By Patrick J. Buchanan - April 30, 2002 When 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, 2002 Ariel 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, 2002 President 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...

By Patrick J. Buchanan - April 9, 2002 Seventy-two hours after President Bush told Ariel Sharon to pull out of the West Bank "without delay," the Israeli army was still pounding away at Palestinians in the biggest offensive there since 1967. "I meant what I said," an exasperated president railed at Sharon yesterday afternoon. Yet, still, the Israeli war machine rolled on. Round one in Continue reading...

By Patrick J. Buchanan - April 5, 2002 If President Bush is visibly agonizing over this Mideast crisis, who can blame him? For the president is facing a painful and stark choice – between doing what is right for America, and doing what is angrily demanded of him by Ariel Sharon and the War Party in the United States. Incited by the savage suicide attacks over Passover, Sharon sent his Continue reading...