Dying Populations and the Bankrupt PIGS of Europe
Posted on 12. Feb, 2010 by Nathaniel Bacon in Economy, Europe News, Immigration, Patrick Buchanan
They are called the PIGS—–Portugal, Ireland, Greece, Spain. What they have in common is that all are facing deficits and debts that could bring on national defaults and break up the European Union. What brought the PIGS to the edge of the abyss?
All are neo-socialist states that provide welfare for poor people, generous unemployment, universal [...]
Official US Policy: Nuke Iran Because Nuclear Program Might “Wipe Israel Off Map
Posted on 09. Dec, 2009 by Shera Crossan in Commentary, Israel & Jewish Issues, Patrick Buchanan, Real History, Shera Crossan
The policy describing US military use of nuclear weapons is the 2005 Doctrine for Joint Nuclear Operations. Its preface states:
“The guidance in this publication is authoritative; as such, this doctrine will be followed except when, in the judgment of the commander, exceptional circumstances dictate otherwise. If conflicts arise between the contents of this publication and [...]
Jimmy Carter (Interview) on Race
Posted on 19. Sep, 2009 by Rob Belatucadros in Free Speech, Patrick Buchanan, Politics, Race, Rob Belatucadros, Top Stories
God save me from my friends – I can take care of my enemies.
So President Obama must be muttering today.
Ten days ago, the president played his ace of trumps.
He went before a joint session of Congress to lay out his health care plans, confront the “demagoguery” of critics who had resorted to [...]
Why Not Affirmative Action For White Evangelicals?
Posted on 21. Jul, 2009 by Shera Crossan in Commentary, Feedback, Free Speech, Opinion, Patrick Buchanan, Politics, Race, Religion, Shera Crossan, Top Stories, Tradition
By Patrick J. Buchanan
When Sotomayor is approved by the Senate, the court will, in terms of religious minorities, consist of six Catholics, two Jews and one Protestant. Ethnically, there will be one African-American, one Hispanic American, one Irish-American, two Jewish-Americans, two Italian Americans and two Anglos.
When Republicans were warned not to [...]
Socialist America Sinking
Posted on 18. Jul, 2009 by Nathaniel Bacon in Business & Finance, Commentary, Economy, Health, Immigration, Israel & Jewish Issues, Nathaniel Bacon, Patrick Buchanan, Politics, Race, Top Stories
By Patrick J. Buchanan
After a half a century of fighting encroachments upon freedom in America, journalist Garet Garrett published The People’s Pottage. A year later, in 1954, he died. The People’s Pottage opens thus:
“There are those who still think they are holding the pass against a revolution that may be coming up the road. But [...]
PJB: Obama Avoids the Crocodile
Posted on 15. May, 2009 by Shera Crossan in Commentary, Events, Feedback, Free Speech, Opinion, Patrick Buchanan, Politics, Shera Crossan
By reversing himself and refusing to release graphic photos of abused prisoners of war, Barack Obama has stunned liberals.
They feel betrayed and abandoned by a president they put into office. On war and torture, at least, they thought Barack was one of them. He is not. Barack is not into ideology. He is into Barack.
As [...]
PJB: The Obama Flu
Posted on 01. May, 2009 by Shera Crossan in Commentary, Events, Feedback, Free Speech, Health, Immigration, Opinion, Patrick Buchanan, Politics, Science and Technology, Shera Crossan
The Obama Flu?
By Patrick J. Buchanan
May 1, 2009
Because of the peril of swine flu, Joe Biden said yesterday, he
would urge his family to stay out of “confined places” like
airplanes and subways here in the United States.
Yet, the Obama administration will not consider closing the United
States to airplanes and buses coming in from the epicenter of [...]
PJB: The True Haters
Posted on 15. Apr, 2009 by Shera Crossan in Commentary, Events, Feedback, Free Speech, Israel & Jewish Issues, Opinion, Patrick Buchanan, Politics, Race
The True Haters
by Patrick J. Buchanan
April 14, 2009
On Good Friday, John Demjanjuk, 89 and gravely ill, was ordered
deported to Germany to stand trial as an accessory to the murder of
29,000 Jews — at Sobibor camp in Poland.
Sound familiar? It should. It is a re-enactment of the 1986
extradition of John Demjanjuk to Israel to be tried [...]
PJB: March Madness 1939
Posted on 07. Apr, 2009 by Shera Crossan in Commentary, Events, Feedback, Opinion, Patrick Buchanan, Real History, Shera Crossan, War Coverage
On Sept. 1, 1939, Hitler’s panzers smashed into Poland. Two days
later, an anguished Neville Chamberlain declared war, the most
awful war in all of history.
Was the war inevitable? No. No war is inevitable until it has
begun. Was it a necessary war? Hearken to Churchill:
“One day, President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly
for suggestions about [...]
Systemic failure
Posted on 21. Mar, 2009 by Nathaniel Bacon in Editorials, Patrick Buchanan, Top Stories
As the U.S. financial crisis broadens and deepens, wiping out the wealth and savings of tens of millions, destroying hopes and dreams, it is hard not to see in all of this history’s verdict upon this generation.
We have been weighed in the balance and found wanting.
For how did this all befall us, save through decisions [...]
PJB: A Sellout of Our Unemployed
Posted on 13. Mar, 2009 by John Fife in Patrick Buchanan
By Patrick J. Buchanan
By the choices we make we define ourselves. We reveal our biases and beliefs. And so, too, do our institutions.
In writing the $789 billion stimulus bill, Congress revealed that, for all its “Buy American” blather, it does not truly put America first. It does not believe that 10 million jobless Americans, in [...]
The Mexican border war may reqiure military intervention
Posted on 06. Mar, 2009 by Nathaniel Bacon in Opinion, Patrick Buchanan, Top Stories
Heeding the advice of Gen. David Petraeus, Barack Obama has committed 17, 000 more troops to Afghanistan and will keep 50,000 in Iraq after U.S. combat operations end in 2010. But are U.S. vital interests more threatened by what happens in Anbar or Helmand than in the war raging along our southern border?
Prediction: After all [...]
We hear nothing but black grievances: Where is the gratitude???
Posted on 25. Feb, 2009 by Nathaniel Bacon in Nathaniel Bacon, Patrick Buchanan, Top Stories
Barack says we need to have a conversation about race in America. Fair enough. But this time, it has to be a two-way conversation. White America needs to be heard from, not just lectured to. This time, the Silent Majority needs to have its convictions, grievances and demands heard. And among them are these:
First, America [...]
PJB: Globalism vs. Ethnonationalism
Posted on 30. Jan, 2009 by John Fife in Patrick Buchanan
By Patrick J. Buchanan
Standing before the Siegessaule, the Victory Column that commemorates Prussia’s triumphs over Denmark, Austria and France in the wars that birthed the Second Reich, Barack Obama declared himself a “citizen of the world” and spoke of “a world that stands as one.”
Globalists rejoiced. And the election of this son of a white [...]
Wallowing Again
Posted on 12. Dec, 2008 by Nathaniel Bacon in Commentary, Patrick Buchanan, Politics, Top Stories
“Something is rotten in the state,” says Marcellus in “Hamlet.”
Well, it certainly is in the state of Illinois.
Yet, on hearing U.S. attorney Patrick Fitzgerald describe a plot by his governor to sell his senate seat—”conduct (that) would make Lincoln roll over in his grave”—-how did reform President Barack Obama respond? “I had no contact with [...]
Tribal Politics By Patrick J. Buchanan
Posted on 21. Oct, 2008 by John Fife in Patrick Buchanan, Politics, Race
Was race a factor in the decision of Colin Powell to repudiate his party’s nominee and friend of 25 years, Sen. John McCain, two weeks before Election Day, and to endorse Barack Obama?
Gen. Powell does not deny it, contending only that race was not the only or decisive factor. “If I had only that [...]
The Coming Backlash by Patrick J. Buchanan
Posted on 18. Oct, 2008 by John Fife in Patrick Buchanan, Politics, Top Stories
As Americans render what Catholics call temporal judgment on George
Bush, are they aware of the radical course correction they are
about to make?
This center-right country is about to vastly strengthen a liberal
Congress whose approval rating is 10 percent and implant in
Washington a regime further to the left than any in U.S. history.
Consider.
As of today, Speaker Nancy [...]
PJB: An Amnesty for Stupidity
Posted on 23. Sep, 2008 by John Fife in Patrick Buchanan
By Patrick J. Buchanan
Is it fair that businessmen who fail in neighborhood stores have to close shop and often sell their homes, while Wall Street titans are spared the consequences of monumental stupidity and greed?
No, it is not fair. Yet, Treasury’s Hank Paulson may be right. To save the sheep who might have been wiped [...]
PJB: The Party’s Over
Posted on 21. Sep, 2008 by John Fife in Patrick Buchanan
The Crash of 2008, which is now wiping out trillions of dollars of our people’s wealth, is, like the Crash of 1929, likely to mark the end of one era and the onset of another.
The new era will see a more sober and much diminished America. The “Omnipower” and “Indispensable Nation” we heard about in [...]
Blowback From Bear-Baiting
Posted on 16. Aug, 2008 by Derek Bargeld in Patrick Buchanan, War Coverage
Saakashvili’s decision to use the opening of the Olympic Games to cover Georgia’s invasion of its breakaway province of South Ossetia must rank in stupidity with Gamal Abdel-Nasser’s decision to close the Straits of Tiran to Israeli ships.
Nasser’s blunder cost him the Sinai in the Six-Day War. Saakashvili’s blunder probably means permanent loss of South [...]
Democracy — A Flickering Star?
Posted on 08. Aug, 2008 by Derek Bargeld in Editorials, Patrick Buchanan, Real History
In his 1937 “Great Contemporaries,” Winston Churchill wrote, “Whatever else may be thought about (Hitler’s) exploits, they are among the most remarkable in the whole history of the world.”
Churchill was referring not only to Hitler’s political triumphs — the return of the Saar and reoccupation of the Rhineland — but his economic achievements. By his [...]
Whitey Need Not Apply
Posted on 01. Aug, 2008 by Derek Bargeld in Patrick Buchanan, Race
By Patrick Buchanan
“Will race be an issue in this campaign?”
Hearing the cable talk-show host solemnly pose the question, I could not suppress a belly laugh.
For the anchor was fearful that some white folks might reject Obama because he is African-American — even as a Rasmussen poll was reporting that Barack is beating McCain among black [...]
The Untouchables
Posted on 20. Jul, 2008 by Derek Bargeld in Patrick Buchanan, Race
By Patrick Buchanan-
To watch the contortions over that New Yorker cover cartoon of the Obamas is to understand whom it is impermissible to offend in the America of 2008.
The cartoon is a caricature of Michelle as an urban terrorist in an Angela Davis afro with an AK-47 slung over her back and a bandoleer of [...]
A Phony Crisis and a Real One
Posted on 16. Jul, 2008 by Derek Bargeld in Patrick Buchanan
By Patrick Buchanan:
Last week, the front pages of the world press blossomed with photos of four Iranian rockets, fired in salvo, heading skyward.
The image was powerful, and the message reinforced by the head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard. Should Israel attack Iran, said Ali Shira, Tel Aviv will be “set on fire.”
No More Blank Checks for War
Posted on 14. Jul, 2008 by Derek Bargeld in Editorials, Patrick Buchanan, Real History
By Patrick Buchanan:
After the assassination of the archduke in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914, Austria got from Kaiser Wilhelm a “blank cheque” to punish Serbia. Germany would follow whatever course its ally chose to take. Austria chose war on Serbia. And World War I resulted.
On March 31, 1939, Britain gave a blank check to Poland in [...]
Was the Holocaust Inevitable?
Posted on 21. Jun, 2008 by Derek Bargeld in Editorials, Patrick Buchanan, Real History
By Patrick Buchanan:
“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 [...]
Return of the Censors
Posted on 17. Jun, 2008 by Derek Bargeld in Editorials, Free Speech, Patrick Buchanan
By Patrick Buchanan-
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 [...]
Buchanan: Munich, 1938
Posted on 12. Jun, 2008 by Derek Bargeld in Patrick Buchanan, Real History
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: [...]
Is Bush Becoming Irrelevant?
Posted on 02. Jun, 2008 by Derek Bargeld in Patrick Buchanan
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 [...]
Buchanan: How the West Lost the World
Posted on 25. May, 2008 by Derek Bargeld in Editorials, Patrick Buchanan, Real History
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 [...]
Buchanan: Bush plays the Hitler card
Posted on 21. May, 2008 by Derek Bargeld in Patrick Buchanan, Real History
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 [...]
Buchanan: The Lost Tribes of Israel
Posted on 17. May, 2008 by Derek Bargeld in Israel & Jewish Issues, Patrick Buchanan
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 [...]
The Hillary Democrats
Posted on 09. May, 2008 by Derek Bargeld in Patrick Buchanan
By Patrick J. Buchanan
“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 [...]
Who’s Behind the Proxy Wars
Posted on 21. Apr, 2008 by Derek Bargeld in Editorials, Patrick Buchanan, War Coverage
By Patrick Buchanan
Iran is conducting a proxy war against the United States in Iraq, declared Ambassador Ryan Crocker last week.
How? Gen. David Petraeus explained. The Quds Force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard and Hezbollah are arming, training and directing the Shia militia fighting U.S. and Iraqi forces in Basra and firing rockets into the Green [...]
Buchanan: In Darkest Pennsylvania
Posted on 15. Apr, 2008 by Derek Bargeld in Editorials, Patrick Buchanan, Race
It was said behind closed doors to the chablis-and-brie set of San Francisco, in response to a question as to why he was not doing better in that benighted and barbarous land they call Pennsylvania.
Like Dr. Schweitzer, home from Africa to address the Royal Society on the customs of the upper Zambezi, Barack described Pennsylvanians [...]
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