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January 3, 2023

To the 118th Congress: Welcome Aboard. Now Get to Work -- Part I By Oliver North

   Today, the new U.S. Congress is sworn in. Welcome, especially to those new to Washington. 

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December 30, 2022

Politics Without Principle Will Devolve Into Chaos By Patrick Buchanan

  George Santos, a newly elected congressman from Long Island, New York, has been caught in a string of embarrassing lies about his background. He claimed to have received a degree from Baruch College in 2010; he didn't. He claimed to have worked for Goldman Sachs and Citigroup; he didn't. He claimed to own multiple properties; he doesn't. In fact, he lives with his sister and has previously been a "deadbeat tenant" who was sued for thousands of dollars in unpaid rent and bounced checks. (He says now that he never even paid the judgment. "I completely forgot about it.") 

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December 23, 2022

How Do We Get Our Nation Back on Track? A Commentary By Patrick Buchanan

   Some thoughts about our country as Christmas and the new year approach.

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November 25, 2022

Black Youth Want Freedom By Patrick J. Buchanan

  Among the key headlines from the 2022 election were gains by Republicans among minority voters.

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November 22, 2022

Putin's 'Winter War' on Ukraine By Patrick J. Buchanan

Winter has often proven an indispensable ally of Mother Russia.

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November 18, 2022

After 2022 Setback, GOP Race for 2024 Is Wide Open By Josh Hammer

  The 2022 midterm elections were, by any objective measure, tremendously disappointing for Republicans.

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November 8, 2022

Democrats, Not 'Democracy,' at Risk Today by Patrick K. Buchanan

   "Make no mistake -- democracy is on the ballot for us all."

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October 28, 2022

'Save Our Democracy' Is the New 'Russia Collusion' by Patrick Buchanan

 At this point, it would save everyone time if Democrats could simply point to a policy agenda item that isn't going to save democracy -- if such a thing exists.

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October 18, 2022

Where US and Ukrainian War Aims Collide By Patrick J. Buchanan

To President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Ukraine, Crimea and the Donbas are national territories whose retrieval justifies all-out war to expel the invading armies of Vladimir Putin's Russia.

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October 4, 2022

Putin, Holding a Weak Hand, Raises the Stakes By Patrick J. Buchanan

In a Kremlin speech last week, President Vladimir Putin identified Russia's real "enemy" in Ukraine as "the ruling circles of the so-called West" whose "hegemony has a pronounced character of totalitarianism, despotism and apartheid."

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September 30, 2022

Is 'Our Democracy' Failing Our Country? By Patrick J. Buchanan

Asked, "What is an American?" many would answer, "An American is a citizen of the United States."

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September 23, 2022

Biden Commits US to War for Taiwan By Patrick J. Buchanan

If China invades Taiwan to unify it with the mainland, the United States will go to war to defend Taiwan and send U.S. troops to fight the invaders.

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September 16, 2022

Putin's Narrowing Options By Patrick J. Buchanan

A desperate Vladimir Putin is a dangerous Vladimir Putin, and there are signs Putin's situation in Ukraine may be becoming desperate.

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September 9, 2022

Welcome to the Green New Deal, California by David Harsanyi

If California, our most populous state, were its own nation, it would rank as the world's fifth largest economy and boast the highest average household income (outside a handful of "countries" like Monaco or Luxemburg). And, yet, the governor is begging its citizens to stop using their appliances, turn off their lights and keep their thermostats at a stifling 78, lest they suffer more rolling blackouts, like some junior mandarin in a Third World country.

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August 30, 2022

Winners and Losers From the Ukraine War By Patrick J. Buchanan

"There never was a good war or a bad peace," wrote Ben Franklin at the end of the American Revolution.

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August 23, 2022

Is 'Autocracy' America's Mortal Enemy? By Patrick J. Buchanan

In the aftermath of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, President Joe Biden declared to the nation and world: "We are engaged anew in a great battle for freedom. A battle between democracy and autocracy."

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August 16, 2022

How, When, Do We Come Together Again? By Patrick J. Buchanan

When 30 FBI agents showed up at Mar-a-Lago to cart off boxes of documents, it was an authorized, legitimate and justified procedure to retrieve national security secrets being illegally kept there.

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August 9, 2022

Who Won the Taiwan War Games? By Patrick J. Buchanan

When House Speaker Nancy Pelosi defied White House signals that she not stop in Taiwan on her valedictory tour of Asian capitals, she ignited the worst diplomatic U.S.-China row in decades.

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August 2, 2022

Is Taiwan's Independence Worth War? By Patrick J. Buchanan

When a man knows he is about to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully, said Dr. Samuel Johnson.

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July 26, 2022

China: Pelosi Trip to Taiwan a Provocation By Patrick J. Buchanan

When Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi added to the itinerary of a valedictory trip through Asia the island of Taiwan, she could not have been oblivious to the reaction she would produce in a stunned Beijing.