by Patrick J. Buchanan - August 29, 1997 With Poland's membership in NATO at issue, a question has arisen as to whether America owes a debt to the Polish people for Franklin D. Roosevelt's having "betrayed" the Polish nation to Joseph Stalin at Yalta. Undersecretary of State Stuart Eizenstat has lately raised the issue of a moral debt to Poland for the 1945 summit where FDR accepted Continue reading...

by Patrick J. Buchanan - August 25, 1997 There is a purpose to that "rat line" at Virginia Military Institute. As a mustang's spirit must be broken to make it a war horse, so tough, willful, rebellious 17-year-old boys need to learn obedience to command to become good soldiers. A rifle platoon is, after all, neither a debating society nor a democracy. But what was the purpose of those four Continue reading...

by Patrick J. Buchanan - August 22, 1997 For the first time in years, the entering classes of California state law schools are no longer under affirmative action. University regents abolished it. The results are astonishing. In 1996, 473 blacks and Hispanics were accepted to California state law schools; this year, the number fell to 229. At Berkeley alone, acceptance of blacks and Continue reading...

by Patrick J. Buchanan - August 18, 1997 The anchorman's voice had that "can you believe this?" tone to it as he hammered home the phrase "license to kill!" Cause of his shock? Louisiana's new "shoot the carjacker" law, which says that a victim of a carjacking can shoot and kill the thief, and it's "case closed" as far as Louisiana is concerned. Just file a notch on the old Smith & Continue reading...

by Patrick J. Buchanan - August 15, 1997 For the huge taxpayer bailout of Washington, and D.C.'s loss of "home rule," one man is being blamed. Mayor Marion Barry, it is said, dragged the nation's capital to the brink of bankruptcy, and Congress and Bill Clinton had no choice but to snatch the city away. Sorry, it's not that simple. No one man created this ruin, and no numbers-crunching Continue reading...

by Patrick J. Buchanan - August 11, 1997 How conservative is North Carolina? Well, says a friend who moved there: "Down here, Jesse Helms is our liberal senator." Last week, North Carolina added to its 24-carat reputation. An Alamance County jury ordered $1 million paid to a jilted wife -- by the woman who allegedly stole her husband. Dorothy Hutelmyer, age 40, contended in court that in Continue reading...

by Patrick J. Buchanan - August 8, 1997 How did they get in? That question quickly came to mind on reading that two illegal aliens had been arrested in New York hours before they allegedly were going to blow themselves up, along with a few dozen unsuspecting commuters, at a subway station. As for Ghazi Ibrahim Abu Maizar, we know how he got in. As Timothy Egan of The New York Times writes, Continue reading...