Are We Allied to a Corpse?

Tuesday - April 19, 2011 at 12:45 am

By Patrick J. BuchananOf our Libyan intervention, one thing may be safely said, and another safely predicted.When he launched his strikes on the Libyan army and regime, Barack Obama did not think it through. And this nation is now likely to be drawn even deeper into that war.For Moammar Gadhafi's forces not only survived the U.S. air and missile strikes, after which we turned the air Continue reading...

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Robert Gates, Neo-Isolationist?

Thursday - March 3, 2011 at 11:56 pm

By Patrick J. Buchanan"(A)ny future defense secretary who advises the president to again send a big American land army into Asia or into the Middle East or Africa should 'have his head examined,' as Gen. MacArthur so delicately put it," Robert Gates has just told the cadets at West Point.America would be nuts, Gates is saying, to fight a new land war like the two he inherited.It Continue reading...

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Will Multiculturalism End Europe?

Tuesday - February 15, 2011 at 3:49 pm

By Patrick J. BuchananMulticulturalism has "totally failed," says German Chancellor Angela Merkel."State multiculturalism has had disastrous results," says Britain's David Cameron.Is multiculturalism a failure in France? "My answer is clearly yes, it is a failure," says President Nicolas Sarkozy.Ex-Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar has declared multiculturalism a failure in Spain, Continue reading...

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And the Debt Bomb Ticks On

Thursday - January 27, 2011 at 1:56 am

By Patrick J. BuchananWith his approval rating moving up to 50 percent and higher in some polls, the pundits are all agreed. President Obama has turned the corner. He is now the winter-book favorite in 2012.How, two months after his "shellacking," did he do it?First, by taking the wheel from Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, cutting a deal to extend the Bush tax cuts, bringing aboard Bill Continue reading...

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Can Democracy Cope?

Tuesday - December 14, 2010 at 2:23 am

By Patrick J. BuchananFor those who have read about or vaguely remember the stolid British tribe of Dunkirk, the Battle of Britain and the Blitz, which held out in its "finest hour," last week brought a disgusting sight.Mobs in Parliament Square set fire to the statue of 19th century statesman Lord Palmerston and urinated on the statue of Winston Churchill. Pink Floyd's kid was swinging by Continue reading...

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