The New Politics of Intimidation

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by Patrick J. Buchanan – October 30, 1998 A week ago, an assassin fired through the kitchen window of Barnett Slepian, an obstetrician who did abortions in Amherst, N.Y. And like the murder of Matthew Shepard, the slaying of Slepian was seized upon and exploited to initiate a new moral …

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The Abdication of the GOP

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by Patrick J. Buchanan – October 27, 1998 Between 1992 and 1994, a historic swap took place in U.S. politics. Republicans, who had had a quarter-century lock on the White House, gave it up to the Democratic Party, while Democrats, who had had a 40-year lock on the Congress, gave …

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Steel Dump for the World

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Fourteen years ago, foreign steel producers began dumping heavily into the U.S. market, choking America’s industry near to death. Big Steel went to the president. Ronald Reagan listened and acted. On Sept. 22, 1984, he took to the airwaves to denounce “predatory practices” that had made America a “steel dump …

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Exploiting the Shepard Murder

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by Patrick J. Buchanan – October 20, 1998 Matt Shepard is dead. His death was vicious and violent. According to prosecutors, Shepard was in the Fireside Lounge in Laramie, Wyo., when he “confided to Mr. McKinney and Mr. Henderson (his alleged killers) that he was gay. The subjects deceived Mr. …

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Re-Enacting Wilson’s Folly

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by Patrick J. Buchanan – October 16, 1998 Watching America march, step by step, ever deeper into the Balkans brings to mind Hegel’s observation that the only thing we learn from history is that we do not learn from history. “My mind-set is Munich,” Secretary of State Madeleine Albright has …

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Who Shall Be Saved?

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by Patrick J. Buchanan – October 13, 1998 As Congress adjourns in an orgy of capitulations to President Clinton to avoid a government shutdown, for which the GOP would be blamed, the two great questions of the coming 106th Congress are clear: Will Congress impeach the president, and will Congress …

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Tax Cuts Take a Back Seat — To the IMF

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by Patrick J. Buchanan – October 6, 1998 Can it be that a Republican Congress will wind up killing a near $18 billion tax cut this year for American families, only to hand $18 billion over to the IMF to make the world safe for hedge funds? So it would …

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Why is Kosovo’s Rebellion Our War?

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by Patrick J. Buchanan – October 2, 1998 “What we are really talking about is a humanitarian disaster precipitated by the cold political calculus of an autocratic leader who has pursued a political strategy against his own citizens,” said U.S. Gen. Wesley Clark, supreme allied commander in Europe. Gen. Clark’s …

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