By Patrick J. Buchanan With Christmas shoppers out in force and the stock market surging to a two-year high, talk is spreading that the long-awaited recovery is at hand. Perhaps. But gleaning the news from Europe and Asia as U.S. cities, states and the federal government sink into debt, it is difficult to believe a worldwide financial crisis that hammers governments, banks and bondholders Continue reading...
Who Owns the Future?
Tuesday - December 28, 2010 at 12:13 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan "That speaks about who is going to be leading tomorrow." So said Angel Gurria, secretary-general of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Every three years, the Paris-based OECD holds its Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) tests of the reading, math and science skills of 15-year-olds in developing and developed countries. Continue reading...
Woody, Haley & The Klan
Friday - December 24, 2010 at 12:09 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan "In May 1866, a little group of young men in the Tennessee village of Pulaski, finding their time hang heavily on their hands after the excitement of the field, so lately abandoned, formed a secret club for the mere pleasure of association, for private amusement -- for anything that might break the monotony of the too quiet place, as their wits might work upon the matter, Continue reading...
Christian Rout in the Culture War
Thursday - December 23, 2010 at 9:44 pm
By Patrick J. Buchanan A Democratic Congress, discharged by the voters on Nov. 2, has as one of its last official acts, imposed its San Francisco values on the armed forces of the United States. "Don't ask, don't tell" is to be repealed. Open homosexuals are to be welcomed with open arms in all branches of the armed services. Let us hope this works out better for the Marine Corps than it Continue reading...
Is This Our America Anymore?
Friday - December 17, 2010 at 12:08 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan Buried in the Oct. 30 Washington Post was a bland headline: "Report Points to Faster Recovery in Jobs for Immigrants." The story, however, contained social dynamite that explains the rage of Americans who are smeared as nativists and xenophobes for demanding a timeout on immigration. In the April-May-June quarter, foreign-born workers in the U.S. gained 656,000 Continue reading...
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