By Patrick J. Buchanan In that year of happy memory, 1972, George McGovern, the Democratic nominee, declared he would chop defense by fully one-third. A friendly congressman was persuaded to ask Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird to expatiate on what this might mean. The Pentagon replied the Sixth Fleet might have to be pulled out of the Med, leaving Israel without U.S. protection against Continue reading...
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Who Killed the Middle Class?
Tuesday - February 19, 2013 at 1:44 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan "It is our generation's task, then, to reignite the true engine of America's economic growth -- a rising, thriving middle class." So said Barack Obama in his State of the Union. And for one of his ideas to reignite that engine, Republicans applauded. "And tonight, I am announcing that we will launch talks on a comprehensive Transatlantic Trade and Investment Continue reading...
A Godless Party Expels the Creator
Thursday - September 6, 2012 at 11:53 pm
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...
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...
Is Europe Sailing on the Titanic?
Tuesday - May 1, 2012 at 1:05 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan U.S. growth in the first quarter fell to 2.2 percent, a disappointment. But in Europe, that news would have caused general rejoicing. For consider the gathering crisis on the old continent. With negative growth now for six months, Britain has fallen back into recession. "I don't think we're anywhere near halfway through the eurozone crisis," said Prime Minister Continue reading...
As France Goes, so Goes Europe?
Friday - April 20, 2012 at 12:18 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan When survival is at stake, one may hear from a politician not what he believes -- but what he thinks the people deciding his fate wish to hear. By that standard, what do the people of France, in the final weeks of their presidential election, wish to hear from their candidates? President Nicolas Sarkozy seems to believe his countrymen are in a deeply nationalistic Continue reading...
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