Are the Democrats Bent on Suicide? By Patrick J. Buchanan
After reading an especially radical platform agreed upon by the British Labor Party, one Tory wag described it as "the longest suicide note in history."
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February 12, 2019
February 8, 2019
Has Trump Found the Formula for 2020? By Patrick J. Buchanan
If the pollsters at CNN and CBS are correct, Donald Trump may have found the formula for winning a second term in 2020.
February 5, 2019
Sacrificing Northam Will Not Be Enough By Patrick J. Buchanan
"Once that picture with the blackface and the Klansman came out, there is no way you can continue to be the governor of the commonwealth of Virginia."
February 1, 2019
Trump vs. the Spy Chiefs: Who's Right? By Patrick J. Buchanan
To manifest his opposition to President Donald Trump's decision to pull all 2,000 U.S. troops out of Syria, and half of the 14,000 in Afghanistan, Gen. James Mattis went public and resigned as secretary of defense.
January 29, 2019
If the Army Stands With Maduro, What Is Plan B? By Patrick J. Buchanan
"Pay the soldiers. The rest do not matter.
This was the deathbed counsel given to his sons by Roman Emperor Septimius Severus in A.D. 211.
January 25, 2019
Democrats' America: The Heart of Darkness By Patrick J. Buchanan
If it was the dream of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. that black and white would come together in friendship and peace to do justice, his acolytes in today's Democratic Party appear to have missed that part of his message.
January 22, 2019
When Democracy Fails to Deliver By Patrick J. Buchanan
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible ... make violent revolution inevitable," said John F. Kennedy.
January 18, 2019
At Age 70, Time to Rethink NATO By Patrick J. Buchanan
"Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last."
So said President Charles De Gaulle, who in 1966 ordered NATO to vacate its Paris headquarters and get out of France.
January 15, 2019
Is Bolton Steering Trump into War with Iran? By Patrick J. Buchanan
"Stop the ENDLESS WARS!" implored President Donald Trump in a Sunday night tweet.
Well, if he is serious, Trump had best keep an eye on his national security adviser, for a U.S. war on Iran would be a dream come true for John Bolton.
January 11, 2019
Memo to Trump: Declare an Emergency By Patrick J. Buchanan
In the long run, history will validate Donald Trump's stand on a border wall to defend the sovereignty and security of the United States.
Why? Because mass migration from the global South, not climate change, is the real existential crisis of the West.
January 8, 2019
No, This Is Not JFK's Democratic Party By Patrick J. Buchanan
Speaker Nancy Pelosi's House has more women, persons of color and LGBT members than any House in history -- and fewer white males.
January 4, 2019
Trump & The Post: Whose Side Is Mitt On? By Patrick J. Buchanan
If there is a more anti-Trump organ in the American establishment than The Washington Post, it does not readily come to mind.
December 28, 2018
2020: Year of the Democrats? Maybe Not By Patrick J. Buchanan
If Democrats are optimistic as 2019 begins, it is understandable.
December 25, 2018
Christmas 2018: Not the Worst of Times By Patrick J. Buchanan
"Deck the halls with boughs of holly," goes the old Christmas carol. "'Tis the season to be jolly." Yet if there were a couplet less befitting the mood of this capital city, I am unaware of it.
December 18, 2018
Can America Fight Two Cold Wars at Once? By Patrick J. Buchanan
Kim Jong Un, angered by the newest U.S. sanctions, is warning that North Korea's commitment to denuclearization could be imperiled and we could be headed for "exchanges of fire."
December 14, 2018
What Lies Behind the Malaise of the West? By Patrick J. Buchanan
Is it coincidence or contagion, this malady that seems to have suddenly induced paralysis in the leading nations of the West?
December 11, 2018
How Democracy Is Losing the World By Patrick J. Buchanan
If Donald Trump told Michael Cohen to pay hush money to Stormy Daniels about a one-night stand a decade ago, that, says Jerome Nadler, incoming chair of House Judiciary, would be an "impeachable offense."
December 7, 2018
Who Lost the World Bush 41 Left Behind? By Patrick J. Buchanan
George H.W. Bush was America's closer.
December 4, 2018
Will Paris Riots Scuttle Climate Accord? By Patrick J. Buchanan
In Katowice, Poland, all the signers of the 2015 Paris climate accord are gathered to assess how the world's nations are meeting their goals to cut carbon emissions.
Certainly, the communications strategy in the run-up was impressive.
November 30, 2018
Is Putin the Provocateur in the Kerch Crisis? By Patrick J. Buchanan
On departure for the G-20 gathering in Buenos Aires, President Donald Trump canceled his planned weekend meeting with Vladimir Putin, citing as his reason the Russian military's seizure and holding of three Ukrainian ships and 24 sailors.
But was Putin really the provocateur in Sunday's naval clash outside Kerch Strait, the Black Sea gateway to the Sea of Azov?
