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September 14, 2018

The Unpardonable Heresy of Tucker Carlson By Patrick J. Buchanan

Our diversity is our greatest strength.

After playing clips of Democratic politicians reciting that truth of modern liberalism, Tucker Carlson asked, "How, precisely, is diversity our strength? Since you've made this our new national motto, please be specific."

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September 11, 2018

Is Trump Going Neocon in Syria? By Patrick J. Buchanan

Is President Donald Trump about to intervene militarily in the Syrian civil war? For that is what he and his advisers seem to be signaling.

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September 7, 2018

Regime Change -- American Style By Patrick J. Buchanan

The campaign to overturn the 2016 election and bring down President Trump shifted into high gear this week.

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September 6, 2018

Balance Sheet of the Forever War By Patrick J. Buchanan

"It is time for this war in Afghanistan to end," said Gen. John Nicholson in Kabul on his retirement Sunday after a fourth tour of duty and 31 months as commander of U.S. and NATO forces.   

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August 31, 2018

A Cancer on the Papacy? By Patrick J. Buchanan

This summer, the sex scandal that has bedeviled the Catholic Church went critical.

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August 28, 2018

Are the Interventionists Now Leaderless? By Patrick J. Buchanan

"McCain's Death Leaves Void" ran The Wall Street Journal headline over a front-page story that began:

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August 24, 2018

Do Democrats Want an Impeachment Fight? By Patrick J. Buchanan

"If anyone is looking for a good lawyer," said President Donald Trump ruefully, "I would strongly suggest that you don't retain the services of Michael Cohen." Michael Cohen is no Roy Cohn.   

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August 21, 2018

In Spies Battle, Trump Holds the High Ground By Patrick J. Buchanan

In backing John Brennan's right to keep his top-secret security clearance, despite his having charged the president with treason, the U.S. intel community has chosen to fight on indefensible terrain.

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August 17, 2018

Can America Ever Come Together Again? By Patrick J. Buchanan

If ex-CIA Director John Brennan did to Andrew Jackson what he did to Donald Trump, he would have lost a lot more than his security clearance.

He would have been challenged to a duel and shot.

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August 14, 2018

America's Lengthening Enemies List By Patrick J. Buchanan

Friday, deep into the 17th year of America's longest war, Taliban forces overran Ghazni, a provincial capital that sits on the highway from Kabul to Kandahar.

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August 10, 2018

Who Determines 'Universal Values'? By Patrick J. Buchanan

Is it any of Canada's business whether Saudi women have the right to drive?

Well, Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland just made it her business.

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August 7, 2018

Are Globalists Plotting a Counter-Revolution? By Patrick J. Buchanan

On meeting with the EU's Jean-Claude Juncker last month, Donald Trump tweeted: "Both the U.S. and the E.U. drop all Tariffs, Barriers and Subsidies! That would finally be Free Market and Fair Trade."

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August 3, 2018

Would War With Iran Doom Trump? By Patrick J. Buchanan

A war with Iran would define, consume and potentially destroy the Trump presidency, but exhilarate the neocon never-Trumpers who most despise the man.

Why, then, is President Donald Trump toying with such an idea?

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July 31, 2018

Will Tribalism Trump Democracy? By Patrick J. Buchanan

On July 19, the Knesset voted to change the nation's Basic Law.

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July 27, 2018

Did Tariffs Make America Great? By Patrick J. Buchanan

"Make America Great Again!" will, given the astonishing victory it produced for Donald Trump, be recorded among the most successful slogans in political history.  

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July 24, 2018

Is Putin's Russia an 'Evil Empire'? By Patrick J. Buchanan

"History repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as farce," a saying attributed to Karl Marx, comes to mind in this time of Trump.

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July 20, 2018

Trump Stands His Ground on Putin By Patrick J. Buchanan

"Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors."

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July 17, 2018

Trump Calls Off Cold War II By Patrick J. Buchanan

Beginning his joint press conference with Vladimir Putin, President Trump declared that U.S. relations with Russia have "never been worse."

He then added pointedly, that just changed "about four hours ago."

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July 13, 2018

Is a Coming NATO Crisis Inevitable? By Patrick J. Buchanan

Of President Donald Trump's explosion at Angela Merkel's Germany during the NATO summit, it needs to be said: It is long past time we raised our voices.

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July 6, 2018

The Never-Trumpers Are Never Coming Back By Patrick J. Buchanan

With never-Trump conservatives bailing on the GOP and crying out for the Party of Pelosi to save us, some painful truths need to be restated.