by Patrick J. Buchanan – June 30, 1998

If they cannot pledge loyalty to America,
why should Americans be loyal to them?…

Not until two-thirds of the states ratified the Constitution did America become one nation under God. Yet some patriots still date the birth of the nation to Philadelphia, July 4, 1776.

And as we prepare to celebrate the 222nd anniversary of that glorious day, many fear we are losing our country. The new century, we are instructed, will see an end of nations, as each surrenders its sovereignty to immerse itself in the Global Economy.

by Patrick J. Buchanan – June 26, 1998

The title of largest employer in the USA long ago passed to
the McDonald’s and Wal-Marts. GM is now the largest employer -
– in Mexico. And as the United Auto Workers strike spreads from
Flint, Mich., it is easy to see where Motown’s future lies: south
of the border, down Mexico way…

CSPAN Booknotes Interview – June 24, 1998

BRIAN LAMB, host: Pat Buchanan, author of “The Great Betrayal.”

LAMB: Who are Uncle Bob and Aunt Honey?

Mr. BUCHANAN (Author, “The Great Betrayal”): They’re my mother’s youngest sister and my uncle, and they live up in the Mon Valley of western Pennsylvania. He had a farm, and I used to go up there in the summers back in the 1940s. And Uncle Bob and Aunt Honey are home folks from up there. Uncle Bob is the individual who sort of awoke me to the idea that maybe free trade wasn’t good for the Mon Valley, where my mom grew up.

by Patrick J. Buchanan – June 23, 1998

America had best wake up. Last week’s trade numbers were the
most ominous yet. Exports to Asia fell, as imports soared. This
nation is now running a merchandise trade deficit clocked in
April at nearly $260 billion a year, and accelerating…

On the eve of Mr. Clinton’s departure for China, Beijing decided to snap the White House to attention, with a naked threat to send the near-bankrupt economies of Asia into free fall.
China’s threat took the form of a warning: Either you and Tokyo intervene to stop the fall of the Japanese yen, or we will let China’s currency and the Hong Kong dollar collapse, as well.

by Patrick J. Buchanan – June 19, 1998

A majority of U.N. members is today moving resolutely to give
supranational institutions sovereign authority greater than that
of nations. Through these institutions, and the extension of the
one-nation, one-vote principle, the United Nations hopes to
overturn the old order, where great powers decided the affairs
of men, and to create a new world order where the global
majority rules…

Weaned on freedom, ever-jealous of its independence, the United States, it is now clear, is the last major obstacle to world government.

by Patrick J. Buchanan – June 16, 1998

…When did Congress authorize Bill Clinton to go to war against
a Yugoslav army that has never attacked Americans?…

This week, NATO conducted air exercises over Albania as a warning to Belgrade that its crackdown in Kosovo must end now.
NATO’s demands? Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic must call off his offensive by June 16, allow monitors unimpeded access to the rebellious province, let the refugees return home, and resume talks with the Kosovan resistance. If Milosevic balks, NATO is preparing attacks on his forces and, says The New York Times, “possible air strikes against strategic military targets in Serbia.”

by Patrick J. Buchanan – June 12, 1998

…If the poor get $5,000 vouchers to escape the blackboard
jungles, while near-poor neighbors, whose taxes subsidize
those vouchers, do not — is that just?…

Historians may well mark June 9 as the D-Day of the school-choice movement in America. On this day, Wisconsin’s Supreme Court ruled that tax-backed tuition vouchers, worth $5,000 each, can be deposited at Bible Christian or St. Teresa’s.
Only the U.S. Supreme Court now stands between parents and an exploding free market in primary and secondary education.

By Patrick J. Buchanan – June 9, 1998

Why would Republicans even think of throwing half of 1999’s surplus down an IMF rat hole, into a Russian regime even its chief financial officer says is shot through with larceny and corruption?…

The last six months have exposed the Global Economy as a vast poker game that can never end. When one player, because of bad cards, bad luck or badly played hands, loses all his chips, the “house” hands him another stack. So the game goes on. For if the players ever call it a night, they will discover there are 10 times as many chips on the table as there is cash to back them up.

by Patrick J. Buchanan – June 6, 1998

What are we to make of all of this? Has America become the “pitiful, helpless giant” Richard Nixon predicted it would if we allowed ourselves to be defeated in Vietnam? No. America remains the first economic and military power on Earth, but U.S. influence is in steep decline. Why?…

Seven years ago this June, George Bush stood near his apogee of public approval, 91 percent, as he reviewed, on Constitution Avenue, the returning, conquering army of Desert Storm. A magnificent moment.
America was “the world’s last superpower,” and the president grandly declared that, after our Gulf War and Cold War triumphs, creation of a “new world order” was next on America’s agenda.

By Patrick J. Buchanan – June 2, 1998

Conservatism triumphed in the GOP in 1964, and in the nation in 1980, because Goldwater and Reagan unapologetically championed the ideas — and reflected the fighting spirit — of the army on the ground. But even the staunchest defenders of the leaders of this Congress cannot say they are doing that today…

“Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive – but to be young was very heaven!” So wrote Wordsworth of how his generation felt on first hearing news of the French Revolution.
And so it was when news came the night Barry Goldwater defeated Nelson Rockefeller in the California primary of 1964 and was now the certain nominee of the Republican Party.