by Patrick J. Buchanan - January 29, 1999"China's army conducted a military exercise last month with simulated missile firings against Taiwan and also for the first time conducted mock attacks on U.S. troops in the region ... "That was the jolting lead of a Jan. 26 story by Bill Gertz of The Washington Times. With those mock attacks, China is sending a message: We will collar Taiwan and Continue reading...

by Patrick J. Buchanan - January 26, 1999"Carpe diem," wrote the poet Horace; seize the pleasure of the passing day. Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die.Gazing on the shambles of the Global Economy, the questions come: Is America sacrificing her future to perpetuate a fraud? Are we squandering our patrimony to put off the inevitable?America may be relishing the longest Continue reading...

by Patrick J. Buchanan - January 22, 1999Once again, U.S. air and naval forces are preparing strikes on Serbia's army and police for refusing to stand down in Kosovo. And, once again, Americans are deeply ambivalent about intervention."Either we get in there with a NATO force, or we get the hell out," said an exasperated Sen. John Warner after Yugoslav strong man Slobodan Milosevic showed Continue reading...

by Patrick J. Buchanan - January 19, 1999Given 24 hours to present their case, the House managers spoke in a hushed Senate chamber, for once uninterrupted by the aging student radicals of the Judiciary Committee and demagogic rants from the House floor. So it was that the strength and power of the case against the president was brought home.Even Senate Democrats conceded by week's end Continue reading...

by Patrick J. Buchanan - January 15, 1999Christmas 1997, I ran into a former U.S. ambassador to Brazil and predicted that country's currency, the real, would have to be devalued. He bet me a dinner it would not -- by Jan. 1, 1999. I lost by 13 days, thanks to a $41.5 billion International Monetary Fund bailout of Brazil.As predicted, however, all the IMF accomplished was to put another Continue reading...