By Patrick J. Buchanan"Where there is no solution, there is no problem," geostrategist James Burnham once wryly observed.Ex-Sen. George Mitchell, the latest U.S. negotiator to take up the Palestine portfolio, may discover what it was that Burnham meant.For Israel's three-week war on Gaza, where Palestinians died at a rate of 100 to one to Israelis, appears to have been, like Israel's Continue reading...
A Bibi-Barack Collision?
Tuesday - January 27, 2009 at 10:13 am
Filed Under: Columns Tagged With: AIPAC, Barack Obama, Bibi Netanyahu, Hamas, Hezbollah, Israel, Neocons, Palestine
A Neo-Reaganite Inaugural
Friday - January 23, 2009 at 12:52 am
By Patrick J. BuchananWith a host of near 2 million gathered on the Mall to see him sworn in, Barack Obama delivered an inaugural that was the antithesis of a rallying cry for the "it's-our-turn!" faithful assembled below.Rather, it was an admonition, a warning to the American people of the gravity of our condition, and an invitation of inclusion to that part of the nation that remains Continue reading...
Filed Under: Columns Tagged With: Barack Obama, Ronald Reagan
Is GOP Still a National Party?
Wednesday - January 21, 2009 at 12:12 pm
By Patrick J. BuchananAs President Barack Obama delivers his inaugural address to a nation filled with anticipation and hope, the vital signs of the loyal opposition appear worse than worrisome.The new majority of 49 states and 60 percent of the nation Nixon cobbled together in 1972, that became the Reagan coalition of 49 states and 60 percent of the nation in 1984, is a faded memory. Continue reading...
Filed Under: Columns Tagged With: Barack Obama, Democrat, John McCain, Republican, Richard M. Nixon, Ronald Reagan
Obama’s Choice: FDR or Reagan
Friday - January 9, 2009 at 2:00 am
By Patrick J. BuchananBarack Obama, it is said, will inherit the worst times since the Great Depression. Not to minimize the crisis we are in, but we need a little perspective here.The Great Depression began with the Great Crash of 1929. By 1931, unemployment had reached 16 percent.By 1933, 89 percent of stock value had been wiped out, the economy had shrunk by one-third, thousands of Continue reading...
Filed Under: Columns Tagged With: Barack Obama, Depression, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Ronald Reagan
Blago Raises the Stakes
Saturday - January 3, 2009 at 11:27 am
By Patrick J. BuchananOn the eve of the New Year, Gov. Rod Blagojevich, charged with conspiring to sell the Senate seat of Barack Obama, put the ball back squarely in the court of a Democratic Party that had disowned him.Blago named Roland Burris, former attorney general of Illinois and first African-American ever to win statewide office, to fill the vacated seat. National Democrats and Continue reading...
Filed Under: Columns Tagged With: Barack Obama, Rod Blagojevich
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