Patrick J. Buchanan's Blog, page 102

Did We Vote for War?

By Patrick J. Buchanan “How do you like the Journal’s war?” So boasted the headline of William Randolph Hearst’s New York flagship that week in 1898 that the United States declared war on Spain. While Hearst’s Journal, in a circulation battle with Joe Pulitzer’s World, was a warmongering sheet, it did not start the war. […]

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Watch Pat Buchanan Chat With Jack Hunter About the Midterm Elections and 2016

A post-election conversation and book signing with New York Times best-selling author Pat Buchanan and RARE.us Managing Editor Jack Hunter Political Trends After the 2014 Election View the video on Rare.us…. NOTE: Scroll the video forward to the 1:00 mark [midway] to view the beginning of the show. Pat Buchanan and Jack Hunter chewed over […]

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Pat Buchanan Book Interview on Nixon: The Greatest Comeback

Pat Buchanan tells the definitive story of Nixon’s resurrection from the political graveyard and his rise to the presidency. Buchanan is interviewed by Lois Lindstrom on The Bookman’s Corner in Arlington, VA. An interview/discussion TV program featuring authors and critics on books of note, with topics ranging from politics and history to culture and science. […]

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The Oil Weapon in America’s Hands

By Patrick J. Buchanan In July of 1941, after Japan occupied French Indochina, the Roosevelt administration froze Japan’s assets in the United States. Denied hard cash, Japan could not buy the U.S. oil upon which the empire depended for survival. Seeing the Dutch East Indies as her only other source, Japan prepared to invade. But […]

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The New South — Black and Conservative

By Patrick J. Buchanan In 1956, 19 Democratic Senators and 82 Democratic House members signed a Southern Manifesto pledging to resist the integration of Southern public schools as ordered by Earl Warren’s Supreme Court. Only two GOP House members, both from Virginia, signed. The American South was as solidly Democratic as it was solidly segregationist. […]

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The Kumbaya Temptation

By Patrick J. Buchanan Nov. 4 was a national vote of no confidence in Barack Obama. Had a British prime minister received a vote like this, he would have resigned by now. The one issue on which all Republicans agreed, and all ran, was the rejection of Obama. And by fleeing from him, some even […]

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Against Obama, But for What?

By Patrick J. Buchanan After billions in attack ads that turned the approval ratings of almost every candidate, in both parties, upside down, Republicans appear primed to take control of Congress. Why are Democrats falling like dominoes? Easy. Theirs is the Party of Government. And government is failing. And their leader Obama projects diffidence and […]

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The Coming November Wars

By Patrick J. Buchanan As it stands today, Republicans will add seats in the House and recapture the Senate on Tuesday. However, the near-certainty is that those elections will be swiftly eclipsed by issues of war, peace, immigration and race, all of which will be moved front and center this November. Consider. If repeated leaks […]

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Buchanan Event: What the Heck Just Happened With the Midterm Elections?

A post-election conversation and book signing with New York Times Best-Selling Author Pat Buchanan and RARE.us Managing Editor Jack Hunter Political Trends After the 2014 Election A RARE opportunity to spend the evening with Pat Buchanan followed by a book signing! Plan now to be at a Rare event on November 6th when Pat Buchanan […]

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Terrorism & ‘The True Believer’

By Patrick J. Buchanan “A mass movement,” wrote Eric Hoffer in “The True Believer,” “appeals not to those intent on bolstering and advancing a cherished self, but to those who crave to be rid of an unwanted self. “Their innermost craving is for a new life — a rebirth — or, failing this, a chance […]

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