By Patrick J. Buchanan When Socialist President Francois Hollande took office, he swiftly made good on his pledge to raise the top tax rate on Frenchmen who earn a million euros a year -- to 75 percent. The regime would now confiscate three of four dollars that the most successful Frenchmen earned. Paris also imposes a wealth tax on assets worth more than $1.7 million. This broke it for Continue reading...
As France Goes, so Goes Europe?
Friday - April 20, 2012 at 12:18 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan When survival is at stake, one may hear from a politician not what he believes -- but what he thinks the people deciding his fate wish to hear. By that standard, what do the people of France, in the final weeks of their presidential election, wish to hear from their candidates? President Nicolas Sarkozy seems to believe his countrymen are in a deeply nationalistic Continue reading...
Who Commissioned Us to Remake the World?
Friday - January 27, 2012 at 12:00 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan U.S. Ambassador Michael McFaul, Obama's man in Moscow, who just took up his post, has received a rude reception. And understandably so. In 1992, McFaul was the representative in Russia of the National Democratic Institute, a U.S. government-funded agency whose mission is to promote democracy abroad. The NDI has been tied to color-coded or Orange revolutions such as Continue reading...
Our Innocents Abroad?
Tuesday - January 3, 2012 at 12:51 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan Friday's lead stories in The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal dealt with what both viewed as a national affront and outrage. Egyptian soldiers, said the Post, "stormed the offices" of three U.S. "democracy-building organizations ... in a dramatic escalation of a crackdown by the military-led government that could imperil its relations with the United Continue reading...
The Equality Racket
Friday - November 11, 2011 at 12:34 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan Our mainstream media have discovered a new issue: inequality in America. The gap between the wealthiest 1 percent and the rest of the nation is wide and growing wider. This, we are told, is intolerable. This is a deformation of American democracy that must be corrected through remedial government action. What action? The rich must pay their fair share. Though the Continue reading...
It Can’t Happen Here
Tuesday - November 8, 2011 at 11:20 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan Friday, thousands in Moscow, giving Nazi salutes and carrying placards declaring, "Russia for the Russians!" marched through the city shouting racial slurs against peoples from the Caucasus. In Nigeria, Boko Haram, which is Hausa for "Western education is sacrilege," massacred 63 people in a terror campaign to bring about sharia law. Seven churches were Continue reading...
!
