by Patrick J. Buchanan In Year One of the Reagan Revolution, in which he was a shining star, Budget Director David Stockman told reporter William Greider: “Kemp-Roth (President Reagan’s 1981 tax cut) was always a Trojan horse to bring down the top rate. … It’s kind of hard to sell ‘trickle down.’ So the supply-side […]
Obama vs. the U.S. Army
Friday - June 25, 2010 at 9:33 am
Votes: 4.33 Stars!
Loading...By Patrick J Buchanan In confiding to Rolling Stone their unflattering opinions of the military acumen of Barack Obama, Joe Biden, National Security Adviser Gen. James Jones, Dick Holbrooke and Ambassador Karl Eikenberry, Gen. Stanley McChrystal and his staff were guilty of colossal stupidity. And President Obama had cause to cashier them. Yet his decision […]
What Price Afghanistan?
Thursday - June 17, 2010 at 11:25 pm
Votes: 5.00 Stars!Loading...By Patrick J. Buchanan “The narrative … has been too negative.” So says Defense Secretary Robert Gates of political and press commentary about the war in Afghanistan. It reminds him of the pessimism of June 2007, before the Iraqi surge began to succeed, said Gates. But the narrative is coming now not just from critics […]
Bailing Out Politicians Now?
Thursday - June 17, 2010 at 11:21 pm
Votes: 5.00 Stars!Loading...By Patrick J. Buchanan Even lifelong Democratic pol Steny Hoyer, majority leader of the U.S. House, is balking at Barack Obama’s latest bailout proposal. “I think there is spending fatigue,” said Steny. “It’s tough in both houses to get votes.” Hoyer was referring to Obama’s weekend letter to Capitol Hill calling for a $50 billion […]
What’s the Mama Grizzly Up To?
Thursday - June 17, 2010 at 11:15 pm
(Rate This Post!)Loading...By Patrick J. Buchanan When Sarah Palin, in a rambling lakeside announcement last July in Wasilla, said she was quitting as governor of Alaska because of the abuse she and her family were taking from petty politicians and a feral press, she was written off as dead by the pundits. “A quitter, can’t take the […]
Misdemeanors — or Crimes?
Monday - June 7, 2010 at 11:55 pm
Votes: 5.00 Stars!Loading...By Patrick J. Buchanan On this matter of offering federal jobs to potential candidates to induce them not to run against Senate Democratic incumbents, this White House is drifting dangerously close to the falls. Colorado’s Andrew Romanoff has now confirmed that White House Deputy Chief of Staff Jim Messina trolled three federal jobs in front […]
Lift the Siege of Gaza
Thursday - June 3, 2010 at 11:52 pm
Votes: 4.72 Stars!Loading...By Patrick J. Buchanan In June 1948, our wartime ally imposed a blockade on Berlin, cutting off and condemning to death or Stalinist domination 2 million Germans, most of whom, not long before, had cheered Adolf Hitler. Harry Truman responded with the Berlin airlift, in perhaps the most magnanimous act of the Cold War. For […]
