In “Where Men Win Glory,” Jon Krakauer examines the killing by friendly fire of professional football player Pat Tillman, combining empathy and extensive reporting in an affecting portrait of the victim and a bitter condemnation of the cover-up that followed his death while on duty in Afghanistan.
Krakauer also ties the tragedy into a long line of U.S. misfires with the Taliban and al-Qaida — a pointed exercise at a time when the Afghanistan campaign is losing political and public support.
Writing about the recent resignation of Van Jones, President Obama’s appointee to be green-jobs czar, Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer says good riddance.
What set Krauthammer off was not that Jones had once used profanity to describe Republicans or even that he might have been a self-proclaimed communist. What made Krauthammer angry and outraged was that Jones had had the audacity to suggest that the federal government might have had foreknowledge of the 9/11 attacks and knowingly let the attacks go forward.
For three decades, Rep. Ron Paul has waged a lonely battle in Congress to abolish the Federal Reserve. But he has more foot soldiers across the nation today, particularly after the financial crisis, who are leading the drive for wider congressional audits of the central bank.
In his new book — “End the Fed” — released today, Rep. Paul walks through his critique of the central bank and lays out a strategy (briefly) for eliminating it. We sat down with the congressman to hear his views on a money system backed by gold, the Fed’s challenge of withdrawing its stimulus and his legislation to audit the central bank. Excerpts of the interview:
On September 3, 2009, a debate sponsored by Intelligence Squared, at the Methodist Central Hall Westminster, in London, considered the question: “Resolved: Churchill was more a liability than an asset to the free world.”
Speakers for the motion: Pat Buchanan, Nigel Knight, political scientist and economist at Churchill College, Cambridge, and Norman Stone, historian and professor of International Relations at Bilkent University, Ankara.
Speakers against the motion: Antony Beevor, historian and author of the best-selling book Stalingrad; professor Richard Overy, historian, author of many books and articles on the Second World War and the Nazi regime; and Andrew Roberts, historian, who has spent 20 years writing, researching, and broadcasting about Churchill and the Second World War.
US Politician Puts Blame on Churchill for Second World War
The row over responsibility for the Second World War broke out again last night at the Evening Standard and Intelligence Squared’s joint debate on Winston Churchill.
American Republican politician Pat Buchanan argued that the wartime prime minister was a leading proponent of the conflict and that had he not entered the war, the impact of the Holocaust would have been lessened.
About 1,800 people attended the debate at the Methodist Central Hall in Westminster on the 70th anniversary of Britain’s declaration of war on Germany.
Churchill, Hitler, and the Unnecessary War: How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World by Patrick J. Buchanan (New York: Crown Publishers, 2008); 518 pages.
Of all the wars the United States has fought, World War II is the most universally celebrated. It was the “Good War,” despite being the bloodiest in world history. Only in the Civil War did more Americans perish. But World War II is seen as the best example of the nation mobilizing completely and righteously to combat evil itself.
Pat Buchanan and I have some differences – some major differences.
He is a Catholic; I am a Protestant. He is a conservative; I am a libertarian. He is a protectionist; I am a freetrader. He has disparaged Wal-Mart; I spend most of my money there. He believes Alexander Hamilton was one of the greatest of the Founding Fathers; I much prefer Thomas Jefferson. He has worked for Republican presidents; I loathe Republican presidents. He favors a government limited to conservative and Republican policies; I favor a government as limited as possible.
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Most of those figures history records as prophets ahead of their times in fact were prophets of their times, addressing a people who remained willfully behind those times. Such was Patrick J. Buchanan when he ran for President, significantly but unsuccessfully, in the national campaigns of 1992 and 1996. I say “unsuccessfully” insofar as he was never inaugurated President of the United States. Otherwise, Buchanan left a significant dent in the American consciousness, one that he has worked strenuously since then to deepen through his literary, rather than by continued political, efforts, with his previous books, including A Republic, Not an Empire; The Death of the West; and Where the Right West Wrong. During the early and middle 90s, the times were ripe for Buchanan’s message…
At this low point in our country’s history, no phrase in the English language has less meaning than “political leader.†The bottom-feeders who “lead†both political parties suck up money and votes while burying themselves in the sand at any sign of a national issue. Yet one shark still circles among all the flatfish: Pat Buchanan. Buchanan’s new book, State of Emergency: The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America, is of central importance to anyone who wants to understand the Fourth Generation threat this country faces. From the outset, State of Emergency recognizes that the problem is not just immigration…
Pat Buchanan thinks so. The controversial pundit and former presidential candidate made his case at a sold out speaking engagement at the Media Theater. “We’re in danger of the break up of the United States of America,” said Buchanan as he spoke with Big Talker 1210 AM Host Michael Smerconish on a brightly lit stage. “All Americans want these borders closed and it’s time Washington did it. People think we’re white guys distressed over their diminishing role. That’s not true. I grew up in a town that had 400,000 black folks and 400,000 whites, but we’re all Americans.” Buchanan spoke as part of Smerconish’s book club. His newest work “State of Emergency” examines the problems associated with illegal immigration, and the government’s policy towards it. After an interview with the morning radio host, the 67-year-old took questions from an audience of several hundred people…
Is it possible for immigrants to be apathetic, or to even hate America? I did not think so—not until I read Pat Buchanan’s State of Emergency: the Third World Invasion and Conquest of America. To be frank, I admit that State Of Emergency has a rather sensational title. But before I review his book, I think it would be useful to consider Buchanan’s perspective. I think that his unique background, like D’Souza’s, adds to the rich diversity of our national fabric…..
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Buchanan on Nationhood
by Chris Seck
The Stanford Review – Stanford University
Pat Buchanan, former U.S. presidential candidate, stands as the preeminent leader in America’s worst hour of crisis since the Civil War… Buchanan explains how social chaos spreads across America. The impacts at every level of American society explode with accelerating consequences by the day. Schools cannot teach America’s kids because Third World children do not speak English, lack educational fundamentals and separate into enclaves of an underclass. America’s hospitals suffer unpaid services for millions of illegals. In California, 86 hospitals and ER wards bankrupted in the past four years. MS-13 gangs stampede across America. Over $100 billion in drugs cross from Mexico into America annually. Prisons explode with 29 percent convicted illegal alien felons at an annual cost of $1.6 billion….
Of course, liberals denounce Buchanan’s message as intolerant bigotry. They condemn any such concern about the “Balkanization of America” as an affront to common humanity. They remain dedicated to multiculturalism. In this case, multiculturalism is code-speak for admiring and defending any heritage or tradition except the one handed down to us by George Washington, John Adams, James Monroe, Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry, Andrew Jackson, and Sam Houston. If that doesn’t shut everybody up, liberals next swing into a lecture about how “we’re a nation of immigrants…
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The Balkanization of America
Lahontan Valley News – August 30, 2006
The editors over at Human Events list State of Emergency as the number one book President Bush should read. Hmmm. That’s a good idea. Why not get a copy and send it to him?
The Honorable George W. Bush
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500
You can also send it care of the Presidents scheduler. Maybe they will block in a time slot for reading…
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Top Ten Books President Bush Should Read on His Next Vacation
America as Pat Buchanan and I knew it was destroyed by the Immigration Act of 1965. This act destroyed the national origins basis of the American population, the essential element of the American “melting pot.†In those days there were American communities. Today there are a variety of Asian communities, Hispanic communities, Muslim communities, black communities, and white communities. The US used to be an uncrowded land where people could “breathe free.†Immigration has increased population densities and brought pressures on infrastructure, the environment, and water resources. What can be done? Buchanan agrees that a moratorium on immigration is necessary until the huge number already here can be assimilated. Another remedy is to realize that there is no such thing as a country without borders….
What should our immigration policy look like? Pat Buchanan: It should look like what John F. Kennedy recommended back in the late 1950s and was repeated in his book in 1959, “A Nation of Immigrantsâ€: total immigration of 150,000 to 250,000 a year. Let’s set a figure of 200,000 a year. A security fence across the southern border. Enforced sanctions on all employers who hire illegals chronically. Those who do so ought to be put in jail or be doing community service, publicly. An end to all welfare benefits, except emergency services, for any and all illegal aliens. A reinterpretation of the 14th Amendment so that some women who the coyotes have moved across the border 50 yards and have their babies there, are not automatic citizens of America. Congress could handle that…
The president has to learn a few things, too, about defending America. And that lesson is being provided by our second piece of good news: the instant success of conservative commentator Pat Buchanan’s new book, “State of Emergency: The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America.” Is there any part of that title that doesn’t get its message across? And it’s No. 1 on Amazon.com. Writing from a deeply informed historical perspective, Buchanan seems pessimistic: “As Rome passed away, so the West is passing away, from the same causes and in much the same way. What the Danube and Rhine were to Rome, the Rio Grande and Mediterranean are to America and Europe, the frontiers of a civilization no longer defended. … The children born in 2006 will witness in their lifetimes the death of the West.” Scary stuff. And if we would simply look at Washington and its current cast of characters, it would be easy to share Buchanan’s pessimism. Inside the Beltway, the Republican and Democratic elites long ago agreed on open borders: Top GOPers are eager to flood the country with cheap labor; top Dems look forward to importing more donkey voters. But out in the heartland people are taking Buchanan’s message to heart. And they aren’t just reading about it; they’re doing something about it…
Rarely has a book rocked me as Pat Buchanan’s latest one has. State of Emergency: The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America, just published by Thomas Dunne Books, shattered my skepticism about the problem of immigration, which I’ve tended to think could be handled by gradual absorption and assimilation, as in the past.
Buchanan argues powerfully that the current wave is radically different from previous ones. In America both the volume of newcomers and, all too often, their attitudes resist the adaptation to our traditions we used to be able to assume. As Enoch Powell warned a generation ago, when Britain began to feel the impact of limitless immigration, the thing has the character of an invasion; the aliens, he noted, were arriving not as mere individuals, but as whole villages, transforming British culture, and not for the better. Now the same thing is happening here – but on a much larger scale….
In the United States, former presidential candidate and journalist Pat Buchanan is again stirring controversy by trying to give sight to the willfully blind. An open border that allows anyone to come to the United States, he asserts, means the country is headed for self-destruction. Mr. Buchanan’s figures are irrefutable: 1 in 12 illegal immigrants has a criminal record; by 2050 there will be 100 million Hispanics concentrated in the American Southwest, as some radicals plot to undo the results of the Mexican-American War. Mr. Buchanan criticizes the president and the Republican Congress (”a wholly owned subsidiary of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce”) for caring more about cheap labor than the health and strength of the country. He wants a deportation program and a strict limit on legal immigration until those already here are properly assimilated and those committing crimes are deported. He also wants a 2,000-mile, double-line security fence along the U.S.-Mexico border….
I found this on a blog in Scotland, “Martin Kelly – Thoughts From The West Of Scotland.” Mr. Kelly has our site on his blog roll and we have returned the favor.
Where Is Our Buchanan?
by Martin Kelly
In a factually incomplete review of his new book ‘In State of Emergency’, The Daily Telegraph today describes Pat Buchanan as a ‘right wing firebrand’.
Such a casual dismissal of a man who’s been an aide to three presidents, a three time candidate for President and possibly the most influential conservative intellectual of the last half century in a crowded field (Buckley and Kirk talked the talk, but it was Buchanan who walked the walk) does not really do him justice.
Pat Buchanan’s new book has roared to the top of the Amazon best-seller list — hitting the No. 1 spot within a day of its release. In his “State of Emergency: The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America,” Buchanan warns that the United States is witnessing its own death — as illegal immigration destroys the fabric of the American nation. More: Buchanan says Mexico has been mounting a conscious effort to use the United States as a dumping ground for its poor and unemployed. Pat Buchanan reports that since 9/11, more than 4 million illegal immigrants have crossed our borders and there are more coming every day. He argues that our leaders in Washington lack the political will to uphold the rule of law. The melting pot is broken beyond repair and the future of our nation is at stake. In this important book, Pat Buchanan reveals that slowly but surely, the great American Southwest is being reconquered by Mexico. These lands — which many Mexicans believe are their birthright — are being detached ethnically, linguistically, and culturally from the United States by a deliberate policy of the Mexican regime….
Mr. Buchanan says the immigration debate has shifted toward his position. “In 1992, I was down in California calling for only 70 miles of border fencing,” Mr. Buchanan said. “And I was called a lot of bad things. If I’m insensitive, then so are the 70 percent of Americans who agree with me on this issue.” Politically, neither Republicans nor Democrats have been able to gain an upper hand on the immigration issue, with a recent Newsweek poll showing 39 percent of Americans trust Democrats more to handle immigration, while 37 percent chose Republicans. Mr. Buchanan has harsh words for Republicans in Congress. He denounces as “de facto amnesty” the Senate-passed bill sponsored by Sens. John McCain, Arizona Republican, and Edward M. Kennedy, Massachusetts Democrat. However, Mr. Buchanan adds that when he started writing his book, “I didn’t know the House would push for such a strong bill,” speaking of the enforcement-only measure passed by the House in December. “Congress is a wholly owned subsidiary of corporate America,” Mr. Buchanan says when asked why elected officials do not support more stringent restrictions on immigration. “Until they get it right, they should be defeated at the ballot box…
Pat was on the Today show this morning and MSNBC has the video online. You can view it at : http://msnbc.msn.com “Pat Buchanan writes that the influx of immigrants from south of the border into the U.S. is an attempt to recapture land in his new book, “State of Emergency:The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America.†The conservative commentator and former presidential candidate writes: “Chicano chauvinists and Mexican agents have made clear their intent to take back through demography and culture what their ancestors lost through war.†He also addresses immigration trends in Europe. Buchanan was invited on “Today†to discuss current issues. Read some excerpts from his book…
In “Where Men Win Glory,” Jon Krakauer examines the killing by friendly fire of professional football player Pat Tillman, combining empathy and extensive reporting in an affecting portrait of the victim and a bitter condemnation of the cover-up that followed his death while on duty in Afghanistan.
On September 3, 2009, a debate sponsored by Intelligence Squared, at the Methodist Central Hall Westminster, in London, considered the question: “Resolved: Churchill was more a liability than an asset to the free world.”
d War broke out again last night at the Evening Standard and Intelligence Squared’s joint debate on Winston Churchill.
Pat Buchanan, former U.S. presidential candidate, stands as the preeminent leader in America’s worst hour of crisis since the Civil War… Buchanan explains how social chaos spreads across America. The impacts at every level of American society explode with accelerating consequences by the day. Schools cannot teach America’s kids because Third World children do not speak English, lack educational fundamentals and separate into enclaves of an underclass. America’s hospitals suffer unpaid services for millions of illegals. In California, 86 hospitals and ER wards bankrupted in the past four years. MS-13 gangs stampede across America. Over $100 billion in drugs cross from Mexico into America annually. Prisons explode with 29 percent convicted illegal alien felons at an annual cost of $1.6 billion….
Was the 'Good War' Unnecessary?
by Anthony Gregory – Antiwar.com
Of all the wars the United States has fought, World War II is the most universally celebrated. It was the “Good War,” despite being the bloodiest in world history. Only in the Civil War did more Americans perish. But World War II is seen as the best example of the nation mobilizing completely and righteously to combat evil itself.