by Patrick J Buchanan - February 23, 2004 Sen. John Edwards did not win Wisconsin, but he closed a huge gap with John Kerry with astonishing speed in the final week. The issue propelling Edwards was jobs, the lost jobs under George Bush, and Edwards' attribution of blame for the losses on NAFTA and the trade deals for which John Kerry voted in Congress. Edwards has plugged into an Continue reading...
Is Free Trade Falling Out of Fashion?
Wednesday - February 18, 2004 at 8:02 pm
by Patrick J Buchanan - February 18, 2004 Last week was an instructive one for the chairman of the president's Council of Economic Advisers. Gregory Mankiw was battered by leaders of both parties, hoisted by John Kerry, abandoned by his own president and forced to recant his beliefs. What had Professor Mankiw done? He had used the "Economic Report of the President" to tutor us in Continue reading...
Have the Neocons Destroyed the Presidency?
Monday - February 16, 2004 at 8:01 pm
by Patrick J Buchanan - February 16, 2004 George W. Bush "betrayed us," howled Al Gore. "He played on our fear. He took America on an ill-conceived foreign adventure, dangerous to our troops, an adventure that was preordained and planned before 9-11 ever happened." Hearing it, Gore's rant seemed slanderous and demagogic. For though U.S. policy since Clinton had called for regime change Continue reading...
A Matter of Trust
Wednesday - February 11, 2004 at 8:00 pm
by Patrick J Buchanan - February 11, 2004 Most Americans yet believe President Bush did the right thing in ridding Iraq and the world of Saddam Hussein. Yet, how we were persuaded to go to war raises grave questions about the character and competence of those who led us into it. As we now know, Iraq had no tie to Osama, no role in 9-11, no nuclear program, no weapons of mass destruction, Continue reading...
Mitt Romney: Meet Calvin Coolidge
Monday - February 9, 2004 at 7:57 pm
by Patrick J Buchanan - February 9, 2004 "There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any time." With that sentence in a letter to Sam Gompers of the AFL, denouncing the Boston police strike of 1919, Gov. Calvin Coolidge electrified a nation and found himself on the Republican ticket in 1920. When Warren Harding collapsed and died in 1923, Silent Cal was Continue reading...
What Are We Doing There?
Wednesday - February 4, 2004 at 7:52 pm
by Patrick J Buchanan - February 4, 2004 Napoleon III, Emperor of France, saw his opportunity. With the United States sundered and convulsed in civil war, he would seize Mexico, impose a Catholic monarchy and block further expansion of the American republic. In 1863, a French army marched into Mexico City. In 1864, Maximilian, the brother of Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph, was crowned Continue reading...
A Northern Strategy for Kerry-Gephardt
Monday - February 2, 2004 at 7:50 pm
by Patrick J Buchanan - February 2, 2004 With the demise of Howard Dean and the emergence of John Kerry, the White House has seen its big chance for a blowout on the scale of the Nixon and Reagan landslides slip away. President Bush remains the winter-book favorite to win in 2004. Perhaps going away. After all, Kerry is a Massachusetts liberal who voted against the Defense of Marriage Act, Continue reading...
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