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U.S. Ambassador Michael McFaul, Obama’s man in Moscow, who just took up his post, has received a rude reception. And understandably so.
In 1992, McFaul was the representative in Russia of the National Democratic Institute, a U.S. government-funded agency whose…

Who Wants War With Iran?

by Pat Buchanan on January 30, 2012 · 1 comment

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,…

Newt Gingrich’s surge to success in South Carolina has surely brought joy to the Obama White House.
For his 12-point victory ensures the fight for the GOP nomination will not end soon and will get nastier. Indeed, it already has.…

Vulture Capitalism

by Pat Buchanan on January 24, 2012 · 0 comments

“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.”
So Rick Perry colorfully characterized the private…

Ron Paul: A Prophet in His Own Time

by Pat Buchanan January 20, 2012

Last May, Ron Paul filed his financial disclosure form, and The Wall Street Journal enlisted financial analyst William Bernstein to scrutinize his investments.
“Paul’s portfolio isn’t merely different,” said an astonished Journal, “it’s shockingly different.”
Twenty-one percent of his $2.4…

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Candidates Sharpening Knives to Prepare for GOP Bloodbath

by Pat Buchanan January 17, 2012

There still exists a possibility that, come Jan. 20, 2013, we could have a Republican Senate and House, and a Republican president.
But there is also a possibility that a Goldwater-Rockefeller-type family bloodletting could sunder the party and kick it…

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Get a Kick Out of Crises? Re-Elect Obama

by Pat Buchanan January 10, 2012

In what The Washington Post called “a bold act of political defiance,” President Obama Wednesday announced the recess appointment of Richard Cordray to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
Cordray’s nomination had been blocked by a Senate filibuster. There was…

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US Funding NGOs to Advance New World Order?

by Pat Buchanan January 6, 2012

Friday’s lead stories in The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal dealt with what both viewed as a national affront and outrage.
Egyptian soldiers, said the Post, “stormed the offices” of three U.S. “democracy-building organizations … in a dramatic…

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Is America Losing Control?

by Pat Buchanan January 3, 2012

“Events are in the saddle and ride mankind.”
In describing 2011, few clichés 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.
While President…

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Are the Christmas-Bashers Winning?

by Pat Buchanan December 28, 2011

Half a century ago, American children were schooled in Aesop’s fables. Among the more famous of these were “The Fox and the Grapes” and “The Tortoise and the Hare.”
Particularly appropriate this Christmas season, and every Christmas lately, is Aesop’s…

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