By Patrick J. Buchanan For the 30 years since "The McLaughlin Group" began to run on network television, the Christmas and New Year's shows have been devoted to the conferring of annual awards. The first award on the Christmas show is "Biggest Winner." This year, clearly, one of the world's big winner was -- Islam. For this was the year when what Catholic apologist Hilaire Belloc Continue reading...
What 9/11 Wrought: The Bush Legacy
Friday - September 9, 2011 at 12:25 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan In Cairo in 1943, when the tide had turned in the war on Adolf Hitler, Winston Churchill, who had embraced Joseph Stalin as an ally and acceded to his every demand, had a premonition. Conversing with Harold Macmillan, Churchill blurted: "Cromwell was a great man, wasn't he?" "Yes, sir, a very great man," Macmillan replied. "Ah, but he made one terrible Continue reading...
Return of the Anti-Interventionist Right
Tuesday - June 7, 2011 at 1:01 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan Late last month, when U.S. air strikes caused civilian casualties in Afghanistan, an angry Hamid Karzai issued an ultimatum. If future U.S. strikes are not restricted, we will take "unilateral action" and America may be treated like an "occupying power." That brought this blistering retort from one Republican hawk. "If President Karzai continues with these public Continue reading...
What Must We Defend?
Tuesday - May 31, 2011 at 10:27 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan "We need to be honest with the president, with the Congress, with the American people" about the consequences of cutting the defense budget, said Secretary of Defense Robert Gates in his valedictory policy address to the American Enterprise Institute. "(A) smaller military, no matter how superb, will be able to go fewer places and do fewer things." Gates seeks to Continue reading...
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