By Patrick J. Buchanan "When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another ..." So begins the Declaration of Independence of the 13 colonies from the king and country to which they had given allegiance since the settlers first came to Jamestown and Plymouth Rock. The declaration was signed by 56 Continue reading...
27 November 2012 
Who’s Afraid of the Fiscal Cliff?
Tuesday - November 27, 2012 at 2:35 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan Were the average Republican asked for a succinct statement of his views on taxation, he or she might respond thus: "U.S. tax rates are too high for the world we must compete in. The tax burden -- federal, state, local, together -- is too heavy. We need to cut tax rates to free up our private and productive sector and pull this economy out of the ditch." This core Continue reading...
23 November 2012 
Is Middle East Peace A Mirage
Friday - November 23, 2012 at 12:07 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan With the truce in the week-long Gaza war, Barack Obama is being prompted by right and left to re-engage and renew U.S. efforts to solve the core question of Middle East peace. Before he gets reinvolved in peacemaking, our once-burned president should ask himself some hard questions. Is real peace between Palestinians and Israelis even possible? Is there any Continue reading...
20 November 2012 
Mitt Wasn’t All Wrong About “Gifts”
Tuesday - November 20, 2012 at 5:37 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan "What the president's campaign did was focus on certain members of his base coalition, give them extraordinary financial gifts from the government and then work very aggressively to turn them out to vote, and that strategy worked." Thus did political analyst Mitt Romney identify the cause of his defeat in a call to disconsolate contributors. Republicans piled on. Continue reading...
16 November 2012 
Who Fed Susan the Benghazi Bullhockey?
Friday - November 16, 2012 at 1:48 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan At his news conference Wednesday, President Barack Obama postured as the young Galahad striding out onto the schoolyard to stop a pair of bullies from beating up a girl. Sens. John McCain and Lindsey Graham had charged U.N. Amb. Susan Rice with misleading the nation when, five days after the Benghazi attack in which Amb. Chris Stevens and three other Americans were Continue reading...
14 November 2012 
Mind of the New Majority
Wednesday - November 14, 2012 at 3:09 am
By Michael Brendan Dougherty - The American Conservative Magazine Pat Buchanan is more than a conservative—he’s Nixon meets Spengler. Patrick J. Buchanan stood beside a window in Chicago’s Conrad Hilton hotel during the 1968 Democratic convention and looked over the panorama of dissent raging below. At about two in the morning, the phone rang—it was Nixon. “Buchanan, what is Continue reading...
13 November 2012 
Petraeus and Benghazi: A Time for Truth
Tuesday - November 13, 2012 at 1:00 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan The stunning resignation of CIA Director David Petraeus, days before he was to testify on the CIA role in the Benghazi massacre, raises many more questions than his resignation letter answers. "I showed extremely poor judgment by engaging in an extramarital affair," wrote Petraeus. "Such behavior is unacceptable ... as the leader of an organization such as Continue reading...
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