A Godless Party Expels the Creator

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...

The Bell Tolls for the Government Unions

By Patrick J. Buchanan In 1919, after Boston police went on strike to protest the city's refusal to recognize their new union, Gov. Calvin Coolidge ordered the National Guard into the streets. Sam Gompers, the legendary father of American labor, wrote the governor that the Boston police had been denied their rights. Coolidge's terse reply put him in our history books: "Your assertion Continue reading...

A Warring Visionary

by Tom Piatak - Chronicles Magazine The Crusader: The Life and Tumultuous Times of Pat Buchanan British scholar Timothy Stanley has produced the first significant biography of Patrick J. Buchanan, describing his life from his boyhood in Washington, D.C., up to the present. Stanley’s book is written in a breezy, informal manner—Buchanan is referred to as “Pat” throughout—and it Continue reading...

Obama Sandbags the Archbishop

By Patrick J. Buchanan At the end of Sunday mass at the church this writer attends in Washington, D.C., the pastor asked the congregation to remain for a few minutes. Then, on the instructions of Cardinal Archbishop Donald Wuerl, the pastor proceeded to read a letter. In the letter, the Church denounced the Obama administration for ordering all Catholic schools, hospitals and social Continue reading...

Pat Buchanan on Ron Paul, the Internet and Ethnic Politics in the 21st Century

By The Daily Bell Daily Bell: Everyone knows who you are but let's pretend they don't. Give us some background on yourself and how you have come to your current success. Give us a sense of your intellectual development. Pat Buchanan: I went to journalism school right after college and went out to St. Louis where I became an editorial writer for three years. Then I joined up with Richard Continue reading...

What “Big Deals” Did to America

By Patrick J. Buchanan Thanks to Tea Party fanatics, we are told, America just lost an historic opportunity to deal with her national debt. Because of Tea Party intransigence and threats against their own leader John Boehner, the speaker had to reject Obama's "grand bargain," the "big deal" of $3 trillion in budget cuts for $1 trillion in "revenue enhancement." These crazed ideologues, Continue reading...

Is a Tea Party Triumph at Hand?

By Patrick J. Buchanan They were called "terrorists," "fanatics" and "unpatriotic." Yet the principled resistance of the Tea Party Caucus in the House has put their leader right across the table from Barack Obama to negotiate the final terms of armistice in the debt-ceiling battle of 2011. Today is July 22. On this day, it was said, either Congress will have voted to raise the debt Continue reading...