obama used a fawning…
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Another Walter Duranty Pulitzer
The New York Times has won another Walter Duranty Pulitzer Prize, it seems. Duranty, you may recall, was the NYT Moscow bureau chief during the early Stalin years who reported…
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Hanson explores Obama’s foreign policy options
Victor Davis Hanson‘s latest National Review Online column delves into the president’s possible steps in foreign policy in the months ahead. In terms of the Obama presidency, there is now…
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Obama and Bush as wartime executives
The latest issue of Hillsdale College’s Imprimis features former U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey’s assessment of the Obama administration’s approach to the fight against Islamism. President Obama campaigned for office…