Whitehouse is Our Worst Security Risk

by Patrick J. Buchanan - May 14, 1999 SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS Whether Wen Ho Lee should have kept his top-secret clearance at Los Alamos years after being fingered as a suspected spy misses the point. It is not Lee; it is this White House that has become an unacceptable national security risk for the United States. Not even during the Red Decade and World War II, when Josef Stalin's spies and Continue reading...

A Republic Not An Empire

by Patrick J. Buchanan - May 8, 1999 COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS Citadel, South Carolina We must restore this nation's military power... America must retrench and America must rearm. General Grinalds, distinguished guests, and friends of the Citadel. It is truly an honor to address this last graduating class of the 20th century -- and a truly unique class it is, of an institution whose name is Continue reading...

Buchanan in Defense of His Stance on Taxes

by Patrick J. Buchanan - May 3, 1999 Letter to the Editor - THE BOSTON GLOBE In his April 22 news story, Michael Kranish suggests that I am saying one thing about taxes in New Hampshire and another in Texas ("Candidate's stances vary with audience," Page A1). Not true. For a decade I have argued for tariffs on imports from China and Third World countries to cut out of America's colon a huge, Continue reading...

Bring Back Vision, Patriotism of Reagan’s Party

by Patrick J. Buchanan - April 18, 1999 THE ARIZONA REPUBLIC In recent years, Ronald Reagan's Grand Old Party has at times seemed divided and dispirited. And unless that party can redefine its vision, reclaim its heritage and rekindle its fighting spirit, it will forfeit its claim to lead America. With the fall of the "evil empire" a decade ago, an era ended; yet the party seems frozen in Continue reading...

The Mess They Made

by Patrick J. Buchanan - April 13, 1999 THE WASHINGTON POST Three weeks into Bill Clinton's Balkan adventure and America risks a debacle. The human rights crisis in Kosovo has exploded into a catastrophe. Slobodan Milosevic is being rallied around like some Serbian Churchill. Montenegro and Macedonia are destabilized; Russia is being swept by anti-American jingoism; and U.S. troops may have Continue reading...

A Time For Truth About China

by Patrick J. Buchanan - April 5, 1999 Address to the Commonwealth Club San Francisco, California My subject today is U.S.-China relations on the eve of the visit of Mr. Zhu Rongji to the United States. In the decade that has elapsed since the last visit of a Chinese premier, much has transpired that is deeply troubling and, indeed, profoundly alarming. Ten years ago, a frightened Chinese Continue reading...

Levi-Strauss Lays Off 5,900 U.S. Workers

by Patrick J. Buchanan - March 9, 1999 USA Today To the women and African-Americans who hold most of the jobs in textiles and apparel, news that Levi Strauss is laying off 5,900 U.S. workers is a premonition of what awaits them. Their death sentence has been rendered, and there is to be no appeal. This industry that employed 2 million Americans in 1981 has lost 700,000 jobs since. Cause of Continue reading...