Obama at the Rubicon

Tuesday - September 8, 2009 at 11:50 pm

by Patrick J. Buchanan If the aphorism holds -- the guerrilla wins if he does not lose -- the Taliban are winning and America is losing the war in Afghanistan. Well into the eighth year of war, the Taliban are more numerous than ever, inflicting more casualties than ever, operating in more provinces than ever and controlling more territory than ever. And their tactics are more sophisticated. Continue reading...

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Lyndon Baines Obama

Tuesday - March 10, 2009 at 1:05 am

By Patrick J. Buchanan It was the winter of conservative discontent. Barry Goldwater had gotten only 38 percent of the vote, and his party had suffered its worst thrashing since Alf Landon fell to FDR in 1936. Democrats held 295 House seats, Republicans 140. They held 68 Senate seats to Republicans' 32, and 33 governors to the GOP's 17. Democratic registration was twice that of the Continue reading...

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On the Death of Deep Throat

Tuesday - December 23, 2008 at 11:47 am

By Patrick J. Buchanan "De mortuis nil nisi bonum." Of the dead, nothing but good. So said Dean Acheson of Sen. Joe McCarthy on his death in 1957. "Tailgunner Joe" had bedeviled the secretary of state for his lassitude toward communist penetration of State in President Truman's time. But the passing of Mark Felt, associate director of the FBI in the later Nixon years, lately exposed as Continue reading...

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