By Patrick J. Buchanan In an address to the Young Men’s Lyceum in Springfield, Illinois on Jan. 27, 1838, a 28-year-old lawyer spoke on “the Perpetuation of Our Political Institutions.” Abe Lincoln asked and answered a rhetorical question: "At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. Continue reading...
US: More Like France Than You Might Think
Tuesday - October 3, 2006 at 1:26 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan What a spectacle America at war presents to the world. A former president, red-faced, bawls his rage at Fox News' Chris Wallace, who had asked why he had not shut down bin Laden and Co. in the seven years he had to do it. The president of the United States declaims to a partisan audience in Alabama, "The party of FDR and Harry Truman has become the party of cut and Continue reading...
How to Bring Manufacturing Back Home
Friday - September 29, 2006 at 9:49 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan Bushites boast of all the new jobs created, but Business Week tells the inconvenient truth: "Since 2001, 1.7 million new jobs have been created in the health care sector. Meanwhile, the number of private sector jobs outside of health care is no higher than it was five years ago." "Perhaps most surprising," writes BW, "information technology, the great electronic promise Continue reading...
Consult America Before Iran War
Tuesday - September 26, 2006 at 10:10 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan "To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war." So Winston Churchill is widely quoted. Those words, however, were spoken in 1954, decades after Churchill's voice had been the most bellicose for war in 1914 and 1939, the wars that bled and broke his beloved empire. Yet, Churchill's quote frames well the main question on the mind of Washington, D.C.: Will President Continue reading...
The Real Issue Behind U.N.’s Comic Relief
Friday - September 22, 2006 at 10:02 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan Not since Khrushchev took off his shoe and pounded the table has there been a U.N. General Assembly conclave to rival this one. "(T)he devil came here yesterday. ... Right here ... talking as if he owned the world," ranted Hugo Chavez, crossing himself. "And it smells of sulfur still today." Chavez was talking about President Bush. The Venezuelan president began his Continue reading...
The Rage of Islam
Tuesday - September 19, 2006 at 3:13 pm
by Patrick J. Buchanan To bank the firestorm ignited by his address in Regensburg, Germany, Pope Benedict XVI declared himself "deeply sorry" for the effect his remarks have had on the Muslim world. The words of the Byzantine emperor he quoted, Benedict explained, were "from a Medieval text which do not in any way express my personal thoughts." The pope's subject was the "profound harmony" Continue reading...
Diminishing Options: Defeat Possible in Iraq and Afghanistan
Friday - September 15, 2006 at 10:47 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan "Whatever mistakes have been made in Iraq, the worst mistake would be to think that if we pulled out, the terrorists would leave us alone. They will not leave us alone. They will follow us. The safety of America depends on the outcome of the battle in the streets of Baghdad." President Bush, speaking on 9/11, had a point. Even some who believe the invasion of Iraq to Continue reading...
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