By Patrick J. Buchanan Both the 20th and 21st centuries have seen failed presidencies. William Howard Taft lost in 1912, though he might have retained office had not his old friend and former leader Theodore Roosevelt run as a third party Bull Moose candidate and won more votes than Taft. Herbert Hoover failed through no fault of his own. The Crash of 1929 and the Great Depression were Continue reading...
The Fire This Time
Friday - August 12, 2011 at 3:09 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan "You've damaged your own race," said Mayor Michael Nutter to the black youths of Philadelphia whose flash mobs have been beating and robbing shoppers in the fashionable district of downtown. "Take those God-darn hoodies down," the mayor went on in his blistering lecture. "Pull your pants up and buy a belt, 'cause no one wants to see your underwear or the crack of your Continue reading...
A Fire Bell in the Night for Norway
Tuesday - July 26, 2011 at 12:06 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan "Like a fire bell in the night," wrote Thomas Jefferson in 1820, "this momentous question ... awakened and filled me with terror. I considered it at once as the knell of the Union." Jefferson was writing of the sudden resurgence of the slavery issue in the debate on Missouri's entry into the Union, as foreshadowing a civil war. And that massacre in Oslo, where a Continue reading...
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