by Patrick J. Buchanan – August 28, 2002

Sorting out all the reasons for ridding the world of Saddam, the New Republic makes out what its editors call the “Best Case.”

“What is it, then, about the villain in Baghdad that should provoke the United States to be rid of him? One spectacular thing: He is the only leader in the world with Weapons of Mass Destruction who has used them. He used them against civilians. This is what makes Saddam so distinguished in the field of evil. We do not need to speculate about whether he would do the dirtiest deed. He has already done the dirtiest deed. That is the case and ‘the case.’”

by Patrick J. Buchanan- August 26, 2002

He died at 89, unknown to most Americans. Yet, he was an authentic hero to whom all Americans owe a debt – for our freedom and victory in the Cold War.

Meredith Knox Gardner was the greatest code-breaker of his age, a bird of paradise. A graduate of the University of Texas, he earned a master’s in languages from Wisconsin and became fluent in Greek, Latin, French, Italian, Spanish, Lithuanian, Sanskrit, Old High German, Middle High German and old church Slavonic.

by Patrick J. Buchanan – August 21, 2002

With the Democratic Party still hiding in the tall grass, the GOP establishment is beginning to split over the issue of war on Iraq. Majority Leader Dick Armey was the first to speak out against it, followed by Brent Scowcroft, national security adviser to Bush I.

An attack on Iraq now, says Scowcroft, would “jeopardize, if not destroy [our] global counter-terrorist campaign.” It could cause Saddam to launch weapons of mass destruction at Israel, provoking Israeli nuclear retaliation, igniting Armageddon.

by Patrick J. Buchanan – August 19, 2002

“You have no right to impose your moral values on me!”

How often have we all heard that defiant remark tossed into a blazing debate on social issues to clinch the argument? Yet, most of our laws represent the imposition of moral values on a minority.

The graduated income tax, altarpiece of Karl Marx’s “Communist Manifesto,” is rooted in a moral conviction that the rich should not only pay more taxes, but a larger share of their income. Under the tithing of biblical law, all contributed the same 10 percent. Marx has prevailed.

by Patrick J. Buchanan – August 14, 2002

What has happened to Paul O’Neill? Our tough-love treasury secretary seems to have undergone a road-to-Damascus conversion to the Clintonite policy of bailing out bankrupt Third World regimes.

Last month, O’Neill scoffed at the idea of bailing out Latin America. The money, he said, would probably wind up in Swiss banks. But last week, Uruguay got $1.5 billion to stop a run on its banks. Then came a $30 billion dollar IMF bailout of Brazil. Now, the World Bank and Inter-American Development Bank are offering Brazil another $7 billion.

by Patrick J. Buchanan – August 12, 2002

To see members of Congress smiling behind President Bush, as he signed the “fast track” law by which Capitol Hill surrenders all rights to amend trade treaties, is to understand the new realities of power in this city. We have a Congress that recoils from responsibility.

The great congresses of Webster, Clay and Calhoun, which held this nation together, are history. No longer the first branch of government that the Founding Fathers intended, Congress today ranks in power and influence beneath the president and Supreme Court, and even beneath the U.S. bureaucracy and national press.

by Patrick J. Buchanan – August 7, 2002

Surely, he is the most politically incorrect leader on earth. He calls abortion a sin against God and murder of the innocent. He calls homosexuality unnatural and immoral. He opposes all extra-marital sexual relations. He is old, stooped and suffering from Parkinson’s, and slurs his words. He is decried by elites as a hopeless reactionary.

Yet he remains the most beloved leader on earth.

In Canada, Central America and Mexico, millions traveled miles to get a glimpse of him. Not even the president of the United States can draw crowds like this. National leaders who deplore all that he preaches find ways to be photographed beside him.

by Patrick J. Buchanan – August 5, 2002

“The ‘house of world order’ will have to be built from the bottom up. … An end run around sovereignty, eroding it piece by piece, will accomplish much more than the old-fashioned frontal assault.”

So wrote diplomat Richard Gardner in 1974. And there is no better illustration of conducting an end run around sovereignty than the feminist drive to have the Senate ratify the U.N. “Convention to End All Forms of Discrimination Against Women.”