By Patrick J. Buchanan In August 2008, as the world’s leaders gathered in Beijing for the Olympic games, Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, hot-headed and erratic, made his gamble for greatness. It began with a stunning artillery barrage on Tskhinvali, capital of tiny South Ossetia, a province that had broken free of Tbilisi when Tbilisi broke […]
Did FDR Provoke Pearl Harbor?
Wednesday - December 7, 2011 at 1:00 am
Votes: 4.89 Stars!
Loading...By Patrick J. Buchanan On Dec. 8, 1941, Franklin Roosevelt took the rostrum before a joint session of Congress to ask for a declaration of war on Japan. A day earlier, at dawn, carrier-based Japanese aircraft had launched a sneak attack devastating the U.S. battle fleet at Pearl Harbor. Said ex-President Herbert Hoover, Republican statesman […]
The Roots of Voter Anger Go Back to 1954
Friday - December 2, 2011 at 12:42 am
Votes: 4.83 Stars!Loading...By Patrick J. Buchanan Sixty-nine percent of voters nationwide are angry with the policies of the federal government. To understand why, it’s important to remember that most voters believe tax cuts and government spending cuts are good for the economy. Collectively, voters have voted for politicians who promised spending cuts and tax cuts in just […]
Return of the War Party?
Tuesday - November 15, 2011 at 9:41 am
Votes: 4.83 Stars!Loading...By Patrick J. Buchanan Is a vote for the Republican Party in 2012 a vote for war? Is a vote for Mitt Romney or Newt Gingrich a vote for yet another unfunded war of choice, this time with a nation, Iran, three times as large and populous as Iraq? Mitt says that if elected he […]
The Equality Racket
Friday - November 11, 2011 at 12:34 am
Votes: 4.51 Stars!Loading...By Patrick J. Buchanan Our mainstream media have discovered a new issue: inequality in America. The gap between the wealthiest 1 percent and the rest of the nation is wide and growing wider. This, we are told, is intolerable. This is a deformation of American democracy that must be corrected through remedial government action. What […]
It Can’t Happen Here
Tuesday - November 8, 2011 at 11:20 am
Votes: 4.55 Stars!Loading...By Patrick J. Buchanan Friday, thousands in Moscow, giving Nazi salutes and carrying placards declaring, “Russia for the Russians!” marched through the city shouting racial slurs against peoples from the Caucasus. In Nigeria, Boko Haram, which is Hausa for “Western education is sacrilege,” massacred 63 people in a terror campaign to bring about sharia law. […]
‘Arrivederci, Roma’
Friday - November 4, 2011 at 12:14 am
Votes: 4.77 Stars!Loading...By Patrick J. Buchanan Will popular democracy bring down the New World Order? A fair question. For Western peoples are growing increasingly reluctant to accept the sacrifices that the elites are imposing upon them to preserve that New World Order. Political support for TARP, to rescue the financial system after the Lehman Brothers collapse, is […]
