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Commentary By Patrick J. Buchanan

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January 25, 2022

Is Biden Right? Does the Left Own the Future? by Patrick J. Buchanan

Before he appeared at his first solo news conference of 2022, President Joe Biden knew he had a communications problem he had to deal with.

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January 21, 2022

By the Numbers, a Failing President By Patrick J. Buchanan

If the left believed that draping the Capitol riot of Jan. 6, 2021, around the neck of former President Donald Trump and the party that refused to repudiate him would sink the GOP, it appears to have miscalculated.

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January 14, 2022

Biden: Bull Connor's GOP Imperils Democracy By Patrick J. Buchanan

"The next few days ... will mark a turning point in this nation's history," said President Joe Biden in his Atlanta speech to reframe the debate in Congress on voting rights legislation and the filibuster.

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January 11, 2022

Where Does NATO Enlargement End? by Patrick J. Buchanan

After the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 and the Warsaw Pact dissolved, the breakup of the USSR began. But the dissolution did not stop with the 14 Soviet "republics" declaring their independence of Moscow.

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January 7, 2022

Why the Left Cannot Let Go of Jan. 6 by Patrick J. Buchanan

"Every Day Is Jan. 6 Now."

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January 4, 2022

Russia Is Not the Great Rival; China Is By Patrick J. Buchanan

While all facts are true, not all facts are relevant.

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December 31, 2021

Biden's Staring into the Abyss -- and So Are We By Patrick J. Buchanan

"'Hope' is the thing with feathers / That perches in the soul," wrote Emily Dickinson. "And sore must be the storm / That could abash the little Bird / That kept so many warm."

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December 28, 2021

How We Forfeited the Fruits of Cold War Victory By Patrick J. Buchanan

As 1991 turned into 1992, America appeared to have arrived at the apogee of its national power and world prestige.

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December 24, 2021

Has America Lost Its Faith? By Patrick J. Buchanan

Here we are on the eve of Christmas, that day of joy set aside for celebrating the birth of Christ who came down to earth 2,000 years ago to show mankind the way to eternal salvation.

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December 21, 2021

What To Do About That Russian Ultimatum By Patrick J. Buchanan

"Get off our front porch. Get out of our front yard. And stay out of our backyard."

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December 17, 2021

Biden Holds a Losing Hand By Patrick J. Buchanan

As President Joe Biden's poll numbers sank this fall, and the presidentially ambitious in his party began to stir, the White House put out the word.

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December 14, 2021

Are Autocrats Always Adversaries? By Patrick J. Buchanan

When did the political systems of 193 nations become the business of the government of the United States? And who elected us Americans to write the moral code for the regimes that rule other lands?

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December 10, 2021

Biden's Full Plate -- Ukraine, Taiwan, Tehran By Patrick Buchanan

One day after warning Russian President Vladimir Putin he would face "severe" economic sanctions, "like ones he's never seen," should Russia invade Ukraine, President Joe Biden assured Americans that sending U.S. combat troops to Ukraine is "not on the table."

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December 7, 2021

Putin to Biden: Finlandize Ukraine, or We Will By Patrick J. Buchanan

Either the U.S. and NATO provide us with "legal guarantees" that Ukraine will never join NATO or become a base for weapons that can threaten Russia -- or we will go in and guarantee it ourselves.

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December 3, 2021

The West's Fear That Dare Not Speak Its Name by Patrick J. Buchanan

With the drowning deaths of 27 migrants crossing the Channel from France to England, illegal migration from the Third World is front and center anew in European politics.

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November 30, 2021

Return of the 'Law and Order' Issue By Patrick J. Buchanan

According to Gallup, on the issue of crime, President Joe Biden is 18 points underwater. While 57% of Americans disapprove of how he is handling crime, only 39% approve.

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November 23, 2021

Playing With Fire on Russia's Borders By Patrick J. Buchanan

Belarusian autocrat Alexander Lukashenko has cleared out the encampment at his border crossing into Poland, where thousands of Middle Eastern migrants had been living in squalor.

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November 19, 2021

Kyle Rittenhouse, Both Right and Righteous by Patrick J. Buchanan

In judging the actions of Kyle Rittenhouse, set aside for the moment Wisconsin law under which he is being tried, and consider the natural law, the moral law, the higher law written on the human heart.

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November 16, 2021

Are Democrats Looking to the Lifeboats? By Patrick J. Buchanan

Not so long ago, President Joe Biden was being talked of as a transformative president, a second Franklin D. Roosevelt in terms of the domestic agenda he would enact.

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November 12, 2021

US and China: Collusion or Cooperation? By Patrick J. Buchanan

In a surprise announcement at the Glasgow summit, U.S. climate czar John Kerry and his Chinese counterpart declared that their two countries have pledged to work together to slow global warming.