By Patrick J. Buchanan The authors of the Democratic platform have inadvertently revealed to the world the sea change that has taken place in that party we once knew. For the first time -- and in the longest Democratic platform in history, 26,000 words -- there was not a single mention of God, the Creator, whom Thomas Jefferson himself, father of the party, proclaimed to be the author of our Continue reading...
The New Blacklist
Friday - February 17, 2012 at 12:02 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan My days as a political analyst at MSNBC have come to an end. After 10 enjoyable years, I am departing, after an incessant clamor from the left that to permit me continued access to the microphones of MSNBC would be an outrage against decency, and dangerous. The calls for my firing began almost immediately with the Oct. 18 publication of "Suicide of a Superpower: 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...
After the Revolution
Friday - March 11, 2011 at 12:16 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan "Democracy ... arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects," said Aristotle. But if the Philosopher disliked the form of government that arose out of the fallacy of human equality, the Founding Fathers detested it. "A democracy is nothing more than mob rule," said Thomas Jefferson, "where 51 percent of the people may Continue reading...
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