by Patrick J. Buchanan - August 11, 1997 How conservative is North Carolina? Well, says a friend who moved there: "Down here, Jesse Helms is our liberal senator." Last week, North Carolina added to its 24-carat reputation. An Alamance County jury ordered $1 million paid to a jilted wife -- by the woman who allegedly stole her husband. Dorothy Hutelmyer, age 40, contended in court that in Continue reading...
Is America Still a Country?
Friday - August 8, 1997 at 8:22 pm
by Patrick J. Buchanan - August 8, 1997 How did they get in? That question quickly came to mind on reading that two illegal aliens had been arrested in New York hours before they allegedly were going to blow themselves up, along with a few dozen unsuspecting commuters, at a subway station. As for Ghazi Ibrahim Abu Maizar, we know how he got in. As Timothy Egan of The New York Times writes, Continue reading...
The Little Dictator
Wednesday - July 30, 1997 at 8:23 pm
by Patrick J. Buchanan - July 30, 1997 Speaking of his ex-colleague Justice William O. Douglas, the defiant jurist piped, "I'm going to break Douglas' record!" Douglas had served 35 years. Then, William Brennan laughed. Our little exchange took place at a Gridiron Dinner a decade ago. Brennan died last week. He served for 34 years after Eisenhower chose the Irish Democrat to help win the Continue reading...
Where Have All the Christian Soldiers Gone?
Tuesday - July 29, 1997 at 8:24 pm
by Patrick J. Buchanan - July 29, 1997 "If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you," Christ warned his disciples, who came to learn the truth of his words. Eleven of the 12 sent out to preach the Gospel after Pentecost died a martyr's death witnessing to the truth that he was the Son of God and had a claim to man's obedience and allegiance even greater than Caesar's. Christ's Continue reading...
The Guttering Out of the GOP Revolution
Tuesday - July 22, 1997 at 8:25 pm
by Patrick J. Buchanan - July 22, 1997 The coup de farce intended to topple Speaker Newt, in which faithful lieutenants betrayed him, only to re-embrace their beloved leader, has the makings of a Broadway comedy. Unfortunately, the farce is also a tragedy. A great party, for whose principles good people have worked their whole lives, has been abused by those accorded its highest Continue reading...
An All-American Tax System
Monday - July 14, 1997 at 8:26 pm
by Patrick J. Buchanan - July 14, 1997 These are truly the dog days of the Republican Party. Successive national tickets have been defeated by Bill Clinton as convincingly as the GOP Congress has been cowed. If the incoming mail of one writer on public affairs is a reliable barometer of public sentiment, the party is in trouble -- for that mail is full of anger, despair and derision for Continue reading...
Now Let Us All Praise Warren G. Harding
Wednesday - July 9, 1997 at 8:28 pm
by Patrick J. Buchanan - July 9, 1997 On this year's centennial of the inauguration of William McKinley, Ohio University professor Alfred E. Eckes, a trade official under Ronald Reagan, addressed Ohio's Historical Society. Subject: our 25th president, assassinated by an anarchist in Buffalo in 1901. McKinley's was a truly extraordinary presidency. A teenager at Antietam and Civil War Continue reading...
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