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November 26, 2019

Is Macron Right? Is NATO, 70, Brain Dead? By Patrick J. Buchanan

A week from now, the 29 member states of "the most successful alliance in history" will meet to celebrate its 70th anniversary. Yet all is not well within NATO.

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November 22, 2019

Let the People Decide Trump's Fate By Patrick J. Buchanan

Was there linkage between the withholding of U.S. military aid and the U.S. demand for a Ukrainian state investigation of the Bidens?

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November 19, 2019

What's Behind Our World on Fire? By Patrick J. Buchanan

When the wildfires of California broke out across the Golden State, many were the causes given.

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November 15, 2019

When Did Ukraine Become a 'Critical Ally'? By Patrick J. Buchanan

On hearing the State Department's George Kent and William Taylor describe President Donald Trump's withholding of military aid to Ukraine, The New York Times summarized and solemnly endorsed their testimony:

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November 12, 2019

Bernie Leads His Party to Open Borders By Patrick J. Buchanan

Some 100 members of an American Mormon community in northern Mexico, nine of whom -- women, children, toddlers -- were massacred a week ago on a lonely stretch of highway, just crossed over into Arizona.

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November 8, 2019

Will 'Sexist' White Males Derail Warren? By Patrick J. Buchanan

After celebrating Tuesday's takeover of Virginia's legislature and the Kentucky governorship, the liberal establishment appears poised to crush its biggest threat: the surging candidacy of Elizabeth Warren.

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November 5, 2019

Where Are the 'High Crimes'? By Patrick J. Buchanan

"Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors."

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November 1, 2019

50 Years Ago: The Day Nixon Routed the Establishment By Patrick J. Buchanan

What are the roots of our present disorder, of the hostilities and hatreds that so divide us? When did we become this us vs. them nation?

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October 29, 2019

Is Trump Facing a 1960s-Style Revolt? By Patrick J. Buchanan

Sunday morning, President Trump announced that the world's worst terrorist, the head of the ISIS caliphate who had raped an American woman, had received justice.

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October 25, 2019

Imperial Capital but America-First Nation By Patrick J. Buchanan

"Let someone else fight over this long blood-stained sand," said President Donald Trump in an impassioned defense of his decision to cut ties to the Syrian Kurds, withdraw and end these "endless wars."

Are our troops in Syria, then, on their way home? Well, not exactly.

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October 22, 2019

Is Democracy a Dying Species? By Patrick J. Buchanan

What happens when democracy fails to deliver? What happens when people give up on democracy?

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October 18, 2019

Is Putin the New King of the Middle East? By Patrick J. Buchanan

"Russia Assumes Mantle of Supreme Power Broker in the Middle East," proclaimed Britain's Telegraph. The article began:

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October 15, 2019

Is the Interventionists' Era Over for Good? By Patrick J. Buchanan

President Donald Trump could have been more deft and diplomatic in how he engineered that immediate pullout from northeastern Syria.

Yet that withdrawal was as inevitable as were its consequences.

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October 11, 2019

Is Impeachment Now Inevitable? By Patrick J. Buchanan

"There go the people. I must follow them, for I am their leader," is a remark attributed to a French politician during the turbulent times of 1848.

Joe Biden's Wednesday declaration that President Donald Trump should be impeached is in that tradition. Joe is scrambling to get out in front of the sentiment for impeachment in the party he professes to lead.

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October 8, 2019

Is Trump At Last Ending Our 'Endless Wars'? By Patrick J. Buchanan

The backstage struggle between the Bush interventionists and the America-firsters who first backed Donald Trump for president just exploded into open warfare, which could sunder the Republican Party.

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October 1, 2019

'Heartbroken' Pelosi Fast-Tracks Impeachment By Patrick J. Buchanan

"This is a very sad time for our country. There is no joy in this," said Nancy Pelosi Saturday. "We must be somber. We must be prayerful. ... I'm heartbroken about it."

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September 27, 2019

Joe Biden: Impeachment's First Casualty By Patrick J. Buchanan

Even before seeing the transcript of the July 25 call between President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Nancy Pelosi threw the door wide open to the impeachment of Donald Trump by the Democratic House.

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September 24, 2019

Will 'Ukraine-Gate' Imperil Biden's Bid? By Patrick J. Buchanan

With the revelation by an intel community "whistleblower" that President Donald Trump, in a congratulatory call to the new president of Ukraine, pushed him repeatedly to investigate the Joe Biden family connection to Ukrainian corruption, the cry "Impeach!" is being heard anew in the land.

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September 20, 2019

Can Trump Still Avoid War with Iran? By Patrick J. Buchanan

President Donald Trump does not want war with Iran. America does not want war with Iran. Even the Senate Republicans are advising against military action in response to that attack on Saudi Arabia's oil facilities.