By Patrick J. BuchananA conservative's task in society is "to preserve a particular people, living in a particular place during a particular time."Jack Hunter, in a review of this writer's new book, "Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025?" thus summarizes Russell Kirk's view of the duty of the conservative to his country.Kirk, the traditionalist, though not so famous as Continue reading...
An Establishment in Panic
Friday - July 8, 2011 at 10:03 am
By Patrick J. BuchananBy refusing to accept tax increases in a deal to raise the debt ceiling, Republicans are behaving like "fanatics," writes David Brooks of The New York Times.Anti-tax Republicans "have no sense of moral decency," he adds.They are "willing to stain their nation's honor" to "worship their idol." If this "deal of the century" goes down, as he calls the Barack Obama Continue reading...
The Death of Moral Community
Friday - July 1, 2011 at 10:16 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan"The opponents (of same-sex marriage) have no case other than ignorance and misconception and prejudice."So writes Richard Cohen in his celebratory column about Gov. Andrew Cuomo's role in legalizing gay marriage in New York state.Now, given that no nation in 20 centuries of Christendom legalized homosexual marriage, and, in this century, majorities in all 31 Continue reading...
The Dumbing-Down of America
Tuesday - June 21, 2011 at 12:54 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan"Is our children learning?" as George W. Bush so famously asked.Well, no, they is not learning, especially the history of their country, the school subject at which America's young perform at their worst.On history tests given to 31,000 pupils by the National Assessment of Education Progress, the "Nation's Report Card," most fourth-graders could not identify a Continue reading...
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