How Bill Kristol Purged the Arabists

By Patrick J. BuchananAfter taping John Stossel's show on March 16 in New York, the Mrs. and I took the 10 a.m. Acela back to Washington. Once we had boarded the train, who should come waddling up the aisle but Bill Kristol.The Weekly Standard editor seemed cheerful, and we chatted about the surge in Mitt Romney's popularity and prospects.I did not ask what he had been doing in New Continue reading...

The Unraveling Myth of Watergate

By Patrick J. BuchananIt was, they said, the crime of the century.An attempted coup d'etat by Richard Nixon, stopped by two intrepid young reporters from The Washington Post and their dashing and heroic editor.The 1976 movie, "All the President's Men," retold the story with Robert Redford as Bob Woodward, Dustin Hoffman as Carl Bernstein and Jason Robards in his Oscar-winning role as Continue reading...

What If Zimmerman Walks Free?

By Patrick J. BuchananThree months ago, George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch volunteer in Sanford, Fla., shot and killed Trayvon Martin.Handcuffed, taken in and interrogated, Zimmerman told police Trayvon had been acting suspiciously that dark and rainy night, that he had followed Trayvon, been knocked down and battered on the ground, and, fearing for his life, pulled a concealed handgun Continue reading...

Has the Bell Begun to Toll for the GOP?

By Patrick J. BuchananAmong the more controversial chapters in "Suicide of a Superpower," my book published last fall, was the one titled, "The End of White America."It dealt with the demographic decline of the white majority and what it portends for education, the U.S. economy, politics and national unity.That book and chapter proved the proximate cause of my departure from MSNBC, Continue reading...

As the Boomers Head for the Barn

By Patrick J. BuchananWhen the April figures on unemployment were released May 4, they were more than disappointing. They were deeply disturbing.While the unemployment rate had fallen from 8.2 percent to 8.1 percent, 342,000 workers had stopped looking for work. They had just dropped out of the labor market.Only 63.6 percent of the U.S. working age population is now in the labor force, Continue reading...