What Must We Defend?

Tuesday - May 31, 2011 at 10:27 am

By Patrick J. Buchanan "We need to be honest with the president, with the Congress, with the American people" about the consequences of cutting the defense budget, said Secretary of Defense Robert Gates in his valedictory policy address to the American Enterprise Institute. "(A) smaller military, no matter how superb, will be able to go fewer places and do fewer things." Gates seeks to Continue reading...

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Democratic Dawn — or Darkness?

Thursday - May 26, 2011 at 11:18 pm

By Patrick J. Buchanan "Right now, socially, we are disintegrating." So says Mohamed ElBaradei, former head of the International Atomic Energy Agency and potential candidate for president of Egypt. Indeed, post-revolutionary Egypt appears to be coming apart. Since the heady days of Tahrir Square, Salafis have been killing Christians. Churches have been destroyed. Gangs have conducted Continue reading...

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Israel in a Post-American Era

Thursday - May 19, 2011 at 11:55 pm

By Patrick J. Buchanan In 1918, the United States proved militarily decisive in the defeat of the Kaiser's Germany and emerged as first power on earth. World War II, ending in 1945, produced two truly victorious nations, the Soviet Union of Joseph Stalin and the America of Harry Truman. Out of the Cold War that lasted from Truman to the disintegration of the Soviet Empire and breakup of Continue reading...

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The Vanishing American Footprint

Thursday - May 5, 2011 at 11:53 pm

By Patrick J. Buchanan With his order to effect the execution of Osama bin Laden by Navy SEALs, 40 miles from Islamabad, without asking permission of the government, Barack Obama made a bold and courageous decision. Its success, and the accolades he has received, have given him a credibility as commander in chief that he never had before. The law professor, it turns out, is a Continue reading...

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Obama Blows up the Bridge

Friday - April 15, 2011 at 2:00 am

By Patrick J. Buchanan "Rather than building bridges, he's poisoning wells," said Rep. Paul Ryan, after listening to Barack Obama's scathing attack on his deficit reduction plan as a shredding of America's social contract with the elderly and poor. Ryan is right. Yet, with Obama's partisan savagery, virtually calling the GOP plan immoral, we have clarity. There will be no grand bipartisan Continue reading...

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The Rising Irrelevance of Obama

Friday - March 18, 2011 at 1:50 am

By Patrick J. Buchanan "This will not stand!" declared George H.W. Bush. He was speaking of Saddam Hussein's invasion, occupation and annexation of the emirate of Kuwait as his "19th province." Seven months later, the Iraqi army was fleeing up the "Highway of Death" back into a country devastated by five weeks of U.S. bombing. When Bush spoke, the world sat up and listened. Consider Continue reading...

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Manufacturing’s Dismal Decade

Friday - February 25, 2011 at 1:35 am

By Patrick J. Buchanan Last year, Barack Obama committed his administration to doubling U.S. exports in half a decade. The good news: He is on the way. U.S. exports of goods and services grew in 2010 by 16.6 percent. Bad news: U.S. imports, starting from a higher base, surged by 19.7 percent. Result: The U.S. trade deficit in 2010 worsened by 33 percent, rising from $375 billion to Continue reading...

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