By Patrick J. Buchanan Undeniably, a powerful tide is running for the Democratic Party, with one week left to Election Day. Bush’s approval rating is 27 percent, just above Richard Nixon’s Watergate nadir and almost down to Carter-Truman lows. After each of those presidents reached their floors — in 1952, 1974, 1980 — the opposition […]
Obama’s First 100 Days
Tuesday - October 28, 2008 at 12:19 am
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Friday - October 24, 2008 at 1:19 am
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Votes: 4.60 Stars!Loading...By Patrick J. Buchanan Perhaps the only institution in America whose approval rating is beneath that of Congress is the media. Both have won their reputations the hard way. They earned them. Consider the fawning indulgence shown insider Joe Biden with the dripping contempt visited on outsider Sarah Palin. Twice last weekend, Biden grimly warned […]
Tribal Politics
Tuesday - October 21, 2008 at 12:09 am
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Votes: 4.93 Stars!Loading...By Patrick J. Buchanan Was race a factor in the decision of Colin Powell to repudiate his party’s nominee and friend of 25 years, Sen. John McCain, two weeks before Election Day, and to endorse Barack Obama? Gen. Powell does not deny it, contending only that race was not the only or decisive factor. “If […]
The Coming Backlash
Friday - October 17, 2008 at 10:28 pm
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Votes: 4.51 Stars!Loading...by Patrick J. Buchanan As Americans render what Catholics call temporal judgment on George Bush, are they aware of the radical course correction they are about to make? This center-right country is about to vastly strengthen a liberal Congress whose approval rating is 10 percent and implant in Washington a regime further to the left […]
Liquidating the Empire
Tuesday - October 14, 2008 at 12:23 am
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Votes: 4.96 Stars!Loading...By Patrick j. Buchanan “Liquidate labor, liquidate stocks, liquidate the farmers.” So Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon advised Herbert Hoover in the Great Crash of ’29. Hoover did. And the nation liquidated him — and the Republicans. In the Crash of 2008, 40 percent of stock value has vanished, almost $9 trillion. Some $5 trillion in […]
Can McCain Still Win?
Friday - October 10, 2008 at 12:26 am
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Votes: 4.32 Stars!Loading...By Patrick J. Buchanan Two weeks after the Republican convention in St. Paul, Minn., John McCain and Sarah Palin were striding forward toward victory. They had erased the eight-point lead Barack Obama had opened up in Denver and watched as one blue state after another moved into the toss-up category. That is ancient history now. […]
Of Generals and Victories
Tuesday - October 7, 2008 at 12:06 am
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Votes: 4.50 Stars!Loading...By Patrick J. Buchanan “(O)nce war is forced upon us, there is no other alternative than to apply every available means to bring it to a swift end. “War’s very object is victory, not prolonged indecision. “In war there is no substitute for victory.” Familiar to every graduate of West Point, the words are from […]
