Pat Buchanan from CaglePost.com Columns by Pat Buchanan from CaglePost.com http://rss.caglepost.com/columns.aspx?name=Pat+Buchanan Tue, 30 Jun 2009 07:00:00 GMT http://backend.userland.com/rss RSS.NET: http://rss-net.sf.net/ Making A Monkey Out Of Darwin "You have no notion of the intrigue that goes on in this blessed world of science," wrote Thomas Huxley. "Science is, I fear, no purer than any other region of human activity; though it should be." As "Darwin's bulldog," Huxley would himself engage i... http://www.caglepost.com/article/90dce41d-7307-440d-92ea-ebab7b586d91.html Tue, 30 Jun 2009 07:00:00 GMT California, Here We Come! PALM SPRINGS, Calif. - In just a few weeks time, California hits the wall. And Americans should take a good, long look at the fiscal and social wreck of the Golden Land, because California is at a place to which all of America is heading. In May, whe... http://www.caglepost.com/article/c9e70a89-36eb-45fd-b556-a4b297fd4e27.html Fri, 26 Jun 2009 07:00:00 GMT Tiananmen Moments On Dec. 14, 1825, following the death of Alexander I - who had seen off Napoleon - his brother, the grand duke, who had just taken the oath as Czar Nicholas I, was confronted by mutinous troops and rebels in Senate Square before the Winter Palace. Fo... http://www.caglepost.com/article/f51a8ce5-3fda-4ce5-b474-4f3f326bc328.html Fri, 19 Jun 2009 07:00:00 GMT Outlasting The Ayatollahs The Obama policy of extending an open hand to Iran is working and ought not be abandoned because of the grim events in Tehran. For the Iranian theocracy has just administered a body blow to its legitimacy in the eyes of the Iranian people and the wor... http://www.caglepost.com/article/e5f7e9d0-5f77-42ba-b582-2f323609a556.html Tue, 16 Jun 2009 07:00:00 GMT Miss Affirmative Action, 2009 Having lost the Congress in 2006 and the White House in 2008, Republicans are looking to redefine themselves for a nation that still leans conservative but is less Republican that it has been in decades. The nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the... http://www.caglepost.com/article/26be4c2c-269a-444f-af33-d82e4196b6b0.html Fri, 12 Jun 2009 07:00:00 GMT The Anti-Reagan Despite his boldness, Barack Obama seems as fated to fail as were Woodrow Wilson and Jimmy Carter. And for the same reason: a belief in his own righteousness and moral superiority, and a belief that his ideals and his persona count mightily in the mo... http://www.caglepost.com/article/cd250836-7367-476b-9a2a-27e00afed9bc.html Tue, 09 Jun 2009 07:00:00 GMT Breaking Bibi "I have to admire the residents of Iroquois territory for assuming that they have a right to determine where Jews lives in Jerusalem." Thus did Israeli government press director Daniel Seamen caustically dismiss President Obama's opposition to Israel... http://www.caglepost.com/article/06862d71-e069-4180-8266-3467fd9aae02.html Fri, 05 Jun 2009 07:00:00 GMT A Quota Queen For The Court If the U.S. Senate rejects race-based justice, Sonia Sotomayor will never sit on the Supreme Court. Because that is what Sonia is all about. As The New York Times reported Saturday, the salient cause of her career has been advancing persons of color,... http://www.caglepost.com/article/27d86fb3-e4a0-4920-9953-f5a81f08b2e7.html Tue, 02 Jun 2009 07:00:00 GMT Obama's Idea Of Justice When you think about it, Sonia Sotomayor is the perfect pick for the Supreme Court - in Barack Obama's America. Like Obama, himself a beneficiary of affirmative action, she thinks "Latina women," because of their life experience, make better judicial... http://www.caglepost.com/article/ee154014-b415-456c-9ddd-4126b2d3c3af.html Fri, 29 May 2009 07:00:00 GMT Cheney Shows The Way Dick Cheney is giving the Republican Party a demonstration of how to fight a popular president. Stake out defensible high ground, do not surrender an inch, then go onto the attack. The ground on which Cheney has chosen to stand is the most defensible... http://www.caglepost.com/article/d61ef3d9-32a1-4975-81e0-f30cb17c81e9.html Tue, 26 May 2009 07:00:00 GMT Did Bibi Box Obama In? On Sept. 20, 2002, as the War Party was beating the drum for preventive war on Iraq, lest we wake up to "a mushroom cloud over an American city," The Wall Street Journal introduced an eminent voice to confirm that, yes, Saddam was driving straight fo... http://www.caglepost.com/article/16380b0c-4945-4a15-94df-4d5b0374db9b.html Fri, 22 May 2009 07:00:00 GMT Bibi And Israel At Dead End If there are no peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians for an independent Palestinian state, war next year is inevitable. So King Abdullah II of Jordan has told the London Times: "If we delay our peace negotiations, then there is going to be... http://www.caglepost.com/article/3f6587a4-5b23-4006-a0f5-627615305bd0.html Tue, 19 May 2009 07:00:00 GMT Obama Avoids the Crocodile By reversing himself and refusing to release graphic photos of abused prisoners of war, Barack Obama has stunned liberals. They feel betrayed and abandoned by a president they put into office. On war and torture, at least, they thought Barack was one... http://www.caglepost.com/article/4a9de3e3-2c0d-486f-a1d8-b98f2498c18b.html Fri, 15 May 2009 07:00:00 GMT Wanted: A Fighting Party As was evident at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, it is deja vu, 1961, all over again. We have a young, cool, witty, personable president - and an adoring press corps. "I am Barack Obama," the president introduced himself. "Most of you covere... http://www.caglepost.com/article/7f95b919-3aeb-4246-8daf-69af53df15ac.html Tue, 12 May 2009 07:00:00 GMT The Party of Frank Ricci Having lost both houses of Congress and the White House in two straight elections, Republicans are going through an identity crisis, its leaders holding town hall meetings to "listen" to the people. "What should we focus on? Should we drop the social... http://www.caglepost.com/article/f126115b-99c6-47e3-bce9-938dd0730901.html Fri, 08 May 2009 07:00:00 GMT Jim Crow Liberalism Having lost both houses of Congress and the White House in two straight elections, Republicans are going through an identity crisis, its leaders holding town hall meetings to "listen" to the people. "What should we focus on? Should we drop the social... http://www.caglepost.com/article/6001672d-210f-41e8-9207-0a9b3220ebe1.html Fri, 08 May 2009 07:00:00 GMT Glimmers Of Hope For The GOP For conservatives fretful over the future of the party to which they have given allegiance, "How Barack Obama Won: A State by State Guide to the Historic 2008 Election" reads like something out of Edgar Allan Poe. Co-authored by NBC's Chuck Todd, it ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/4736549b-0c40-4e44-86f9-20eeb95e46bc.html Tue, 05 May 2009 07:00:00 GMT The Obama Flu? Because of the peril of swine flu, Joe Biden said yesterday, he would urge his family to stay out of "confined places" like airplanes and subways here in the United States. Yet, the Obama administration will not consider closing the United States to ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/981b86f5-7432-44a7-94c0-25017628fa15.html Fri, 01 May 2009 07:00:00 GMT Is Torture Ever Moral? After opening the door to a truth commission to investigate torture by the CIA of al-Qaida subjects, and leaving the door open to prosecution of higher-ups, President Obama walked the cat back. He is now opposed to a truth commission. That means it i... http://www.caglepost.com/article/d3548ad2-f9a3-4b95-8546-678a05710ce9.html Tue, 28 Apr 2009 07:00:00 GMT The Rooted And The Rootless Does Barack Obama understand the people he leads? Do his aides? These may seem cheeky questions to ask of a team that just won the presidency. But there is something in their cool, insouciant, blase demeanor, in the face of insults to their country, ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/18a54410-e7aa-4ecd-8ce6-11e8761c0743.html Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:00:00 GMT The Apologists For 50 minutes, Obama sat mute, as a Marxist thug from Nicaragua delivered his diatribe, charging America with a century of terrorist aggression in Central America. After Daniel Ortega finished spitting in our face, accusing us of inhumanity toward F... http://www.caglepost.com/article/880d228e-9a7e-4697-9f82-323d5e1c1fd4.html Tue, 21 Apr 2009 07:00:00 GMT Rendering Unto Caesar At the request of the White House, Georgetown University covered up all the symbols in Gaston Hall, before the Great Man spoke, including IHS, the millennia-old monogram for the name of Jesus Christ. Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Society of Jesu... http://www.caglepost.com/article/37137d2e-d7d5-4c1d-93ab-bc2a773835dd.html Fri, 17 Apr 2009 07:00:00 GMT The True Haters On Good Friday, John Demjanjuk, 89 and gravely ill, was ordered deported to Germany to stand trial as an accessory to the murder of 29,000 Jews - at Sobibor camp in Poland. Sound familiar? It should. It is a re-enactment of the 1986 extradition of Jo... http://www.caglepost.com/article/fd58dacc-e108-402b-9dd0-c465a064c786.html Tue, 14 Apr 2009 07:00:00 GMT Why Europe Won't Fight "No one will say this publicly, but the true fact is we are all talking about our exit strategy from Afghanistan. We are getting out. It may take a couple of years, but we are all looking to get out." Thus did a "senior European diplomat" confide to ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/7fdba68a-3f09-49ec-b05f-ac5bdbd6336e.html Fri, 10 Apr 2009 07:00:00 GMT March Madness, 1939 On Sept. 1, 1939, Hitler's panzers smashed into Poland. Two days later, an anguished Neville Chamberlain declared war, the most awful war in all of history. Was the war inevitable? No. No war is inevitable until it has begun. Was it a necessary war? ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/a63dcacc-c9d0-4cea-b3bd-ada49d2b3729.html Tue, 07 Apr 2009 07:00:00 GMT Should We Kill the Fed? For the financial crisis that has wiped out trillions in wealth, many have felt the lash of public outrage. Fannie and Freddie. The idiot-bankers. The AIG bonus babies. The Bush Republicans and Barney Frank Democrats who bullied banks into making mor... http://www.caglepost.com/article/0f84d2e6-3296-4a8d-bccb-90561bec2d07.html Fri, 03 Apr 2009 07:00:00 GMT Is Notre Dame Still Catholic? By inviting Barack Obama to deliver the commencement address and receive an honorary degree at Notre Dame, the Rev. John Jenkins has polarized the Catholic community nationwide - and raised a question. What does it mean to be a Catholic university in... http://www.caglepost.com/article/552829b5-bc29-4562-9ef6-281eb466d844.html Tue, 31 Mar 2009 07:00:00 GMT Is Notre Dame Still Catholic? By inviting Barack Obama to deliver the commencement address and receive an honorary degree at Notre Dame, the Rev. John Jenkins has polarized the Catholic community nationwide - and raised a question. What does it mean to be a Catholic university in... http://www.caglepost.com/article/3a939198-d8c9-453b-a9e6-c680f01e5c60.html Tue, 31 Mar 2009 07:00:00 GMT Can Uncle Sam Ever Let Go? "In 1877, Lord Salisbury, commenting on Great Britain's policy on the Eastern Question, noted that 'the commonest error in politics is sticking to the carcass of dead policies.' "Salisbury was bemoaning the fact that many influential members of the B... http://www.caglepost.com/article/8953eb90-7a5f-4af1-834e-83e6c3f941c2.html Fri, 27 Mar 2009 07:00:00 GMT The Weimar Solution "The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency," said Lord Keynes. Ben Bernanke disagrees. A student of the Depression, the Fed chair appears far more fearful of deflation - a vicious cycle of falling prices, debt defaults,... http://www.caglepost.com/article/effe10d6-b1a0-4aa0-ac64-1872b9a766b0.html Tue, 24 Mar 2009 07:00:00 GMT Systemic Failure As the U.S. financial crisis broadens and deepens, wiping out the wealth and savings of tens of millions, destroying hopes and dreams, it is hard not to see in all of this history's verdict upon this generation. We have been weighed in the balance an... http://www.caglepost.com/article/eee9c273-0227-4f5c-8abc-647510fd2ad8.html Fri, 20 Mar 2009 07:00:00 GMT Of Patriots and Assassins During Nixon's historic trip to China in 1972, his interpreter and I, free for a few hours, conscripted a driver to take us on a tour of Beijing. Somewhere in my files are photos from that day we toured the grim city of Chairman Mao in the time of th... http://www.caglepost.com/article/f6c5b144-d42f-4186-851f-9332d3ea3696.html Tue, 17 Mar 2009 07:00:00 GMT A Sellout of Our Unemployed By the choices we make we define ourselves. We reveal our biases and beliefs. And so, too, do our institutions. In writing the $789 billion stimulus bill, Congress revealed that, for all its "Buy American" blather, it does not truly put America first... http://www.caglepost.com/article/bc6a4c98-d8e1-47f1-85bb-1f2245e10ca1.html Fri, 13 Mar 2009 07:00:00 GMT Lyndon Baines Obama It was the winter of conservative discontent. Barry Goldwater had gotten only 38 percent of the vote, and his party had suffered its worst thrashing since Alf Landon fell to FDR in 1936. Democrats held 295 House seats, Republicans 140. They held 68 S... http://www.caglepost.com/article/b679f033-bacc-44e4-be5a-23c07c862c79.html Tue, 10 Mar 2009 07:00:00 GMT Afghanistan South Heeding the advice of Gen. David Petraeus, Barack Obama has committed 17,000 more troops to Afghanistan and will keep 50,000 in Iraq after U.S. combat operations end in August 2010. But are U.S. vital interests more threatened by what happens in Anba... http://www.caglepost.com/article/c02e9d5e-ffdd-443b-ac88-d27f03dcd636.html Fri, 06 Mar 2009 08:00:00 GMT Pitchfork Time In his campaign and inaugural address, Barack Obama cast himself as a moderate man seeking common ground with conservatives. Yet, his budget calls for the radical restructuring of the U.S. economy, a sweeping redistribution of power and wealth to gov... http://www.caglepost.com/article/3df1e5f0-262e-4c08-b1b0-778453cbc40b.html Tue, 03 Mar 2009 08:00:00 GMT Return Of The War Party "Real men go to Tehran!" brayed the neoconservatives, after the success of their propaganda campaign to have America march on Baghdad and into an unnecessary war that has forfeited all the fruits of our Cold War victory. Now they are back, in pursuit... http://www.caglepost.com/article/e697bfa5-7b09-4e3e-b364-d1725b4ed457.html Fri, 27 Feb 2009 08:00:00 GMT Courage, Mr. Holder Lecturing a conscript conclave of Justice Department bureaucrats, Attorney General Eric Holder last week called America a "nation of cowards" for not spending more time talking about race. Reading his speech, however, one recalls the sage counsel of ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/8cf3dbf9-adf4-48f7-81ff-f62b890070ff.html Tue, 24 Feb 2009 08:00:00 GMT The Long Retreat "The situation in Afghanistan is deteriorating," said President Obama, as he announced deployment of 17,000 more U.S. troops. "I'm absolutely convinced that you cannot solve the problem of Afghanistan, the Taliban, the spread of extremism in that reg... http://www.caglepost.com/article/e8a7e4d0-7229-495b-b59c-2519785595fb.html Fri, 20 Feb 2009 08:00:00 GMT Metrics Of National Decline "Bush Boom Continues" trilled the headline over the Lawrence Kudlow column, as George W. Bush closed out his seventh year in office. "You can call it Goldilocks 2.0," purred Kudlow. Yes, you could. But what a difference 12 months can make. Final retu... http://www.caglepost.com/article/32f93d4b-4f46-4459-a48e-94af47587e79.html Tue, 17 Feb 2009 08:00:00 GMT Obama And The Great Game The day before Richard Holbrooke arrived in Kabul, eight suicide bombers and gunmen attacked the Justice and Education ministries, killing 26 and wounding 57. Kabul was paralyzed, as the Taliban displayed an ability to wreak havoc within a hundred ya... http://www.caglepost.com/article/11445a3f-3b8f-4a76-a70a-0ea6cc441847.html Fri, 13 Feb 2009 08:00:00 GMT 'Buy American' -- Or Bye-Bye America "British jobs for British workers!" thundered Gordon Brown, as he emerged from the shadow of Tony Blair to become prime minister. His populist sloganeering has now come back to bite him. Across Britain, thousands laid down tools in wildcat strikes in... http://www.caglepost.com/article/293a1486-3b55-4fc1-b917-81a5350d0d65.html Tue, 10 Feb 2009 08:00:00 GMT The Distemper Of The Times With reports circulating of its imminent demise, The New York Times announced in January that it had found a white knight. Sort of. For the knight in question, who already owns 6 percent of the sinking Times and was investing $250 million in notes ca... http://www.caglepost.com/article/59b1d24d-2f15-4a35-8038-93a6b2485e9b.html Fri, 06 Feb 2009 08:00:00 GMT Nancy Pelosi's New Deal "You never want a serious crisis to go to waste," sayeth Rahm. Opportunistic and cynical, yes. But also savvy political counsel that transformational presidents have always followed. FDR exploited the Depression to launch his New Deal, bring an end t... http://www.caglepost.com/article/c27da6fd-8fb8-4af3-b728-2fb8bc50e9dd.html Tue, 03 Feb 2009 08:00:00 GMT Globalism Vs. Ethnonationalism Standing before the Siegessaule, the Victory Column that commemorates Prussia's triumphs over Denmark, Austria and France in the wars that birthed the Second Reich, Barack Obama declared himself a "citizen of the world" and spoke of "a world that sta... http://www.caglepost.com/article/6d15df2a-d975-408b-829d-279679fe5c5f.html Fri, 30 Jan 2009 08:00:00 GMT A Bibi-Barack Collision? "Where there is no solution, there is no problem," geostrategist James Burnham once wryly observed. Ex-Sen. George Mitchell, the latest U.S. negotiator to take up the Palestine portfolio, may discover what it was that Burnham meant. For Israel's thre... http://www.caglepost.com/article/a3277a1b-ab36-49ee-b06e-1d2d561da865.html Tue, 27 Jan 2009 08:00:00 GMT A Neo-Reaganite Inaugural? With a host of near 2 million gathered on the Mall to see him sworn in, Barack Obama delivered an inaugural that was the antithesis of a rallying cry for the "it's-our-turn!" faithful assembled below. Rather, it was an admonition, a warning to the Am... http://www.caglepost.com/article/ee5b7bfc-6410-46f7-b7b8-16b9985815c8.html Fri, 23 Jan 2009 08:00:00 GMT Is GOP Still A National Party? As President Barack Obama delivers his inaugural address to a nation filled with anticipation and hope, the vital signs of the loyal opposition appear worse than worrisome. The new majority of 49 states and 60 percent of the nation Nixon cobbled toge... http://www.caglepost.com/article/258f569f-26f5-41a7-a6c2-acde88adc616.html Tue, 20 Jan 2009 08:00:00 GMT Is Ehud's Poodle Acting Up? As Israel entered the third week of its Gaza blitz, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert regaled a crowd in Ashkelon with an astonishing tale. He had, said Olmert, whistled up George Bush, interrupted him in the middle of a speech and told him to instruct Cond... http://www.caglepost.com/article/085f48b2-cae0-431b-8c4f-47673262dc5b.html Mon, 19 Jan 2009 08:00:00 GMT An Unreflective Man With his public approval where Harry Truman's stood when he left office, George W. Bush gave his last press conference yesterday. And like that predecessor he often identifies with, Bush showed a Trumanesque defiance of his critics - and a Trumanesqu... http://www.caglepost.com/article/d978264b-1eb2-45d9-8bc4-a2e9a50f33ea.html Tue, 13 Jan 2009 08:00:00 GMT Obama'S Choice: FDR Or Reagan Barack Obama, it is said, will inherit the worst times since the Great Depression. Not to minimize the crisis we are in, but we need a little perspective here. The Great Depression began with the Great Crash of 1929. By 1931, unemployment had reached... http://www.caglepost.com/article/f65af023-da15-4efd-a5ce-461992aa25b9.html Fri, 09 Jan 2009 08:00:00 GMT There's Something About Harry About the appointment by Gov. Rod Blagojevich of Roland Burris to the U.S. Senate, somebody big is lying, big-time. It is either the governor or Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. Last week, Reid declared that he would not permit Burris, the African-... http://www.caglepost.com/article/87938f41-4f63-4c86-814b-1b62cd8e757e.html Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:00:00 GMT Bush, Obama And The Gaza Blitz Unwilling to control its fighters, who fired scores of missiles into Israel at the end of their six-month ceasefire, Hamas gave Israel the provocation it needed to deliver a savage blow to the Palestinian enclave in Gaza. Saturday was the bloodiest d... http://www.caglepost.com/article/5aff45cf-5060-41ad-8ce4-3d8abf590024.html Mon, 05 Jan 2009 08:00:00 GMT Blago Raises The Stakes On the eve of the New Year, Gov. Rod Blagojevich, charged with conspiring to sell the Senate seat of Barack Obama, put the ball back squarely in the court of a Democratic Party that had disowned him. Blago named Roland Burris, former attorney general... http://www.caglepost.com/article/732e2376-2c28-4022-95a9-c7e88c480e0e.html Mon, 05 Jan 2009 08:00:00 GMT George Bush, Protectionist "I've abandoned free-market principles to save the free-market system," President Bush told CNN, defending his offer of $17 billion in loans to the Big Three "to make sure the economy doesn't collapse." Thus did Bush concede that protectionism, if a ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/709fccb0-7ffb-4d53-9600-8927ef27ad09.html Fri, 26 Dec 2008 08:00:00 GMT On The Death Of Deep Throat "De mortuis nil nisi bonum." Of the dead, nothing but good. So said Dean Acheson of Sen. Joe McCarthy on his death in 1957. "Tailgunner Joe" had bedeviled the secretary of state for his lassitude toward communist penetration of State in President Tru... http://www.caglepost.com/article/8f6a954a-a58c-4390-8f44-4bf691a6bcab.html Tue, 23 Dec 2008 08:00:00 GMT Obama'S War Just two months after the twin towers fell, the armies of the Northern Alliance marched into Kabul. The Taliban fled. The triumph was total in the "splendid little war" that had cost one U.S. casualty. Or so it seemed. Yet, last month, the war agains... http://www.caglepost.com/article/c56de2c2-8f1c-48e2-8f96-56f4c885c443.html Fri, 19 Dec 2008 08:00:00 GMT The Toyota Republicans "GOP to Detroit: Drop Dead!" So may have read the headline Friday, had not President Bush stepped in to save GM, Ford and Chrysler, which Senate Republicans had just voted to send to the knacker's yard. What are Republicans thinking of, pulling the p... http://www.caglepost.com/article/874cac25-7aa6-41ca-b213-5c9d05ef4270.html Tue, 16 Dec 2008 08:00:00 GMT Wallowing Again "Something is rotten in the state," says Marcellus in "Hamlet." Well, it certainly is in the state of Illinois. Yet, on hearing U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald describe a plot by his governor to sell his Senate seat - "conduct (that) would make Linc... http://www.caglepost.com/article/1fd5c511-2438-4483-a51f-549ff7d387d2.html Fri, 12 Dec 2008 08:00:00 GMT In Earmarks Lies Salvation? In a deepening recession, what does the reasonable man do? Seeing friends laid off, he will get rid of all but essential credit cards, dine at home more often, terminate unnecessary trips to the mall, put off buying a new car, give up the idea of bor... http://www.caglepost.com/article/1fa6ff3d-374b-4d32-984f-42253c73ba94.html Tue, 09 Dec 2008 08:00:00 GMT Can This Marriage Last? Having savaged each other for a year, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have now formed a rare partnership in power. Not since James Garfield chose James G. Blaine has a new president chosen his principal rival to be secretary of state. What does this... http://www.caglepost.com/article/6dbb9c43-a85f-435c-ba01-f9f31d6b5fe5.html Fri, 05 Dec 2008 08:00:00 GMT The Rationale Of Terror Arguably the most successful act of revolutionary terror was the June 1914 assassination of the Archduke Francis Ferdinand in Sarajevo. Believing his mission to murder the heir to the Austrian throne had failed, Gavrilo Princip suddenly found himself... http://www.caglepost.com/article/16c15dc8-55c8-4633-be58-472c2b0c1fd5.html Tue, 02 Dec 2008 08:00:00 GMT Socialist Republic Barack Obama and George W. Bush seem to have come away from their study of the Great Depression with similar conclusions: To wit: After the Crash of 1929, the Federal Reserve did not move fast enough to save the banks and inject cash into the economy... http://www.caglepost.com/article/1495d1bf-c318-4691-9c7e-022724935bee.html Fri, 28 Nov 2008 08:00:00 GMT Meeting Medvedev Halfway The morning after Barack Obama's election, the congratulatory message from Moscow was in the chilliest tradition of the Cold War. "I hope for constructive dialogue with you," said Russia's president, "based on trust and considering each other's inter... http://www.caglepost.com/article/6f458403-cd97-4459-9dc4-200fdd13b4bd.html Tue, 25 Nov 2008 08:00:00 GMT Who Killed Detroit? Who killed the U.S. auto industry? To hear the media tell it, arrogant corporate chiefs failed to foresee the demand for small, fuel-efficient cars and made gas-guzzling road-hog SUVs no one wanted, while the clever, far-sighted Japanese, Germans and... http://www.caglepost.com/article/6968208e-38c9-4858-a110-6d0cc6bdeb89.html Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:00:00 GMT As GM Goes, So Goes The GOP Understandably, Republicans are seething. When Hank Paulson demanded $700 billion to haul away the trash in the dumpsters of JPMorgan Chase and Goldman Sachs - assuring us we could hold a garage sale of the junk - they rebelled. They acted as the nat... http://www.caglepost.com/article/a9bf49e5-c12d-4e46-82d3-1016f97f4da1.html Tue, 18 Nov 2008 08:00:00 GMT Bretton Woods II -- No Way "Laissez-faire is finished, the all-powerful market that is always right, that's finished," said Nicholas Sarkozy, speaking ex cathedra, last month. As a result, said the diminutive French president, it is "necessary to rebuild the entire global fina... http://www.caglepost.com/article/2a441738-4912-481e-ad5c-cf176c8bf76e.html Fri, 14 Nov 2008 08:00:00 GMT China's Path To World Power For decades, before a heedless congregation, some of us have preached the old Hamiltonian gospel. Great nations do not have trade partners. They have trade competitors and rivals. Trade surpluses are superior to trade deficits. Tariffs on foreign goo... http://www.caglepost.com/article/f852d4f6-8194-44ba-8d61-ef294d9b2b4c.html Tue, 11 Nov 2008 08:00:00 GMT An Unnecessary Defeat? Why did John McCain lose? Let's start with those "headwinds" into which he was flying. The president of the United States, the leader of his party, was at Nixon-Carter levels of approval, 25 percent, going into Election Day. Sixty-two percent of the ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/f395e964-0cdc-4965-8f1c-28d80a666171.html Fri, 07 Nov 2008 08:00:00 GMT But Where Did Bush Go Wrong? After losing control of the Senate and 30 House seats in 2006, the GOP is bracing for losses of six to nine in the Senate, and two dozen to three dozen additional seats in the House. If the party "were a dog food," says Rep. Tom Davis, "they would ta... http://www.caglepost.com/article/0889349a-4db6-44c6-862c-5b82faac56b4.html Tue, 04 Nov 2008 08:00:00 GMT Comrade Obama? If Barack Obama is not a socialist, he does the best imitation of one I've ever seen. 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What did we know of her when she was introduce... http://www.caglepost.com/article/d6dc5124-d9be-4d73-864e-0036f88cbdea.html Tue, 09 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT Distant Drums At Sarah's Party ST. PAUL, Minn. - The American Right has just died and gone to heaven. Last night's convention address by Sarah Palin here in St. Paul has confirmed the bold decision of John McCain to choose the Alaska governor as his co-pilot and united the Republi... http://www.caglepost.com/article/48c848e6-09de-4243-8609-2357fc88c18d.html Fri, 05 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT Johnny's Got A New Girl The risk John McCain took last Friday is comparable to the 72-year-old ex-fighter pilot knocking back two shots and flying his F-16 under the Golden Gate Bridge. McCain's choice of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin to be his co-pilot was the biggest gamble in ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/c0cee2b9-d87e-4850-8d43-b390efa80e71.html Wed, 03 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT And If Obama Loses? 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But Randy Scheunemann has anoth... http://www.caglepost.com/article/fd62d92f-8b74-4ffb-b9cf-6606ef23331e.html Fri, 22 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT Who Started Cold War II? The American people should be eternally grateful to Old Europe for having spiked the Bush-McCain plan to bring Georgia into NATO. Had Georgia been in NATO when Mikheil Saakashvili invaded South Ossetia, we would be eyeball to eyeball with Russia, fac... http://www.caglepost.com/article/e63b76ad-429f-4e8c-ab93-00826ce211fa.html Tue, 19 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT Blowback From Bear-Baiting Mikheil Saakashvili's decision to use the opening of the Olympic Games to cover Georgia's invasion of its breakaway province of South Ossetia must rank in stupidity with Gamal Abdel-Nasser's decision to close the Straits of Tiran to Israeli ships. Na... http://www.caglepost.com/article/c8eb7f19-9edf-4482-a72c-0eb99a239e88.html Mon, 18 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT A Catholic Case Against Barack In the Pennsylvania primary, Barack Obama rolled up more than 90 percent of the African-American vote. Among Catholics, he lost by 40 points. The cool liberal Harvard Law grad was not a good fit for the socially conservative ethnics of Altoona, Aliqu... http://www.caglepost.com/article/ab0a6607-fef6-4829-9cf4-8d14705541f7.html Tue, 12 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT Democracy -- A Flickering Star? In his 1937 "Great Contemporaries," Winston Churchill wrote, "Whatever else may be thought about (Hitler's) exploits, they are among the most remarkable in the whole history of the world." Churchill was referring not only to Hitler's political triump... http://www.caglepost.com/article/77844685-7fba-4785-9566-7d0f4bb43866.html Fri, 08 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT Mr. Obama, Welcome to the NFL! Barack Obama just had the worst week since his beloved pastor, Jeremiah Wright, decided to expatiate on black liberation theology at the National Press Club. Coming off his royal progress through the Near and Middle East, Berlin, Paris and London, Ba... http://www.caglepost.com/article/6c05519e-b4b5-4808-8dff-457042a244fd.html Tue, 05 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT Whitey Need Not Apply "Will race be an issue in this campaign?" Hearing the cable talk-show host solemnly pose the question, I could not suppress a belly laugh. For the anchor was fearful that some white folks might reject Obama because he is African-American - even as a ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/fc5e43cf-ef94-4371-8b46-a8a3b08da803.html Fri, 01 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT Obama's War? "We have to be as careful getting out as we were careless getting in," says Barack Obama of the U.S. war in Iraq. Wise counsel. But is Barack taking his own advice? For he pledges to shift two U.S. combat brigades, 10,000 troops, out of Iraq and into... http://www.caglepost.com/article/0634d379-26ef-4d3d-9990-052aa89dd276.html Tue, 29 Jul 2008 07:00:00 GMT Honorable Exit From Empire As any military historian will testify, among the most difficult of maneuvers is the strategic retreat. Napoleon's retreat from Moscow, Lee's retreat to Appomattox and MacArthur's retreat from the Yalu come to mind. The British Empire abandoned India... http://www.caglepost.com/article/6f897960-c542-4e63-8b63-4897dfa47610.html Fri, 25 Jul 2008 07:00:00 GMT Where The Ducks Are "You go hunting where the ducks are," said Barry Goldwater. The successor to Barry's Senate seat apparently believes that ducks come from Mexico and speak Spanish. For in July alone, John McCain made three separate appearances before Hispanic groups.... http://www.caglepost.com/article/55251f19-f9f0-4105-b700-3455a9b4e1e8.html Tue, 22 Jul 2008 07:00:00 GMT

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