by Patrick J. Buchanan"When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state," wrote Shakespeare. Sen. Larry Craig, R-Idaho, knows today whereof the bard spoke.Rarely has a United States senator fallen so fast from grace or been so completely abandoned.As the nation now knows, Craig was arrested in June in an airport men's room in Minneapolis, charged with Continue reading...

by Patrick J. BuchananAs Americans anguish over how to extricate this country from Iraq without a disaster greater than what we now have, and without our friends suffering the fate of our friends in Cambodia and Vietnam, they had best brace themselves. This escalator is going up.George Bush and his generals are laying out the case for a new war. And there has been no resistance offered Continue reading...

by Patrick J. BuchananThe execution-style murder of three African-American college students in Newark, N.J., forced to kneel and shot in the head – allegedly by an illegal alien from Peru who was out on bail for the serial rape of a 5-year-old – has the makings of a Willie Horton issue in 2008.Newark, like New York, is a "sanctuary city," where cops are not to ask criminal suspects if they Continue reading...

by Patrick J. BuchananIf one had to sum up the legacy of Karl Rove as political adviser to the 43rd president, it could probably be done in four words: tactical brilliance, strategic blindness.Though George Bush was not given the natural gifts of a Ronald Reagan, his victories in Texas, followed by successive victories in the presidential contests of 2000 and 2004, put him in the history Continue reading...