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On Dec. 10, 1991, a conservative pundit who had worked for three presidents and become a celebrity by hosting a cable television debate show declared he would run for elected office for the first time – and not just any office. Pat Buchanan, a veteran of the Nixon, Ford and Reagan White Houses, announced his campaign for the presidency in front of a small yet raucous gathering of his supporters in New Hampshire. He would challenge in the upcoming primaries incumbent Republican President George H. W. Bush who, in Mr. Buchanan’s view, was a globalist who had lost touch with...

<p>"They are the conservatives of the heart.</p><p>They are our people.</p><p>And we need to reconnect with them.</p><p>We need to let them know we know how bad they’re hurting.</p><p>They don’t expect miracles of us, but they need to know we care."</p>

Winter has often proven an indispensable ally of Mother Russia.The impending winter of 1812-13 forced Napoleon's withdrawal from Moscow, a retreat from which his Grande Armee never recovered.The winter of 1941-42 sealed the ultimate fate of the invading armies of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich.Vladimir Putin's new strategy in the war he launched on Ukraine in February is to conscript the coming winter of 2022-23 as an ally of his failing army.For weeks, there have been reports of Russian air, missile and drone strikes on power plants in every major Ukrainian city.The false report that a Russian-fired rocket had landed in...

For half a decade now, America's media elite have been obsessed with former President Donald Trump and the Republican Party's conversion to Trumpism. Press and TV are daily consumed with his actions and prospects and the future of the party he captured in 2016. Perhaps it is time to consider the prospects of President Joe Biden and the political future of his embattled presidency. What are the odds that Biden, like Bill Clinton and Barack Obama before him, will run again in 2024, win reelection, serve out a second term and transfer his office to the 47th president on Jan....