By Patrick J. BuchananAt his news conference Wednesday, President Barack Obama postured as the young Galahad striding out onto the schoolyard to stop a pair of bullies from beating up a girl.Sens. John McCain and Lindsey Graham had charged U.N. Amb. Susan Rice with misleading the nation when, five days after the Benghazi attack in which Amb. Chris Stevens and three other Americans were Continue reading...
John Roberts Makes His Career Move
By Patrick J. BuchananFor John Roberts, it is Palm Sunday.Out of relief and gratitude for his having saved Obamacare, he is being compared to John Marshall and Oliver Wendell Holmes.Liberal commentators are burbling that his act of statesmanship has shown us the way to the sunny uplands of a new consensus.If only Republicans will follow Roberts' bold and brave example, and agree to Continue reading...
How Bill Kristol Purged the Arabists
By Patrick J. BuchananAfter taping John Stossel's show on March 16 in New York, the Mrs. and I took the 10 a.m. Acela back to Washington. Once we had boarded the train, who should come waddling up the aisle but Bill Kristol.The Weekly Standard editor seemed cheerful, and we chatted about the surge in Mitt Romney's popularity and prospects.I did not ask what he had been doing in New Continue reading...
A Nation Arms Itself — For What?
By Patrick J. BuchananWith the shooting death of Trayvon Martin by a neighborhood watch volunteer who was legally carrying a 9-millimeter handgun, the familiar wail has arisen from our cultural and media elite:America has too many guns!“Open carry” and “concealed carry” laws should be repealed.Florida’s “Stand-your-ground” law, replicated in two dozen states, Continue reading...

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