Who Commissioned Us to Remake the World?

By Patrick J. BuchananU.S. Ambassador Michael McFaul, Obama's man in Moscow, who just took up his post, has received a rude reception. And understandably so.In 1992, McFaul was the representative in Russia of the National Democratic Institute, a U.S. government-funded agency whose mission is to promote democracy abroad.The NDI has been tied to color-coded or Orange revolutions such as Continue reading...

Is America Losing Control?

By Patrick J. Buchanan"Events are in the saddle and ride mankind."In describing 2011, few cliches seem more appropriate. For in this past year, we Americans seemed to lose control of our destiny, as events seemed to be in the saddle.While President Barack Obama maneuvered skillfully to retain a fighting chance to be re-elected, the economy showed no signs of returning to the robustness Continue reading...

“Second Period of Islamic Power”

By Patrick J. BuchananFor the 30 years since "The McLaughlin Group" began to run on network television, the Christmas and New Year's shows have been devoted to the conferring of annual awards.The first award on the Christmas show is "Biggest Winner."This year, clearly, one of the world's big winner was -- Islam.For this was the year when what Catholic apologist Hilaire Belloc Continue reading...

The Democracy Worshipers

By Patrick J. Buchanan"Your people, sir, is ... a great beast."So Alexander Hamilton reputedly said in an argument with Thomas Jefferson. At the Constitutional Convention of 1787, Hamilton explained:"Real liberty is not found in the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments. If we incline too much to democracy, we shall soon shoot into a monarchy, or some other form of Continue reading...