By Patrick J. BuchananThe Republican National Committee has produced an "autopsy" on what went wrong in 2012, when the party failed to win the White House and lost seats in Congress.Yet, the crisis of the Grand Old Party goes back much further.First, some history. The Frank Lloyd Wright of the New Majority was Richard Nixon, who picked up the pieces of the party after Goldwater's Continue reading...
15 March 2013 
Pope Francis — Against the West?
Friday - March 15, 2013 at 12:50 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan"The Faith is Europe. And Europe is the Faith," wrote Hilaire Belloc after that bloodbath we call World War I. "Either Europe will return to the Faith or she will perish."By 1938, Belloc concluded Christian Europe was done:"The bad work begun at the Reformation is bearing its final fruit in the dissolution of our ancient doctrines -- the very structure of society Continue reading...
25 January 2013 
The Old Republic and Obama’s America
Friday - January 25, 2013 at 1:23 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan"Second Term Begins With a Sweeping Agenda for Equality," ran the eight-column banner in which The Washington Post captured the essence of Obama's second inaugural. There he declared:"What binds this nation together ... what makes us exceptional -- what makes us American -- is our allegiance to an idea, articulated in a declaration made more than two centuries Continue reading...
7 December 2012 
A Republican Retreat — or Rout?
Friday - December 7, 2012 at 12:53 am
By Patrick J. BuchananGiven the expectations raised by the Republican punditocracy -- that Mitt was headed for a big victory -- the jolt of defeat hit especially hard.Now, what had seemed an orderly retreat has taken on the aspect of a rout, with Beltway Republicans calling for abandonment of fixed positions all along the line.After Senate candidates Richard Mourdock in Indiana and Continue reading...
A Godless Party Expels the Creator
Thursday - September 6, 2012 at 11:53 pm
By Patrick J. BuchananThe authors of the Democratic platform have inadvertently revealed to the world the sea change that has taken place in that party we once knew.For the first time -- and in the longest Democratic platform in history, 26,000 words -- there was not a single mention of God, the Creator, whom Thomas Jefferson himself, father of the party, proclaimed to be the author of our Continue reading...
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