GOP: Losing Principle, Losing America

by Patrick J. Buchanan The huge Democratic turnout in the Iowa Caucuses, over twice that of the GOP, and the stampede by independents to vote in the Democratic precincts, suggests that Iowa, a swing state carried by President Bush in 2004, may be lost irretrievably to the GOP in 2008. Why is Iowa walking away from the GOP? Why did Barack Obama win almost as many votes as all the Republicans Continue reading...

U.S. Impotence in Pakistan

by Patrick J. Buchanan "Things are in the saddle, and ride mankind." Emerson's couplet comes to mind as the New Year opens with Pakistan, the second largest Muslim country on Earth, in social and political chaos, trending toward a failed state with nuclear weapons. Former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, whom the White House pressed to return home from exile to form an anti-Islamist Continue reading...