Patrick J. Buchanan's Blog, page 146

The Day of the Hobbits

Share...By Patrick J. Buchanan Mocked by The Wall Street Journal and Sen. John McCain as the little people of the "Lord of the Rings" books, the tea party "Hobbits" are indeed returning to Middle Earth — to nail the coonskin to the wall. As even the Journal concedes, the final [Read more]


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What "Big Deals" Did to America

Share...By Patrick J. Buchanan Thanks to Tea Party fanatics, we are told, America just lost an historic opportunity to deal with her national debt. Because of Tea Party intransigence and threats against their own leader John Boehner, the speaker had to reject Obama's "grand bargain," the "big deal" of $3 [Read more]


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A Fire Bell in the Night for Norway

Share...By Patrick J. Buchanan "Like a fire bell in the night," wrote Thomas Jefferson in 1820, "this momentous question … awakened and filled me with terror. I considered it at once as the knell of the Union." Jefferson was writing of the sudden resurgence of the slavery issue in the [Read more]


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Is a Tea Party Triumph at Hand?

Share...By Patrick J. Buchanan They were called "terrorists," "fanatics" and "unpatriotic." Yet the principled resistance of the Tea Party Caucus in the House has put their leader right across the table from Barack Obama to negotiate the final terms of armistice in the debt-ceiling battle of 2011. Today is July [Read more]


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The Long Retreat of Liberalism

Share...By Patrick J. Buchanan Though President Obama has run rings about the Republican Party in the debt-ceiling debate, that party can yet emerge victorious, if it will stick to its guns. Clearly, the Republican strategy was not thought through, when the party chose the debt ceiling as the legislative terrain [Read more]


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We're All Greeks Now

Share...By Patrick J. Buchanan Departing for New Hampshire in November 2010, Sen. Judd Gregg, the fiscal conservative President Obama wanted in his Cabinet, blurted an inconvenient truth: "This nation is on a course where if we don't do something about it, get … fiscal policy (under control), we're Greece." The [Read more]


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Black America vs. Obama?

Share...By Patrick J. Buchanan "The Disappearing Black Middle Class" ran the headline over the Chicago Sun-Times story. And the statistics from the Economic Policy Institute were indeed sobering. In 2007, best year of the Bush era, white households had a median net worth of $134,280, compared with $13,450 for black [Read more]


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An Establishment in Panic

Share... By Patrick J. Buchanan By refusing to accept tax increases in a deal to raise the debt ceiling, Republicans are behaving like "fanatics," writes David Brooks of The New York Times. Anti-tax Republicans "have no sense of moral decency," he adds. They are "willing to stain their nation's honor" [Read more]


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Is a U.S. Default Inevitable?

Share... By Patrick J. Buchanan As President Bush prepared to invade Iraq in September 2002, the head of his economic policy council, Lawrence Lindsey publicly estimated such a war could cost $100 billion to $200 billion. Lindsey had committed candor, and the stunned Bushites came down on him with both [Read more]


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The Death of Moral Community

Share... By Patrick J. Buchanan "The opponents (of same-sex marriage) have no case other than ignorance and misconception and prejudice." So writes Richard Cohen in his celebratory column about Gov. Andrew Cuomo's role in legalizing gay marriage in New York state. Now, given that no nation in 20 centuries of [Read more]


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