by Patrick J. Buchanan - July 31, 1998In August of the sixth year of his presidency, Richard Nixon resigned. In August of the sixth year of his presidency, Bill Clinton must contemplate the same end.For if what Monica is telling Ken Starr is true -- that she and the president had a sexual relationship and agreed to lie about it, under oath -- how does Clinton survive?Is perjury Continue reading...

by Patrick J. Buchanan - July 28, 1998"As American objections to the treaty's text were trounced in one overwhelming vote after another, delegates ... stood and cheered." Thus does The Washington Post describe the reaction, as the final votes were taken in Rome to establish a permanent global court for prosecuting war criminals.The tribunal will have 18 judges and a staff of investigators Continue reading...

by Patrick J. Buchanan - July 24, 1998As America was annexing the Philippines in 1898, preparing to send a U.S. army to crush Filipino resistance to the new American empire, William Graham Sumner gave a speech titled, "The Conquest of the United States by Spain.""(W)e are submitting to be conquered by her on the field of ideas and politics," said Sumner. "If we believe in liberty, as an Continue reading...

by Patrick J. Buchanan - July 21, 1998Of all the myths out of which the Republic was born ... none was more hopeful than the crowning myth of the Presidency -- that the people, in their shared wisdom, would be able to choose the best man to lead them.From this came a derivative myth -- that the Presidency ... would make noble any man who held its responsibility. The Office would burn the Continue reading...

by Patrick J. Buchanan - July 17, 1998At noon, July 15, effective Republican resistance to the global agenda of Bill Clinton, Madeleine Albright, Strobe Talbott and Robert Rubin came to an end. The House leadership capitulated.From Most Favored Nation trading privileges for Communist China to $18 billion in fresh funds for the global bailout agency, the International Monetary Fund, Continue reading...