by Patrick J. Buchanan - September 29, 1998 Because the victory came after reporters left for the weekend, Friday's historic vote never received the coverage it deserved. But that evening, an America First trade coalition was born, revealing its power by crushing the speaker's own bill to renew "fast track" -- Congress' surrender of all rights to amend trade treaties. By 243-180, the House Continue reading...

by Patrick J. Buchanan - September 27, 1998 In his marvelous novel "The Bonfire of the Vanities," Tom Wolfe called them "Masters of the Universe" -- the bond traders who worked high above Wall Street, earning princely fortunes buying and selling billions in bonds on the movement of a quarter penny in price. Well, now, our global gamblers are suffering a streak of rotten luck. And to their Continue reading...

by Patrick J. Buchanan - September 22, 1998 Just as Watergate was always about much more than who covered up a minor break-in, so the scandal that roils this city now is about far more than whether Bill Clinton exploited a 21-year-old intern and lied about it under oath. Monicagate is a battlefield in the war for the soul of America, a war that is religious and cultural in character, as well Continue reading...

by Patrick J. Buchanan - September 18, 1998 Both men would today be damned as racists. The first believed in the superiority of the white race and in apartheid, and felt a "glorious consummation" of slavery would be to send all slaves back to Africa. His name was Abraham Lincoln. In his first inaugural address, Lincoln offered to support a constitutional amendment making slavery a Continue reading...

by Patrick J. Buchanan - September 15, 1998 On July 25, 1898, U.S. Gen. Nelson Miles and his troops waded ashore at Guanica to capture Puerto Rico. Since the time of Queen Isabella and Columbus, the island had belonged to Spain. On the 100th anniversary of Miles' invasion, thousands came to Guanica -- some to celebrate 100 years of association, others to decry a century of Yankee Continue reading...

by Patrick J. Buchanan - Sepetmber 14, 1998 "If it were done when 't is done, then 't were well/It were done quickly." So said Macbeth -- about the assassination of the king. Sound advice now. For the impeachment of a president is the republic's bloodless way of dethroning and beheading a monarch. But this episode needs cloture now. The swaggering, cocky Bill Clinton of weeks ago, with Continue reading...

by Patrick J. Buchanan - September 4, 1998 Since the Great Depression destroyed the Republican coalition forged by the Harding-Coolidge tax cuts and immigration reforms, only twice has the GOP put together a great governing majority -- Richard Nixon's 49-state sweep in 1972 and Ronald Reagan's 49-state sweep in 1984. In the last two presidential elections, the GOP share of the vote was the Continue reading...