By Patrick J. Buchanan On July 19, the Knesset voted to change the nation’s Basic Law. Israel was declared to be, now and forever, the nation-state and national home of the Jewish people. Hebrew is to be the state language. Angry reactions, not only among Israeli Arabs and Jews, came swift. Allan Brownfeld of the […]
31 July 2018 
Votes: 4.81 Stars!
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Will Tribalism Trump Democracy?
Tuesday - July 31, 2018 at 3:10 am
Votes: 4.81 Stars!Loading...The Eternal Lure of Nationalism
Monday - February 26, 2018 at 11:26 pm
Votes: 4.82 Stars!Loading...By Patrick J. Buchanan In a surprise overtime victory in the finals of the Olympic men’s hockey tournament, the Russians defeated Germany, 4-3. But the Russians were not permitted to have their national anthem played or flag raised, due to a past doping scandal. So, the team ignored the prohibition and sang out the Russian […]
Is Liberalism a Dying Faith?
Friday - October 20, 2017 at 2:06 am
Votes: 4.86 Stars!Loading...By Patrick J. Buchanan Asked to name the defining attributes of the America we wish to become, many liberals would answer that we must realize our manifest destiny since 1776, by becoming more equal, more diverse and more democratic — and the model for mankind’s future. Equality, diversity, democracy — this is the holy trinity […]
10 July 2017 
Votes: 4.76 Stars!
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Alone Perhaps, But Is Trump Right?
Monday - July 10, 2017 at 8:03 pm
Votes: 4.76 Stars!Loading...By Patrick J. Buchanan At the G-20 in Hamburg, it is said, President Trump was isolated, without support from the other G-20 members, especially on climate change and trade. Perhaps so. But the crucial question is not whether Trump is alone, but whether he is right. Has Trump read the crisis of the West correctly? […]
16 March 2017 
Votes: 4.83 Stars!
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Is McCain Hijacking Trump’s Foreign Policy?
Thursday - March 16, 2017 at 10:33 pm
Votes: 4.83 Stars!Loading...By Patrick J. Buchanan “The senator from Kentucky,” said John McCain, speaking of his colleague Rand Paul, “is working for Vladimir Putin … and I do not say that lightly.” What did Sen. Paul do to deserve being called a hireling of Vladimir Putin? He declined to support McCain’s call for a unanimous Senate vote […]
2 May 2016 
Votes: 4.81 Stars!
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Why Russia Resents Us
Monday - May 2, 2016 at 8:12 pm
Votes: 4.81 Stars!Loading...By Patrick J. Buchanan Friday, a Russian SU-27 did a barrel roll over a U.S. RC-135 over the Baltic, the second time in two weeks. Also in April, the U.S. destroyer Donald Cook, off Russia’s Baltic enclave of Kaliningrad, was twice buzzed by Russian planes. Vladimir Putin’s message: Keep your spy planes and ships a […]
13 March 2014 
Votes: 5.00 Stars!
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What Difference Does it Make?
Thursday - March 13, 2014 at 11:01 pm
Votes: 5.00 Stars!Loading...By Patrick J. Buchanan In the last stanza of “The Battle of Blenheim,” Robert Southey writes: “But what good came of it at last?” Quoth little Peterkin. “Why, that I cannot tell,” said he; “But ’twas a famous victory.” What did it really matter? The poet was asking of the triumph of the Duke of […]
Looking Back at ‘The Good War’
Friday - September 2, 2011 at 12:00 am
Votes: 4.55 Stars!Loading...By Patrick J. Buchanan In the early morning hours of Sept. 1, 1939, 72 years ago, the German army crossed the Polish frontier. On Sept. 3, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, having received no reply to his ultimatum demanding a German withdrawal, declared that a state of war now existed between Great Britain and Germany. […]
Katyn and ‘The Good War’
Tuesday - April 13, 2010 at 12:32 am
Votes: 4.31 Stars!Loading...By Patrick J. Buchanan The decapitation of the Polish government last weekend, including President Lech Kaczynski and the military leadership, on that flight to Smolensk to commemorate the Katyn Massacre, brings to mind the terrible and tragic days and deeds of what many yet call the Good War.
Did Hitler Want War?
Tuesday - September 1, 2009 at 12:52 am
Votes: 4.30 Stars!Loading...by Patrick J. Buchanan On Sept. 1, 1939, 70 years ago, the German Army crossed the Polish frontier. On Sept. 3, Britain declared war. Six years later, 50 million Christians and Jews had perished. Britain was broken and bankrupt, Germany a smoldering ruin.
Honorable Exit From Empire
Friday - July 25, 2008 at 2:58 am
Votes: 5.00 Stars!Loading...by Patrick J. Buchanan As any military historian will testify, among the most difficult of maneuvers is the strategic retreat. Napoleon’s retreat from Moscow, Lee’s retreat to Appomattox and MacArthur’s retreat from the Yalu come to mind. The British Empire abandoned India in 1947 — and a Muslim-Hindu bloodbath ensued. France’s departure from Indochina was […]
