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September 4, 2020

Why DC Statehood Is a Suicidal Gamble By Patrick J. Buchanan

When U.S. cities erupted after the death of George Floyd, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser was in the vanguard of the protests, renaming a section of downtown Black Lives Matter Plaza, and painting the name in letters on the street so huge they could be seen from space.

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September 1, 2020

Where Will All These War Games Lead? By Patrick J. Buchanan

In northeast Syria last week, a U.S. military vehicle collided with a Russian armored vehicle, injuring four American soldiers.

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August 28, 2020

Is Biden Ceding the Law-and-Order Issue? By Patrick J. Buchanan

Is Joe Biden forfeiting the law-and-order issue to Donald Trump?

So it would seem.

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August 25, 2020

A Most Consequential Presidency By Patrick J. Buchanan

As Donald Trump is about to be nominated for a second term, how his presidency has already altered the orientation of his party is on display.

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August 21, 2020

Will the Catholic Bishops Call Out Joe? By Patrick J. Buchanan

As a cradle Catholic and recipient of Notre Dame's Laetare Medal, Joe Biden is outspoken in declaring that the principles and beliefs of his Catholic faith guide his public life.

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August 18, 2020

The Progressive Racism of the Ivy League By Patrick J. Buchanan

If the definition of racism is deliberate discrimination based on race, color or national origin, Yale University appears to be a textbook case of "systemic racism."

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August 14, 2020

Is Biden-Harris on Tom Dewey's Path? By Patrick J. Buchanan

Accused of being a serial harasser in 2019, Joe Biden did what comes naturally. He apologized for perceived past misbehavior, and, to appease his accusers, pledged to choose a woman for a Biden ticket.

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August 11, 2020

The Real World Reasserts Itself By Patrick J. Buchanan

Since the death of George Floyd beneath the knee of a cop in Minneapolis on Memorial Day, the nation has been instructed by its cultural elites that this is the daily reality that a racist America has too long ignored.

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August 7, 2020

Biden's Game Plan -- Take No Risks & Run Out the Clock By Patrick J. Buchanan

When Vice President Calvin Coolidge ascended to the presidency on the death of Warren Harding in 1923, a wag remarked that Silent Cal's career had exhibited unmistakable signs of celestial intervention.

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August 4, 2020

As the Filibuster Goes, So Goes the GOP By Patrick J. Buchanan

"When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic."

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July 31, 2020

The Biden Rule: 'No Men Need Apply!' By Patrick J. Buchanan

There is a real possibility that, this coming week, Joe Biden will be selecting the 47th president of the United States.

For the woman Biden picks -- he has promised to exclude from consideration all men, black, brown, white or Asian -- has a better chance of succeeding to the presidency than any vice presidential nominee in U.S. history, other than perhaps Harry Truman.

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July 28, 2020

American 'Stormtroopers' -- A Bright Shining Lie By Patrick J. Buchanan

With the Mark O. Hatfield United States Courthouse under nightly siege from violent radicals, and Portland's police hard-pressed to protect it, President Trump sent in federal agents to secure the building.

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July 24, 2020

Stress Test of a Straining Superpower By Patrick J. Buchanan

How great a burden can even an unrivaled superpower carry before it buckles and breaks? We may be about to find out.

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July 21, 2020

Rising Diversity Is Joe Biden's Worry, Too By Patrick J. Buchanan

Is her racial diversity America's greatest strength?

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July 17, 2020

Is America Up for a Naval War with China? By Patrick J. Buchanan

Is the U.S., preoccupied with a pandemic and a depression that medical crisis created, prepared for a collision with China over Beijing's claims to the rocks, reefs and resources of the South China Sea?

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July 14, 2020

Can Trump Pull a Truman? By Patrick J. Buchanan

On July 22, 1988, after the Democratic National Convention in Atlanta, the party nominee, Gov. Michael Dukakis, enjoyed a 17-point lead over Vice President George W. Bush.

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July 10, 2020

The New 'Systemic Racism' That Is Coming By Patrick J. Buchanan

Before our Black Lives Matter moment, one had not thought of the NBC networks as shot through with "systemic racism."

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July 7, 2020

A Culture War Battle Trump Can Win By Patrick J. Buchanan

Speaking at Mount Rushmore on Friday, and from the White House lawn on Saturday, July 4, Donald Trump recast the presidential race.

He seized upon an issue that can turn his fortunes around, and the wounded howls of the media testify to the power of his message.

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July 3, 2020

Are Uncivil Protests and Mob Violence Winning? By Patrick J. Buchanan

The Seattle Commune is no more.

Declared three weeks ago by radical leftists as CHAZ, the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, rechristened CHOP, the Capitol Hill Occupation Protest, the six-block enclave inside Seattle ceased to exist July 1. The cops shut it down.

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June 30, 2020

Now It's Woodrow Wilson's Turn By Patrick J. Buchanan

Now that statues of Presidents Washington, Jefferson, Jackson, Lincoln, Grant and Theodore Roosevelt have been desecrated, vandalized, toppled and smashed, it appears Woodrow Wilson's time has come.

The cultural revolution has come to the Ivy League.