By Patrick J. BuchananIs it not long past time to do a cost-benefit analysis of our involvement in the Middle and Near East?In this brief century alone, we have fought the two longest wars in our history there, put our full moral authority behind an "Arab Spring" that brought down allies in Tunisia, Egypt and Yemen, and provided the air power that saved Benghazi and brought down Moammar Continue reading...
‘Arrivederci, Roma’
Friday - November 4, 2011 at 12:14 am
By Patrick J. BuchananWill popular democracy bring down the New World Order?A fair question. For Western peoples are growing increasingly reluctant to accept the sacrifices that the elites are imposing upon them to preserve that New World Order.Political support for TARP, to rescue the financial system after the Lehman Brothers collapse, is being held against any Republican candidate Continue reading...
Fiscal Hawks vs. Security Hawks
Friday - August 5, 2011 at 1:04 am
By Patrick J. BuchananThe Republican Party is a stool that stands on three legs: social conservatives, economic conservatives and foreign policy conservatives.Yet since Ronald Reagan departed and George W. Bush arrived, that coalition has been under a growing strain that may yet pull it apart and redefine what conservatism means in 21st century America.Is a free-trade globalism that Continue reading...
Say Goodbye to Los Angeles
Tuesday - June 28, 2011 at 2:12 am
By Patrick J. BuchananCenturies before William James coined the phrase, men have sought a "moral equivalent of war," some human endeavor to satisfy the jingoistic lust of man, without the carnage of war.For some, the modern Olympic Games have served the purpose, with the Cold War rivalry for medals between the United States and the Soviet Union, and, lately, between America and Continue reading...
Is This Our America Anymore?
Friday - December 17, 2010 at 12:08 am
By Patrick J. BuchananBuried in the Oct. 30 Washington Post was a bland headline: "Report Points to Faster Recovery in Jobs for Immigrants."The story, however, contained social dynamite that explains the rage of Americans who are smeared as nativists and xenophobes for demanding a timeout on immigration.In the April-May-June quarter, foreign-born workers in the U.S. gained 656,000 Continue reading...
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