Will Bush Follow Bill to Bailout City?

by Patrick J. Buchanan - June 26, 2002"When sorrows come, they come not single spies, But in battalions," said Hamlet. If President Bush has time left over from defusing a war between India and Pakistan, and preparing a plan for Mideast peace, he best take a quick glance south. From Tijuana to Tierra del Fuego, democratic capitalism is in deepening peril.Some 500 maquiladora plants in Continue reading...

The Time of the Terrorist

by Patrick J. Buchanan - June 24, 2002"You wish to give this evil animal a reservation that is called a Palestinian state of terror," roared Effi Eitan, minister to Ariel Sharon. Eitan was viewing the carnage of a Jerusalem bus bombing that killed 19 – mostly school kids – the day another terrorist bomber blew six Israelis to pieces and wounded 30."How do we negotiate with animals Continue reading...

Do We Have a License to Kill?

by Patrick J. Buchanan - June 18, 2002In the old James Bond films, Sean Connery played Agent 007. The double-0 meant Bond was one of but a handful of British agents who were licensed to kill. So it would appear is George W. Bush.According to Bob Woodward of the Washington Post, President Bush has directed the CIA to conduct a covert operation to oust Saddam Hussein from power, and to use Continue reading...

‘Twas a Famous Media Victory

by Patrick J. Buchanan - June 17, 2002With the 30th anniversary of the Watergate break-in hard upon us, the calls are coming in. Would this writer like to join a panel to "discuss" the Watergate break-in?Though few under 40 can remember what it was about, our Big Media never tire of re-telling their version of the story of Watergate.Why? First, because with Nixon unknown to a new Continue reading...

The Bad Old Days of J. Edgar Hoover

by Patrick J. Buchanan - June 12, 2002"J. Edgar Hoover is Back: FBI Wages Secret War Against U.S. Citizens." So runs the alarmist headline over Monday's column in The Washington Times by civil libertarian Nat Hentoff.What agitates Hentoff is John Ashcroft's decision to let the FBI "send its disguised agents into religious institutions, libraries and meetings of citizens critical of Continue reading...