Why God Created the GOP

Why God Created the GOP

By Patrick J. Buchanan"God put the Republican Party on earth to cut taxes. If they don't do that, they have no useful function."Columnist Robert Novak was speaking of the party that embraced the revolution of Ronald Reagan, who had hung a portrait of Calvin Coolidge in his Cabinet Room and set about cutting income tax rates to 28 percent.But, to be historically precise, the GOP was not Continue reading...

The Coming Age of Austerity

The Coming Age of Austerity

By Patrick J. Buchanan"Are the good times really over for good?" asked Merle Haggard in his 1982 lament.Then, the good times weren't over. In fact, they were coming back, with the Reagan recovery, the renewal of the American spirit and the end of a Cold War that had consumed so much of our lives.Yet whoever wins today, it is hard to be sanguine about the future.The demographic and Continue reading...