16 October 2012 Behind the Benghazi Cover-Up

Behind the Benghazi Cover-Up

Tuesday - October 16, 2012 at 3:20 am

By Patrick J. Buchanan On Sept. 11, scores of men with automatic weapons and RPGs launched a night assault on the U.S. compound in Benghazi, killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and set the building ablaze. Using mortars, they launched a collateral attack on a safe house, killing two more Americans, as other U.S. agents fled to the airport. On Sept. 14, White House press secretary Jay Carney said Continue reading...

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The Day of the Hobbits

Tuesday - August 2, 2011 at 10:18 pm

By Patrick J. Buchanan Mocked by The Wall Street Journal and Sen. John McCain as the little people of the "Lord of the Rings" books, the tea party "Hobbits" are indeed returning to Middle Earth -- to nail the coonskin to the wall. As even the Journal concedes, the final deal to raise the debt ceiling, worked out by Sen. Mitch McConnell and Barack Obama, backed by Speaker John Boehner, is Continue reading...

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The War Over America’s Past

Monday - May 24, 2010 at 10:53 pm

By Patrick J. Buchanan "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." That was the slogan of the Ministry of Truth in George Orwell's "1984," where Winston Smith worked ceaselessly revising the past to conform to the latest party line of Big Brother. And so we come to the battle over history books in the schools of Texas. Liberals are enraged that Continue reading...

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Hoax of the Century

Monday - March 1, 2010 at 11:37 pm

By Patrick J. Buchanan With publication of "On the Origin of Species" in 1859, the hunt was on for the "missing link." Fame and fortune awaited the scientist who found the link proving Darwin right: that man evolved from a monkey. In 1912, success! In a gravel pit near Piltdown in East Sussex, there was found the cranium of a man with the jaw of an ape. "Darwin Theory Proved True," ran Continue reading...

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Is Iran Running a Bluff?

Tuesday - February 16, 2010 at 12:34 am

By Patrick J. Buchanan Did Robert Gibbs let the cat out of the bag? Last week, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told the world that Iran, unable to get fuel rods from the West for its U.S.-built reactor, which makes medical isotopes, had begun to enrich its own uranium to 20 percent. Continue reading...

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America’s Party

Tuesday - December 22, 2009 at 12:18 am

By Patrick J. Buchanan For 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...

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Shakedown in Copenhagen

Friday - December 18, 2009 at 12:21 am

By Patrick J. Buchanan If you would know what Copenhagen is all about, hearken to this nugget in The Washington Post's report from the Danish capital: Continue reading...

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