Our Innocents Abroad?

Jan 032012

By Patrick J. Buchanan

Friday’s lead stories in The Washington Post and The Journal dealt with what both viewed as a national affront and outrage.

Egyptian soldiers, said the Post, “stormed the offices” of three U.S. “democracy-building organizations … in a dramatic escalation of a crackdown by the military-led government that could imperil its relations with the United States.”

The organizations: Freedom House, the International Republican Institute and the National Democratic Institute.

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And Was the Mission Accomplished?

Dec 162011

By Patrick J. Buchanan

For the Army and Marines who lost 4,500 dead and more than 30,000 wounded, many of them amputees, the second-longest in U.S. history is over. America is coming home from .

On May 1, 2003, on the carrier Abraham Lincoln, the huge banner behind President proclaimed, “Mission Accomplished!”

That was eight years ago. And so, was the mission accomplished?

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Marco Rubio vs. Rand Paul

Dec 092011

By Patrick J. Buchanan

In August 2008, as the world’s leaders gathered in Beijing for the Olympic games, Georgian President , hot-headed and erratic, made his gamble for greatness.

It began with a stunning artillery barrage on Tskhinvali, capital of tiny South Ossetia, a province that had broken free of Tbilisi when Tbilisi broke free of . As Ossetians and Russian peacekeepers fell under the Georgian guns, terrified Ossetians fled into .

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A.D. 2041 – End of White America?

Oct 182011

By Patrick J. Buchanan

John Hope Franklin, the famed black historian at Duke University, once told the incoming freshmen, “The new America in the 21st century will be primarily non-white, a place George Washington would not recognize.”

In his June 1998 commencement address at Portland State, President Clinton affirmed it: “In a little more than 50 years, there will be no majority race in the United States.” The graduates cheered.

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The Day of the Hobbits

Aug 022011

By Patrick J. Buchanan

Mocked by The Journal and Sen. John McCain as the little people of the “Lord of the Rings” books, the “Hobbits” are indeed returning to Middle Earth — to nail the coonskin to the wall.

As even the Journal concedes, the final deal to raise the ceiling, worked out by Sen. Mitch McConnell and , backed by Speaker John Boehner, is “The Triumph of the .”

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Is Obama Only Postponing the Inevitable?

Jun 242011

By Patrick J. Buchanan

In deciding to pull all of the 30,000 troops from the surge out of , six weeks before Day 2012, but only 10,000 by year’s end, President Obama has satisfied neither the generals nor the doves.

He has, however, well served his political interests.

A larger drawdown would have risked the gains made in Kandahar and Helmand and invited a revolt of the generals, some of whom might resign and denounce Obama for denying them the forces to prevail.

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Manufacturing's Dismal Decade

Feb 252011

By Patrick J. Buchanan

Last year, Barack Obama committed his administration to doubling U.S. exports in half a decade.

The good news: He is on the way. U.S. exports of goods and services grew in 2010 by 16.6 percent.

Bad news: U.S. imports, starting from a higher base, surged by 19.7 percent.

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Has Obama Lost White America?

Jan 222010

By Patrick J. Buchanan

If will study the returns from Massachusetts, then review the returns from Virginia and New Jersey, light will fall upon the path to victory over in 2012.

Obama defeated John McCain by winning the black vote 24 to one, the Hispanic vote two to one and taking a larger share of the white vote, 44 percent, than did John Kerry or Al Gore. As the white vote was three-fourths of the national turnout, Obama coasted to victory.

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