By Patrick J. Buchanan As the white flag rises above Republican redoubts, offering a surrender on taxes, the mind goes back to what seemed a worse time for conservatives: December 1964. Barry Goldwater had suffered a defeat not seen since Alf Landon. Republicans held less than one-third of the House and Senate and only 17 governorships. The Warren Court was remaking America. In the arts, Continue reading...
30 November 2012 
Stirrings of Secession
Friday - November 30, 2012 at 1:40 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan "When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another ..." So begins the Declaration of Independence of the 13 colonies from the king and country to which they had given allegiance since the settlers first came to Jamestown and Plymouth Rock. The declaration was signed by 56 Continue reading...
The Irreconcilable Conflict
Tuesday - September 18, 2012 at 1:05 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan "Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, "Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God's great Judgment Seat." Thus did Kipling, the Poet of Empire, caution the British about the Eastern world the Victorians and Edwardians believed to be theirs. And with that world so inflamed against us, perhaps we should inspect more closely our Continue reading...
A Godless Party Expels the Creator
Thursday - September 6, 2012 at 11:53 pm
By Patrick J. Buchanan The authors of the Democratic platform have inadvertently revealed to the world the sea change that has taken place in that party we once knew. For the first time -- and in the longest Democratic platform in history, 26,000 words -- there was not a single mention of God, the Creator, whom Thomas Jefferson himself, father of the party, proclaimed to be the author of our Continue reading...
A Grand Old Party in Panic
Friday - August 24, 2012 at 3:20 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan Whittaker Chambers said that "the great failing of American conservatives is they do not retrieve their wounded." He had it right, as Todd Akin can testify. In an interview that aired last Sunday, Akin, the Republican candidate for Senate in Missouri, was asked whether he opposed abortions for women who had been raped. Akin's reply: "From what I understand from Continue reading...
On the Chick-fil-A Front of the Culture War
Friday - August 3, 2012 at 2:34 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan Two weeks ago, Dan Cathy, CEO of Chick-fil-A, an Atlanta company famous for its juicy chicken sandwiches, appeared on "The Ken Coleman Show" to air his biblical belief that those who champion same-sex marriage are risking divine retribution upon us all. "We are inviting God's judgment on our nation when we shake our fist at Him and say, 'We know better than you as to Continue reading...
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