By Patrick J. Buchanan As Democrats, after a Sunday rally on the Capitol grounds, marched to the House hand-in-hand to vote health care reform, Tea Partiers reportedly shouted the "n-word" at John Lewis and another black congressman. A third was allegedly spat upon. And Barney Frank was called a nasty name. Tea Partiers deny it all. And neither audio nor video of this alleged incident has Continue reading...
The Sydney Carton Party
Tuesday - March 23, 2010 at 12:30 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan "It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known." From "A Tale of Two Cities," Sydney Carton's words, as he rode the tumbrel to the guillotine, came to mind on reading the latest statistics on what open borders has done to a Republican Party that altruistically embraced it. Continue reading...
The Wars of Tribe and Faith
Friday - March 19, 2010 at 12:20 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan When the Soviet Union disintegrated, most Americans likely had never heard of Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan or Turkmenistan. Yet the ethnonationalism of these Asian peoples, boiling to the surface after centuries of tsarist and communist repression, helped tear apart one of the great empires of history. There swiftly followed the collapse of Yugoslavia. Yet, Continue reading...
Dismantling America
Thursday - March 11, 2010 at 11:04 pm
By Patrick J. Buchanan Though Bush 41 and Bush 43 often disagreed, one issue did unite them both with Bill Clinton: protectionism. Globalists all, they rejected any federal measure to protect America's industrial base, economic independence or the wages of U.S. workers. Together they rammed through NAFTA, brought America under the World Trade Organization, abolished tariffs and granted Continue reading...
Who Should Pay the Piper?
Tuesday - March 9, 2010 at 12:05 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan Greece this past weekend saw the worst rioting since the debt crisis began. After Athens had announced new tax hikes and budget cuts to reduce a deficit of 13 percent of gross domestic product, mobs drove guards from Greece's Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and attacked police. Continue reading...
Pitching for America
Friday - March 5, 2010 at 1:58 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan It was Father's Day, 1964, when the Phillies' Jim Bunning, a father of seven, took the mound against the Mets. Ninety pitches later, Bunning had struck out 10 and allowed not one batter to reach first base. Twenty-seven up, 27 down. The first perfect game in 86 years in the National League, and the finest hour of the Hall of Famer's baseball career. Beginning last Continue reading...
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