Patrick J. Buchanan's Blog, page 170

Rand Paul (Son of Ron) Could Just Save the Republican Party

by Richard Hoste – Taki's Magazine

Don't look now, but there's a Republican Senatorial candidate whom conservatives fed up with the neo-cons can get excited about. In the Kentucky primary to be held May 18, Dr. Rand Paul (not named after Ayn), son of the legendary congressman, is leading his opponent Trey Grayson [...:]

George W. Bush 'Knew Guantánamo Prisoners Were Innocent'

by Tim Reid – The Times, UK

Two detainees are escorted to interrogation by US military guards at Guantanamo Bay

George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld covered up that hundreds of innocent men were sent to the Guantánamo Bay prison camp because they feared that releasing them would harm the push for war in [...:]

The New Intolerance

by Patrick J. Buchanan

"This was a recognition of American terrorists."

That is CNN's Roland Martin's summary judgment of the 258,000 men and boys who fell fighting for the Confederacy in a war that cost as many American lives as World Wars I and II, Korea, Vietnam and Iraq combined.

Martin reflects the hysteria that seized Obamaville on [...:]

Iraq War Vet: "We Were Told to Just Shoot People, and the Officers Would Take Care of Us"

by Dahr Jamail – Truthout

On Monday, April 5, Wikileaks.org posted video footage from Iraq, taken from a US military Apache helicopter in July 2007 as soldiers aboard it killed 12 people and wounded two children. The dead included two employees of the Reuters news agency: photographer Namir Noor-Eldeen and driver Saeed [...:]

Obama & Co. Want National Biometric ID

by Alex Newman – The New American Magazine

A bipartisan group of U.S. Senators is teaming up with the Obama administration to legalize illegal immigrants and require biometric national ID cards for every American worker, prompting a swift and bipartisan backlash across the nation.

The proposal would unconstitutionally force nearly all Americans to [...:]

Leaders' Lack of Respect for Rule of Law Makes Us All Victims of 9/11

by Cynthia McKinney – LewRockwell.com

The war on terror did not go away with George Bush. When President Barack Obama came to power there was so much hope, but as the US Green Party presidential candidate I did not share it.

I heard candidate Obama's speeches and knew that he would be a War President. What I [...:]

VIDEO: SA@TAC: Why the South Should Be Anti-War

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AUDIO: OKC Bombing: Scott Horton Interviews Jesse Trentadue

AntiWar Radio: Jesse Trentadue discusses the journey from investigating his brother's "suicide" in federal custody to finding the truth about the Oklahoma City bombing, a recent court setback on FOIA requests that nevertheless revealed CIA involvement in the prosecutions of Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols, why the FBI must have had foreknowledge [...:]

SPLC's Hate Hoax

Tolerance Mafia: Who watches the hate watchers?

By W. James Antle III – The American Conservative

Ken Silverstein is an unlikely ally for those trying to get control of the nation's borders. A liberal journalist, he finds the Minutemen "crackpots" and Arizona's immigration-hawk Sheriff Joe Arpaio a "kook" whose activities are "reprehensible." Silverstein's wife is Dominican, and [...:]

Anti-Catholicism and the Times

By Patrick J. Buchanan

"Anti-Catholicism," said writer Peter Viereck, "is the anti-Semitism of the intellectual." It is "the deepest-held bias in the history of the American people," said Arthur Schlesinger Sr.

If there was any doubt that hatred of and hostility toward the Catholic Church persists, it was removed by the mob that has [...:]