14 December 2012 The Fall of the House of Labor

The Fall of the House of Labor

Friday - December 14, 2012 at 1:03 am

By Patrick J. BuchananIn 1958, Senate Minority Leader William Knowland, his eye on the 1960 GOP nomination coveted by fellow Californian Richard Nixon, went home and declared for governor.Knowland's plan: Ride to victory on the back of Proposition 18, the initiative to make right-to-work the law in the Golden Land. Prop. 18 was rejected 2 to 1. Knowland's career was over, and the Continue reading...

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9 November 2012 Is the GOP Headed for the Boneyard?

Is the GOP Headed for the Boneyard?

Friday - November 9, 2012 at 12:30 am

By Patrick J. BuchananAfter its second defeat at the hands of Barack Obama, under whom unemployment has never been lower than the day George W. Bush left office, the Republican Party has at last awakened to its existential crisis.Eighteen states have voted Democratic in six straight elections. Among the six are four of our most populous: New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois and California. And Continue reading...

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The Chickens of Globalization Come Home to Roost

Friday - July 20, 2012 at 1:02 am

By Patrick J. BuchananMitt Romney is today the beneficiary of some desperate counsel from alarmed Republicans on how to escape the snare in which he has found himself.Democrats are charging that Mitt was still chairman and CEO of Bain Capital between 1999 and 2002, when the company was advising some of America's premier outsourcers.The facts are in dispute. But the evidence seems on Continue reading...

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What “Big Deals” Did to America

Friday - July 29, 2011 at 12:08 am

By Patrick J. BuchananThanks 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...

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Democratic Dawn — or Darkness?

Thursday - May 26, 2011 at 11:18 pm

By Patrick J. Buchanan"Right now, socially, we are disintegrating."So says Mohamed ElBaradei, former head of the International Atomic Energy Agency and potential candidate for president of Egypt.Indeed, post-revolutionary Egypt appears to be coming apart.Since the heady days of Tahrir Square, Salafis have been killing Christians. Churches have been destroyed. Gangs have conducted Continue reading...

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