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...
The Silver Lining in Houston
Thursday - November 6, 1997 at 10:48 pm
by Patrick J. Buchanan - November 6, 1997 Backers of racial preferences are taking heart from a 54 percent-46 percent ballot victory in Houston that upholds a policy which sets aside 20 percent of the city's business exclusively for minorities and women. "Houston's Support of Affirmative Action May Slow Opposition Efforts Elsewhere" headlined a Wall Street Journal story, suggesting the Continue reading...
The Fast Track to Bailout City
Monday - November 3, 1997 at 10:50 pm
by Patrick J. Buchanan - November 3, 1997 Politics is often beyond parody. On Sunday, House Speaker Newt Gingrich declared on "Meet the Press" that unless Congress approves "fast track," it will "send a signal to the world that is devastating." "(T)he world," said Newt, "is looking for us to take leadership." What does Newt mean by "leadership"? Well, since fast track means congressional Continue reading...
What the Crash of ’97 Portends
Monday - October 27, 1997 at 10:52 pm
by Patrick J. Buchanan - October 27, 1997 When the U.S. merchandise trade deficit came in at near $190 billion last year, free traders had a ready retort: Trade deficits don't matter! Well, we're about to find out. Since summer, stocks have crashed and burned in Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, South Korea, Taiwan and even mighty Hong Kong. In all except Hong Kong (at Continue reading...
The Rodney Dangerfield Republic
Thursday - October 23, 1997 at 10:54 pm
by Patrick J. Buchanan - October 23, 1997 "African Brothers in Spirit" ran the caption over a photo of a beaming Nelson Mandela holding hands with a smiling Moammar Qaddafi. On entering Tripoli, Mandela's 50-car motorcade passed under a banner reading: "Mandela's visit to Libya is a devastating blow to America." What about U.S. objections to his visiting a nation now under U.N. sanctions Continue reading...
Harold Creel’s 30 Seconds Over Tokyo
Monday - October 20, 1997 at 10:57 pm
by Patrick J. Buchanan - October 20, 1997 For the Theodore Roosevelt Big Stick Award for 1997, permit me to nominate Harold Creel of the Federal Maritime Commission. Fed up with Japan's refusal to pay $4 million in fines, Creel last Thursday ordered all U.S. ports closed to Japanese ships. The Coast Guard was to carry out Creel's embargo. On Friday, a stunned Japan capitulated, accepting Continue reading...
Yes, Janet, There is a Smoking Gun
Thursday - October 16, 1997 at 11:03 pm
by Patrick J. Buchanan - October 16, 1997 In Edgar Allen Poe's "The Purloined Letter," the document is found where no one thought to look, "full in the view of every visitor," right before their eyes. As Janet Reno's agents burrow bravely through the history of the Pendleton Act to see if White House phone solicitations are illegal, the real Clinton scandal is staring them right in the face. Continue reading...
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