By Patrick J. Buchanan

Bushites boast of all the new jobs created, but Business Week tells the inconvenient truth: “Since 2001, 1.7 million new jobs have been created in the health care sector. Meanwhile, the number of private sector jobs outside of health care is no higher than it was five years ago.” “Perhaps most surprising,” writes BW, “information technology, the great electronic promise of the 1990s, has turned into one of the biggest job-growth disappointments of all time….

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How to Bring Manufacturing Back Home
By Patrick J. Buchanan – September 29, 2006

By Patrick J. Buchanan – September 26, 2006

“To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.” So Winston Churchill is widely quoted. Those words, however, were spoken in 1954, decades after Churchill’s voice had been the most bellicose for war in 1914 and 1939, the wars that bled and broke his beloved empire.
Yet, Churchill’s quote frames well the main question on the mind of Washington, D.C.: Will President Bush effect the nuclear castration of Iran before he leaves office, or has he already excluded the war option?

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Consult America Before Iran War
by Patrick J. Buchanan – September 26, 2006

by Patrick J. Buchanan

Not since Khrushchev took off his shoe and pounded the table has there been a U.N. General Assembly conclave to rival this one. “The devil came here yesterday…. Right here … talking as if he owned the world,” ranted Hugo Chavez, crossing himself. “And it smells of sulfur still today.” Chavez was talking about President Bush….

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The Real Issue Behind U.N.’s Comic Relief
By Patrick J. Buchanan – September 22, 2006

Not since Khrushchev took off his shoe and pounded the table has there been a U.N. General Assembly conclave to rival this one.

by Patrick J. Buchanan

To bank the firestorm ignited by his address in Regensburg, Germany, Pope Benedict XVI declared himself “deeply sorry” for the effect his remarks have had on the Muslim world. The words of the Byzantine emperor he quoted, Benedict explained, were “from a Medieval text which do not in any way express my personal thoughts.” The pope’s subject was the “profound harmony” of biblical truth and Greek thought…

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The Rage of Islam
by Patrick J. Buchanan – September 19, 2006

by Patrick J. Buchanan – September 15, 2006

“Whatever mistakes have been made in Iraq, the worst mistake would be to think that if we pulled out, the terrorists would leave us alone. They will not leave us alone. They will follow us. The safety of America depends on the outcome of the battle in the streets of Baghdad.” President Bush, speaking on 9/11, had a point. Even some who believe the invasion of Iraq to have been a strategic blunder concede that, if Americans head for the exit ramp, the consequences could be catastrophic….

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by Patrick J. Buchanan
On Saturday on MSNBC, this writer volunteered that if Al Gore would enter the Democratic primaries, he could defeat Hillary Clinton and win the nomination. Hours later, there popped up on Drudge this headline: “Al Gore Says He Hasn’t Ruled Out Second Run.” “I haven’t ruled out running for president again in the future, but I don’t expect to,” Gore told reporters in Australia, where he has been promoting his film on global warming, “An Inconvenient Truth.” Al must have been watching MSNBC….

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Clinton vs. Gore?
by Patrick J. Buchanan – September 12, 2006

by Patrick J. Buchanan
“The war we fight today is more than a military conflict,” said President Bush to the American Legion. “It is the decisive ideological struggle of the 21st century.” But if the ideology of our enemy is “Islamofascism,” what is the ideology of George W. Bush? According to James Montanye, writing in The Independent Review, it is “democratic fundamentalism.” Montanye borrows Joseph Schumpeter’s depiction of Marxism to describe it. Like Marxism, he writes, democratic fundamentalism “presents, first, a system of ultimate ends that embody the meaning of life and are absolute standards by which to judge events and actions; and, secondly, a guide to those ends which implies a plan of salvation and the indication of the evil from which mankind, or a chosen section of mankind, is to be saved. It belongs to that subgroup (of ‘isms’) which promises paradise this side of the grave…

Like the famous racehorse Silky Sullivan, Sen. Rick Santorum is known as a great closer. Yet, months ago, he had been virtually given up for dead by pundits in his race against Bob Casey, Jr., son of the popular, pro-life, former Democratic governor of Pennsylvania. One poll early this year had Santorum down 23 points, an almost insurmountable deficit. A Strategic Value poll had Santorum down 16 points. Now the senator who had been written off is finishing fast. An average of all polls monitored by the RealClearPolitics.com website finds him trailing by 6 points. The most recent Strategic Value poll confirms it. Casey is at 47; Santorum, 41 and rising. What accounts for the surge? The Washington Times traces it to one issue: “Republican strategists say Santorum’s tough stand on immigration has become a key factor….

Since the 1930s, “fascist” has been a term of hate and abuse used by the left against the right, as in the Harry Truman campaign. In 1964, Martin Luther King Jr. claimed to see in the Goldwater campaign “dangerous signs of Hitlerism.” Twin the words “Reagan, fascism” in Google and 1,800,000 references pop up. Unsurprisingly, it is neoconservatives, whose roots are in the Trotskyist-social Democratic left, who are promoting use of the term. Their goal is to have Bush stuff al-Qaida, Hamas, Hezbollah, Syria and Iran into the same “Islamo-fascist” kill box, then let Strategic Air Command do the rest. But the term represents the same lazy, shallow thinking that got us into Iraq, where Americans were persuaded that by dumping over Saddam, we were avenging 9/11…