By Patrick J. Buchanan “This is called slave labor,” said Pope Francis. The Holy Father was referring to the $40 a month paid to apparel workers at that eight-story garment factory in Bangladesh that collapsed on top of them, killing more than 400. “Not paying a just wage … focusing exclusively on the balance books, on financial statements, only looking at personal profit. That Continue reading...
25 March 2013 
Who Killed the New Majority?
Monday - March 25, 2013 at 11:49 pm
By Patrick J. Buchanan The Republican National Committee has produced an "autopsy" on what went wrong in 2012, when the party failed to win the White House and lost seats in Congress. Yet, the crisis of the Grand Old Party goes back much further. First, some history. The Frank Lloyd Wright of the New Majority was Richard Nixon, who picked up the pieces of the party after Goldwater's Continue reading...
14 December 2012 
The Fall of the House of Labor
Friday - December 14, 2012 at 1:03 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan In 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...
The Chickens of Globalization Come Home to Roost
Friday - July 20, 2012 at 1:02 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan Mitt 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...
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...
Pat Buchanan on Ron Paul, the Internet and Ethnic Politics in the 21st Century
Monday - January 16, 2012 at 9:20 pm
By The Daily Bell Daily Bell: Everyone knows who you are but let's pretend they don't. Give us some background on yourself and how you have come to your current success. Give us a sense of your intellectual development. Pat Buchanan: I went to journalism school right after college and went out to St. Louis where I became an editorial writer for three years. Then I joined up with Richard Continue reading...
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