Pat Buchanan from Creators Syndicate

Is He One of Us? for 04/25/2008

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700

As one looks at the polls, the issues and the candidates, the election of 2008 resembles what poker players call a "lay-down hand."

Two-thirds of the nation believes the Iraq war a blunder. Sixty-nine percent disapproves of President Bush. Eighty-one percent thinks America is on the wrong course.

Inflation is at 4 percent and rising. Unemployment is 5 percent and rising. ...

Updated: Fri Apr 25, 2008

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Will the Right Sit It Out? for 04/29/2008

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700

If John McCain wins the presidency, his comeback — after the bankrupt debacle his campaign had become in the summer of 2007 with his backing of the amnesty bill — will be the stuff of legend.

And as nominee, he is entitled to conduct his own campaign and be cut slack by a party whose brand name is now Enron.

That said, McCain seems to have decided to win by love-bombin ...

Updated: Tue Apr 29, 2008

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The Way Our World Ends for 05/02/2008

Fri, 02 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700

"This is the way the world ends/Not with a bang but a whimper," wrote T.S. Eliot in the closing couplet of "The Hollow Men."

Eliot's poem was written after the Great War of 1914-1918 had carried off 9 million soldiers, wounded twice as many more, brought down the Romanov, Hohenzollern and Habsburg empires, and ushered onto the world stage Lenin, Stalin, Mussolini and, ...

Updated: Fri May 02, 2008

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Is It Jaw-Jaw or War-War? for 05/06/2008

Tue, 06 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Is war with Iran inevitable, even imminent? Or is peace at hand?

From the public diplomacy of the administration, either conclusion may be reached. Consider.

"West Offers Iran 'Refreshed' Deal," ran the headline in the May 3 Washington Times. The story described an offer to Iran, agreed to by all five members of the Security Council — the United States, Britain, Fr ...

Updated: Tue May 06, 2008

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The Hillary Democrats for 05/09/2008

Fri, 09 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700

"I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on" than Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton has told USA TODAY.

She cited an Associated Press article "that found how Sen. Obama's support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me."

"There's a ...

Updated: Fri May 09, 2008

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Race Cards and Speech Codes for 05/13/2008

Tue, 13 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700

"Give me a break. This whole thing is the biggest fairy tale I've ever seen."

So said Bill Clinton in New Hampshire of Obama's claim to have been a constant opponent of the war. Clinton cited Obama's voting record, which was the same as Hillary's in his early Senate years.

Yet, for this, the ex-president, designated by Toni Morrison as "our first black president,&qu ...

Updated: Tue May 13, 2008

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The Lost Tribes of Israel for 05/16/2008

Fri, 16 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700

As Israel enters its 61st year, Israelis may look back with pride. Yet, the realists among them must also look forward with foreboding.

Israel is a modern democracy with the highest standard of living in the Middle East. In the high-tech industries of the future, she is in the first rank. From a nation of fewer than a million in 1948, Israel's population has grown to 7 million. In seven ...

Updated: Fri May 16, 2008

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Bush Plays the Hitler Card for 05/20/2008

Tue, 20 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700

"A little learning is a dangerous thing," wrote Alexander Pope.

Daily, our 43rd president testifies to Pope's point.

Addressing the Knesset on the 60th anniversary of Israel's birth, Bush said those who say we should negotiate with Iran or Hamas are like the fools who said we should negotiate with Adolf Hitler.

"As Nazi tanks crossed into Poland in 1939, an A ...

Updated: Tue May 20, 2008

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Post-Christian America for 05/23/2008

Fri, 23 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700

"A Victory for Equality and Justice," blared the headline above the editorial. "Momentous," "historic," "a major victory for civil rights," "a scrupulously fair ruling based on law, precedents and common sense."

This was the ecstatic reaction of The New York Times to the California Supreme Court's declaration that homosexuals have a right ...

Updated: Fri May 23, 2008

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How the West Lost the World for 05/27/2008

Tue, 27 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Europe, the Mother Continent of Western Man, is today aging and dying, unable to sustain the birth rates needed to keep her alive, or to resist conquest by an immigrant invasion from the Third World

What happened to the nations that only a century ago ruled the world?

In "Churchill, Hitler and 'The Unnecessary War': How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World,&quo ...

Updated: Tue May 27, 2008

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Is Bush Becoming Irrelevant? for 05/30/2008

Fri, 30 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700

After losing both houses of Congress in the 1994 election, Bill Clinton expostulated: The president of the United States is not irrelevant!

On learning his trusted aide from Texas Scott McClellan has denounced as an "unnecessary war" the same Iraq war McClellan defended from the White House podium, George Bush must feel as Clinton did.

The synchronized savagery of the at ...

Updated: Fri May 30, 2008

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Munich, 1938 for 06/03/2008

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700

When President Bush, before the Knesset, used the word "appeasement" to label those who would negotiate with Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, he invoked the most powerful analogy in any debate over war and peace.

No man wishes to be regarded as an "appeaser."

But, as this writer has discovered since my book "Churchill, Hitler and The Unnecessary War: How Britai ...

Updated: Tue Jun 03, 2008

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How Obama Won -- and May Win for 06/10/2008

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700

"I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. ... I mean, that's a storybook, man."

Thus did Joe Biden famously describe his rival for the nomination, Barack Obama, to the The New York Observer, a year ago.

Biden, however, thought Obama might not be able to win the fall election, as he is "a one ...

Updated: Tue Jun 10, 2008

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The 'Good War' and the Terrible Peace for 06/13/2008

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700

In attacking my book "Churchill, Hitler and 'The Unnecessary War': How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World," Victor Davis Hanson, the court historian of the neoconservatives, charges me with "rewriting ... facts" and showing "ingratitude" to American and British soldiers who fought World Wars I and II.

Both charges are false, and transparentl ...

Updated: Fri Jun 13, 2008

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Return of the Censors for 06/17/2008

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Freedom of the press is on trial in Canada.
The trial is before a court with the Orwellian title of the
British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal. The accused are Maclean's magazine
and author Mark Steyn. The crime: In mocking and biting tones, they wrote
that Islam threatens Western values.
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Updated: Tue Jun 17, 2008

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Was the Holocaust Inevitable? for 06/20/2008

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700

"What Would Winston Do?"

So asks Newsweek's cover, which features a full-length photo of the prime minister his people voted the greatest Briton of them all.

Quite a tribute, when one realizes Churchill's career coincides with the collapse of the British empire and the fall of his nation from world pre-eminence to third-rate power.

That the Newsweek cover was spar ...

Updated: Fri Jun 20, 2008

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Morality -- Trotskyite vs. Christian for 06/24/2008

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Did Hitler's crimes justify the Allies' terror-bombing of Germany?

Indeed they did, answers Christopher Hitchens in his Newsweek response to my new book, "Churchill, Hitler and the Unnecessary War": "The stark evidence of the Final Solution has ever since been enough to dispel most doubts about, say, the wisdom or morality of carpet-bombing German cities."

Athe ...

Updated: Tue Jun 24, 2008

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Who's Planning Our Next War? for 06/27/2008

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Of the Axis-of-Evil nations named in his State of the Union in 2002, President Bush has often said, "The United States will not permit the world's most dangerous regimes to threaten us with the world's most destructive weapons."

He failed with North Korea. Will he accept failure in Iran, though there is no hard evidence Iran has an active nuclear weapons program?

William ...

Updated: Fri Jun 27, 2008

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The Wars of Religion Return for 07/01/2008

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Last week's clash between Dr. James Dobson and Barack Obama is but the latest skirmish in a war that dates back to the time of Christ. At issue: What is Christian truth? Does the true Christian put social peace ahead of his duty to make God's Law man's law?

In a speech in June 2006, Obama, citing the Book of Leviticus, which declares homosexuality an abomination, noted that Leviticus als ...

Updated: Tue Jul 01, 2008

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The Loss of Independence for 07/04/2008

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Not until a year after Lexington did the Continental Congress muster the resolve to declare the 13 colonies free and independent states, no longer subject to Parliament or Crown.

Not for five years after July 4, 1776, did George Washington's army truly attain America's independence at Yorktown.

Even then, Washington and his aide Alexander Hamilton knew that the 13 states, while po ...

Updated: Fri Jul 04, 2008

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