Commentary By Patrick J. Buchanan

'Locked and Loaded' for War on Iran? By Patrick J. Buchanan

"Iran has launched an unprecedented attack on the world's energy supply," declared Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.

After Bolton, Trump Goals Remain Unrealized By Patrick J. Buchanan

The sudden and bitter departure of John Bolton from the White House was baked in the cake from the day he arrived there.

Can Joe Biden Run This Marathon? By Patrick J. Buchanan

Thursday, Sept. 14, looks to be a fateful day in the half-century-long political career of Joe Biden.

That night, a three-hour debate will be held, a marathon in politics.

Who Won, and Who Lost, World War II? By Patrick J. Buchanan

Sunday, the 80th anniversary of the Nazi invasion of Poland, Vice President Mike Pence spoke in Warsaw's Pilsudski Square of "five decades of untold suffering and death that followed" the invasion. Five decades!

Let Them Howl, Boris! By Patrick J. Buchanan

Facing a Parliamentary majority opposed to a hard Brexit -- a crashing out of the EU if Britain is not offered a deal she can live with -- Boris Johnson took matters into his own hands.

Will Bibi's War Become America's War? By Patrick J. Buchanan

President Donald Trump, who canceled a missile strike on Iran, after the shoot-down of a U.S. Predator drone, to avoid killing Iranians, may not want a U.S. war with Iran. But the same cannot be said of Bibi Netanyahu.

Greenland: Trump's MAGA Idea! By Patrick J. Buchanan

To those of us of who learned our U.S. history from texts in the 1940s and '50s, President Donald Trump's brainstorm of acquiring Greenland fits into a venerable tradition of American expansionism.

When, If Ever, Can We Lay This Burden Down? By Patrick J. Buchanan

Friday, President Donald Trump met in New Jersey with his national security advisers and envoy Zalmay Khalilzad, who is negotiating with the Taliban to bring about peace, and a U.S. withdrawal from America's longest war.

Trump's Great Gamble By Patrick J. Buchanan

President Donald Trump's reelection hopes hinge on two things: the state of the economy in 2020 and the identity of the Democratic nominee.

China, Not Russia, the Greater Threat By Patrick J. Buchanan

Ten weeks of protests, some huge, a few violent, culminated Monday with a shutdown of the Hong Kong airport.

Biden Goes All In on the Race Issue By Patrick J. Buchanan

Those who believed America's racial divide would begin to close with the civil rights acts of the 1960s and the election of a black president in this century appear to have been overly optimistic.

Exploiting Massacres to Raise Poll Ratings By Patrick J. Buchanan

It was two days of contrast that tell us about America 2019.

In El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, following the mass murders of Saturday and Sunday morning, the local folks on camera -- police, prosecutors, mayors, FBI and city officials -- were nonpartisan, patient, polite and dignified in the unity and solemnity of their grief for their dead and wounded.

A Multicultural Mugging of Uncle Joe By Patrick J. Buchanan

In his opening statement at Wednesday's Democratic debate in Detroit, Joe Biden addressed Donald Trump while pointing proudly to the racial and ethnic diversity of the nine Democrats standing beside him.

Is Trump Capturing the 'Law and Order' Issue? Patrick J. Buchanan

Did President Donald Trump launch his Twitter barrage at Elijah Cummings simply because the Baltimore congressman was black?

After Mueller Debacle, Where Do Democrats Go? By Patrick J. Buchanan

The Democrats who were looking to cast Robert Mueller as the star in a TV special, "The Impeachment of Donald Trump," can probably tear up the script. They're gonna be needing a new one.

America: An Us vs. Them Country By Patrick J. Buchanan

"Send her back! Send her back!"

The 13 seconds of that chant at the rally in North Carolina, in response to Donald Trump's recital of the outrages of Somali-born Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, will not soon be forgotten, or forgiven.

Is a New US Mideast War Inevitable? By Patrick J. Buchanan

In October 1950, as U.S. forces were reeling from hordes of Chinese troops who had intervened massively in the Korean War, a 5,000-man Turkish brigade arrived to halt an onslaught by six Chinese divisions.

Said supreme commander Gen. Douglas MacArthur: "The Turks are the hero of heroes. There is no impossibility for the Turkish Brigade."

Trump Fuels a Tribal War in Nancy's House By Patrick J. Buchanan

President Donald Trump's playground taunt Sunday that "the Squad" of four new radical liberal House Democrats, all women of color, should "go back and help fix the totally broken and crime-infested places from which they came," dominated Monday morning's headlines.

Are Yanks and Brits Going Their Separate Ways? By Patrick J. Buchanan

When Sir Kim Darroch's secret cable to London was leaked to the Daily Mail, wherein he called the Trump administration "dysfunctional ... unpredictable ... faction-riven ... diplomatically clumsy and inept," the odds on his survival as U.K. ambassador plummeted.

Are Democrats Ceding the Center to Trump? By Patrick J. Buchanan

Since the Democratic debates in June, the tide seems to have receded for the party and its presidential hopefuls.

In new polls, only Joe Biden leads President Donald Trump comfortably.