http://creators.com/ Creators Syndicate is an international syndication company that represents cartoonists and columnists of the highest caliber. en Thu, 16 Feb 2012 19:44:16 -0800 b39b2aa750863e2716958e8d017503f7 http://creators.com/conservative/pat-buchanan/the-new-blacklist.html Fri, 17 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800 <p>My days as a political analyst at MSNBC have come to an end.</p> <p>After 10 enjoyable years, I am departing, after an incessant clamor from the left that to permit me continued access to the microphones of MSNBC would be an outrage against decency, and dangerous.</p> <p>The calls for my firing began almost immediately with the Oct. 18 publication of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Suicide-Super ...<br> <br/>Updated: Fri Feb 17, 2012<br/><br/> 2d474fbea9fb061abe765ed813ed5b7c http://creators.com/conservative/pat-buchanan/on-to-tehran-or-is-it-damascus.html Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800 <p>Our War Party has been temporarily diverted from its clamor for war on Iran by the insurrection against the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad.</p> <p>Estimates of the dead since the Syrian uprising began a year ago approach 6,000. And responsibility for the carnage is being laid at the feet of the president who succeeded his dictator-father Hafez al-Assad, who ruled from 1971 until his death in ...<br> <br/>Updated: Tue Feb 14, 2012<br/><br/> 9b8c33bb23b95f597fa2bde49f213c34 http://creators.com/conservative/pat-buchanan/obama-s-trampling-on-god-s-turf-now.html Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800 <p>Yes, Virginia, there is a religious war going on. It is for the soul of America. And traditional Christianity is besieged.</p> <p>In a January visit to the Vatican, American bishops were warned by Benedict XVI that &quot;radical secularism&quot; posed &quot;grave threats&quot; to their Catholic faith. Your religious freedom is being circumscribed, said the pope. The U.S. government may seek to ...<br> <br/>Updated: Fri Feb 10, 2012<br/><br/> 4016b3883709969ebfc08e79f43342e7 http://creators.com/conservative/pat-buchanan/who-wants-war-with-iran-12-02-07.html Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800 <p>Appearing alongside CIA Director David Petraeus before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence last week, James Clapper, the director of national intelligence, said of Iran:</p> <p>&quot;We don't believe they've actually made the decision to go ahead with a nuclear weapon.&quot;</p> <p>Before the hearing, as James Fallows of The Atlantic reports, Clapper released his &quot;Worldwide Threat ...<br> <br/>Updated: Tue Feb 07, 2012<br/><br/> 766fce5b3eac43a6dabb9e6fe7b2b424 http://creators.com/conservative/pat-buchanan/ron-paul-reactionary-or-visionary.html Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800 <p>After his fourth-place showing in Florida, Ron Paul, by then in Nevada, told supporters he had been advised by friends that he would do better if only he dumped his foreign policy views, which have been derided as isolationism.</p> <p>Not going to do it, said Dr. Paul to cheers. And why should he?</p> <p>Observing developments in U.S. foreign and defense policy, Paul's views seem as far out in ...<br> <br/>Updated: Fri Feb 03, 2012<br/><br/> 8a59619d923b3190a3c2e6d679b10e40 http://creators.com/conservative/pat-buchanan/obama-sandbags-the-archbishop.html Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800 <p>At the end of Sunday mass at the church this writer attends in Washington, D.C., the pastor asked the congregation to remain for a few minutes.</p> <p>Then, on the instructions of Cardinal Archbishop Donald Wuerl, the pastor proceeded to read a letter.</p> <p>In the letter, the Church denounced the Obama administration for ordering all Catholic schools, hospitals and social services to provide, ...<br> <br/>Updated: Tue Jan 31, 2012<br/><br/> eefa465a2697d789092f6c7658a58cfa http://creators.com/conservative/pat-buchanan/who-commissioned-us-to-remake-the-world.html Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800 <p>U.S. Ambassador Michael McFaul, Obama's man in Moscow, who just took up his post, has received a rude reception. And understandably so.</p> <p>In 1992, McFaul was the representative in Russia of the National Democratic Institute, a U.S. government-funded agency whose mission is to promote democracy abroad.</p> <p>The NDI has been tied to color-coded or Orange revolutions such as those that deth ...<br> <br/>Updated: Fri Jan 27, 2012<br/><br/> 975641a7ed4c861bcc5b882187361d97 http://creators.com/conservative/pat-buchanan/mitt-vs-newt-the-gloves-come-off.html Tue, 24 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800 <p>Newt Gingrich's surge to success in South Carolina has surely brought joy to the Obama White House.</p> <p>For his 12-point victory ensures the fight for the GOP nomination will not end soon and will get nastier. Indeed, it already has. Whether Newt or Mitt Romney emerges victorious, the candidate who comes out of the Republican convention will be bruised and bloodied.</p> <p>Consider, first, N ...<br> <br/>Updated: Tue Jan 24, 2012<br/><br/> e1432d767b9212d05337357be8509881 http://creators.com/conservative/pat-buchanan/who-wants-war-with-iran.html Fri, 20 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800 <p>On Sept. 21, 1976, as his car rounded Sheridan Circle on Embassy Row, former Chilean ambassador Orlando Letelier was assassinated by car bomb. Ronni Moffitt, a 25-year-old American women who worked with Letelier at the leftist Institute for Policy Studies, died with him.</p> <p>Michael Townley, an ex-CIA asset in the hire of Chile's intelligence agency, confessed to using anti-Castro Cubans to ...<br> <br/>Updated: Fri Jan 20, 2012<br/><br/> 0ee1dd57385674517b9a058108ddc826 http://creators.com/conservative/pat-buchanan/vulture-capitalism-or-populist-demagoguery.html Tue, 17 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800 <p>&quot;They're vultures that are sitting out there on the tree limb, waiting for a company to get sick, and then they swoop in ... eat the carcass ... and ... leave the skeleton.&quot;</p> <p>So Rick Perry colorfully characterized the private equity firm Bain Capital, once run by Mitt Romney.</p> <p>How did Bain prosper? Says Perry:</p> <p>&quot;These companies ... come in and loot the people's ...<br> <br/>Updated: Tue Jan 17, 2012<br/><br/> 499121136b490fe5c0624495134d70ba http://creators.com/conservative/pat-buchanan/the-true-believer.html Fri, 13 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800 <p>Last May, Ron Paul filed his financial disclosure form, and The Wall Street Journal enlisted financial analyst William Bernstein to scrutinize his investments.</p> <p>&quot;Paul's portfolio isn't merely different,&quot; said an astonished Journal, &quot;it's shockingly different.&quot;</p> <p>Twenty-one percent of his $2.4 to $5.5 million was in real estate, 14 percent in cash. He owns no bonds ...<br> <br/>Updated: Fri Jan 13, 2012<br/><br/> 5622f8257f1e1c9f0ab44d1e174d341d http://creators.com/conservative/pat-buchanan/gop-war-of-all-against-all.html Tue, 10 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800 <p>There still exists a possibility that, come Jan. 20, 2013, we could have a Republican Senate and House, and a Republican president.</p> <p>But there is also a possibility that a Goldwater-Rockefeller-type family bloodletting could sunder the party and kick it all away.</p> <p>America is bored with Barack Obama. The young and the minorities are still with him but exhibit none of the excitement o ...<br> <br/>Updated: Tue Jan 10, 2012<br/><br/> 34012943774b653dd4c73815ec0aec0c http://creators.com/conservative/pat-buchanan/four-more-years-of-this.html Fri, 06 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800 <p>In what The Washington Post called &quot;a bold act of political defiance,&quot; President Obama Wednesday announced the recess appointment of Richard Cordray to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.</p> <p>Cordray's nomination had been blocked by a Senate filibuster. There was no way he was going to win approval in 2012.</p> <p>Enraged Republicans denounced the appointment as an affro ...<br> <br/>Updated: Fri Jan 06, 2012<br/><br/> 80db78692d4f978b0350b69ae7aae918 http://creators.com/conservative/pat-buchanan/our-innocents-abroad.html Tue, 03 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800 <p>Friday's lead stories in The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal dealt with what both viewed as a national affront and outrage.</p> <p>Egyptian soldiers, said the Post, &quot;stormed the offices&quot; of three U.S. &quot;democracy-building organizations ... in a dramatic escalation of a crackdown by the military-led government that could imperil its relations with the United States.&quo ...<br> <br/>Updated: Tue Jan 03, 2012<br/><br/> 9d3486937a241f95bba9dbf06f08e973 http://creators.com/conservative/pat-buchanan/is-america-losing-control.html Fri, 30 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800 <p>&quot;Events are in the saddle and ride mankind.&quot;</p> <p>In describing 2011, few clich&eacute;s seem more appropriate. For in this past year, we Americans seemed to lose control of our destiny, as events seemed to be in the saddle.</p> <p>While President Barack Obama maneuvered skillfully to retain a fighting chance to be re-elected, the economy showed no signs of returning to the robustne ...<br> <br/>Updated: Fri Dec 30, 2011<br/><br/> 7cb9bee9c6651fe6bf10573f37ac4f01 http://creators.com/conservative/pat-buchanan/whose-country-is-it-anyway-11-12-27.html Tue, 27 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800 <p>Half a century ago, American children were schooled in Aesop's fables. Among the more famous of these were &quot;The Fox and the Grapes&quot; and &quot;The Tortoise and the Hare.&quot;</p> <p>Particularly appropriate this Christmas season, and every Christmas lately, is Aesop's fable of &quot;The Dog in the Manger.&quot;</p> <p>The tale is about a dog who decides to take a nap in the manger. Wh ...<br> <br/>Updated: Tue Dec 27, 2011<br/><br/> 775b007e1c5b94c2c085d3514a1b890b http://creators.com/conservative/pat-buchanan/make-congress-vote-on-war-on-iran.html Fri, 23 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800 <p>Returning from Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta dropped some jolting news.</p> <p>Asked by CBS's Scott Pelley if Iran could have a nuclear weapon in 2012, Panetta replied: &quot;It would probably be about a year before they could do it. Perhaps a little less. But one proviso, Scott, is that if they have a hidden facility somewhere in Iran that may be enriching fuel.&q ...<br> <br/>Updated: Fri Dec 23, 2011<br/><br/> e293bfbfb04e895645f7d9e8981a4728 http://creators.com/conservative/pat-buchanan/-second-period-of-islamic-power-quot.html Tue, 20 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800 <p>For the 30 years since &quot;The McLaughlin Group&quot; began to run on network television, the Christmas and New Year's shows have been devoted to the conferring of annual awards.</p> <p>The first award on the Christmas show is &quot;Biggest Winner.&quot;</p> <p>This year, clearly, one of the world's big winner was &mdash; Islam.</p> <p>For this was the year when what Catholic apologist Hilair ...<br> <br/>Updated: Tue Dec 20, 2011<br/><br/> d16afd1f30079e8b60f41dc97207ec61 http://creators.com/conservative/pat-buchanan/and-was-the-mission-accomplished.html Fri, 16 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800 <p>For the Army and Marines who lost 4,500 dead and more than 30,000 wounded, many of them amputees, the second-longest war in U.S. history is over. America is coming home from Iraq.</p> <p>On May 1, 2003, on the carrier Abraham Lincoln, the huge banner behind President George W. Bush proclaimed, &quot;Mission Accomplished!&quot;</p> <p>That was eight years ago. And so, was the mission accomplishe ...<br> <br/>Updated: Fri Dec 16, 2011<br/><br/> 4f47179996afd2f13367810d75094c6a http://creators.com/conservative/pat-buchanan/david-cameron-s-finest-hour.html Tue, 13 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800 <p>Prime Minister David Cameron's decision to veto Germany's demand for a new European fiscal union will define his premiership.</p> <p>More than that, Cameron has raised a banner for patriots everywhere fighting to retain their national independence.</p> <p>With his no vote on fiscal union, Cameron declared to the EU: &quot;British surrenders of sovereignty come to an end here. And Britain will d ...<br> <br/>Updated: Tue Dec 13, 2011<br/><br/>