By Patrick J. BuchananNext year should be a banner year for the GOP, and may yet be.Obamacare, a "train wreck" about to happen, says Democratic Sen. Max Baucus, goes into full effect Jan. 1, with the popular IRS as enforcer.The Obama media feel betrayed by the secret intrusions on First Amendment rights. Libertarians see the National Security Agency's data mining as a massive violation Continue reading...
25 March 2013 
Who Killed the New Majority?
Monday - March 25, 2013 at 11:49 pm
By Patrick J. BuchananThe Republican National Committee has produced an "autopsy" on what went wrong in 2012, when the party failed to win the White House and lost seats in Congress.Yet, the crisis of the Grand Old Party goes back much further.First, some history. The Frank Lloyd Wright of the New Majority was Richard Nixon, who picked up the pieces of the party after Goldwater's Continue reading...
12 March 2013 
Who Speaks Now for the GOP?
Tuesday - March 12, 2013 at 3:23 am
By Patrick J. BuchananLast Wednesday, Sen. Rand Paul rose on the Senate floor to declare a filibuster and pledge he would not sit down until either he could speak no longer or got an answer to his question about Barack Obama's war powers.Does the president, Paul demanded to know, in the absence of an imminent threat, have the right to order U.S. citizens killed by drone strike on U.S. Continue reading...
5 February 2013 
The Republican Obsession
Tuesday - February 5, 2013 at 2:39 am
By Patrick J. BuchananIf last week's hearing for Chuck Hagel raised questions about his capacity to be secretary of defense, the show trial conducted by his inquisitors on the tribunal raised questions about the GOP.Is the Republican Party, as currently constituted, even capable of conducting a foreign policy befitting a world power? Or has it learned nothing and forgotten nothing since Continue reading...
28 December 2012 
Why the War Party Fears Hagel
Friday - December 28, 2012 at 2:17 am
By Patrick J. BuchananIn the fortnight since Chuck Hagel's name was floated for secretary of defense, we have witnessed Washington at its worst.Who is Chuck Hagel?Born in North Platte, Neb., he was a squad leader in Vietnam, twice wounded, who came home to work in Ronald Reagan's 1980 campaign, was twice elected U.S. senator, and is chairman of the Atlantic Council and co-chair of the Continue reading...
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