What Must We Defend?

Tuesday - May 31, 2011 at 10:27 am

By Patrick J. Buchanan"We need to be honest with the president, with the Congress, with the American people" about the consequences of cutting the defense budget, said Secretary of Defense Robert Gates in his valedictory policy address to the American Enterprise Institute."(A) smaller military, no matter how superb, will be able to go fewer places and do fewer things."Gates seeks to Continue reading...

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Obama Blows up the Bridge

Friday - April 15, 2011 at 2:00 am

By Patrick J. Buchanan"Rather than building bridges, he's poisoning wells," said Rep. Paul Ryan, after listening to Barack Obama's scathing attack on his deficit reduction plan as a shredding of America's social contract with the elderly and poor.Ryan is right. Yet, with Obama's partisan savagery, virtually calling the GOP plan immoral, we have clarity.There will be no grand bipartisan Continue reading...

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The Bankrupt PIGS of Europe

Tuesday - February 9, 2010 at 1:07 am

By Patrick J. BuchananThey are called the PIGS -- Portugal, Ireland, Greece, Spain. What they have in common is that all are facing deficits and debts that could bring on national defaults and break up the European Union.What brought the PIGS to the edge of the abyss? Continue reading...

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