By Patrick J. BuchananFor the third straight year, the median income of the typical American family fell in 2010. Adjusted for inflation, it is back where it was in 1996, the longest period of zero growth since the Depression.And the poverty rate has inched up to 15.1 percent.Both figures, however, should be put in perspective.For example, a family can be classified as poor and own Continue reading...
The Fire This Time
Friday - August 12, 2011 at 3:09 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan"You've damaged your own race," said Mayor Michael Nutter to the black youths of Philadelphia whose flash mobs have been beating and robbing shoppers in the fashionable district of downtown."Take those God-darn hoodies down," the mayor went on in his blistering lecture. "Pull your pants up and buy a belt, 'cause no one wants to see your underwear or the crack of your Continue reading...
A Fire Bell in the Night for Norway
Tuesday - July 26, 2011 at 12:06 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan"Like a fire bell in the night," wrote Thomas Jefferson in 1820, "this momentous question ... awakened and filled me with terror. I considered it at once as the knell of the Union."Jefferson was writing of the sudden resurgence of the slavery issue in the debate on Missouri's entry into the Union, as foreshadowing a civil war.And that massacre in Oslo, where a 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...
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