By Patrick J. Buchanan - April 30, 2002When fascism comes to America, said Huey Long, it will come in the guise of anti-fascism. And since Vietnam, it has been so.Brownshirt tactics, shouting down speakers, disrupting opposition rallies, demonstrations that degenerate into riots - all have been used repeatedly by self-described fighters against racism and fascism. And invariably, these Continue reading...

by Patrick J. Buchanan - April 26, 2002Ariel Sharon is now contemplating annexation of half of the West Bank. So The Washington Times reports, and so Israel's Foreign Minister confirms. And if Sharon is that cocky, who can blame him? Indeed, why does he not simply annex it all?After all, who is going to stop him?Certainly not the Americans. In short order, Sharon has put Arafat Continue reading...

By Patrick J. Buchanan - April 23, 2002"Non" screamed the single-word headline in Liberation. "The French political system, tottering for years, has imploded," howled the editorial. Now, any election that can produce that kind of pain on the Trotskyite-Socialist Left cannot be all bad.And the stunning showing of Jean-Marie Le Pen, who ran a close second to President Jacques Chirac in Continue reading...

By Patrick J. Buchanan - April 12, 2002President Bush's war on terror is close to being derailed, and his Middle East policy is starting to look like downtown Jenin.What happened? Not long ago, President Bush, victorious in the Afghan war, seemed everywhere invincible. But this last month has left him looking almost impotent in the Middle East.What happened was predicted here six Continue reading...

by Patrick J. Buchanan - April 10, 2002"Volkert van der Graf, 32, is a slender, blond-haired Dutchman whose pictures reveal nothing special except perhaps a taut, ascetic look."But for almost a decade, friends and associates say, this quiet man and strict vegetarian has been consumed by his fight to reduce the suffering of animals reared in industrial quantities for food, fur coats or Continue reading...