By Patrick J. Buchanan - November 30, 2001When Leon Czolgosz shot President William McKinley in 1901, he was tried before a civilian court, as was Giuseppe Zangara, the would-be assassin of President-elect Franklin Roosevelt in 1933.When John Hinckley Jr. shot President Reagan in 1981, he, too, was tried before a civilian court. But those who plotted the murder of Lincoln were tried by a Continue reading...

By Patrick J. Buchanan - November 27, 2001Five days after declaring war on terrorism, the president urged Americans to be patient: "This crusade ... is going to take awhile." Immediately, the cry arose, "How could he be so cruelly insensitive!"Bush was scourged and admonished that he had insulted the Islamic world. Did he not know the Crusades were wars of criminal Christian aggression Continue reading...

By Patrick J. Buchanan - November 13, 2001As President Bush hosts President Putin at his Texas ranch, Russia seems but a shadow of what she was only yesterday.Since the Reagan-Gorbachev summit at Reykjavik, Iceland, Russia has lost a worldwide empire stretching from Cuba to Cam Ranh Bay, including all of Eastern Europe. Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Belarus and Ukraine are gone, as are Continue reading...

By Patrick J. Buchanan - November 10, 2001In 1919, with President Wilson felled by a stroke, anarchists detonated a bomb outside the home of Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer. For the anarchists, not a wise move.On January 2, 1920 there began what historians call “the Palmer Raids.” U.S. agents swooped down on immigrant enclaves, collared anarchists, roughed them up, and booted 3000 Continue reading...

By Patrick J. Buchanan - November 6, 2001In "The Collapse of British Power," historian Corelli Barnett savages the men and dogmas that brought his nation down.In 1914, he writes, Britons believed theirs was the most powerful, productive, self-sufficient nation on earth. But already the rot was deep, as a free-trade cancer had eaten away at its vitals:British industry had ... Continue reading...