by Patrick J. Buchanan
“I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on” than Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton has told USA Today.
She cited an Associated Press article “that found how Sen. Obama’s support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me.”
Patrick J. Buchanan :: May.09.2008 :: Patrick J. Buchanan :: 11 Comments »
by Clyde N. Wilson
“Useless (adj.): having or being of no use; ineffectual; not able to give service or aid.” —Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary
Flying off a roof under your own power.
Voting in the presidential election.
Clyde N. Wilson :: May.09.2008 :: The Old Republic :: 39 Comments »
by Christopher Check
Does it matter whether Clinton, Obama, or McCain takes the Oval Office? Whoever does, government will grow, and taxpayers will foot the bill. If you are looking for a sign of hope, however, look at Congressman Walter B. Jones of North Carolina’s 3rd congressional district. Since 1995, he has held his seat unopposed from within his party. In Tuesday’s primary, however, he faced a challenger for the first time. Why? Because three years ago, the very man who introduced legislation changing the name of French fries to Freedom Fries converted from one of the Iraq War’s biggest supporters to one of its fiercest critics. Continue reading . . .
Christopher Check :: May.08.2008 :: Election 2008 :: 8 Comments »
by Scott P. Richert
During the White House Welcoming Ceremony for Pope Benedict XVI on April 16, President Bush referred briefly to a phrase that has come to be regarded as a central concern of Benedict’s pontificate:
“In a world where some no longer believe that we can distinguish between simple right and wrong, we need your message to reject this ‘dictatorship of relativism,’ and embrace a culture of justice and truth.”
Of course, Pope Benedict does not regard “relativism” as merely the inability to “distinguish between simple right and wrong,” but as the inability to recognize that there is such a thing as truth—and that conforming our lives to the truth matters. Modern Americans, of course, all know that what they believe—whatever it might be—is correct, and no one has the right to tell them otherwise. “I guess we’ll just have to agree to disagree,” they say, though of course what they really mean is “I’m right; you’re wrong; but it’s hardly worth arguing about.”
Truth is nice, after all, but it’s not as if it’s important.
Scott P. Richert :: May.06.2008 :: The Rockford Files :: 29 Comments »
by Scott P. Richert
If you relied on wire service accounts, Catholic commentary, and the few snippets of video on the evening news, you can be forgiven for believing that the White House Welcoming Ceremony held for Pope Benedict XVI on April 16 was entirely “warm,” “friendly,” and marked by “mutual admiration and respect.”
But beneath the surface, the waters weren’t so calm, as anyone who watched the entire ceremony, listened closely to President Bush’s speech, and paid attention to the symbolism knows.
Scott P. Richert :: May.02.2008 :: The Rockford Files :: 101 Comments »
by Thomas Fleming
The foolishness of political debate in America has discouraged me from writing this column, but I have decided to come out of semi-retirement to ask this chicken-and-egg question: Which came first in America, the narcissistic obsession with personal trivia or the blogosphere? In other words, did Internet blogging reduce the mentality of young Americans to the level of mind-numbing chatter about what they had for breakfast or what they think about Obama or did blogging only give an opportunity for the already brain-dead to talk about themselves?
Thomas Fleming :: May.01.2008 :: Hard Right :: 61 Comments »
by Patrick J. Buchanan
“This is the way the world ends/Not with a bang but a whimper,” wrote T.S. Eliot in the closing couplet of “The Hollow Men.”
Eliot’s poem was written after the Great War of 1914-1918 had carried off 9 million soldiers, wounded twice as many more, brought down the Romanov, Hohenzollern and Habsburg empires, and ushered onto the world stage Lenin, Stalin, Mussolini and, soon, Adolf Hitler.
Patrick J. Buchanan :: May.01.2008 :: Patrick J. Buchanan :: 13 Comments »
by Clyde N. Wilson
American public discourse is so debased by loose thinking, political chicanery, pious pretensions, and the advertising mentality that it is carried on mostly in self-contradictory slogans. Sometimes contradictory terms are put together describe something that the speaker, through delusion or wishful thinking, believes to exist though it does not. Sometimes it is deliberate deceit.
Clyde N. Wilson :: Apr.30.2008 :: The Old Republic :: 17 Comments »
by Patrick J. Buchanan
If John McCain wins the presidency, his comeback—after the bankrupt debacle his campaign had become in the summer of 2007 with his backing of the amnesty bill—will be the stuff of legend.
And as nominee, he is entitled to conduct his own campaign and be cut slack by a party whose brand name is now Enron.
That said, McCain seems to have decided to win by love-bombing the Big Media and putting miles between himself and the base.
Patrick J. Buchanan :: Apr.29.2008 :: Patrick J. Buchanan :: 47 Comments »
by Srdja Trifkovic
In theory the European Union is horrified at the prospect of the Serbian Radical Party (Srpska radikalna stranka, SRS) becoming not only the strongest party in the country’s parliament—which it already is—but also the majority partner in a new ruling coalition after the general election on May 11. In practice, the EU officials in Brussels and in Kosovo are acting as if this is the outcome they earnestly desire.
Srdja Trifkovic :: Apr.25.2008 :: News & Views :: 139 Comments »
