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Is Scarborough Shoal Worth a War?

By Patrick J. Buchanan If China begins to reclaim and militarize Scarborough Shoal, says Philippines President Benigno S. Aquino III, America must fight.

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Who’s the Conservative Heretic?

By Patrick J. Buchanan In his coquettish refusal to accept the Donald, Paul Ryan says he cannot betray the conservative “principles” of the party of Abraham Lincoln, high among which is a devotion to free trade. But when did free trade become dogma in the Party of Lincoln?

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Is Mitt on a Suicide Mission?

By Patrick J. Buchanan “It’s a suicide mission,” said the Republican Party Chairman. Reince Priebus was commenting on a Washington Post story about Mitt Romney and William Kristol’s plot to recruit a third-party conservative candidate to sink Donald Trump.

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Trump or Ryan: Who Speaks for GOP?

By Patrick J. Buchanan “No modern precedent exists for the revival of a party so badly defeated, so intensely discredited, and so essentially split as the Republican Party is today.” Taken from “The Party That Lost Its Head” by Bruce Chapman and George Gilder, this excerpt, about Barry Goldwater’s defeat in 1964, led Thursday’s column […]

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Who Promoted Private Ryan?

By Patrick J. Buchanan Forty-eight hours after Donald Trump wrapped up the Republican nomination with a smashing victory in the Indiana primary, House Speaker Paul Ryan announced that he could not yet support Trump. In millennial teen-talk, Ryan told CNN’s Jake Tapper, “I’m just not ready to do that at this point.

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Bush Republicanism Is Dead and Gone

By Patrick J. Buchanan “The two living Republican past presidents, George H. W.

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Why Russia Resents Us

By Patrick J. Buchanan Friday, a Russian SU-27 did a barrel roll over a U.S.

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At Last, America First!

By Patrick J. Buchanan Whether the establishment likes it or not, and it evidently does not, there is a revolution going on in America. The old order in this capital city is on the way out, America is crossing a great divide, and there is no going back.

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If God Is Dead…

By Patrick J. Buchanan In a recent column Dennis Prager made an acute observation. “The vast majority of leading conservative writers … have a secular outlook on life.

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Dishonoring General Jackson

By Patrick J. Buchanan In Samuel Eliot Morison’s “The Oxford History of the American People,” there is a single sentence about Harriet Tubman. “An illiterate field hand, (Tubman) not only escaped herself but returned repeatedly and guided more than 300 slaves to freedom.

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