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XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX WED JAN 02 2002 08:42:41 ET XXXXX BUCHANAN DECLARES: DEATH OF THE WESTThe New Year is just minutes old and now comes Pat Buchanan to warn: The Death of the West!In his ultracontroversial book, which will be banned, blocked and burned in many quarters, brave Buchanan contends that the U.S. will be a Third World nation by the year 2050. The BestSellingAuthorTVHostPresidentialCandidateColumnist predicts Europe will be inundated by an Islamic-Arab-African invasion and most First World nations, including Japan, will have begun slowly to vanish from the earth. Buchanan is primed and ready for a media ...

Is the US Government Machiavellian enough to orchestrate the recent brouhaha over the so-called website WikiLeaks, is this a real embarrassment, or will it indeed be damaging as some U.S. diplomats claim? I am not one to support conspiracy theories but when you stop to analyze the content of the information that was leaked it seem that two things emerge: first, the content of the cables were not so earth shattering as to damage national security, or harm Washington’s relations with other countries. Second, upon further analysis, it would appear that the information revealed instead sends a strong message to...

by Charley Reese Most of the political problems in this country won't be settled until more folks realize the South was right. I know that goes against the P.C. edicts, but the fact is that on the subject of the constitutional republic, the Confederate leaders were right and the Northern Republicans were wrong. Many people today even argue the Confederate positions without realizing it. For example, if you argue for strict construction of the Constitution, you are arguing the Confederate position; when you oppose pork-barrel spending, you are arguing the Confederate position; and when you oppose protective tariffs, you are...

By Charlie Reese Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them. Have you ever wondered, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are against deficits, WHY do we have deficits? Have you ever wondered, if all the politicians are against inflation and high taxes, WHY do we have inflation and high taxes? You and I don't propose a federal budget. The president does. You and I don't have the Constitutional authority to vote on appropriations. The House of representatives does. You and I don't write the tax code, Congress does.. You and...

545 PEOPLE By Charlie Reese Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them. Have you ever wondered, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are against deficits, WHY do we have deficits? Have you ever wondered, if all the politicians are against inflation and high taxes, WHY do we have inflation and high taxes? You and I don't propose a federal budget. The president does. You and I don't have the Constitutional authority to vote on appropriations. The House of Representatives does. You and I don't write the tax code, Congress does....

Mathematicians argue that coincidences occur a lot more often than most people believe. And who am I to argue with anybody who knows calculus? Nevertheless, there are a number of coincidences involved in the war on terrorism. It is a coincidence that there are large oil and gas reserves in South Asian countries north of Afghanistan whose governments we have recently provided with undisclosed millions of dollars, allegedly for the use of old Soviet air bases. It is a coincidence that the logical route for pipelines runs through Afghanistan and Pakistan. Therefore, I suppose it is a further coincidence that ...

The U.S. public debt is $7.7 trillion. The annual interest on it is $120 billion. Total receipts for fiscal 2005 through December were $487 billion. Total outlays were $605 billion ... It is a simple truth that anyone — a person, a family or a government — who spends more than what is taken in will eventually be bankrupt. Most of the politicians in Washington, including the president — not to mention most Americans — seem unconcerned about this pending disaster.

Whenever the Supreme Court intends to contradict the Constitution or public law, it resorts to ambiguity in an attempt to cover up its misdeed. That's what the Supreme Court did in a pair of decisions that said a university can't award points for skin color but can use race "as a factor" in making decisions about who gets in and who doesn't. What does that mean? Practically speaking, it means that some universities will continue to grant preferences based purely on race — only, like homosexuals in the military, they won't talk about it.The Constitution and the 1964 Civil Rights...

Watching Fox News is like watching an electronic adolescent that has appointed itself the strident, belligerent defender of the Bush administration and its foreign policy. As a result, Fox got its nose quite out of joint when the British Broadcasting Corporation recently ran a program based on an international poll that showed a majority in many countries don't like President George Bush. Well, so what? I don't imagine Hillary Clinton or Tipper and Al Gore are all that fond of him either. Certainly Jimmy Carville isn't. So what is the big deal about a poll? The BBC poll, by the...

June 3 was the birthday of one of the greatest Americans who ever lived. He was a graduate of West Point, a hero of the Mexican War, a U.S. senator, a secretary of war and the president of the Confederate States of America. I'm speaking, of course, of Jefferson Davis. It's unfortunate that we live in an age of ideologues and propaganda. No matter how intelligent, how accomplished, how compassionate, how noble in character, how admired by his contemporaries a man is, if he is on the wrong side of the current politically correct fence, then he's condemned. Even as...

There is only one nuclear power in the Middle East: Israel. Thanks to Israel. Otherwise you could add Iraq, and by their association with Iraq, Syria, Libya, The Palestinian Authority, Al Aqsa, Hamas, Hezbolla, Islamic Jihad, and who knows who else who could come up with the cash to buy some kind of nuclear or radiological weapon from Iraq. Pakistan is now, and Iran may well be a nuclear power soon enough. So, Reese's statement is certainly not long for the "true column", and in light of the fact that Iran is rushing towards nuclear armed status, may not mean...

I have no doubt that President George W. Bush will launch an attack on Iraq, with or without United Nations Security Council approval. I have no doubt that the United States will win the war, though some Iraqi defectors have said recently that it might not be as easy as American officials think. But we will win. So letfs look at what the consequences are likely to be: œ American lives will be lost. Ifve heard some military brass refer to the 146 killed in the first Gulf War as "negligible." I personally donft think the loss of even one...

I have no doubt that George Bush will launch an attack on Iraq, with or without United Nations Security Council approval. I have no doubt that the United States will win the war, though some Iraqi defectors have said recently that it might not be as easy as American officials think. But we will win.So let's look at what the consequences are likely to be: 1. American lives will be lost. I've heard some military brass refer to the 146 killed in the first Gulf War as "negligible." I personally don't think the loss of even one American life is...