Patrick J. Buchanan has been a senior advisor to three American Presidents. From 1966 through 1974, Pat Buchanan was confidant and assistant to Richard Nixon. In 1974, Pat Buchanan served as assistant to Gerald Ford. From 1985 to 1987, Pat Buchanan was White House Communications Director for Ronald Reagan. In December 1991, Pat Buchanan challenged President George Bush for the 1992 Republican presidential nomination. Buchanan ran in 33 state primaries, receiving 3 million Republican primary votes. Pat Buchanan's professional career began in 1962 when, at age 23, he was chosen as the youngest editorial writer on a major newspaper in the United States, the St. Louis Globe Democrat. His political career began three years later, when he signed on as the first full-time staffer in what would later be called "The Resurrection of Richard Nixon." During Buchanan's eight White House years, he traveled with President Nixon as one of the 15 member official delegation to open up the People's Republic of China, and he was present at Mr. Nixon's final Moscow-Yalta summit in the summer of 1974. Pat Buchanan was with President Reagan at both his first and second summits with Mikhail Gorbachev, at Geneva and Reykjavik. Pat Buchanan has written six books, including the New York Times best-seller, A Republic Not an Empire, and a Washington Post bestseller about growing up in the nation's capital, Right From the Beginning. His newest book, Death of the West, was released at the end of 2001. An honors graduate in English and Philosophy from Georgetown University Pat Buchanan received his master's degree from the Columbia School of Journalism in New York in 1962. Pat Buchanan's articles have appeared in publications ranging from Human Events and National Review to the Nation and Rolling Stone. Pat Buchanan has been a nationally syndicated newspaper columnist co-host of CNN's "Crossfire" and host of Mutual Radio's "Buchanan & Co." In February 1993, Pat Buchanan founded The American Cause, an educational foundation dedicated to the principles of freedom, federalism. limited government, traditional values and a foreign policy that puts America first. Pat Buchanan is married to the former Shelley Ann Scarney. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PatBuchanan http://media.townhall.com/TownHall/icons/TH-feed-icon-128x128.gif http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PatBuchanan TownHall.com, Where your opinion counts. 128 Copyright (c) 2009 Townhall.com, A Salem Communications Web. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED jim.dearras@townhall.com (Jim De Arras) Tue, 15 Dec 2009 05:01:00 GMT Tue, 15 Dec 2009 05:01:00 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ "It's time to stop worrying about the deficit -- and start panicking about the debt," the Washington Post editorial began. "The fiscal situation was serious before the recession. It is now dire." The editorial... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PatBuchanan/2009/12/15/fat_city cc787474-cb3c-4f2a-98ba-6c7e76f50f3c Tue, 15 Dec 2009 05:01:00 GMT The decades-long campaign of Ron Paul to have the Government Accountability Office do a full audit of the Federal Reserve now has 313 sponsors in the House. Sometimes perseverance does pay off. If not derailed... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PatBuchanan/2009/12/11/ron_pauls_hour_of_power 59ab823b-77b8-447e-9fa5-d718c6077b0c Fri, 11 Dec 2009 05:01:00 GMT 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 public works projects like the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PatBuchanan/2009/12/08/why_import_workers_now 1ea758af-f6b0-404b-9bcc-e8cf68304487 Tue, 08 Dec 2009 05:01:00 GMT If actions speak louder than words, President Obama is cutting America free of George Bush's wars and coming home. For his bottom line Tuesday night was that all U.S. forces will be out of Iraq by mid-2011 and the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PatBuchanan/2009/12/04/obamas_exit_strategy 0f9dea52-e09b-45da-9730-1ea7c446d429 Fri, 04 Dec 2009 05:01:00 GMT Led by a conflicted president of a divided party and nation, America is deepening her involvement in a war in its ninth year with no end in sight. Only one parallel to Barack Obama's troop decision comes to mind:... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PatBuchanan/2009/12/01/hamlet_as_war_president 94ac17e1-2433-4f7b-96da-9860264aadd1 Tue, 01 Dec 2009 05:01:00 GMT 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... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PatBuchanan/2009/11/27/is_the_church_militant_back 58d2e8bb-588b-4797-a3e8-042de66452dc Fri, 27 Nov 2009 05:01:00 GMT "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... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PatBuchanan/2009/11/24/our_pushover_president 57664950-e0b4-408b-a3ce-c82b440aef7d Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:01:00 GMT As George W. Bush famously asked, "Is our children learning?" Apparently not in the twin capitals of liberalism, D.C. and New York. In a ranking of 50 states and D.C. by how much each spent per pupil in... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PatBuchanan/2009/11/20/dumbo_univeristy a12ab580-43c9-4254-aa38-b741f23523e3 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:01:00 GMT 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... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PatBuchanan/2009/11/17/is_america_a_serious_nation 3d1962c1-f402-43e4-bf54-3df4cac00069 Tue, 17 Nov 2009 05:01:00 GMT 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... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PatBuchanan/2009/11/13/polk_forgotten_great 1cdd0590-50e1-40d6-a438-5812ab00612f Fri, 13 Nov 2009 05:01:00 GMT 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... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PatBuchanan/2009/11/10/the_two_faces_of_maj_hasan e9699a89-922a-484d-9047-d7905a6d3eeb Tue, 10 Nov 2009 05:01:00 GMT For the Blue Dogs, Tuesday was a fire bell in the night. Virginia Republicans led by Robert McDonnell crushed the most conservative Democrat nominee in decades, rolling up a victory that rivaled Ronald Reagan's... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PatBuchanan/2009/11/06/for_whom_the_bell_tolls e2bf5ab2-5148-488e-beed-ce107913e09a Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:01:00 GMT When America is about to throw an ally to the wolves, we follow an established ritual. We discover that the man we supported was never really morally fit to be a friend or partner of the United States. When Chiang... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PatBuchanan/2009/11/03/the_american_way_of_abandonment 265533fa-f127-47b6-ac68-8626b471b5c9 Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:01:00 GMT 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... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PatBuchanan/2009/10/30/the_fruits_of_intervention 846428c4-5e11-4ff2-977f-2af00d0b6d3b Fri, 30 Oct 2009 04:01:00 GMT "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... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PatBuchanan/2009/10/27/newt,_sarah_and_a_new_gop 1e6c38dd-6a97-4551-a21b-8e06900fddd5 Tue, 27 Oct 2009 04:01:00 GMT