by Patrick J. BuchananSo grave was the crisis in western China that President Hu Jintao canceled a meeting with President Obama, broke off from the G8 summit and flew home.By official count, 158 are dead, 1,080 injured and a thousand arrested in ethnic violence between Han Chinese and the Muslim, Turkic-speaking Uighurs of Xinjiang. That is the huge oil-rich province that borders Pakistan, Continue reading...
It Can’t Happen Here
Friday - July 10, 2009 at 9:53 am
Filed Under: Columns Tagged With: Barack Obama, Culture War, Multiculturalism
Hands Off Honduras!
Friday - July 3, 2009 at 12:15 am
By Patrick J. BuchananLast Saturday, Honduran soldiers marched into the presidential palace, bundled up President Manuel Zelaya and put him on a plane for Costa Rica.The ouster had been ordered by the Supreme Court and approved by the Congress, as Zelaya was attempting an illegal referendum to change the Honduran constitution so he could run for another term.Will someone please explain Continue reading...
Filed Under: Columns Tagged With: Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, United Nations
California, Here We Come!
Friday - June 26, 2009 at 1:10 am
By Patrick J. BuchananPALM SPRINGS, Calif. -- In just a few weeks time, California hits the wall.And Americans should take a good, long look at the fiscal and social wreck of the Golden Land, because California is at a place to which all of America is heading.In May, when five fund-raising proposals were put on the ballot, Gov. Schwarzenegger pleaded with the overtaxed Californians not Continue reading...
Filed Under: Columns Tagged With: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Barack Obama, Economy, George Bush
Ten Days That Shook Tehran
Tuesday - June 23, 2009 at 12:24 am
By Patrick J. BuchananGiven its monopoly of guns, bet on the Iranian regime. But, in the long run, the ayatollahs have to see the handwriting on the wall.Let us assume what they insist upon -- that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won the June 12 election; that, even if fraud occurred, it did not decide the outcome. As Ayatollah Khamenei said to loud laughter in his Friday sermon declaring the election Continue reading...
Filed Under: Columns Tagged With: Barack Obama, Iran
Tiananmen Moments
Friday - June 19, 2009 at 12:57 am
By Patrick J. BuchananOn Dec. 14, 1825, following the death of Alexander I -- who had seen off Napoleon -- his brother, the grand duke, who had just taken the oath as Czar Nicholas I, was confronted by mutinous troops and rebels in Senate Square before the Winter Palace.For hours, the czar stood at the end of the square as the crowd shouted for a constitution or for Nicholas' brother Continue reading...
Filed Under: Columns Tagged With: Barack Obama, China, Iran
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