Globalism vs. Ethnonationalism

Friday - January 30, 2009 at 12:54 am

By Patrick J. BuchananStanding before the Siegessaule, the Victory Column that commemorates Prussia's triumphs over Denmark, Austria and France in the wars that birthed the Second Reich, Barack Obama declared himself a "citizen of the world" and spoke of "a world that stands as one."Globalists rejoiced. And the election of this son of a white teenager from Kansas and a black academic from Continue reading...

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A Bibi-Barack Collision?

Tuesday - January 27, 2009 at 10:13 am

By Patrick J. Buchanan"Where there is no solution, there is no problem," geostrategist James Burnham once wryly observed.Ex-Sen. George Mitchell, the latest U.S. negotiator to take up the Palestine portfolio, may discover what it was that Burnham meant.For Israel's three-week war on Gaza, where Palestinians died at a rate of 100 to one to Israelis, appears to have been, like Israel's Continue reading...

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A Neo-Reaganite Inaugural

Friday - January 23, 2009 at 12:52 am

By Patrick J. BuchananWith a host of near 2 million gathered on the Mall to see him sworn in, Barack Obama delivered an inaugural that was the antithesis of a rallying cry for the "it's-our-turn!" faithful assembled below.Rather, it was an admonition, a warning to the American people of the gravity of our condition, and an invitation of inclusion to that part of the nation that remains Continue reading...

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Is GOP Still a National Party?

Wednesday - January 21, 2009 at 12:12 pm

By Patrick J. BuchananAs President Barack Obama delivers his inaugural address to a nation filled with anticipation and hope, the vital signs of the loyal opposition appear worse than worrisome.The new majority of 49 states and 60 percent of the nation Nixon cobbled together in 1972, that became the Reagan coalition of 49 states and 60 percent of the nation in 1984, is a faded memory. Continue reading...

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Is Ehud’s Poodle Acting Up?

Saturday - January 17, 2009 at 11:45 am

by Patrick J. BuchananAs Israel entered the third week of its Gaza blitz, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert regaled a crowd in Ashkelon with an astonishing tale.He had, said Olmert, whistled up George Bush, interrupted him in the middle of a speech and told him to instruct Condi Rice not to vote for a U.N. resolution Condi herself had written. Bush did as told, said Olmert.The crowd loved it. Continue reading...

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