by Patrick J. Buchanan - July 31, 2002 Not a year has elapsed since the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon that killed 3,000 Americans. Yet the national consensus behind the war on terror has begun to fray. And the fault lies with the president and his War Cabinet. The war's first phase – assembling the anti-Taliban alliance, deploying U.S. forces and striking with decisive Continue reading...

by Patrick J. Buchanan - July 29, 2002 "For the first time in more than two decades, trade barriers are moving in the wrong direction. This isn't the 1930s ... but Pat Buchanan is one happy camper these days." So writes Steve Moore in a long and anguished column in the Washington Times titled, "A Comeback for Protectionism." A free-trade purist at Cato Institute, Moore is right to be Continue reading...

by Patrick J. Buchanan - July 25, 2002 Since President Bush took the oath, the Dow Jones has fallen over 30 percent, the Nasdaq 75 percent. In Sunday's New York Times, Seth Feaster, using a much broader index, has even more jolting news. The Wilshire 5000, writes Feaster, tracks "every publicly traded U.S. company. The Wilshire hit its ceiling on March 24, 2000. Since then, the market has Continue reading...

by Patrick J. Buchanan - July 22, 2002 At long last, Congress may be about to do its duty. According to the New York Times, before summer ends, the Senate and House will call up secretaries Powell and Rumsfeld to lay out the war aims and war plans of President Bush. These hearings are overdue. The New York Times has already spread out on its front page an invasion plan calling for Continue reading...

by Patrick J. Buchanan - July 17, 2002 "The American government sure is easily baffled. An extremist Egyptian Muslim chooses July Fourth to murder Americans and Israelis who are flying from an American airport on Israel's national airline – and the official line is we can't call this terror ..." Adds exasperated columnist Dennis Prager, "This country's officials are in a state of denial Continue reading...

by Patrick J. Buchanan - July 15, 2002 Any regular viewer of CNN, MSNBC or Fox News has seen the videotape: A handcuffed black 16-year-old being body-slammed on the hood of a police car and punched in the face by a white cop. Endlessly, the TV talking heads express outrage, as the tape rolls on, and few there are who defend what that cop did. But why are the media addicted to this story? Continue reading...

by Patrick J. Buchanan - July 10, 2002 "We face an entirely new war," said Gen. MacArthur, as he realized that the hordes of Chinese "volunteers" coming over the Yalu meant Beijing was now intervening massively in the Korean War. That war would last three more years. And the recent horrors in Afghanistan suggest we may be headed for a wider war. On Saturday, Vice President Abdul Qadir Continue reading...