by Patrick J. Buchanan - December 8, 1997 With each bailout, money managers go unpunished and, indeed, are rewarded for stupidity, while incompetent regimes never pay the price of their economic blunders and thus never correct them...And if the stock price of Reed's bank plunged, and loans had to be written down, and other big bankers were exposed Continue reading...
Is the South Rising Again?
Monday - December 1, 1997 at 10:16 pm
by Patrick J. Buchanan - December 1, 1997 During the civil rights movement, demonstrators who "sat in" at segregated lunch counters or defied court orders were routinely absolved. And Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was lionized by our liberal establishment for his imitation of India's apostle of non-violence, Gandhi, and his understanding of the validity of civil disobedience. The South was Continue reading...
No More Bailouts — Abolish the IMF!
Monday - December 1, 1997 at 10:15 pm
by Patrick J. Buchanan - December 1, 1997 If the people of South Korea were starving, Americans would send food. If they were victims of a natural disaster, an earthquake or typhoon, planeloads of American doctors and nurses, shiploads of medicine and supplies, would be instantly on the way. But Asia's financial crisis is not a natural disaster; it is man-made, the work of corrupt and Continue reading...
The Befuddled “Jebbies” of Georgetown
Monday - November 24, 1997 at 10:43 pm
by Patrick J. Buchanan - November 24, 1997 That God became flesh in the person of Jesus Christ -- that he was crucified, died and rose again to redeem mankind -- is the core belief of Roman Catholicism. To testify to those truths and spread that faith, French Jesuits were among the first Europeans to come to an American wilderness to convert the Indians. The stories of heroes like Fr. Continue reading...
The Isolation of America
Thursday - November 20, 1997 at 10:44 pm
by Patrick J. Buchanan - November 20, 1997 With Russia's Yevgeny Primakov, the ex-KGB chief, emerging as the "honest broker" between the United States and Iraq, it must be clear now, even at the White House, that U.S. Middle East policy is in a shambles. Saddam Hussein is breaking out of his isolation; the Russians are back in the Middle East to stay; and it is America that appears Continue reading...
Return of American Nationalism
Monday - November 17, 1997 at 10:46 pm
by Patrick J. Buchanan - November 17, 1997 Scoff if you will at the claim, but I believe this fall may rank in historic significance in our time second only to the fall of 1989 when the Berlin Wall came down. Ridiculous, absurd, you say. Well, consider the three signal political events that marked this autumn. One was the astonishing rout of the president on his highest priority, "fast Continue reading...
The Lost Allure of Global Free Trade
Monday - November 10, 1997 at 10:47 pm
by Patrick J. Buchanan - November 10, 1997 LONDON -- President Clinton's decision to pull his fast-track trade bill from the House floor early Monday morning rather than face a humiliating defeat marks a turning point in U.S. history. For the first time since World War II, the nation's financial, political and intellectual elites have been repudiated on a great question of foreign policy. Continue reading...
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