By Patrick J. Buchanan Of the Axis-of-Evil nations named in his State of the Union in 2002, President Bush has often said, "The United States will not permit the world's most dangerous regimes to threaten us with the world's most destructive weapons." He failed with North Korea. Will he accept failure in Iran, though there is no hard evidence Iran has an active nuclear weapons program? William Continue reading...
Morality: Trotskyite vs. Christian
Tuesday - June 24, 2008 at 12:35 am
by Patrick J. Buchanan Did Hitler's crimes justify the Allies' terror-bombing of Germany? Indeed they did, answers Christopher Hitchens in his Newsweek response to my new book, "Churchill, Hitler and the Unnecessary War": "The stark evidence of the Final Solution has ever since been enough to dispel most doubts about, say, the wisdom or morality of carpet-bombing German cities." Atheist, Continue reading...
Was the Holocaust Inevitable?
Friday - June 20, 2008 at 12:07 am
by Patrick J. Buchanan "What Would Winston Do?" So asks Newsweek's cover, which features a full-length photo of the prime minister his people voted the greatest Briton of them all. Quite a tribute, when one realizes Churchill's career coincides with the collapse of the British empire and the fall of his nation from world pre-eminence to third-rate power. That the Newsweek cover was sparked by Continue reading...
Return of the Censors
Tuesday - June 17, 2008 at 1:25 am
by Patrick J. Buchanan Freedom of the press is on trial in Canada. The trial is before a court with the Orwellian title of the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal. The accused are Maclean's magazine and author Mark Steyn. The crime: In mocking and biting tones, they wrote that Islam threatens Western values. Had Steyn written that, given the Crusades, colonial atrocities in Africa and the Continue reading...
The ‘Good War’ and the Terrible Peace
Friday - June 13, 2008 at 12:07 am
by Patrick J. Buchanan In attacking my book "Churchill, Hitler and 'The Unnecessary War': How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World," Victor Davis Hanson, the court historian of the neoconservatives, charges me with "rewriting ... facts" and showing "ingratitude" to American and British soldiers who fought World Wars I and II. Both charges are false, and transparently so. Hanson Continue reading...
How Obama Won — and May Win
Tuesday - June 10, 2008 at 12:35 am
by Patrick J. Buchanan "I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. ... I mean, that's a storybook, man." Thus did Joe Biden famously describe his rival for the nomination, Barack Obama, to the The New York Observer, a year ago. Biden, however, thought Obama might not be able to win the fall election, as he is "a one-term, Continue reading...
Bush’s Black List
Thursday - June 5, 2008 at 1:27 am
by Patrick J. Buchanan The American Conservative Magazine On reading George W. Bush's discourse to the New York Economic Club last week, Cicero's insight came to mind: "To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child." With the Iraq War entering its sixth year, the dollar sinking to peso levels, the economy careening into recession, and 12 to 20 million illegal Continue reading...
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