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Last Hurrah of the Interventionists?

By Patrick J. Buchanan In what a Washington Post columnist describes as a rout of Rand Paul isolationism, the Senate just voted overwhelmingly to send another $1.5 billion in foreign aid to Egypt. The House voted 400-20 to impose new sanctions on Iran’s oil exports, two days before Iran’s new president, elected on a pledge [...]

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Obama’s Moment — A Deal With Iran!

By Patrick J. Buchanan In his second term, Richard Nixon had Watergate, but also the rescue of Israel in the Yom Kippur War. In his second term, Ronald Reagan had Iran-Contra, but also a treaty eliminating U.S. and Soviet missiles in Europe, his “tear-down-this-wall” moment in Berlin and his lead role in ending the Cold [...]

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Weiner & Spitzer — Now More Than Ever!

By Patrick J. Buchanan “Progressivism leads inevitably to utter irrationality and eventually political, as well as moral, chaos.” So writes editor R.V. Young in the summer issue of Modern Age, the journal of which Russell Kirk was founding editor. The magazine arrived with the latest post from our cultural capital, where the front-runner in the [...]

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Leading From Behind Al Sharpton

By Patrick J. Buchanan “The First Black President … Spoke First as a Black American,” ran the banner headline of Sunday’s Washington Post. But why, when the fires of anger over the Zimmerman verdict were dying down, did he go into that pressroom and stir them up? “A week of protests outside the White House, [...]

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Black America’s Real Problem Isn’t White Racism

By Patrick J. Buchanan In the aftermath of the acquittal of George Zimmerman, Eric Holder, Al Sharpton and Ben Jealous of the NAACP are calling on the black community to rise up in national protest. Yet they know — and Barack Obama, whose silence speaks volumes, knows — nothing is going to happen. “Stand-Your-Ground” laws [...]

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Shut It Down, Mr. President

Trayvon Martin was an unarmed teenager walking home from a convenience store with Skittles and iced tea, when he was shot to death by a racist, profiling wannabe cop named George Zimmerman. In the Big Media, which has relentlessly sought out the voices of those most incensed by the verdict in Sanford, Fla., that is [...]

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Not Guilty — Beyond Reasonable Doubt

By Patrick J. Buchanan That the prosecution in the Zimmerman trial asked the judge to allow a verdict of “third-degree murder” — i.e., child abuse, since Trayvon Martin was 17 — testifies to the prosecution’s failure and panic. For George Zimmerman’s defense has proven, beyond a reasonable doubt, that he shot Trayvon Martin not out [...]

More by Pat Buchanan:
Obama’s Zimmerman Problem
It’s All About Race Now
What If Zimmerman Walks Free?
Douse the Flames, Mr. President!

Not Guilty — Beyond Reasonable Doubt

By Patrick J. Buchanan That the prosecution in the Zimmerman trial asked the judge to allow a verdict of “third-degree murder” — i.e., child abuse, since Trayvon Martin was 17 — testifies to the prosecution’s failure and panic. For George Zimmerman’s defense has proven, beyond a reasonable doubt, that he shot Trayvon Martin not out [...]

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Vital Interests vs. Democratic Ideals

By Patrick J. Buchanan Understandably, the Muslim Brotherhood is enraged. Having won the presidency of Egypt in free and fair elections after the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak, President Mohammed Morsi has been ousted in a military coup and placed under house arrest. Brotherhood leaders, convicted of no crimes, are being rounded up. They played by [...]

More by Pat Buchanan:
Democratic Dawn — or Darkness?
The Emerging Democratic Debacle
Ideology vs. the National Interest
When Dictators Fall, Who Rises?

Equality: American Idol

By Patrick J. Buchanan “They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.” Ben Franklin is much quoted in today’s debate on the trade-off between freedom and security, as we learn about the National Security Agency’s easy access to our phone records and emails. Yet we [...]

More by Pat Buchanan:
The Equality Racket
Equality — or Freedom?
How We’ve Traded Freedom for ‘Equality’
The Myth of Equality