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Remember when Pat Buchanan tried to warn us about going to Iraq?
In 2002 I asked Buchanan and professional neocon Frank Gaffney what would happen when we went to war in Iraq. The great paleo-conservative predicted…
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Stoning Aldrich Ames
Rolling Stone excerpts a book about how the traitorous spy destroyed the CIA's Soviet operations. My weekly take on America's news, culture and ideas …
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What if crazy Al Gore had won?
In April 2008 I had a scary thought: We and the world would have been better off in many ways if he had beat Bush in 2000. For starters, even Gore would…
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Don't blame me for warring on Iraq -- or Iran
In 2003 I, Pat Buchanan and my paper, the Pittsburgh Trib, were among the few sensible voices to oppose going to war in Iraq. Today we'd be just as much…
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Guns, Ammo & Gays
Sports Afield and the Advocate -- magazines for different kinds of men. My weekly take on America's news, culture and ideas -- from exactly 30 years…
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Time defends its corporate mother
Bob Dole attacked Time-Warner for making movies that caused the moral decline of America. My weekly take on America's news, culture and ideas -- from…
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Susan Luttner's Russian tragedy
When the Lutheran pastor went to Russian in 1994 and adopted two beautiful girls from an orphanage she was a happy mother. Three years later her heart…
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A mother's crusade
In 1995 I was thrown into the troubled world of foreign adoptions by an angry mother who wanted to know why her adopted Romanian baby had so many…
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Class of 2000, 1995 and 1996 editions
In 1989 Post-Gazette editor John Craig came up with the good idea of having reporters track 21 Northgate kids who'd become the Class of 2000 a decade…
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The night I ambushed Thomas Sowell
It wasn't always easy getting to interview the great economist, but it was always worth it. Larry Elder is urging President Trump to give Sowell, 94, a…
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