By Patrick J. Buchanan When Woodrow Wilson went to Congress to ask for a declaration of war in 1917, the U.S. Army was ranked 17th in the world, behind Portugal. On Armistice Day, 19 months later, there were 2 million doughboys in France, where they had helped to break the back of Gen. Ludendorff's theretofore invincible army in its final offensive, and 2 million more in the United States Continue reading...
The Return of Ethnic Nationalism
Tuesday - February 26, 2008 at 4:21 am
by Patrick J. Buchanan In Africa last week, President Bush deplored the genocide in Rwanda in the 1990s, defended his refusal to send U.S. troops to Darfur and decried the ethnic slaughter in Kenya. Following a fraudulent election, the Kikyu, the dominant tribe in Kenya, have been subjected to merciless assault. People are separating from one another and butchering one another along lines of Continue reading...
McCain Calls Out the Times
Saturday - February 23, 2008 at 1:38 am
by Patrick J. Buchanan John McCain just shoved his whole stack into the middle of the table and put his credibility and candidacy on the line. He just threw down the gauntlet to the New York Times by flatly denying every point of a front-page story that implied McCain had an affair nine years ago with a 31-year-old Washington lobbyist, then used his influence as a committee chair to promote Continue reading...
Does Balkanization Beckon Anew?
Tuesday - February 19, 2008 at 2:56 am
by Patrick J. Buchanan When the Great War comes, said old Bismarck, it will come out of "some damn fool thing in the Balkans." On June 28, 1914, Gavrilo Princip shot the archduke and heir to the Austrian throne, Franz Ferdinand, in Sarajevo, setting in motion the train of events that led to the first world war. In the spring 1999, the United States bombed Serbia for 78 days to force its Continue reading...
The Jena 6 Scam
Friday - February 15, 2008 at 2:42 am
by Patrick J. Buchanan "(S)ome Americans do not understand why the sight of a noose causes such a visceral reaction," declared President Bush to the White House gathering for Black History Month. As the Washington Post rushed to remind us, President Bush was "responding to news coverage of such episodes as the 'Jena Six.'" But if history is about truth, not myth, that news coverage Continue reading...
Huck’s Hour of Power
Tuesday - February 12, 2008 at 1:41 am
by Patrick J. Buchanan During his speech to CPAC, among the best he has delivered, Mitt Romney suspended his campaign, so as not to imperil GOP prospects in the fall. Said Mitt, "If I fight on...all the way to the convention, I would forestall the launch of a national campaign and make it more likely that Sens. Clinton or Obama would win. And in this time of war, I simply cannot let my Continue reading...
McCain’s Rapprochement With the Right?
Saturday - February 9, 2008 at 12:10 pm
by Patrick J. Buchanan On Thursday, at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, Sen. John McCain stood before thousands of conservatives he has done his level best to anger and alienate for a decade – to ask for their support. And he made a not unconvincing case. What he said essentially was this. We have fought each other in the past, and we have fought side by side. Continue reading...
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