The Obama Flu?

Thursday - April 30, 2009 at 10:53 pm

By Patrick J. Buchanan Because of the peril of swine flu, Joe Biden said yesterday, he would urge his family to stay out of "confined places" like airplanes and subways here in the United States. Yet, the Obama administration will not consider closing the United States to airplanes and buses coming in from the epicenter of the epidemic, Mexico City. Does this contradiction make Continue reading...

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Is Torture Ever Moral?

Monday - April 27, 2009 at 11:46 pm

By Patrick J. Buchanan After opening the door to a truth commission to investigate torture by the CIA of al-Qaida subjects, and leaving the door open to prosecution of higher-ups, President Obama walked the cat back. He is now opposed to a truth commission. That means it is dead. He is no longer interested in prosecutions. That means no independent counsel -- for now. Sen. Harry Reid does Continue reading...

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The Rooted and the Rootless

Thursday - April 23, 2009 at 11:31 pm

By Patrick J. Buchanan Does Barack Obama understand the people he leads? Do his aides? These may seem cheeky questions to ask of a team that just won the presidency. But there is something in their cool, insouciant, blase demeanor, in the face of insults to their country, that suggests there yet exists a chasm -- between them and us. Now, the change since the 1960s in the character of the Continue reading...

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The Apologists

Monday - April 20, 2009 at 11:32 pm

by Patrick J. Buchanan For 50 minutes, Obama sat mute, as a Marxist thug from Nicaragua delivered his diatribe, charging America with a century of terrorist aggression in Central America. After Daniel Ortega finished spitting in our face, accusing us of inhumanity toward Fidel Castro's Cuba, Obama was asked his thoughts. "I thought it was 50 minutes long. That's what I Continue reading...

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Rendering Unto Caesar

Thursday - April 16, 2009 at 11:18 pm

by Patrick J. Buchanan At the request of the White House, Georgetown University covered up all the symbols in Gaston Hall, before the Great Man spoke, including IHS, the millennia-old monogram for the name of Jesus Christ. Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Society of Jesus, had adopted the monogram in his seal and it became an emblem of the Jesuit order. When it comes to rendering unto Continue reading...

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The True Haters

Tuesday - April 14, 2009 at 11:25 am

by Patrick J. Buchanan On Good Friday, John Demjanjuk, 89 and gravely ill, was ordered deported to Germany to stand trial as an accessory to the murder of 29,000 Jews -- at Sobibor camp in Poland. Sound familiar? It should. It is a re-enactment of the 1986 extradition of John Demjanjuk to Israel to be tried for the murder of 870,000 Jews -- at Treblinka camp in Poland. How many Continue reading...

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Why Europe Won’t Fight

Thursday - April 9, 2009 at 11:50 pm

By Patrick J. Buchanan "No one will say this publicly, but the true fact is we are all talking about our exit strategy from Afghanistan. We are getting out. It may take a couple of years, but we are all looking to get out." Thus did a "senior European diplomat" confide to The New York Times during Obama's trip to Strasbourg. Europe is bailing out on us. Afghanistan is to be America's Continue reading...

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