http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/patbuchanan/ en-us Tue, 29 Dec 2009 16:27:06 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416998/posts Quite the culture war on Morning Joe today . . . The combatants were Pat Buchanan and Spencer Ackerman of the lefty Washington Independent. The topic was the treatment of Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab. Buchanan wanted the budding terrorist classified as an enemy combatant in order to extract the maximum amount of information from him. Ackerman, in ACLU mode, favored having young Umar tried in federal court and given all rights extended to US criminal defendants. My antennae went up when at the end of their debate, Buchanan saw Ackerman off by wishing him "Merry Christmas." A bit of Googling... NewsBusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416998/posts#comment Tue, 29 Dec 2009 16:27:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415155/posts For Democrats like Harry Reid, who called them "evil-mongers," and Nancy Pelosi, who called them "unAmerican," the NBC News poll must have hit like a sucker punch at a Georgetown wine-and-cheese. The Tea Party movement, those folks rallying against spending last spring and Obamacare in the summer town halls, are viewed more favorably than the Democratic Party. Forty-one percent of Americans have a favorable opinion of the Tea Party movement, to 35 percent for Obama's party. Only 24 percent view Tea Party activists unfavorably, while 45 percent hold a negative view of the Democrats. While Tea Party types played a... iStock Analyst http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415155/posts#comment Sat, 26 Dec 2009 01:43:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414271/posts For Democrats like Harry Reid, who called them "evil-mongers," and Nancy Pelosi, who called them "un-American," the NBC News poll must have hit like a sucker punch at a Georgetown wine-and-cheese. The Tea Party movement, those folks rallying against spending last spring and Obamacare in the summer town halls, are viewed more favorably than the Democratic Party. Forty-one percent of Americans have a favorable opinion of the Tea Party movement, to 35 percent for Obama's party. Only 24 percent view Tea Party activists unfavorably, while 45 percent hold a negative view of the Democrats. While Tea Party types played a... Human Events http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414271/posts#comment Thu, 24 Dec 2009 04:23:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2361724/posts PALM BEACH COUNTY, FL---Our news partners at the Sun Sentinel report: U.S. Rep. Robert Wexler, who represents Broward and Palm Beach counties, plans to resign from Congress. He plans to announce his plans at a news conference Wednesday at 10 a.m. in Boca Raton. A Democratic source with knowledge of Wexler's plans said he is likely to take a public policy job that deals with the Middle East. Wexler, a senior member of the House Foreign Relations Committee, has long been involved in issues involving Israel and Turkey. Reported by: Sun-Sentinel http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2361724/posts#comment Tue, 13 Oct 2009 22:48:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1477780/posts Decision Brief No. 05-D 44 2005-08-31 On eve of U.N. push for global government, advocates urge Senate to approve a building block: The Law of the Sea Treaty (Washington, D.C.): As concern grows that the United Nations is intent on replacing what the National Security Guidance calls "an orderly arrangement of sovereign states" with a proto-world government - complete with the ability to impose international taxes, a new push is being made for a treaty that would advance that purpose: the Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST). This sovereignty-sapping agenda is at the heart of a dispute now playing... The Center For Security Policy http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1477780/posts#comment Mon, 5 Sep 2005 15:59:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2403302/posts Here is video of Pat Buchanan telling Chris Matthews that it was his party that was opposed to ending slavery...(Video)Chris Matthews asked Pat Buchanan "where are you on the slavery issue to start with, you're pretty much against that now right? You've stopped your foot dragging on that one right?" Pat Buchanan responded "on that one Chris, I'm with the radical Republicans who passed the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendment. It was your party Chris that was the opposition." Freedom's Lighthouse http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2403302/posts#comment Wed, 9 Dec 2009 00:39:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2402765/posts At last week's Job Summit, there was talk of a second stimulus package, of tax credits for small businesses that hire new workers, of an Infrastructure Bank to select national priority pubic works projects like the Hoover Dam and TVA of yesteryear. But no one, it seems, advanced the one obvious idea that would have the most immediate and dramatic impact -- a moratorium on all immigration into the United States. Unemployment is at 10 percent, near the postwar high of 1983. Fifteen million Americans are out of work. Ten million more have given up looking or are working fewer... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2402765/posts#comment Tue, 8 Dec 2009 13:26:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2395305/posts With the House debate on health care at its hottest, the U.S. Catholic bishops issued a stunning ultimatum: Impose an absolute ban on tax funds for abortions, or we call for defeat of the Pelosi bill. Message received. The Stupak Amendment, named for Bart Stupak of Michigan, was promptly passed, to the delight of pro-life Catholics and the astonished outrage of pro-abortion Democrats. No member was more upset than Patrick Kennedy of Rhode Island, son of Edward Kennedy, who proceeded to bash the Church for imperiling the greatest advance for human rights in a generation. Rhode Island Bishop Thomas Tobin... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2395305/posts#comment Fri, 27 Nov 2009 12:19:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2393281/posts “This state visit is ... a terrible mistake,” said Rep. Eliot Engel, chairman of the House Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere. “He is illegitimate with his own people, and Brazil is now going to give him the air of legitimacy at a time when the world is trying to figure out how to prevent Iran from having nuclear weapons.” Engel was speaking of the state visit of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that began Monday, at the invitation of President Luiz Ignacio Lula da Silva of Brazil. Extending such an honor to the leader who hosted a conference of Holocaust skeptics and... cnsnews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2393281/posts#comment Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:56:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2388551/posts For if we are at war, why is Khalid Sheikh Mohammed headed for trial in federal court in the Southern District of New York? Why is he entitled to a presumption of innocence and all of the constitutional protections of a U.S. citizen? Is it possible we have done an injustice to this man by keeping him locked up all these years without trial? For that is what this trial implies — that he may not be guilty. Yahoo News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2388551/posts#comment Tue, 17 Nov 2009 23:12:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2388045/posts Are we at war -- or not? For if we are at war, why is Khalid Sheikh Mohammed headed for trial in federal court in the Southern District of New York? Why is he entitled to a presumption of innocence and all of the constitutional protections of a U.S. citizen? Is it possible we have done an injustice to this man by keeping him locked up all these years without trial? For that is what this trial implies -- that he may not be guilty. And if we must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that KSM was complicit in mass... Real Clear Politics dot com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2388045/posts#comment Tue, 17 Nov 2009 08:47:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2385491/posts As America debates whether to send tens of thousands more troops to Afghanistan, in the ninth year of a war for ends we cannot discern, a riveting new history recalls times when Americans fought for vital national interests. "A Country of Vast Designs: James K. Polk, the Mexican War, and the Conquest of the American Continent" is Robert Merry's brilliant biography and history of that time. Merry goes far toward righting the injustice done by historians who have denied this great man his place in the pantheon of presidents, because they believe "Jimmy Polk's War" to have been a war... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2385491/posts#comment Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:04:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2382897/posts Nidal Malik Hasan was two men. One was the proud Army major who wore battle fatigues to mosque; the other, the proud Arab who wore Muslim garb in civilian life. What brought Hasan's identities into fatal conflict was his belief that Iraq and Afghanistan were unjust wars, and his shock that he, a Muslim, was to be sent to serve in one of those wars, against fellow Muslims -- a sin against Allah meriting damnation. Hasan was conflicted by a dual loyalty -- to the country he had sworn to protect, and to his perceived duty as a Muslim. When... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2382897/posts#comment Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:25:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2382909/posts Featured right now on Pat Buchanan's Website is an article that begins: OCCUPIED JERUSALEM – A Jewish rabbi has issued a book giving Jews permission to murder non-Jews, including babies and children, who may pose an actual or potential threat to Jews or Israel. “It is permissible to kill the Righteous among non-Jews even if they are not responsible for the threatening situation,” Rabbi Yitzhak Shapiro, who heads the Od Yosef Chai Yeshiva in the Yitzhar settlement in the occupied West Bank, wrote in his book “The King’s Torah.” He argues that goyem (a derogatory epithet for non-Jews) may be... PatBuchanan.org/the lid http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2382909/posts#comment Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:41:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2374447/posts If we had it to do over, would we send an army into Afghanistan to build a nation? Would we invade Iraq? While these two wars have cost 5,200 dead, a trillion dollars and a divided America facing an endless war, what have we won? Gen. Stanley McChrystal needs 40,000 to 80,000 more troops, or we risk "mission failure" in Afghanistan. At present casualty rates -- October was the worst month of the war -- thousands more Americans will die before we see any light at the end of this tunnel, if ever we do. Pakistan, which aided us in... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2374447/posts#comment Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:38:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2372765/posts For Sarah Palin, party loyalty in New York's 23rd congressional district asks too much. Going rogue, Palin endorsed Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman over Republican Dede Scozzafava. On Oct. 1, Scozzafava was leading. Today, she trails Democrat Bill Owens and is only a few points ahead of Hoffman, as Empire State conservatives defect to vote their principles, not their party. Newt Gingrich stayed on the reservation, endorsing Scozzafava, who is pro-choice and pro-gay rights and hauls water for the unions. Scourged by the right, Newt accused conservatives of going over the hill in the battle to save the republic, just... Miami Herald http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2372765/posts#comment Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:49:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2371813/posts "Sometimes party loyalty asks too much," said JFK. For Sarah Palin, party loyalty in New York's 23rd congressional district asks too much. Going rogue, Palin endorsed Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman over Republican Dede Scozzafava. On Oct. 1, Scozzafava was leading. Today, she trails Democrat Bill Owens and is only a few points ahead of Hoffman, as Empire State conservatives defect to vote their principles, not their party. Newt Gingrich stayed on the reservation, endorsing Scozzafava, who is pro-choice and pro-gay rights, and hauls water for the unions. Scourged by the right, Newt accused conservatives of going over the hill... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2371813/posts#comment Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:02:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2369833/posts In the brief age of Obama, we have had "truthers," "birthers," Tea Party activists and town-hall dissenters. Comes now, the "Oath Keepers." And who might they be? Writes Alan Maimon in the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Oath Keepers, depending on where one stands, are "either strident defenders of liberty or dangerous peddlers of paranoia." Formed in March, they are ex-military and police who repledge themselves to defend the Constitution, even if it means disobeying orders. If the U.S. government ordered law enforcement agencies to violate Second Amendment rights by disarming the people, Oath Keepers will not obey. "The whole point of... The Manchester Union-Leader http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2369833/posts#comment Sat, 24 Oct 2009 05:19:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2367805/posts In their lifetimes, they have seen their Christian faith purged from schools their taxes paid for, and mocked in movies and on TV. They have seen their factories shuttered in the thousands and their jobs outsourced in the millions to Mexico and China. They have seen trillions of tax dollars go for Great Society programs, but have seen no Great Society, only rising crime, illegitimacy, drug use and dropout rates. They watch on cable TV as illegal aliens walk into their country, are rewarded with free educations and health care and take jobs at lower pay than American families can... WND http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2367805/posts#comment Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:25:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2366538/posts In the brief age of Obama, we have had "truthers," "birthers," tea party activists and town-hall dissenters. Comes now, the "Oath Keepers." And who might they be? Writes Alan Maimon in the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Oath Keepers, depending on where one stands, are "either strident defenders of liberty or dangerous peddlers of paranoia." Formed in March, they are ex-military and police who repledge themselves to defend the Constitution, even if it means disobeying orders. If the U.S. government ordered law enforcement agencies to violate Second Amendment rights by disarming the people, Oath Keepers will not obey. "The whole point of... wnd http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2366538/posts#comment Tue, 20 Oct 2009 13:54:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2364634/posts second and more serious battle of Copenhagen is shaping up, in mid-December, when a world conference gathers to impose limits on greenhouse gases to stop “global warming.” Primary purpose: Rope in the Americans who refused to submit to the Kyoto Protocols that Al Gore brought home in the Clinton era. The long campaign to bring the United States under another global regime—the newest piece in the architecture of world government—has been flagging since 2008. Then, it seemed a lock with the election of Obama and a veto-proof Democratic Senate. Why has the campaign stalled? Because global warming has stalled. The... CNS News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2364634/posts#comment Sat, 17 Oct 2009 15:57:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2363517/posts Here is video of Al Sharpton and Pat Buchanan talking with Chris Matthews about Rush Limbaugh being dropped from the group interested in buying the St. Louis Rams. Sharpton said that Limbaugh is "trying to make this like this is some kind of wounding of American Conservatism, he was rejected by his own partners ultimately." Pat Buchanan said "this act was shabby, vindictive, petty, it is disgusting." He went on to mention Sharpton's controversial statements and his involvement in the duke lacrosse case. Amazingly Sharpton later in the interview responds to this saying "I had nothing to do with the... Freedom's Lighthouse http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2363517/posts#comment Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:37:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2350965/posts Westminster Magistrates court in central London rejected on Tuesday a petition urging the issuance of an arrest warrant for Defense Minister Ehud Barak on the grounds that he committed "war crimes" due his part in IDF Operation Cast Lead in the Gaza Strip, last January. The court sided with arguments submitted by the British Foreign Ministry, which stated that the defense minister was a state guest, and therefore was not subject to such lawsuit. Earlier, it was reported that the court postponed the hearing to an unspecified date, but proceedings began less than two hours later. In the first case... Jerusalem Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2350965/posts#comment Tue, 29 Sep 2009 18:54:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2347951/posts While America was consumed this summer with quarrels over town-hall radicals, "death panels," the "public option" and racism's role in the plunging polls of Barack, what happens to health care is not going to change the history of the world. What happens in Afghanistan might. Gen. Stanley McChrystal has done his duty. He has bluntly told his commander in chief what he must have in added combat troops and warned that if he does not get them, America faces "mission failure." Translation: a Taliban victory and U.S. defeat, as in Saigon 1975. Not only does President Obama face the most... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2347951/posts#comment Fri, 25 Sep 2009 11:24:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2345445/posts In August, the Georgian navy seized a Turkish tanker carrying fuel to Abkhazia, Georgia's former province whose declaration of independence a year ago is recognized by Russia but not the West. The Turkish captain was sentenced to 24 years. When Ankara protested, he was released. Abkhazia has now threatened to sink any Georgian ship interfering in its "territorial waters," but it has no navy. Russia, however, has a Black Sea Fleet and a treaty of friendship with Abkhazia, and has notified Tbilisi that the Russian coast guard will assure, peacefully, the sea commerce of Abkhazia. Not backing down, Georgian President... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2345445/posts#comment Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:21:16 GMT