By Patrick J. BuchananOn 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 Continue reading...
America’s Ideologue in Chief
Saturday - September 9, 2006 at 2:00 am
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 Continue reading...
Can the GOP Be Saved? Perhaps
Tuesday - September 5, 2006 at 11:28 am
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 Continue reading...
Islamo-fascism?
Friday - September 1, 2006 at 1:22 am
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 Continue reading...
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