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July 2, 2019

Is Putin Right? Has Liberalism Lost the World? By Patrick J. Buchanan

"The liberal idea has become obsolete. ... (Liberals) cannot simply dictate anything to anyone as they have been attempting to do over the recent decades."

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June 28, 2019

Memo to Trump: Trade Bolton for Tulsi By Patrick J. Buchanan

"For too long our leaders have failed us, taking us into one regime change war after the next, leading us into a new Cold War and arms race, costing us trillions of our hard-earned tax payer dollars and countless lives. This insanity must end."

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June 25, 2019

Trump: War President or Anti-Interventionist? By Patrick J. Buchanan

Visualizing 150 Iranian dead from a missile strike that he had ordered, President Donald Trump recoiled and canceled the strike, a brave decision and defining moment for his presidency.

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June 21, 2019

Will Joe Repudiate His Segregationist Friends? By Patrick J. Buchanan

"Apologize for what? Cory should apologize. He knows better. There's not a racist bone in my body."

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June 18, 2019

War With Iran Would Become 'Trump's War' By Patrick J. Buchanan

President Donald Trump cannot want war with Iran.

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June 14, 2019

Russiagate Is No Watergate By Patrick J. Buchanan

"History is repeating itself, and with a vengeance," John Dean told the judiciary committee, drawing a parallel between Watergate, which brought down Richard Nixon, and "Russiagate" which has bedeviled Donald Trump.

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June 11, 2019

Are Abortion & Gay Rights American Values? By Patrick J. Buchanan

"My religion defines who I am. And I've been a practicing Catholic my whole life," said Vice President Joe Biden in 2012. "I accept my church's position on abortion as ... doctrine. Life begins at conception. ... I just refuse to impose that on others."

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June 7, 2019

Bernie & Joe: Two Old White Men Take the Lead By Patrick J. Buchanan

In 2018, a record turnout of women, minorities and young added 40 House seats to Democratic ranks and made Nancy Pelosi speaker.

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June 4, 2019

Do Trump's Hawks Speak for Trump? By Patrick J. Buchanan

For a president who won his office by denouncing the Middle East wars into which George W. Bush and Barack Obama plunged the nation, Donald Trump has assembled the most unabashedly hawkish conclave of foreign policy advisers in memory. And he himself seems to concede the point.

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May 31, 2019

What a Hash Mueller Made of It By Patrick J. Buchanan

What is it about special counsel Robert Mueller that he cannot say clearly and concisely what he means?

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May 29, 2019

Is the Liberal Hour Ending in the West? By Patrick J. Buchanan

Hillary Clinton called them "the deplorables." Barack Obama called them losers who "cling" to their Bibles, bigotries and guns.

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May 24, 2019

Are We on the Ramp to Impeachment Road? By Patrick J. Buchanan

After a stroke felled Woodrow Wilson during his national tour to save his League of Nations, an old rival, Sen. Albert Fall, went to the White House to tell the president, "I have been praying for you, Sir."

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May 21, 2019

Has the Day of the Nationalists Come? By Patrick J. Buchanan

A week from today, Europeans may be able to gauge how high the tide of populism and nationalism has risen within their countries and on their continent.

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May 17, 2019

Who Wants This War with Iran? By Patrick J. Buchanan

Speaking on state TV of the prospect of a war in the Gulf, Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei seemed to dismiss the idea.

"There won't be any war. ... We don't seek a war, and (the Americans) don't either. They know it's not in their interests."

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May 14, 2019

Tariffs: The Taxes That Made America Great By Patrick J. Buchanan

As his limo carried him to work at the White House Monday, Larry Kudlow could not have been pleased with the headline in The Washington Post: "Kudlow Contradicts Trump on Tariffs."

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May 10, 2019

Are All the World's Problems Ours? By Patrick J. Buchanan

In 2003, George W. Bush took us to war to liberate Iraq from the despotism of Saddam Hussein and convert that nation into a beacon of freedom and prosperity in the Middle East.

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May 7, 2019

Is Bolton Steering Trump Into War with Iran? By Patrick J. Buchanan

Last week, it was Venezuela in America's gun sights.

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May 3, 2019

Let Venezuela Decide Its Own Destiny By Patrick J. Buchanan

"Who would be free themselves must strike the blow...

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April 30, 2019

Biden Plays the Race Card By Patrick J. Buchanan

As he debated with himself whether to enter the race for the 2020 Democratic nomination, Joe Biden knew he had a problem.

As a senator from Delaware in the '70s, he had bashed busing to achieve racial balance in public schools as stupid and racist.

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April 26, 2019

A Nation at War With Itself By Patrick J. Buchanan

President Donald Trump has decided to cease cooperating with what he sees, not incorrectly, as a Beltway conspiracy that is out to destroy him.