By Patrick J. BuchananWe inherited the worst situation since the Great Depression.That is the reflexive response of President Obama to the troubles from which he has been unable to extract his country.Even before the inauguration, he says, there were projections of a $1.2 trillion deficit for 2009. That deficit is not my deficit. Continue reading...
Liquidating the Empire
Tuesday - February 23, 2010 at 1:48 am
By Patrick J. BuchananA decade ago, Oldsmobile went. Last year, Pontiac. Saturn, Saab and Hummer were discontinued. A thousand GM dealerships shut down.To those who grew up in a "GM family," where buying a Chrysler was like converting to Islam, what happened to GM was deeply saddening.Yet the amputations had to be done -- or GM would die.And the same may be about to happen to the Continue reading...
Is Iran Running a Bluff?
Tuesday - February 16, 2010 at 12:34 am
By Patrick J. BuchananDid Robert Gibbs let the cat out of the bag?Last week, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told the world that Iran, unable to get fuel rods from the West for its U.S.-built reactor, which makes medical isotopes, had begun to enrich its own uranium to 20 percent. Continue reading...
Secession in the Air
Friday - February 12, 2010 at 9:35 am
By Patrick J. BuchananNo, it is not 1860 again.But with all the talk of the 10th Amendment, nullification and interposition, states rights and secession -- following Gov. Rick Perry's misstatement that Texas, on entering the Union in 1845, reserved in its constitution a right to secede -- one might think so. Continue reading...
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