By Patrick J. Buchanan The scores are in from the 2012 Program for International Student Assessment, which, every three years, tests 15-year-olds from the world's most advanced countries. For the United States, the report card is dismal. The U.S. ranking has fallen to 17th in reading, 21st in science, and 26th in math. Florida, one of America's diverse mega-states, competed separately in Continue reading...
3 December 2013 
Has the Asian Tiger Gone Tiger?
Tuesday - December 3, 2013 at 1:53 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan When Montecore, one of two white tigers in the Las Vegas act of Siegfried and Roy, turned and almost killed Roy on stage, the reaction was that the tame and complacent beast had gone berserk. Comedian Chris Rock was nearer the mark: "That tiger ain't go crazy; that tiger went tiger." Seems our Asian tiger is going tiger as well. Sharply escalating its clash with Continue reading...
29 November 2013 
Let Obama Play the Iran Hand
Friday - November 29, 2013 at 6:56 pm
By Patrick J. Buchanan When, after the massacres at Newtown and the Washington Navy Yard, Republicans refused to outlaw the AR-15 rifle or require background checks for gun purchasers, we were told the party had committed suicide by defying 90 percent of the nation. When Republicans rejected amnesty and a path to citizenship for illegal aliens, we were told the GOP had just forfeited its Continue reading...
26 November 2013 
Is the Superpower Afraid of Iran?
Tuesday - November 26, 2013 at 8:49 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan "Iran's Nuclear Triumph" roared the headline of the Wall Street Journal editorial. William Kristol is again quoting Churchill on Munich. Since the news broke Saturday night that Iran had agreed to a six-month freeze on its nuclear program, we are back in the Sudetenland again. Why? For not only was this modest deal agreed to by the United States, but also by our Continue reading...
Will Obamacare Be the Death of Liberalism?
Friday - November 22, 2013 at 12:49 am
By Patrick J Buchanan By 1968, Walter Lippmann, the dean of liberal columnists, had concluded that liberalism had reached the end of its tether. In that liberal epoch, the 1960s, the Democratic Party had marched us into an endless war that was tearing America apart. Lyndon Johnson's Great Society had produced four "long, hot summers" of racial riots and a national crime rate that had Continue reading...
Nixon and Kennedy: The Myths and Reality
Tuesday - November 19, 2013 at 12:22 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan Had there been no Dallas, there would been no Camelot. There would have been no John F. Kennedy as brilliant statesman cut off in his prime, had it not been for those riveting days from Dealey Plaza to Arlington and the lighting of the Eternal Flame. Along with the unsleeping labors of an idolatrous press and the propagandists who control America's popular culture, Continue reading...
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