by Patrick J. Buchanan – February 26, 1999

Up at the United Nations, the carpenters of the New World Order are busy constructing the world’s first permanent war crimes tribunal. Modeled on the Nuremberg court that convicted the Nazis, the new tribunal claims jurisdiction over all nations, including the United States.

Last July, America rejected the court, fearing U.S. soldiers could be prosecuted. Yet, American diplomats are beavering away alongside U.N. bureaucrats who envision the tribunal as a world court that shall sit above the claims of any and all nation-states.

by Patrick J. Buchanan – February 23, 1999

Now, it’s official. The United States is the last great economy firing on all eight cylinders in a global collapse. America is the last domino.

In 1997, Thailand, Indonesia and South Korea had to be bailed out with $115 billion in International Monetary Fund loans. Last year, Russia, beneficiary of a $22 billion bailout, devalued its currency and defaulted. In January, Brazil devalued.

by Patrick J. Buchanan – February 19, 1999

With the Senate’s failure to muster even a bare majority for the conviction of Bill Clinton, some conservatives are near despair.

“I no longer believe that there is a moral majority,” writes veteran activist Paul Weyrich. “I do not believe that a majority of Americans actually share our values.”

“If there really were a moral majority, Bill Clinton would have been driven out of office months ago,” he laments. “The culture we are living in has become an ever-wider sewer. … we are caught up in a cultural collapse … so great that it simply overwhelms politics.”

by Patrick J. Buchanan – February 16, 1999

In “Great Contemporaries,” Winston Churchill wrote that when Britain abandoned “splendid isolation” to create the Anglo-French alliance in 1904, “only one voice was raised in discord” — the earl of Rosebury. In public, Lord Rosebury said the pact was far more likely to lead to war than peace. In private, he muttered, “Straight to war.”

Rosebury was a prophet. Britain’s plunge into World War I to honor that French alliance would bring her empire to ruin.

by Patrick J. Buchanan – February 12, 1999

Is China preparing for a clash with the United States over Taiwan? What other explanation is there for the ominous moves China is making on the far side of the Taiwan Strait?

On Jan. 26, The Washington Times reported that Beijing had conducted mock missile strikes on U.S. bases in Korea and Japan, using road-mobile CSS-5 missiles with a range of 1,300 miles and silo-based CSS-2 missiles with a range of 1,900 miles.

by Patrick J. Buchanan – February 9, 1999

At every crossroads in the impeachment and trial of William Jefferson Clinton, the Democratic Party shoveled debris onto the path of justice. And because that party worships power, Clinton has evaded conviction for high crimes and misdemeanors.

So, our president gets a pass and walks away.

That he lied in his Paula Jones deposition to fix the trial and covered up by suborning perjury, lying to a grand jury and obstructing justice few Democrats deny, except when in front of a TV camera. There, they act like O.J.’s lawyers, railing on about Ken Starr, just like Johnnie Cochran denouncing Mark Fuhrman and the LAPD.

by Patrick J. Buchanan – February 5, 1999

Browsing through Reason magazine recently, I stumbled on an article by a free-trade True Believer, who was profoundly perplexed over the inroads being made by economic nationalists.

“In a time of unrivaled prosperity,” wailed Brink Lindsey, “what has made trade liberalization so bitterly controversial?” At which point, the author announced that he had discovered why it is that “free traders … (had) wound up in the present mess.”

by Patrick J. Buchanan – February 2, 1999

Not since the Roaring Twenties, when the Republican Party was still “America’s Party,” has the GOP controlled so many seats in the House and Senate and in governors’ chairs.

Yet, to many Republicans, this seems the very winter of their discontent. Inside the party, observers detect a near despair, which is reinforced by the polls, that the GOP has run out of great issues and indefinitely forfeited the vital center of politics to Bill Clinton.