by Patrick J. Buchanan - April 30, 2003 Last week's pre-emptive strike by ex-Speaker Newt Gingrich on the State Department and Colin Powell may appear purest madness. But there is method in Newt's madness. For in his attack on State, Newt – front man for the neoconservatives – fired a shot across the bow of the West Wing, i.e., you have blundered in backing off the threats against Continue reading...

by Patrick J. Buchanan - April 28, 2003 "If the Supreme Court says that you have the right to have consensual sex within your home, then you have the right to bigamy, you have the right to polygamy, you have the right to incest, you have the right to adultery. You have the right to anything." Thus did Sen. Rick Santorum express his opinion that the U.S. Supreme Court should not overturn Continue reading...

by Patrick J. Buchanan - April 23, 2003 "Take Up the White Man's burden," Britain's poet of empire, Rudyard Kipling, admonished Teddy Roosevelt's America in 1899. The United States had just triumphed in the Spanish-American War to liberate Cuba and, as war booty, had annexed the Philippine Islands. We must "Christianize" them, President McKinley explained. Defeating Spain had been as Continue reading...

by Patrick J. Buchanan - April 21, 2003 If you would see the model for the World Government that is to rule your grandchildren, look to Europe. For it is rising there. At the Athens summit of the European Union, where 10 new members were brought into the fold, ex-President Giscard of France, who is drafting the EU constitution, endorsed the idea of a powerful president of Europe who would Continue reading...

by Patrick J. Buchanan - April 16, 2003 No one knows how America's occupation of Iraq will play out. Optimists say this will be like Germany and Japan after World War II, which were converted into democratic allies for the duration of the Cold War. Pessimists point to Lebanon and Israel's invasion of 1982. Put me down among the pessimists. I think Brer Rabbit just hit the tar baby. Continue reading...

by Patrick J. Buchanan - April 14, 2003 It was no cakewalk. But no quagmire either. It was the most awesome display of military power in modern times. At the beginning of the war, Iraqi defenders far outnumbered the U.S. and British invasion force. Yet, from a rolling start, coalition forces took but three weeks and 100 dead to occupy the capital of a nation the size of France with an army Continue reading...

by Patrick J. Buchanan - April 9, 2003 Tony Blair has assured his countrymen the United States does not intend to attack Syria or Iran. Colin Powell has assured the Muslim world the United States does not intend to attack Syria or Iran. But did the British prime minister or U.S. secretary of state clear their statements with Richard Perle? For the War Party has blood in its nostrils and is Continue reading...