Why This Obsession With Iran?

Friday - July 6, 2012 at 2:31 am

By Patrick J. Buchanan"Iran is not seeking to have the atomic bomb, possession of which is pointless, dangerous and is a great sin from an intellectual and a religious point of view."Thus did supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei declare in February that Iran's possession of atomic weapons would be a mortal sin against Allah.It is also the unanimous judgment of the U.S. intelligence Continue reading...

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Rating and Ranking Our Presidents

Friday - June 29, 2012 at 1:29 pm

By Patrick J. Buchanan In 1948, Arthur Schlesinger Sr. wrote for Life magazine a controversial article on a subject that has been the cause of spirited and acrimonious debate ever since. He listed the consensus of our academic elite as to which American presidents had been Great, Near Great, Average, Below Average and Failures.Leading the list were Abraham Lincoln, George Washington and Continue reading...

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Will Heads Roll for the Stuxnet Leak?

Tuesday - June 12, 2012 at 12:54 am

By Patrick J. BuchananWithin days of SEAL Team Six's killing of Osama on that midnight mission in Pakistan, Defense Secretary Bob Gates, reading all about the raid in the press, went to the White House to tell President Obama's national security adviser pungently to "shut the (bleep) up."Leaked secrets of that raid may have led to the imprisonment for 33 years of a Pakistani doctor who Continue reading...

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Ann Romney Asks the Right Question

Friday - June 1, 2012 at 12:48 am

By Patrick J. BuchananWhen Hillary Rosen said that Ann Romney had "never worked a day in her life," it was among the better days of the Romney campaign.For Rosen -- present whereabouts unknown -- both revealed the feminist mindset about women who choose to become wives and mothers and brought Ann Romney center stage.Before a Connecticut audience recently, Mrs. Romney spoke of her Continue reading...

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The Unraveling Myth of Watergate

Friday - May 25, 2012 at 1:49 am

By Patrick J. BuchananIt was, they said, the crime of the century.An attempted coup d'etat by Richard Nixon, stopped by two intrepid young reporters from The Washington Post and their dashing and heroic editor.The 1976 movie, "All the President's Men," retold the story with Robert Redford as Bob Woodward, Dustin Hoffman as Carl Bernstein and Jason Robards in his Oscar-winning role as Continue reading...

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