By Patrick J. BuchananThe original "Hollywood blacklist" dates back to 1947, when 10 members of the Communist Party, present or former, invoked the Fifth Amendment before the House Committee on Un-American Activities.The party was then a wholly owned subsidiary of the Comintern of Joseph Stalin, whose victims had surpassed in number those of Adolf Hitler.In a 346-17 vote, the Hollywood Continue reading...
Vulture Capitalism or Populist Demagoguery?
Tuesday - January 17, 2012 at 12:52 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan"They're vultures that are sitting out there on the tree limb, waiting for a company to get sick, and then they swoop in ... eat the carcass ... and ... leave the skeleton."So Rick Perry colorfully characterized the private equity firm Bain Capital, once run by Mitt Romney.How did Bain prosper? Says Perry:"These companies ... come in and loot the people's Continue reading...
Is America Disintegrating?
Friday - October 21, 2011 at 12:14 am
By Patrick J. BuchananIn Federalist 2, John Jay looks out at a nation of a common blood, faith, language, history, customs and culture."Providence," he writes, "has been pleased to give this one connected country to one united people -- a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking the same language, professing the same religion ... very similar in their manners and customs Continue reading...
A Conspiracy of Counterfeiters
Tuesday - August 30, 2011 at 11:12 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan"Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the Capitalist System was to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.""Lenin was certainly right," John Maynard Keynes continued in his 1919 classic, "The Economic Consequences of the Continue reading...
Why Weiner’s Going Under the Bus
Tuesday - June 14, 2011 at 10:24 am
By Patrick J. BuchananIs there any redeeming social value to the tawdry tale of Anthony Weiner?Only this: The nationwide revulsion at the conduct of the congressman has compelled the leadership and members of the House Democratic caucus to demand he resign immediately and cease not only distracting them from their work but stinking up their party.Traditional morality has just been Continue reading...
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