Miss Affirmative Action 2009

Friday - June 12, 2009 at 1:01 am

By Patrick J. BuchananHaving lost the Congress in 2006 and the White House in 2008, Republicans are looking to redefine themselves for a nation that still leans conservative but is less Republican that it has been in decades.The nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court presents just such an opportunity. For, even if the party loses the battle and Sotomayor sits on the Continue reading...

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The Anti-Reagan

Tuesday - June 9, 2009 at 1:15 pm

By Patrick J. BuchananDespite his boldness, Barack Obama seems as fated to fail as were Woodrow Wilson and Jimmy Carter. And for the same reason: a belief in his own righteousness and moral superiority, and a belief that his ideals and his persona count mightily in the modern world.Wilson declaimed about America's fight to "make the world safe for democracy" when in harness with the Continue reading...

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Breaking Bibi

Friday - June 5, 2009 at 12:12 am

By Patrick J. Buchanan"I have to admire the residents of Iroquois territory for assuming that they have a right to determine where Jews lives in Jerusalem."Thus did Israeli government press director Daniel Seamen caustically dismiss President Obama's opposition to Israel's right to "natural growth" of its settlements in Arab East Jerusalem and on the West Bank.Though Obama's address in Continue reading...

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A Quota Queen for the Court

Tuesday - June 2, 2009 at 8:57 am

By Patrick J. BuchananIf the U.S. Senate rejects race-based justice, Sonia Sotomayor will never sit on the Supreme Court.Because that is what Sonia is all about. As The New York Times reported Saturday, the salient cause of her career has been advancing persons of color, over whites, based on race and national origin."Judge Sotomayor, whose parents moved to New York from Puerto Rico," Continue reading...

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