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. Buchanan Centuries 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...
Will Multiculturalism End Europe?
Tuesday - February 15, 2011 at 3:49 pm
By Patrick J. Buchanan Multiculturalism has "totally failed," says German Chancellor Angela Merkel. "State multiculturalism has had disastrous results," says Britain's David Cameron. Is multiculturalism a failure in France? "My answer is clearly yes, it is a failure," says President Nicolas Sarkozy. Ex-Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar has declared multiculturalism a failure in Spain, Continue reading...
The Two Faces of Maj. Hasan
Tuesday - November 10, 2009 at 1:42 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan Nidal Malik Hasan was two men. One was the proud Army major who wore battle fatigues to mosque; the other, the proud Arab who wore Muslim garb in civilian life. Continue reading...
Dumbing-Down the U.S. Navy
Tuesday - July 7, 2009 at 9:16 am
by Patrick J. Buchanan "Naval Academy Professor Challenges Rising Diversity," ran the headline in the Washington Post. The impression left was that some sorehead was griping because black and Hispanic kids were finally being admitted. The Post's opening paragraphs reinforced the impression. "Of the 1,230 plebes who took the oath of office at the Naval Academy in Annapolis this week, Continue reading...
Globalism vs. Ethnonationalism
Friday - January 30, 2009 at 12:54 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan Standing before the Siegessaule, the Victory Column that commemorates Prussia's triumphs over Denmark, Austria and France in the wars that birthed the Second Reich, Barack Obama declared himself a "citizen of the world" and spoke of "a world that stands as one." Globalists rejoiced. And the election of this son of a white teenager from Kansas and a black academic from Continue reading...
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