by Patrick J. Buchanan

Majority Leader Harry Reid is being lacerated, and justifiably so, for a pair of statements about the war in Iraq.

The more widely quoted is the “war is lost” remark of April 19, which, read in context, amounts to a charge of rankest cynicism against President Bush and his War Cabinet.

“I believe myself that the secretary of state, secretary of defense (understands) and – you have to make your own decision as to what the president knows – that this war is lost, and this surge is not accomplishing anything.”

by Patrick J. Buchanan

Partial-birth abortion is a grisly and revolting procedure.

An unborn baby is brought halfway out of the birth canal, then has scissors rammed into its skull and its brains sucked out for easier passage. Sen. Pat Moynihan called it “infanticide.” Seventeen Senate Democrats defied the feminist fanatics to vote to outlaw it.

Now the Supreme Court, 5 to 4, agrees that outlawing this barbaric method of aborting an unborn child does not interfere with what has been for 34 years a woman’s constitutional right to rid herself of an unwanted child.

by Patrick J. Buchanan

Cho Seung-Hui did not live the life he wanted. But on Monday, on the Blacksburg campus of Virginia Tech, Cho ended his life the way he wanted. And because of those two hours of slaughter and suicide, Cho attained the immortality he craved.

He carried out the killings – and we of the media did the rest.

A month from now, few Americans will remember who his victims were. But, decades from now, millions will recognize Cho’s face. When it pops up on a TV screen anywhere in America, they will ask, “Isn’t that the Korean kid who shot all those people down at Virginia Tech?”

by Patrick J. Buchanan

Barracks language edited out, Tommy Franks once referred to the Pentagon’s No. 3, Doug Feith, as “the dumbest guy on the planet.”

It now appears Gen. Franks’ honorific better applies to Feith’s boss, the Pentagon No. 2, Paul Wolfowitz. For a man once hailed as the brightest of the neocons, Wolfie has behaved with a stupidity born of the arrogance of power.

Hailed in 2003 as architect of the Iraq victory, Wolfowitz, by late 2004, was being singled out as the bumbler of postwar planning and the man most responsible for what Gen. William Odom was already calling the greatest strategic blunder in U.S. history.

by Patrick J. Buchanan

In the end, it was not about Imus. It was about us.

Are we really a better country because, after he was publicly whipped for 10 days as the worst kind of racist, with whom no decent person could associate, he was thrown off the air?

Cards on the table.

This writer works for MSNBC, has been on the Imus show scores of times, watches Imus every morning, and likes the show, the music and the guys: the I-Man, Bernie, Charles and Tom Bowman.

by Patrick J. Buchanan

As Chairman Carl Levin of Senate Armed Services conceded Sunday, Congress is not going to de-fund the war in Iraq, even if Bush vetoes every Democratic timetable for withdrawal.

The war will go on – backed by a Democratic Congress.

If Majority Leader Reid is not bluffing about his threat to vote with Russ Feingold to cut off funds, Harry will be rolled by a bipartisan coalition that includes dozens of members of his own caucus.

This is one of my favorite PJB columns. He wrote it in 1994, but it could have been written this morning!

May Christ bless all of you and your families this Easter!

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Of Truth and Tolerance… at Easter
by Patrick J. Buchanan – April 3, 1994

“Truly, this was the Son of God.” So spoke the Roman sentry on Calvary on that first Good Friday as he saw the heavens darken at the death of the Man on the Cross.

by Patrick J. Buchanan

The Easter pardon by Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of the 15 British sailors and Marines, seized by Iranian Revolutionary Guards in waters off the Iraqi coast, two weeks ago, ends the crisis.

And as the beaming smile of President Ahmadinejad, as he graciously accepted apologies from the sailors and Marines, testifies, there is no doubt as to who won the showdown. Among Iranians, for whom love of the Brits is an acquired taste, Ahmadinejad is victor. His position inside Iran, a subject of speculation, is surely stronger today.

by Patrick J. Buchanan

“I was really shocked when I read the Financial Times this morning that one of the candidates was pleading for more national champions and more protectionist action,” huffed Neelie Kroes, competition commissioner of the European Union.

“It is outdated to talk about national champions. It is outdated to talk about protectionism.”

Well, these ideas may be outdated at the EU Commission that sits in Brussels. But they are making a comeback in France, where Nicolas Sarkozy, the leading candidate for the French presidency, has emerged as an unabashed economic patriot.