By Patrick J. Buchanan George W. Bush must have been the despair of the history department of every school his daddy managed to get him into. Consider his latest excursion into the history of the republic, at Southern Methodist, where the Great Man's papers are to be housed. "What's interesting about our country, if you study history, is that there are some 'isms' that occasionally pop Continue reading...
How the Chinese Must See Us
Saturday - January 22, 2011 at 6:40 pm
By Patrick J. Buchanan "O would some power the gift to give us to see ourselves as others see us," wrote the poet Robert Burns. As Hu Jintao wings his way home, America's hectoring still ringing in his ears, he must be thinking that maybe we Americans should stop lecturing them and take a closer look at ourselves. Revalue your currency, we demand of the Chinese, stop running these trade Continue reading...
Yankee Utopians in a Chinese Century
Tuesday - July 6, 2010 at 1:39 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan For those who can yet recall the backyard blast furnaces of Mao's China in the 1950s and the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution to re-instill peasant values in the 1970s, the news was jarring. In 2011, said the Financial Times, China will surpass the United States as first manufacturing power, a title America has held since surpassing Great Britain around Continue reading...
Dismantling America
Thursday - March 11, 2010 at 11:04 pm
By Patrick J. Buchanan Though Bush 41 and Bush 43 often disagreed, one issue did unite them both with Bill Clinton: protectionism. Globalists all, they rejected any federal measure to protect America's industrial base, economic independence or the wages of U.S. workers. Together they rammed through NAFTA, brought America under the World Trade Organization, abolished tariffs and granted Continue reading...
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