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Tea Party's Winning Hand

By Patrick J. Buchanan Other than being the highest-profile Republican victims of Tea Party candidates, what do Lisa Murkowski, Mike Castle, Charlie Crist and Arlen Specter have in common? Other than being tea party insurgents who routed establishment Republicans in high-profile primaries, what do Joe Miller, Marco Rubio, Christine O'Donnell, Pat Toomey, Sharron Angle in [...]

The Fed Trashes the Dollar

By Patrick J. Buchanan If it is the first responsibility of the Federal Reserve to protect the dollars that Americans earn and save, is it not dereliction of duty for the Fed to pursue a policy to bleed value from those dollars? For that is what Chairman Ben Bernanke is up to with his QE2, [...]

The Murderers of Christianity

By Patrick J. Buchanan Sunday, on the eve of All Saints' Day, Nov. 1, 2010, the faithful gathered at the Assyrian Catholic Church of Our Lady of Salvation in Baghdad. As Father Wassim Sabih finished the mass, eight al-Qaida stormed in, began shooting and forced him to the floor. As the priest pleaded that his [...]

Has History Passed Obama By?

By Patrick J. Buchanan Barack Obama's dream of being a transformational president who alters the course of his country died 48 hours ago. The message America sent Obama and the men and women America sent to Congress to replace his allies impel one to ask: Why would he want a second term? Why would the [...]

Broder's Brainstorm

By Patrick J. Buchanan Though Obama "may lose control of Congress," says columnist David Broder, he "can still storm back to win a second term in 2012." How does Broder suggest Obama go about it? "Look back at FDR and the Great Depression. What finally resolved that economic crisis? World War II." Conceding the prospect [...]

'Just Say No!' Pays Off

by Patrick J. Buchanan The polls and pundits are all in alignment now. The Republican Party is headed for a victory Tuesday to rival the biggest and best of those that the party has known in the lifetime of most Americans. In 1938, the GOP won 72 seats in the House. In 1946, Republicans swept [...]


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'Just Say No!' Pays Off

by Patrick J. Buchanan The polls and pundits are all in alignment now. The Republican Party is headed for a victory Tuesday to rival the biggest and best of those that the party has known in the lifetime of most Americans. In 1938, the GOP won 72 seats in the House. In 1946, Republicans swept [...]

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NPR's Overdue Execution

By Patrick J. Buchanan

On June 30, 1972, two weeks after the Watergate burglars were taken into custody, Richard Nixon vetoed a congressional bill to double and treble federal funding for public broadcasting.

Nixon's stunning veto was sustained. Yet he had only "scotched the snake, not killed it," in the words of MacBeth.

Having escaped the ax, PBS [...]

Tea Party Tory

By Patrick J. Buchanan

Before the Tea Party philosophy is ever even tested in America, it will have succeeded, or it will have failed, in Great Britain.

For in David Cameron the Brits have a prime minister who can fairly be described as a Tea Party Tory. Casting aside the guidance of Lord Keynes — government-induced deficits [...]