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, 1999 Once 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, 1999 Given 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, 1999 Christmas 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...

by Patrick J. Buchanan - January 12, 1999 On the day after Pearl Harbor, ex-President Herbert Hoover sat down and wrote to friends: "You and I know that this continuous putting pins in rattlesnakes finally got this country bitten." Japan's sneak attack was one of the great acts of state terror, but its motive was desperation. The United States had cut off Japan's oil and sent Tokyo an Continue reading...

by Patrick J. Buchanan - January 8, 1999 Anyone raised in Catholic schools at mid-century often heard the term "invincible ignorance." Nuns used it to describe those benighted souls who lacked mental competence to grasp the truth. Whenever I read a column by Ed Koch, the old phrase comes to mind. Koch recently cited as conclusive proof of my malevolence that I defend the America First Continue reading...