How Capital Crushed Labor

By Patrick J. BuchananOnce, it was a Labor Day tradition for Democrats to go to Cadillac Square in Detroit to launch their campaigns in that forge and furnace of American democracy, the greatest industrial center on earth.Democrats may still honor the tradition. But Detroit is not what she was, not remotely. And neither is America.Not so long ago, we made all the shoes and clothes we Continue reading...

The Dirty Old Man and the IMF

by Patrick J. BuchananSaturday was a bad day for the New World Order.New York police boarded the first-class cabin of an Air France jet bound for Paris to collar Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the head of the International Monetary Fund, a Grand Master of the Universe and the Socialist Party's hope to defeat President Nicolas Sarkozy in 2012.Strauss-Kahn, or DSK as he is known, was hauled Continue reading...

Bush’s New ‘Axis of Evil’

By Patrick J. BuchananGeorge W. Bush must have been the despair of the history department of every school his daddy managed to get him into.Consider his latest excursion into the history of the republic, at Southern Methodist, where the Great Man's papers are to be housed."What's interesting about our country, if you study history, is that there are some 'isms' that occasionally pop Continue reading...

A Decade of Self-Delusion

By Patrick J. BuchananAbout the first decade of what was to be the Second American Century, the pessimists have been proven right.According to the International Monetary Fund, the United States began the century producing 32 percent of the world's gross domestic product. We ended the decade producing 24 percent. No nation in modern history, save for the late Soviet Union, has seen so Continue reading...

America’s Party

By Patrick J. BuchananFor Democrats like Harry Reid, who called them "evil-mongers," and Nancy Pelosi, who called them "un-American," the NBC News poll must have hit like a sucker punch at a Georgetown wine-and-cheese.The Tea Party movement, those folks rallying against spending last spring and Obamacare in the summer town halls, are viewed more favorably than the Democratic Continue reading...