Obama’s Worship of Centralized Power

Tuesday - July 24, 2012 at 10:29 am

By Patrick J. Buchanan "If you've got a business, you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen." Mitt Romney fell on this Obama quote like an NFL lineman on an end zone fumble during the Super Bowl. And understandably so. For this was no gaffe, said Romney, this is what Obama believes. This is straight out of the catechism. Obama thinks that had not the government created the Continue reading...

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Will Heads Roll for the Stuxnet Leak?

Tuesday - June 12, 2012 at 12:54 am

By Patrick J. Buchanan Within days of SEAL Team Six's killing of Osama on that midnight mission in Pakistan, Defense Secretary Bob Gates, reading all about the raid in the press, went to the White House to tell President Obama's national security adviser pungently to "shut the (bleep) up." Leaked secrets of that raid may have led to the imprisonment for 33 years of a Pakistani doctor who Continue reading...

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The Bell Tolls for the Government Unions

Saturday - June 9, 2012 at 7:59 pm

By Patrick J. Buchanan In 1919, after Boston police went on strike to protest the city's refusal to recognize their new union, Gov. Calvin Coolidge ordered the National Guard into the streets. Sam Gompers, the legendary father of American labor, wrote the governor that the Boston police had been denied their rights. Coolidge's terse reply put him in our history books: "Your assertion Continue reading...

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What If Zimmerman Walks Free?

Tuesday - May 22, 2012 at 1:48 am

By Patrick J. Buchanan Three months ago, George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch volunteer in Sanford, Fla., shot and killed Trayvon Martin. Handcuffed, taken in and interrogated, Zimmerman told police Trayvon had been acting suspiciously that dark and rainy night, that he had followed Trayvon, been knocked down and battered on the ground, and, fearing for his life, pulled a concealed handgun Continue reading...

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As the Boomers Head for the Barn

Tuesday - May 15, 2012 at 12:21 pm

By Patrick J. Buchanan When the April figures on unemployment were released May 4, they were more than disappointing. They were deeply disturbing. While the unemployment rate had fallen from 8.2 percent to 8.1 percent, 342,000 workers had stopped looking for work. They had just dropped out of the labor market. Only 63.6 percent of the U.S. working age population is now in the labor force, Continue reading...

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The Antietam of the Culture War

Friday - May 11, 2012 at 1:29 am

By Patrick J. Buchanan It took Joe Biden's public embrace of same-sex marriage to smoke him out. But after Joe told David Gregory of "Meet the Press" he was "absolutely comfortable" with homosexuals marrying, Barack Obama could not maintain his credibility with the cultural elite if he stuck with the biblical view that God ordained marriage as solely between a man and woman. The biblical Continue reading...

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A Decade of War—for What?

Thursday - May 3, 2012 at 11:54 pm

By Patrick J. Buchanan "My fellow Americans, we have traveled through more than a decade under the dark cloud of war," said Barack Obama from Bagram Air Base. "Here in the predawn darkness, we can see the light of a new day on the horizon. The Iraq War is over. The number of troops in harm's way has been cut in half, and more will be coming home. ... The time of war began in Afghanistan, and Continue reading...

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