By Patrick J. Buchanan Mitt Romney has conceded that his thoughts, expressed at that Boca Raton, Fla., fundraiser, were "not elegantly" stated. Those mocking him might concede he has tabled one of the mega-issues of our time.Can America continue down the path President Obama is taking us on, to a time soon and certain when a majority of wage-earners pay no income taxes but a majority of Continue reading...
Salad Days of the Public Sector Are Over
Friday - July 13, 2012 at 12:47 am
By Patrick J. BuchananSan Bernardino, Calif., has now followed Stockton into bankruptcy.Harrisburg and Scranton, Pa., and Jefferson County, Ala., home to Birmingham, are already there to welcome them.Detroit has been taken into receivership by Michigan. A plan under discussion is to level a fourth of the city and reconvert it into the pasture and farmland it used to be a century Continue reading...
Dress Rehearsal for a Mideast War?
Friday - June 15, 2012 at 7:08 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan"History does not repeat itself, but it often rhymes," said Mark Twain.Observing the uprising in Syria, the atrocities, the intervention by rival powers, it all calls to mind the Great Rehearsal for World War II, the Spanish Civil War.The war began in 1936 with an uprising in Morocco of Spanish Nationalists against a Madrid regime seen as anti-Catholic, Marxist Continue reading...
Is Europe Sailing on the Titanic?
Tuesday - May 1, 2012 at 1:05 am
By Patrick J. BuchananU.S. growth in the first quarter fell to 2.2 percent, a disappointment. But in Europe, that news would have caused general rejoicing.For consider the gathering crisis on the old continent.With negative growth now for six months, Britain has fallen back into recession. "I don't think we're anywhere near halfway through the eurozone crisis," said Prime Minister Continue reading...
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