Rating and Ranking Our Presidents

Friday - June 29, 2012 at 1:29 pm

By Patrick J. Buchanan In 1948, Arthur Schlesinger Sr. wrote for Life magazine a controversial article on a subject that has been the cause of spirited and acrimonious debate ever since. He listed the consensus of our academic elite as to which American presidents had been Great, Near Great, Average, Below Average and Failures. Leading the list were Abraham Lincoln, George Washington and Continue reading...

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Is Obama’s America God’s Country?

Tuesday - February 21, 2012 at 12:13 am

By Patrick J. Buchanan The political beliefs of Barack Obama, said Rick Santorum last week, come out of "some phony theology. ... Not a theology based on the Bible, a different theology, but no less a theology." Given the opportunity on "Face the Nation" to amend his remarks, Santorum declined the offer and plunged on: "I don't question the president's faith. I've repeatedly said that I Continue reading...

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Whose Country Is It, Anyway?

Tuesday - December 27, 2011 at 1:19 am

By Patrick J. Buchanan Half a century ago, American children were schooled in Aesop's fables. Among the more famous of these were "The Fox and the Grapes" and "The Tortoise and the Hare." Particularly appropriate this Christmas season, and every Christmas lately, is Aesop's fable of "The Dog in the Manger." The tale is about a dog who decides to take a nap in the manger. When the ox, who Continue reading...

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America’s Ideologue in Chief

Saturday - September 9, 2006 at 2:00 am

By Patrick J. Buchanan "The war we fight today is more than a military conflict," said President Bush to the American Legion. "It is the decisive ideological struggle of the 21st century." But if the ideology of our enemy is "Islamofascism," what is the ideology of George W. Bush? According to James Montanye, writing in The Independent Review, it is "democratic fundamentalism." Montanye Continue reading...

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Islamo-fascism?

Friday - September 1, 2006 at 1:22 am

Since the 1930s, "fascist" has been a term of hate and abuse used by the left against the right, as in the Harry Truman campaign. In 1964, Martin Luther King Jr. claimed to see in the Goldwater campaign "dangerous signs of Hitlerism." Twin the words "Reagan, fascism" in Google and 1,800,000 references pop up. Unsurprisingly, it is neoconservatives, whose roots are in the Trotskyist-social Continue reading...

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