Who’s Really Downgrading America?

Monday - August 8, 2011 at 11:44 pm

By Patrick J. Buchanan The decision by Standard & Poor's to strip the United States of its AAA credit rating, for the first time, has triggered a barrage of catcalls against the umpire from the press box and Obamaites. S&P, we are reminded, was giving A ratings to banks like Lehman Brothers, whose books were stuffed with suspect subprime paper, right up to the day Lehman Brothers fell over Continue reading...

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The Long Retreat of Liberalism

Tuesday - July 19, 2011 at 1:18 am

By Patrick J. Buchanan Though President Obama has run rings about the Republican Party in the debt-ceiling debate, that party can yet emerge victorious, if it will stick to its guns. Clearly, the Republican strategy was not thought through, when the party chose the debt ceiling as the legislative terrain on which to fight its fiscal war. The president had wanted a clean debt-ceiling Continue reading...

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We’re All Greeks Now

Friday - July 15, 2011 at 12:58 am

By Patrick J. Buchanan Departing for New Hampshire in November 2010, Sen. Judd Gregg, the fiscal conservative President Obama wanted in his Cabinet, blurted an inconvenient truth: "This nation is on a course where if we don't do something about it, get ... fiscal policy (under control), we're Greece." The remark was regarded as hyperbole. But Gregg had a point. For though Greece, measured by Continue reading...

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Say Goodbye to Los Angeles

Tuesday - June 28, 2011 at 2:12 am

By Patrick J. Buchanan Centuries before William James coined the phrase, men have sought a "moral equivalent of war," some human endeavor to satisfy the jingoistic lust of man, without the carnage of war. For some, the modern Olympic Games have served the purpose, with the Cold War rivalry for medals between the United States and the Soviet Union, and, lately, between America and Continue reading...

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Is Obama Only Postponing the Inevitable?

Friday - June 24, 2011 at 1:15 am

By Patrick J. Buchanan In deciding to pull all of the 30,000 troops from the surge out of Afghanistan, six weeks before Election Day 2012, but only 10,000 by year's end, President Obama has satisfied neither the generals nor the doves. He has, however, well served his political interests. A larger drawdown would have risked the gains made in Kandahar and Helmand and invited a revolt of Continue reading...

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Fed Up With Freeloaders

Friday - June 17, 2011 at 2:00 am

By Patrick J. Buchanan "The most successful alliance in history," it was called at the end of the Cold War in which NATO, for 40 years, deterred the Red Army from overrunning Berlin or crashing through West Germany to the Channel. And when that Cold War was over, Sen. Richard Lugar famously said, "Either NATO goes out of area or goes out of business." In Afghanistan and Libya, NATO went Continue reading...

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What Must We Defend?

Tuesday - May 31, 2011 at 10:27 am

By Patrick J. Buchanan "We need to be honest with the president, with the Congress, with the American people" about the consequences of cutting the defense budget, said Secretary of Defense Robert Gates in his valedictory policy address to the American Enterprise Institute. "(A) smaller military, no matter how superb, will be able to go fewer places and do fewer things." Gates seeks to Continue reading...

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