By Patrick J. BuchananTreasury Secretary Tim Geithner's opening bid to Speaker John Boehner, a demand for $1.6 trillion in new taxes, was not meant as a serious offer. It was an ultimatum couched in an insult. Translation:"We won the election. We have the whip hand. Not only are you going to sign on to higher tax rates and higher tax revenues, we are going to rub your Tea Party noses in Continue reading...
9 November 2012 
Is the GOP Headed for the Boneyard?
Friday - November 9, 2012 at 12:30 am
By Patrick J. BuchananAfter its second defeat at the hands of Barack Obama, under whom unemployment has never been lower than the day George W. Bush left office, the Republican Party has at last awakened to its existential crisis.Eighteen states have voted Democratic in six straight elections. Among the six are four of our most populous: New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois and California. And Continue reading...
26 October 2012 
McGovern & Goldwater: Losers or Winners?
Friday - October 26, 2012 at 1:29 am
By Patrick J. BuchananEarly in Ronald Reagan's second term, Bill Rusher, the publisher of National Review, was interviewing the president in the Oval Office for a documentary on the conservative movement.Rusher asked how he would describe Barry Goldwater's role.Reagan thought a moment and replied: I guess you would have to call him the John the Baptist of our movement.I resisted Continue reading...
America’s Last Crusade
Tuesday - September 25, 2012 at 4:57 am
By Patrick J. BuchananFor Americans of the Greatest Generation that fought World War II and of the Silent Generation that came of age in the 1950s, the great moral and ideological cause was the Cold War.It gave purpose and clarity to our politics and foreign policy, and our lives.From the fall of Berlin in 1945 to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, that Cold War was waged by two Continue reading...
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