By Patrick J. Buchanan This week, the friends of Barack Obama introduced into the political battle of 2012 the moral equivalent of poison gas. In an ad produced by the super PAC Priorities USA, Mitt Romney is charged with moral, if not material, complicity in the cancer death of the wife of a Missouri steelworker. Speaking straight into the camera, Joe Soptic, 62, charges Romney with Continue reading...
In the Long Run, Is the GOP Dead?
Friday - July 27, 2012 at 12:45 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan Since 1928, only Dwight Eisenhower and George W. Bush have won the presidency while capturing both houses of Congress for the GOP. In his 49-state landslide, Richard Nixon failed to take either House. In his two landslides, Ronald Reagan won back only the Senate. Yet Mitt Romney is even money to pull off the hat trick. With this hopeful prospect, why the near Continue reading...
Rating and Ranking Our Presidents
Friday - June 29, 2012 at 1:29 pm
By Patrick J. Buchanan In 1948, Arthur Schlesinger Sr. wrote for Life magazine a controversial article on a subject that has been the cause of spirited and acrimonious debate ever since. He listed the consensus of our academic elite as to which American presidents had been Great, Near Great, Average, Below Average and Failures. Leading the list were Abraham Lincoln, George Washington and Continue reading...
Has the Bell Begun to Toll for the GOP?
Friday - May 18, 2012 at 12:14 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan Among the more controversial chapters in "Suicide of a Superpower," my book published last fall, was the one titled, "The End of White America." It dealt with the demographic decline of the white majority and what it portends for education, the U.S. economy, politics and national unity. That book and chapter proved the proximate cause of my departure from MSNBC, Continue reading...
Is This the End of ‘One Europe’?
Tuesday - May 8, 2012 at 1:21 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan How Europe's crisis resolves itself as yet remains unknown. But with Sunday's returns from France and Greece, the mega-trends on the Old Continent are unmistakable. And for the European Union, they are ominous. Nationalism -- be it economic nationalism or ethnic nationalism -- is ascendant. Transnationalism and multiculturalism are in headlong if not irreversible Continue reading...
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