The Chickens of Globalization Come Home to Roost

By Patrick J. BuchananMitt Romney is today the beneficiary of some desperate counsel from alarmed Republicans on how to escape the snare in which he has found himself.Democrats are charging that Mitt was still chairman and CEO of Bain Capital between 1999 and 2002, when the company was advising some of America's premier outsourcers.The facts are in dispute. But the evidence seems on Continue reading...

How Bill Kristol Purged the Arabists

By Patrick J. BuchananAfter taping John Stossel's show on March 16 in New York, the Mrs. and I took the 10 a.m. Acela back to Washington. Once we had boarded the train, who should come waddling up the aisle but Bill Kristol.The Weekly Standard editor seemed cheerful, and we chatted about the surge in Mitt Romney's popularity and prospects.I did not ask what he had been doing in New Continue reading...

Has the Bell Begun to Toll for the GOP?

By Patrick J. BuchananAmong the more controversial chapters in "Suicide of a Superpower," my book published last fall, was the one titled, "The End of White America."It dealt with the demographic decline of the white majority and what it portends for education, the U.S. economy, politics and national unity.That book and chapter proved the proximate cause of my departure from MSNBC, Continue reading...

The Socialist and The Social Darwinist

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...

The Glaring Inequality of Obamaville

By Patrick J. BuchananRising inequality "is the defining issue of our time," said President Obama in his Osawatomie speech that echoed the "New Nationalism" address Theodore Roosevelt delivered in that same Kansas town a century ago.In the last two decades, the average income of the top 1 percent in the U.S. has grown by 250 percent, bemoaned our populist president, while the income of the Continue reading...