By Patrick J. Buchanan Returning from Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta dropped some jolting news. Asked by CBS's Scott Pelley if Iran could have a nuclear weapon in 2012, Panetta replied: "It would probably be about a year before they could do it. Perhaps a little less. But one proviso, Scott, is that if they have a hidden facility somewhere in Iran that may be Continue reading...
GOP Will Take Off the Gloves if Ron Paul Wins Iowa
Monday - December 19, 2011 at 12:02 am
.... Just like they did to Pat Buchanan in 1996 by Timothy P. Carney - The Republican presidential primary has become a bit feisty, but it will get downright ugly if Ron Paul wins the Iowa caucuses. The principled, antiwar, Constitution-obeying, Fed-hating, libertarian Republican congressman from Texas stands firmly outside the bounds of permissible dissent as drawn by either the Continue reading...
Return of the War Party?
Tuesday - November 15, 2011 at 9:41 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan Is a vote for the Republican Party in 2012 a vote for war? Is a vote for Mitt Romney or Newt Gingrich a vote for yet another unfunded war of choice, this time with a nation, Iran, three times as large and populous as Iraq? Mitt says that if elected he will move carriers into the Persian Gulf and "prepare for war." Newt is even more hawkish. America should continue Continue reading...
The Religion Card Is Turned Face Up
Tuesday - October 11, 2011 at 6:06 pm
By Patrick J. Buchanan Is a religious war breaking out in the Republican Party? On Friday, Pastor Robert Jeffress of the 10,000-member First Baptist Church of Dallas took the podium at the Values Voter Summit to introduce and endorse Rick Perry. Gov. Perry, said Pastor Jeffress, is a leader with "a strong commitment to biblical values" who defunded Planned Parenthood, that "slaughterhouse Continue reading...
Was Awlaki an American?
Tuesday - October 4, 2011 at 1:21 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan Friday morning, Predator drones operated by the CIA and Joint Special Operations Command rendezvoused over Yemen and launched Hellfire missiles that blew to pieces the radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki. A declared enemy in the war on terror was eliminated. Yet Awlaki was a U.S. citizen. Reps. Dennis Kucinich and Ron Paul denounced the action. Kucinich said President Continue reading...
A Conspiracy of Counterfeiters
Tuesday - August 30, 2011 at 11:12 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan "Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the Capitalist System was to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens." "Lenin was certainly right," John Maynard Keynes continued in his 1919 classic, "The Economic Consequences of the Continue reading...
Mitt’s Dilemma
Tuesday - August 16, 2011 at 12:33 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan Last week's Republican debate at Ames, Iowa, and the straw poll Saturday did more than sort out the Republican field for 2012. They have given the nation a good close look at a Republican Party that no longer resembles the Bush-McCain model. Consider. Michele Bachmann and Ron Paul, who garnered nearly 60 percent of the votes cast, were both among the two dozen House Continue reading...
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