Patrick J. Buchanan's Blog, page 140

Four More Years — of This?

Share...By Patrick J. Buchanan In what The Washington Post called "a bold act of political defiance," President Obama Wednesday announced the recess appointment of Richard Cordray to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Cordray's nomination had been blocked by a Senate filibuster. There was no way he was going to [Read more]
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Our Innocents Abroad?

Share...By Patrick J. Buchanan Friday's lead stories in The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal dealt with what both viewed as a national affront and outrage. Egyptian soldiers, said the Post, "stormed the offices" of three U.S. "democracy-building organizations … in a dramatic escalation of a crackdown by the [Read more]
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Is America Losing Control?

Share...By Patrick J. Buchanan "Events are in the saddle and ride mankind." In describing 2011, few cliches seem more appropriate. For in this past year, we Americans seemed to lose control of our destiny, as events seemed to be in the saddle. While President Barack Obama maneuvered skillfully to retain [Read more]
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Whose Country Is It, Anyway?

Share...By Patrick J. Buchanan Half a century ago, American children were schooled in Aesop's fables. Among the more famous of these were "The Fox and the Grapes" and "The Tortoise and the Hare." Particularly appropriate this Christmas season, and every Christmas lately, is Aesop's fable of "The Dog in the [Read more]
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Make Congress Vote on War on Iran

Share...By Patrick J. Buchanan Returning from Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta dropped some jolting news. Asked by CBS's Scott Pelley if Iran could have a nuclear weapon in 2012, Panetta replied: "It would probably be about a year before they could do it. Perhaps a little less. [Read more]
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Congress Steps Up to the War Issue Share...by Patrick J. Buchanan – July 22, 2002 At long...
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"Second Period of Islamic Power"

Share...By Patrick J. Buchanan For the 30 years since "The McLaughlin Group" began to run on network television, the Christmas and New Year's shows have been devoted to the conferring of annual awards. The first award on the Christmas show is "Biggest Winner." This year, clearly, one of the world's [Read more]
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Suicide of a Super Power Ranks #4 on New York Times Best Seller List! Share...Pat's new book has soared to the top of the...

GOP Will Take Off the Gloves if Ron Paul Wins Iowa

Share...…. Just like they did to Pat Buchanan in 1996 by Timothy P. Carney – The Republican presidential primary has become a bit feisty, but it will get downright ugly if Ron Paul wins the Iowa caucuses. The principled, antiwar, Constitution-obeying, Fed-hating, libertarian Republican congressman from Texas stands firmly outside [Read more]
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And Was the Mission Accomplished?

Share...By Patrick J. Buchanan For the Army and Marines who lost 4,500 dead and more than 30,000 wounded, many of them amputees, the second-longest war in U.S. history is over. America is coming home from Iraq. On May 1, 2003, on the carrier Abraham Lincoln, the huge banner behind President [Read more]


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David Cameron's Finest Hour

Share...By Patrick J. Buchanan Prime Minister David Cameron's decision to veto Germany's demand for a new European fiscal union will define his premiership. More than that, Cameron has raised a banner for patriots everywhere fighting to retain their national independence. With his no vote on fiscal union, Cameron declared to [Read more]


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Marco Rubio vs. Rand Paul

Share...By Patrick J. Buchanan In August 2008, as the world's leaders gathered in Beijing for the Olympic games, Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, hot-headed and erratic, made his gamble for greatness. It began with a stunning artillery barrage on Tskhinvali, capital of tiny South Ossetia, a province that had broken free [Read more]


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