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Fatal Flaw of Democracies

by Patrick J. Buchanan

"We just can't afford it!"

Not long ago, every America child heard that, at one time or another, in the home in which he or she was raised.

"We just can't afford it!" It may have been a new car, or two weeks at the beach, or the new flat-panel TV screen.

Every family knew [...:]


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Spending Ourselves to Death

by Patrick J. Buchanan

"We just can't afford it!"

Not long ago, every America child heard that, at one time or another, in the home in which he or she was raised.

"We just can't afford it!" It may have been a new car, or two weeks at the beach, or the new flat-panel TV screen.

Every family knew [...:]


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Was the 'Good War' Unnecessary?

by Anthony Gregory – Antiwar.com

Churchill, Hitler, and the Unnecessary War: How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World by Patrick J. Buchanan (New York: Crown Publishers, 2008); 518 pages.

Of all the wars the United States has fought, World War II is the most universally celebrated. It was the "Good War," despite being [...:]


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Conservative Stronghold

Patrick J. Buchanan Interview by Edward LewineThe New York Times Magazine – September 16, 2007

Morning routine: On a normal morning I get up before 7 a.m. and get my six papers at the end of the driveway. The Mrs. has the coffee on, and we read the papers with MSNBC on the kitchen [...:]Related posts:VIDEO: The Future of News – News War: Interview Patrick J. BuchananHijacking the Conservative MovementMcCain: Conservative or Globalist?Has Obama's Luck Run Out?Sam Francis: Cassandra Of The Conserv

Thomas Paine's Revolution on Display

by Deborah K. Dietsch – The Washington Times

"These are the times that try men's souls."

Thomas Paine's familiar exhortation forms the centerpiece of a small but potent exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery honoring his tumultuous life. Paintings, engravings and documents trace the rise and fall of this itinerant revolutionary, the most radical of the early [...:]


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Burn Victims

By Kelley Beaucar Vlahos – The American Conservative Magazine

Toxic exposure torments soldiers long after their tours end.

Retired Sgt. Michael Maynard can no longer feel his feet. He began to notice the problem four years ago while working as an air-traffic control specialist in the Army. After a year at Camp Taji in Iraq, Maynard took [...:]


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A Thousand Little Gitmos

By Petra Bartosiewicz – Mother Jones Magazine

The last person to see Syed Mehmood Hashmi as a free man was his friend Mohammed Haroon Saleem, who on June 6, 2006, drove Hashmi to London's Heathrow Airport, walked him to the security checkpoint, and watched him hoist his bag and head for the gate. But Hashmi never [...:]


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Sarah and the Death Panels

by Patrick J. Buchanan

"The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama's 'death panel' so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their 'level of productivity in society,' whether they are worthy of health [...:]

Populist Right Rising

by Patrick J. Buchanan

What happened to the Age of Obama?

Glancing over the New York Times Book Review Sunday, one finds three of the top four non-fiction best-sellers were written by conservatives — columnist Michelle Malkin, talk-show host Mark Levin and Fox News contributor Dick Morris.

At No. 10, in its 40th week on the list, is [...:]

WebNote: Working on the Site This Week…

UPDATE: The site is rebuilt from the ground up. Beautiful, clean code, finally it's error free and validates XHTML Strict. The CSS still needs work but I'm not freaking out over it. This week I'll add some new components — permanent sections for weekly polls, Podcasts, books, videos, and more. And I will set up [...:]