Did FDR Provoke Pearl Harbor?

By Patrick J. Buchanan On Dec. 8, 1941, Franklin Roosevelt took the rostrum before a joint session of Congress to ask for a declaration of war on Japan. A day earlier, at dawn, carrier-based Japanese aircraft had launched a sneak attack devastating the U.S. battle fleet at Pearl Harbor. Said ex-President Herbert Hoover, Republican statesman of the day, “We have only one job to do now, Continue reading...

Buchanan: Take the China Test

SUICIDE OF A SUPERPOWER: WILL AMERICA SURVIVE TO 2025? Reviewed by Brett M. Decker - The Washington Times I went to a dealership last weekend to check out an All-American muscle car, but it didn't turn out to be all-American at all. As listed on the window sticker, the domestic content was only 55 percent. The transmission, one of the most important components on the vehicle - especially for a Continue reading...

The Conquest of the West

By Patrick J. Buchanan On Oct. 31, the U.N. Population Fund marks the arrival of the 7 billionth person on Earth and raises the population estimate for the planet at mid-century to 9.3 billion people. There is a possibility, says the United Nations, that, by century's end, world population may reach 15 billion. What does this mean for Western civilization? It may not matter, except to Continue reading...

Is the New World Order Unraveling?

By Patrick J. Buchanan With Greece on the precipice of default, and Portugal and Italy approaching the ledge, the European monetary union appears in peril. Should it collapse, the European Union itself could be in danger, for economic nationalism is rising in Europe. Which raises a larger question. Is the New World Order, the great 20th century project of Western transnational elites, Continue reading...

Whose Country Is It, Anyway?

By Patrick J. Buchanan For the third straight year, the median income of the typical American family fell in 2010. Adjusted for inflation, it is back where it was in 1996, the longest period of zero growth since the Depression. And the poverty rate has inched up to 15.1 percent. Both figures, however, should be put in perspective. For example, a family can be classified as poor and own Continue reading...

What “Big Deals” Did to America

By Patrick J. Buchanan Thanks to Tea Party fanatics, we are told, America just lost an historic opportunity to deal with her national debt. Because of Tea Party intransigence and threats against their own leader John Boehner, the speaker had to reject Obama's "grand bargain," the "big deal" of $3 trillion in budget cuts for $1 trillion in "revenue enhancement." These crazed ideologues, Continue reading...

Is a U.S. Default Inevitable?

By Patrick J. Buchanan As President Bush prepared to invade Iraq in September 2002, the head of his economic policy council, Lawrence Lindsey publicly estimated such a war could cost $100 billion to $200 billion. Lindsey had committed candor, and the stunned Bushites came down on him with both feet. "Baloney," said Donald Rumsfeld. The likely cost would be $60 billion, said Mitch Daniels Continue reading...