Four More Years — of This?

Friday - January 6, 2012 at 12:21 am

By Patrick J. Buchanan In what The Washington Post called "a bold act of political defiance," President Obama Wednesday announced the recess appointment of Richard Cordray to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Cordray's nomination had been blocked by a Senate filibuster. There was no way he was going to win approval in 2012. Enraged Republicans denounced the appointment as an Continue reading...

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Make Congress Vote on War on Iran

Friday - December 23, 2011 at 10:38 am

By Patrick J. Buchanan Returning from Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta dropped some jolting news. Asked by CBS's Scott Pelley if Iran could have a nuclear weapon in 2012, Panetta replied: "It would probably be about a year before they could do it. Perhaps a little less. But one proviso, Scott, is that if they have a hidden facility somewhere in Iran that may be Continue reading...

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Setting Grandma’s Hair on Fire

Tuesday - September 13, 2011 at 12:36 am

By Patrick J. Buchanan Social Security is a "Ponzi scheme for these young people," said Gov. Rick Perry in his first debate as a presidential candidate. "The idea ... that the current program is going to be there for them is a lie." Pressed by the moderator, Perry did not back down. He doubled down, calling Social Security a "monstrous lie to our kids." Is not such language provocative, Continue reading...

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Why Weiner’s Going Under the Bus

Tuesday - June 14, 2011 at 10:24 am

By Patrick J. Buchanan Is there any redeeming social value to the tawdry tale of Anthony Weiner? Only this: The nationwide revulsion at the conduct of the congressman has compelled the leadership and members of the House Democratic caucus to demand he resign immediately and cease not only distracting them from their work but stinking up their party. Traditional morality has just been Continue reading...

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Was Obama Stampeded Into War?

Wednesday - April 13, 2011 at 12:32 am

By Patrick J. Buchanan "NATO is moving very slowly, allowing Gadhafi forces to advance," said rebel leader Abdul Fattah Younis, as the Libyan army moved back to the outskirts of Ajdabiya, gateway city to Benghazi. "NATO has become our problem." Younis is implying that if NATO does not stop Libyan soldiers from capturing Ajdabiya, the rebels may be defeated -- and NATO will be responsible Continue reading...

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James K. Polk: Forgotten Great

Friday - November 13, 2009 at 1:24 am

By Patrick J. Buchanan As America debates whether to send tens of thousands more troops to Afghanistan, in the ninth year of a war for ends we cannot discern, a riveting new history recalls times when Americans fought for vital national interests. Continue reading...

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Consult America Before Iran War

Tuesday - September 26, 2006 at 10:10 am

By Patrick J. Buchanan "To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war." So Winston Churchill is widely quoted. Those words, however, were spoken in 1954, decades after Churchill's voice had been the most bellicose for war in 1914 and 1939, the wars that bled and broke his beloved empire. Yet, Churchill's quote frames well the main question on the mind of Washington, D.C.: Will President Continue reading...

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