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John Roberts Makes His Career Move

ShareBy Patrick J. Buchanan For John Roberts, it is Palm Sunday. Out of relief and gratitude for his having saved Obamacare, he is being compared to John Marshall and Oliver Wendell Holmes. Liberal commentators are burbling that his act of statesmanship has shown us the way to the sunny uplands [Read more]
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Rating and Ranking Our Presidents

ShareBy Patrick J. Buchanan In 1948, Arthur Schlesinger Sr. wrote for Life magazine a controversial article on a subject that has been the cause of spirited and acrimonious debate ever since. He listed the consensus of our academic elite as to which American presidents had been Great, Near Great, Average, [Read more]
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Has the Day of the Islamist Arrived?

ShareBy Patrick J. Buchanan Sixteen months after the United States abandoned its loyal satrap of 30 years, President Hosni Mubarak, to champion democracy in Egypt, the returns are in. Mohammed Morsi, candidate of the Muslim Brotherhood, is president of Egypt, while the military has dissolved the elected parliament that was [Read more]
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A Labor Day Lament Shareby Patrick J. Buchanan – September 4, 1998 Since the...
Thanksgiving Day Proclamation of 1789 Share Thanksgiving Day Proclamation of 1789 by President George Washington...

Now Korea Is Cleaning Our Clock

ShareBy Patrick J. Buchanan “The entry into force of the U.S.-Korea trade agreement on March 15, 2012, means countless new opportunities for U.S. exporters to sell more made-in-America goods, services and agricultural products to Korean customers — and to support more good jobs here at home.” Thus did the Office [Read more]
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‘Buy American’ — or Bye-Bye America ShareBy Patrick J. Buchanan “British jobs for British workers!” thundered...
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Dress Rehearsal for a Mideast War?

ShareBy Patrick J. Buchanan “History does not repeat itself, but it often rhymes,” said Mark Twain. Observing the uprising in Syria, the atrocities, the intervention by rival powers, it all calls to mind the Great Rehearsal for World War II, the Spanish Civil War. The war began in 1936 with [Read more]
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Obama’s War ShareBy Patrick J. Buchanan In ordering air and naval strikes...
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Will Heads Roll for the Stuxnet Leak?

ShareBy Patrick J. Buchanan Within days of SEAL Team Six’s killing of Osama on that midnight mission in Pakistan, Defense Secretary Bob Gates, reading all about the raid in the press, went to the White House to tell President Obama’s national security adviser pungently to “shut the (bleep) up.” Leaked [Read more]
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The Bell Tolls for the Government Unions

ShareBy Patrick J. Buchanan In 1919, after Boston police went on strike to protest the city’s refusal to recognize their new union, Gov. Calvin Coolidge ordered the National Guard into the streets. Sam Gompers, the legendary father of American labor, wrote the governor that the Boston police had been denied [Read more]
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A Fire Bell in the Night for Norway ShareBy Patrick J. Buchanan “Like a fire bell in the...

Syria’s Insurrection Is Not America’s War

ShareBy Patrick J. Buchanan In pushing for U.S. military intervention in Syria — arming the insurgents and using U.S. air power to “create safe zones” for anti-regime forces “inside Syria’s borders” — The Washington Post invokes “vital U.S. interests” that are somehow imperiled there. Exactly what these vital interests are [Read more]
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Ann Romney Asks the Right Question

Share...By Patrick J. Buchanan When Hillary Rosen said that Ann Romney had “never worked a day in her life,” it was among the better days of the Romney campaign. For Rosen — present whereabouts unknown — both revealed the feminist mindset about women who choose to become wives and mothers [Read more]
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How Bill Kristol Purged the Arabists

Share...By Patrick J. Buchanan After taping John Stossel’s show on March 16 in New York, the Mrs. and I took the 10 a.m. Acela back to Washington. Once we had boarded the train, who should come waddling up the aisle but Bill Kristol. The Weekly Standard editor seemed cheerful, and [Read more]
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