by Patrick J. Buchanan - January 19, 1998How does the party justify raising money from right-to-life folks and then using their dollars to elect candidates who support third-trimester abortions? How do Republicans now answer the press taunt: "You denounce Clinton for his stand on partial-birth abortions, but you yourselves fund governors and senators who hold the identical position... In Continue reading...
Detente in the Gulf?
Monday - January 12, 1998 at 10:00 am
by Patrick J. Buchanan - January 12, 1998When the Americans, like the British before them, grow weary of their imperial duties and sail away, Iran will dominate the Persian Gulf. It is ordained. No nation in the region can match Iran's size, population or power. George Bush's war that smashed Iraq and the U.S.-led embargo blockade that have brought it to ruin destroyed Iran's rival. The only Continue reading...
Atheists in the Cub Scout Den
Tuesday - January 6, 1998 at 6:00 am
by Patrick J. Buchanan - January 6, 1998The opening lines of the Boy Scout oath run thus: "I promise to do my best / To do my duty to God and my country."In 1991, 9-year-old twins Michael and William Randall of Anaheim Hills, Calif., refused to take the oath, or to acknowledge any duty to God. They were atheists, the boys said. Fine, replied the mother of Cub Scout Den 4, Continue reading...
Are the Days of Wine and Roses Over?
Friday - January 2, 1998 at 10:00 pm
by Patrick J. Buchanan - January 2, 1998While Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin is winning applause for shoveling $10 billion into South Korea to avert a default, it is clear neither he nor the IMF saw this crisis coming. Their soothing assurances have about them a ring of hollowness and trepidation...As 1997 ends, even William Jefferson Clinton's severest critics Continue reading...
The Policeman of the Balkans
Monday - December 22, 1997 at 9:30 pm
by Patrick J. Buchanan - December 22, 1997Those who warned that the U.S. troop commitment to Bosnia risked an open-ended entanglement in the Balkans were right. Bill Clinton has now confirmed that U.S. troops will remain indefinitely. No plan, no strategy, no timetable exists for their withdrawal.What are the conditions the president has set before the United States can leave? Bosnia's Continue reading...
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