Something Rotten in the State

Tuesday - April 24, 2012 at 1:36 am

By Patrick J. BuchananWith the number of Secret Service members and agents caught up in the partying-with-prostitutes scandal in Cartagena now at a dozen, and six already gone, how much wider and deeper does this go?No one can take pleasure in seeing Secret Service agents -- whose deserved reputation is that they will "take a bullet" for the president, his family and all whom they protect Continue reading...

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The Socialist and The Social Darwinist

Friday - April 6, 2012 at 12:38 pm

By Patrick J. BuchananThe night of his victories in Maryland, Wisconsin and the District of Columbia, Mitt Romney laid out the ground upon which he will stand to fight his fall battle with Barack Obama.Obama, said Mitt, seeks "a government-centered society."But Mitt would restore an "opportunity society" built on the foundations of freedom and private enterprise."Romney spoke in Continue reading...

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Douse the Flames, Mr. President!

Tuesday - March 27, 2012 at 12:06 am

By Patrick J. BuchananBarack Obama's statement that the death of Trayvon Martin was a tragedy that cries out for a more thorough investigation was the right and necessary thing to say.But it fell far short of what was needed: a presidential call for a halt to the rhetoric that is stirring up racial rage and inflaming the nation. The incendiary language being deployed is both divisive and Continue reading...

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Is Obama’s America God’s Country?

Tuesday - February 21, 2012 at 12:13 am

By Patrick J. BuchananThe political beliefs of Barack Obama, said Rick Santorum last week, come out of "some phony theology. ... Not a theology based on the Bible, a different theology, but no less a theology."Given the opportunity on "Face the Nation" to amend his remarks, Santorum declined the offer and plunged on:"I don't question the president's faith. I've repeatedly said that I Continue reading...

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The New Blacklist

Friday - February 17, 2012 at 12:02 am

By Patrick J. BuchananMy days as a political analyst at MSNBC have come to an end.After 10 enjoyable years, I am departing, after an incessant clamor from the left that to permit me continued access to the microphones of MSNBC would be an outrage against decency, and dangerous.The calls for my firing began almost immediately with the Oct. 18 publication of "Suicide of a Superpower: Continue reading...

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