By Patrick J. Buchanan on 12/30/2011

Is America Losing Control?

"Events are in the saddle and ride mankind."In describing 2011, few clichés seem more appropriate. For in this past year, we Americans seemed to lose control of our destiny, as events seemed to be in t...
By Michelle Malkin on 12/27/2011

The Year in Obama Scandals—and Scandal Deniers

With 2011 drawing to a close, it is time to account. As an early-and-often chronicler of Chicago-on-the-Potomac, I am amazed at the stubborn and clingy persistence of President Barack Obama's snowblowe...
By Patrick Cleburne on 12/26/2011

War On Christmas—Trench Warfare Time?

War Against Christmas: Hard Pounding Now Perhaps it is appropriate that at a Christmas where the most prominent movie release appears to be a celebration of the massacre of white men and their horses ...
By Peter Brimelow on 12/25/2011

VDARE.com Remembers Christmas Eves Past, Broods About The Future

Peter Brimelow writes: Merry Christmas from my family to yours! To me, VDARE.com readers are a family—I’ve been emailing with them (always behindhand in my case) since VDARE.com went live on Christmas ...
By Patrick J. Buchanan on 12/24/2011

War on Christmas 2011: Whose Country Is It, Anyway?

Half a century ago, American children were schooled in Aesop's fables. Among the more famous of these were "The Fox and the Grapes" and "The Tortoise and the Hare." Particularly appropriate this Christ...
By Paul Craig Roberts on 12/24/2011

The Greatest Gift For All

Christmas is a time of traditions.  If you have found time in the rush before Christmas to decorate a tree, you are sharing in a relatively new tradition. Although the ...
By James Fulford on 12/24/2011

The Fulford File | Ron Paul Lynching—Will GOP Insiders Attempt To Dissolve Iowa And Elect A New One?

The Washington Examiner’s Timothy Carney wrote a piece saying GOP will take off the gloves if Ron Paul wins Iowa, (“Just like they did to Pat Buchanan in 1996” as buchanan.org points out.) And the New ...
By Michelle Malkin on 12/23/2011

The Obama-mas Choir sings "Home for the Holidays"

They just don't know when to quit. Consumed with the singular task of re-electing Barack Obama, progressives across the country will use the holiday season to propagandize their conservative relatives ...
By Donald A. Collins on 12/23/2011

Chipotle’s CEO Whines For “Immigration Reform” After Flouting Our Immigration Laws

Ah, there is nothing like getting caught with your hand in the cookie jar! Even the pro-business Wall Street Journal tells it like it is in its December 19, 2011, “A CEO’s Demand: Fix Immigration. Afte...
By James Fulford on 12/22/2011

The Fulford File | Christmas Appeal For Starving VDARE.com Workers

I started working for VDARE.com in 2001, at a time when I was unemployed. I got this job by winning the world-famous VDARE.com War Against Christmas competition. I used Google to hunt around systematic...
By Patrick J. Buchanan on 12/22/2011

Make Congress Vote on War on Iran

Returning from Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta dropped some jolting news. Asked by CBS's Scott Pelley if Iran could have a nuclear weapon in 2012, Panetta replied: "It would...
By Patrick J. Buchanan on 12/20/2011

"Second Period of Islamic Power"

For the 30 years since "The McLaughlin Group" began to run on network television, the Christmas and New Year's shows have been devoted to the conferring of annual awards. The first award on the Christm...
By Eugene Kontorovich on 12/17/2011

Gridlock In The Public Square Updated: “Khristmaskampf” And The War FOR Christmas

[Peter Brimelow writes: Eugene  Kontorovich caused a huge fuss with his 1997 New York Post Op Ed article on the War Against Christmas, which we rescued in from pre-internet oblivion last year. &nb...
By Patrick Cleburne on 12/17/2011

An Appeal From Patrick Cleburne—Give Now So We Can Report The Unreportable!

The only good thing about having to write this note is that I got to insist on the return of the old logo, which I considered far superior to the new. Loyalists who agree with me are invited to commu...
By Michelle Malkin on 12/16/2011

Nancy Pelosi, Down and Dirty

As a rueful Queen Elizabeth once said of a particularly rough year for the royal family, 2011 is "not a year on which" Queen Nancy Pelosi "shall look back with undiluted pleasure." The former House Spe...
By Patrick J. Buchanan on 12/16/2011

Iraq: And Was the Mission Accomplished?

For the Army and Marines who lost 4,500 dead and more than 30,000 wounded, many of them amputees, the second-longest war in U.S. history is over. America is coming home from Iraq. On May 1, 2003, on th...
By Donald A. Collins on 12/15/2011

Democrat Cheers The U.S. Supreme Court’s Decision To Hear Arizona’s Case

OK, immigration reform patriots have been truly frustrated by the dismal performance of our Federal government in immigration enforcement. Furthermore, as many patriots have noted, the Obama Administra...
By Peter Brimelow on 12/14/2011

OK, Republicans, If Israel Is So Great, Why Not Follow Its Example?

[Peter Brimelow writes: I wrote this on December 11 2011 during our 2011 Christmas fundraising campaign, but it asks a good question, so I’m posting it to VDARE.com too.] For immigration patriots, the ...
By Peter Morrison on 12/14/2011

The Morrison Report | Gingrich is Not the GOP's Answer to Obama

There's an old proverb that says once a person becomes known as an early riser, he can sleep all day. The point of the saying is that many people will ignore a person's actual behavior, and instead bas...
By Matthew Richer on 12/14/2011

New England’s Emerging Refugee Disaster—Smoldering Issue In New Hampshire Primary

There are more pyrotechnics ahead in this election cycle according to Tuesday’s Rasmussen Poll: it showed the January 10 New Hampshire GOP primary race tightening significantly (Romney 33%, Gingri...