Casino Capitalists Playing With Fire

Tuesday - July 10, 2012 at 2:07 am

By Patrick J. Buchanan Comes now news from across the pond that executives at one of the world's most respected banks, Barclays, rigged Libor. Even the venerable Bank of England is apparently being investigated. For sports fans, this is like fixing the Super Bowl or doping a horse in the Derby. But it is rather more serious. For the London Interbank Offered Rate is the benchmark interest Continue reading...

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Something Rotten in the State

Tuesday - April 24, 2012 at 1:36 am

By Patrick J. Buchanan With the number of Secret Service members and agents caught up in the partying-with-prostitutes scandal in Cartagena now at a dozen, and six already gone, how much wider and deeper does this go? No one can take pleasure in seeing Secret Service agents -- whose deserved reputation is that they will "take a bullet" for the president, his family and all whom they protect Continue reading...

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The Dirty Old Man and the IMF

Tuesday - May 17, 2011 at 1:56 am

by Patrick J. Buchanan Saturday was a bad day for the New World Order. New York police boarded the first-class cabin of an Air France jet bound for Paris to collar Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the head of the International Monetary Fund, a Grand Master of the Universe and the Socialist Party's hope to defeat President Nicolas Sarkozy in 2012. Strauss-Kahn, or DSK as he is known, was hauled Continue reading...

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Something Rotten in the State?

Friday - May 28, 2010 at 12:05 am

By Patrick J. Buchanan When does a political deal become a bribe? At the 1952 Republican National Convention, California's favorite son, Gov. Earl Warren, released his delegation reportedly in return for Ike's promise that he would give Warren the first open seat on the Supreme Court. In September 1953, Chief Justice Fred Vinson dropped dead of a heart attack. As they say, the rest is Continue reading...

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On the Death of Deep Throat

Tuesday - December 23, 2008 at 11:47 am

By Patrick J. Buchanan "De mortuis nil nisi bonum." Of the dead, nothing but good. So said Dean Acheson of Sen. Joe McCarthy on his death in 1957. "Tailgunner Joe" had bedeviled the secretary of state for his lassitude toward communist penetration of State in President Truman's time. But the passing of Mark Felt, associate director of the FBI in the later Nixon years, lately exposed as Continue reading...

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