Patrick J. Buchanan's Blog, page 12

US Embraces a Diversity China Fears

“Our diversity is our strength.” But is that clich�� true? Where is the scientific, historical or empirical evidence for the proposition that the greater the religious, racial, tribal and ethnic diversity of a nation, the stronger it becomes?�� �� To put it mildly, this is not a universally held belief. ...

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Who Lost America’s Longest War?

How many U.S. generals knew what was going on but declined to risk their careers by telling Congress or the country that the Afghan army and regime we had stood up would likely collapse like a house of cards once the Americans departed and they had to face the Taliban ...

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Is America Becoming a Failed State?

Biden is failing in his first constitutional duty ��� to defend the United States from foreign invasion. We Americans no longer decide who comes into our national home and whom we shall adopt as new citizens… We defend the borders of scores of nations; we cannot, or Biden will not, ...

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A Tonkin Gulf Incident in the Gulf of Oman?

Britain and the U.S. immediately blamed Iran, and the Israelis began to beat the war drums. A week ago, the MT Mercer Street, a Japanese-owned tanker managed by a U.K.-based company owned by Israeli billionaire Eyal Ofer, sailing in the Arabian Sea off the coast of Oman, was struck by ...

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America’s ‘Great Leap Forward’ Into Socialism

This weekend, a bipartisan group of senators crafted a $1 trillion measure to repair and expand the nation’s roads, bridges, ports, airports and broadband. Last week, this trillion-dollar infrastructure plan got a green light from 17 Republican senators, including Sen. Mitch McConnell. Just seven weeks into his presidency, Joe Biden ...

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For What Will We Go to War With China?

Why are we threatening this? Is who controls Mischief Reef or Scarborough Shoal a matter of such vital U.S. interest as to justify war between us and China? In his final state of the nation speech Monday, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte defended his refusal to confront China over Beijing’s seizure ...

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Why the Left Can’t Let Go of Jan. 6

Every Democrat of the committee has voted to impeach Trump for Jan. 6. Both of the Republicans Pelosi put on the committee to provide bipartisan balance ��� Wyoming’s Liz Cheney and Illinois’ Adam Kinzinger ��� voted to impeach Trump last January and are the two ranking anti-Trump Republicans on Capitol ...

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JFK — Accept Our Diverse World as It Is

Kennedy was asking us to recognize that the world consists not only of democrats but also of autocrats, dictatorships, military regimes, monarchs and politburos, and the goal of U.S. foreign policy was not to convert them into political replicas of the USA.�� ����Kennedy was willing to put our political model ...

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Why Can’t Biden Stop This Invasion?

America used to regard its southern border as sacrosanct and vulnerable, requiring constant vigilance and occasional action to secure. And how is President Joe Biden handling his sworn presidential duty to defend the states of the Union from invasion? Article IV of the Constitution addresses the obligations of the federal ...

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Is Biden Really the Lincoln of Our Time?

Is Biden really saying that minor alterations in election laws, all of which would have to pass muster with federal courts and the Supreme Court, represent an existential threat to our republic? This is beyond hyperbole. It is ridiculous. It is absurd. Traveling to Philadelphia Tuesday, President Joe Biden laid ...

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