By Patrick J. Buchanan Two weeks after Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans were murdered in Benghazi, Libya, the Obama administration has conceded it was an act of terrorism. The attack on the U.S. Consulate, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton now admits, was part of a broader effort by al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb, working "with other violent extremists to undermine the Continue reading...
America’s Last Crusade
Tuesday - September 25, 2012 at 4:57 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan For Americans of the Greatest Generation that fought World War II and of the Silent Generation that came of age in the 1950s, the great moral and ideological cause was the Cold War. It gave purpose and clarity to our politics and foreign policy, and our lives. From the fall of Berlin in 1945 to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, that Cold War was waged by two Continue reading...
The Irreconcilable Conflict
Tuesday - September 18, 2012 at 1:05 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan "Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, "Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God's great Judgment Seat." Thus did Kipling, the Poet of Empire, caution the British about the Eastern world the Victorians and Edwardians believed to be theirs. And with that world so inflamed against us, perhaps we should inspect more closely our Continue reading...
Is It Time to Come Home?
Thursday - September 13, 2012 at 11:33 pm
By Patrick J. Buchanan Is it not long past time to do a cost-benefit analysis of our involvement in the Middle and Near East? In this brief century alone, we have fought the two longest wars in our history there, put our full moral authority behind an "Arab Spring" that brought down allies in Tunisia, Egypt and Yemen, and provided the air power that saved Benghazi and brought down Moammar Continue reading...
The ‘Large Purpose’ of Romney-Ryan
Friday - August 31, 2012 at 9:51 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan "The success of a party means little except when the nation is using that party for a large and definite purpose," said Woodrow Wilson in his first inaugural, 100 years ago. The Republican Party of Richard Nixon was called to power in 1968 to bring an honorable end to the war in Vietnam and restore law and order to campuses and cities convulsed by crime, riots and Continue reading...
A Grand Old Party in Panic
Friday - August 24, 2012 at 3:20 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan Whittaker Chambers said that "the great failing of American conservatives is they do not retrieve their wounded." He had it right, as Todd Akin can testify. In an interview that aired last Sunday, Akin, the Republican candidate for Senate in Missouri, was asked whether he opposed abortions for women who had been raped. Akin's reply: "From what I understand from Continue reading...
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