By Patrick J. Buchanan"The success of a party means little except when the nation is using that party for a large and definite purpose," said Woodrow Wilson in his first inaugural, 100 years ago.The Republican Party of Richard Nixon was called to power in 1968 to bring an honorable end to the war in Vietnam and restore law and order to campuses and cities convulsed by crime, riots and Continue reading...
Last Hurrah of Nixon’s ‘New Majority’?
Tuesday - August 28, 2012 at 12:57 am
By Patrick J. BuchananLooking back all the way to America's Civil War, there have been three dominant presidential coalitions.The first was Abraham Lincoln's. With his war to restore the Union and his martyrdom, Lincoln inaugurated an era of Republican dominance that lasted more than seven decades and saw only two Democratic presidents: Grover Cleveland and Woodrow Wilson.The second Continue reading...
A Grand Old Party in Panic
Friday - August 24, 2012 at 3:20 am
By Patrick J. BuchananWhittaker Chambers said that "the great failing of American conservatives is they do not retrieve their wounded."He had it right, as Todd Akin can testify.In an interview that aired last Sunday, Akin, the Republican candidate for Senate in Missouri, was asked whether he opposed abortions for women who had been raped. Akin's reply:"From what I understand from Continue reading...
The New World Disorder
Tuesday - August 21, 2012 at 12:39 am
By Patrick J. BuchananAfter his great victory in Desert Storm, George H.W. Bush went before the United Nations to declare the coming of a New World Order.The Cold War was yesterday. Communism was in its death throes. The Soviet Empire had crumbled.The Soviet Union was disintegrating. Francis Fukuyama was writing of "The End of History." Savants trilled about the inevitable triumph of Continue reading...
‘The Most Dangerous Man in the World’?
Friday - August 17, 2012 at 12:53 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan U.S. newspapers this fall will devote countless column inches and network TV will set aside endless hours to revisiting the most perilous month in the history of the republic, if not of the world.Nikita Khrushchev's decision to secretly install nuclear-armed intermediate-range ballistic missiles in Cuba began to form in his mind sometime earlier, perhaps in April of Continue reading...
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