Register-Login

Support Buchanan.Org…

We depend on you to keep us online. Please send in a donation today!

Click here to use the U.S. mail or...

Select Any Amount:

Visitors Online

Archives

Calendar

November 2008
S M T W T F S
« Oct   Dec »
 1
2345678
9101112131415
16171819202122
23242526272829
30  

Our Webserver

Get a Great American
WebHost - We did!

CrisisHost

CrisisHost is a proud supporter of free speech and the Ron Paul Revolution!

Our Site on Twitter

Twitter

Get Pat’s Latest Block Buster!

Churchill, Hitler and the Unnecessary War Order from Amazon...

Day of Reckoning

Day of Reckoning

State of Emergency

State of Emergency
November 29th, 2008

Socialist Republic

By Patrick J. Buchanan

Barack Obama and George W. Bush seem to have come away from their study of the Great Depression with similar conclusions:

To wit: After the Crash of 1929, the Federal Reserve did not move fast enough to save the banks and inject cash into the economy. Second, the New Deal, far from being wastrel deficit spending, was not bold enough. So it was that America wallowed in depression for a decade until the unbridled spending and mammoth deficits of World War II pulled us out.

Bush and Obama seem determined not to make the same mistake.

November 25th, 2008

Thanksgiving Day Proclamation of 1789

WebNote from Linda: I will be offline due to travel for Thanksgiving. If your comments go into moderation, please be patient – I will OK them asap. Happy Thanksgiving to All!

Thanksgiving Day Proclamation of 1789
by President George Washington

Whereas it is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore His protection and favor, and Whereas both Houses of Congress have by their joint committee requested me to recommend to the People of the United States a day of public thanks giving and prayer to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many single favors of Almighty God, especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness.

November 25th, 2008

Meeting Medvedev Halfway

By Patrick J. Buchanan

The morning after Barack Obama’s election, the congratulatory message from Moscow was in the chilliest tradition of the Cold War.

“I hope for constructive dialogue with you,” said Russia’s president, “based on trust and considering each other’s interests.”

Dmitry Medvedev went on that day, in his first State of the Union, to charge America with fomenting the Russia-Georgia war and said he has been “forced” to put Iskander missiles in Kaliningrad to counter the U.S. missile shield President Bush pledged to Poland.

Medvedev had painted Obama into a corner. No new American president can be seen as backing down from a Russian challenge.

November 21st, 2008

Who Killed Detroit?

By Patrick J. Buchanan

Who killed the U.S. auto industry?

To hear the media tell it, arrogant corporate chiefs failed to foresee the demand for small, fuel-efficient cars and made gas-guzzling road-hog SUVs no one wanted, while the clever, far-sighted Japanese, Germans and Koreans prepared and built for the future.

I dissent. What killed Detroit was Washington, the government of the United States, politicians, journalists and muckrakers who have long harbored a deep animus against the manufacturing class that ran the smokestack industries that won World War II.

November 18th, 2008

As GM Goes, So Goes the GOP

By Patrick J. Buchanan

Understandably, Republicans are seething.

When Hank Paulson demanded $700 billion to haul away the trash in the dumpsters of JPMorgan Chase and Goldman Sachs — assuring us we could hold a garage sale of the junk — they rebelled. They acted as the nation, by 100 to one, demanded. They killed the Wall Street bailout.

The Dow quickly sank another 1,000 points, and, charged with criminal irresponsibility by the elites, the GOP buckled, reversed itself, rescued the bailout — and was wiped out on Nov. 4.

November 17th, 2008

WebNote: Site Almost Restored

Dear Brigade,

As you can see we are almost back to normal. I’m still adding plugins, configuring the site, and need to re-install the custom theme. I will also go through the site looking for any bad code still lurking deep inside our files. One piece of bad news is that I have removed the Forum. The developer of the Forum plugin [software] has not updated it for over a year. Thus, it may have been one of the ways hackers were able to attack our site. If there are enough requests, we may install another type of Forum for your use. Stand by!

November 14th, 2008

Bretton Woods II — No Way

By Patrick J. Buchanan

“Laissez-faire is finished, the all-powerful market that is always right, that’s finished,” said Nicholas Sarkozy, speaking ex cathedra, last month.

As a result, said the diminutive French president, it is “necessary to rebuild the entire global financial and monetary system from the bottom up, the way it was done at Bretton Woods after World War II.”

Sarky’s history is a bit off. The Bretton Woods Agreements were actually signed in July 1944, when German troops still occupied Paris, a month before France was liberated by the Americans, who let Charles de Gaulle and the Free French do the honors.

November 11th, 2008

China’s Path to Power

By Patrick J. Buchanan

For decades, before a heedless congregation, some of us have preached the old Hamiltonian gospel.

Great nations do not have trade partners. They have trade competitors and rivals. Trade surpluses are superior to trade deficits. Tariffs on foreign goods are preferable to taxes on U.S. producers. Manufacturing, not finance, is the muscle of the nation.

Economic independence is vital to political independence.

Following Hamiltonian precepts, the United States grew from 13 rural and agricultural colonies into the greatest industrial power in all history, producing 42 percent of the world’s manufactured goods. We were the awe and envy of mankind, the self-sufficient republic, maker of half of the armaments produced by all the nations in World War II.

November 7th, 2008

Why Did John McCain Lose?

By Patrick J. Buchanan

Why did John McCain lose?

Let’s start with those “headwinds” into which he was flying.

The president of the United States, the leader of his party, was at Nixon-Carter levels of approval, 25 percent, going into Election Day.

Sixty-two percent of the nation thought the economy was the No. 1 issue, and 93 percent thought the economy was bad. Two-thirds of the nation thought the war McCain championed was a mistake, and 80 percent to 90 percent thought the country was on the wrong course.

November 7th, 2008

Conservatives Lost More Than an Election

By Chuck Baldwin – NewsWithViews.com

That Barack Obama trounced John McCain last Tuesday should have surprised no one. In fact, in this column, weeks ago, I stated emphatically that John McCain could no more beat Barack Obama than Bob Dole could beat Bill Clinton. He didn’t. (Hence a vote for John McCain was a “wasted” vote, was it not?) I also predicted that Obama would win with an electoral landslide. He did. The real story, however, is not how Barack Obama defeated John McCain. The real story is how John McCain defeated America’s conservatives.

November 4th, 2008

But Where Did Bush Go Wrong?

By Patrick J. Buchanan

After losing control of the Senate and 30 House seats in 2006, the GOP is bracing for losses of six to nine in the Senate, and two dozen to three dozen additional seats in the House.

If the party “were a dog food,” says Rep. Tom Davis, “they would take us off the shelf.”

Bush’s approval is 25 percent. Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton left office with ratings more than twice as high.

But while John McCain and others have deplored the Bush failures, what, exactly, did he do wrong?

November 2nd, 2008

Pat Buchanan At 70: “He Told You So, You F***ing Fools!”

By Tom Piatak – VDARE.com

Kingsley Amis famously suggested that Robert Conquest should call a  revised edition of his pathbreaking account of Stalin’s purges, The Great Terror, issued after material from Soviet archives had substantiated all Conquest’s arguments, “I Told You So, You F***ing Fools.”

A similar sentiment is appropriate to any consideration of Pat Buchanan’s career on this November 2, his seventieth birthday.

Buchanan has been right on all the major issues facing America since the end of the Cold War. As the Bush era comes to an end and the Obama era seems about to begin, it can now be seen that the Conservative Establishment’s failure to heed Buchanan has brought us to disaster.

November 2nd, 2008

Pat Buchanan: Guardian of True Freedom and Defender of Western Civilization

by Kyle Bristow

Today, November 2, is Pat Buchanan’s birthday, and I felt it necessary to write a brief essay to extol the contributions he has made to American conservatism, for very few people have contributed to conservative philosophy to such a degree as has he.

Buchanan has always defended tradition, Western culture, and true freedom, but most of his contributions to political discourse have been made in the latter part of his life.

As a senior adviser for President Ronald Reagan, Buchanan was involved with the combating of the communist ideology at the twilight of the Soviet Union’s nightmarish existence.