By Patrick J. Buchanan“If you see 10 troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you,” said Calvin Coolidge, who ever counseled patience over the rash response.Unfortunately, the troubles presented by North Korea’s Kim Jong Un seem unlikely to run into a ditch before they reach us.For Kim has crawled out on a limb. He has Continue reading...
1 March 2013 
Has the Bell Begun to Toll for China?
Friday - March 1, 2013 at 1:15 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan"Why did the Soviet Union disintegrate? Why did the Soviet Communist Party collapse? An important reason was that their ideals and convictions wavered," China's new leader, Xi Jinping, told a closed meeting of party elite in Guangdong province."Finally all it took was one quiet word from Gorbachev to declare the dissolution of the Soviet Communist Party, and a great Continue reading...
22 February 2013 
Cut Commitments, Not Muscle
Friday - February 22, 2013 at 3:44 am
By Patrick J. BuchananIn that year of happy memory, 1972, George McGovern, the Democratic nominee, declared he would chop defense by fully one-third.A friendly congressman was persuaded to ask Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird to expatiate on what this might mean.The Pentagon replied the Sixth Fleet might have to be pulled out of the Med, leaving Israel without U.S. protection against Continue reading...
14 November 2012 
Mind of the New Majority
Wednesday - November 14, 2012 at 3:09 am
By Michael Brendan Dougherty - The American Conservative MagazinePat Buchanan is more than a conservative—he’s Nixon meets Spengler.Patrick J. Buchanan stood beside a window in Chicago’s Conrad Hilton hotel during the 1968 Democratic convention and looked over the panorama of dissent raging below. At about two in the morning, the phone rang—it was Nixon. “Buchanan, what is Continue reading...
30 October 2012 
Romney for President
Tuesday - October 30, 2012 at 2:44 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan"Providence has been pleased to give this one connected country to one united people -- a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking the same language, professing the same religion, attached to the same principles of government, very similar in their manners and customs, and who, by their joint counsels, arms, and efforts, fighting side by side throughout a long Continue reading...
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