by Patrick J. Buchanan – May 29, 2002

Last week, Vice President Cheney and Secretary Rumsfeld warned that more terror attacks are a certainty and may involve the detonation of an atomic weapon on American soil. They have concentrated the mind wonderfully. Even a small, crude nuclear device, exploded in a U.S. port or city, could kill many thousands more than died on Sept. 11.

Rightly, the U.S. government is focused on how to anticipate such an attack, prevent it, prepare for it. But there has been no debate over the most critical question. Why? Why do these Islamic radicals so hate us they are willing to commit suicide, if they can take hundreds or thousands of us with them?

by Patrick J. Buchanan – May 24, 2002

Last month, an intriguing little congressional pow-wow was clandestinely held – no press invited – in the Northern Virginia town of Leesburg. It was a 3-day conference, and attendance appears to have been restricted by ethnicity and race.

But this was not a gathering of the Leesburg chapter of the White Citizens Council. It was a conclave of three congressional caucuses – the Black Caucus, the Hispanic Caucus and the Asia Pacific Caucus. And the invitation list appears to have been made up with one provision in mind: No whites need apply.

by Patrick J. Buchanan – May 21, 2002

We need to raise the tenor of the debate in Washington and place national security interests before party interests.

The alacrity and glee with which Democrats and their Big Media allies piled on President Bush – over the leak that he had been alerted to an al-Qaida sky-jacking plot in August – suggests something else is afoot here, other than righteous indignation.

by Patrick J. Buchanan – May 17, 2002

As Congress mounts yet another attempt to grant amnesty to millions of illegal aliens – as Mexican President Fox demands and President Bush insists – the new face of America is taking shape.

Sifting through Census data from Year 2000, three writers at the Los Angeles Times have seen the new America in their own vast sprawling county. What kind of country will our grandkids live in? If immigration is not brought under control, tomorrow’s America will resemble Los Angeles today – a multicultural, polyglot nation, most of whose people trace their ancestry to the Third World, and a country where the extremes of wealth and poverty mirror the Third World.

by Patrick J. Buchanan – May 14, 2002

“The commonest error in politics is sticking to the carcasses of dead policies,” observed Lord Salisbury, the prime minister who presided over Britain’s rapprochement with the United States. Lord Salisbury was right. It is time the United States reviewed its policy of total estrangement from and isolation of Cuba.

This is not to say, as some argue, that our Cuban policy has failed. The reverse is true. From the late Eisenhower years through the Reagan Decade, the policy succeeded. By embargoing Cuba, the United States forced Moscow to divert $5 billion yearly to keep Castro’s regime afloat. Maintaining their Cuban colony on the doorstep of the United States was imperial overstretch for the Soviet Empire, and the endless bleeding helped to bring that empire down.

by Patrick J. Buchanan – May 7, 2002

Just as Watergate brought all the Nixon-haters out of their holes to get in on the kill, the pedophile-priest scandal has lured from their dens the whole grinning jackal pack that relishes any opening to sink its teeth into the Roman Catholic Church.

“Is the pope Catholic?” is the smart-aleck title Catholic-baiters at the New York Times put on the nastiest attack on the Holy Father in memory. The author of Saturday’s screed is Times staffer Bill Keller, an apostate Catholic who enjoys being called a “collapsed Catholic.”

By Patrick J. Buchanan – May 3, 2002

Has President Bush decided with finality to invade Iraq and destroy Saddam Hussein, even if it will require 200,000 U.S. troops? Most pundits believe the decision has been made, that D-Day will come as soon as U.S. forces are in place, perhaps January. Yet, there remains a deep division in this city over the wisdom of an invasion.

The War Party offers us a vision of a U.S.-occupied Iraq, like Germany and Japan after World War II, as a new democracy and U.S. ally in the Middle East, whose attractiveness will persuade the Iranian people to rise up and overthrow the mullahs.