Softening stance on marijuana Oct 23, 2009
Lately to the smallish conservative crowd, notably once led by anti-prohibitionist William F. Buckley, is Jessica Corry of Colorado, a married, pro-life Republican mom, soon to be "freedom fighter of the month" in High Times magazine. Corry spoke last month at a NORML conference (National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws) in San Francisco, wearing an American flag lapel pin, a triple strand of pearls and a gold marijuana leaf pin. (Fresno Bee -- Opinion)
Viewpoints: New federal attitude on using medical pot is a good first step Oct 21, 2009
Lately to the smallish conservative crowd, notably once led by anti-prohibitionist William F. Buckley, is Jessica Corry of Colorado, a married, pro-life Republican mom, soon to be "freedom fighter of the month" in High Times magazine. Recent partakers undoubtedly will have to rub their eyes for a double take when they spot Corry, who spoke last month at a NORML conference (National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws) in San Francisco, wearing an American flag lapel pin, a triple... (Sacramento Bee -- Opinion)
Idol With Clay Feet Oct 20, 2009
Yet Johnson s gushes can t match the gemlike sycophancy of the dust-jacket blurb offered by William F. Buckley Jr., who tells us, Never (that I know) has a single lifetime borne such literary and philosophical fruit a statement that places Podhoretz somewhat higher than such dimmer bulbs as Shakespeare, Dante, and Goethe. Jeffers chimes in with a rather more modest encomium that credits Podhoretz with an intelligence as stunningly precocious, I think, as Mencken s or [Edmund] Wilson s had been... (The American Conservative)
Will Buckley and Pancho Villa Oct 20, 2009
Before William F. Buckley Jr. shaped American conservatism, the Mexican frontier shaped his father s creed. By. (The American Conservative)
Left, Right, and Christopher Lasch Oct 17, 2009
In that book, Scialabba a wonderfully smart and incisive reviewer of and commenter on the intellectual currents of American life provides sharp takes on all sorts of writers and thinkers, from (moving left to right) Richard Rorty, Edward Said and Irving Howe to William F. Buckley, Victor Davis Hanson and Allan Bloom. The only author, though, to receive two full essays all to himself is Lasch, whom Scialabba clearly considers a hero of sorts, and this made some of the respondents to Scialabba... (The American Conservative)
Boycott of the Nobels for Peace Oct 12, 2009
In an age with no standards other than the most superficial, a letter Whittaker Chambers wrote to William F. Buckley, Jr., almost 50 years ago comes to mind. That is why it is idle to talk about preventing the wreck of Western civilization. (Human Events Online)
THE REBEL: Speech bringing out our worst Oct 11, 2009
William F. Buckley, Jr is wincing in his grave listening to you loonies, as he called your crowd. I truly fear for America if your kind grow in power. (Hingham Journal, MA)
The Wonderfully Weird Books You Find at Country Inns Oct 11, 2009
Note the William F. Buckley spy novel on the lower left, sending just the right message: escapist but classy. No such collection is complete without some local-color stuff, be it a dairy-farm memoir or a coffee-table number, The Historic Lighthouses of Kansas, say. (Slate)
In Defense of Glenn Beck Oct 11, 2009
This is what liberals always say about popular right-wingers, including Barry Goldwater, Ronald Reagan and William F. Buckley. For over 20 years liberals, including Presidents Clinton and Obama, have insisted that Rush Limbaugh is everything from an unpatriotic hatemonger to an enabler of domestic terrorism. (Townhall.com)
Time to make the column Oct 11, 2009
WILLIAM F. Buckley Jr. was a man of many parts, and part of his considerable charm owed to the wry cockiness he sometimes affected ( I don t stoop to conquer. I merely conquer. (Boston Globe)
Conservative objections to ObamaCare: More than just money Oct 10, 2009
Writing in last Sundays Washington Post, for conservatives to rededicate ourselves to the intellectualism of men like Milton Friedman and William F. Buckley. Whatever the result of the health debate and its not time to fold yet Haywards advice is sound. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
And You Say Conservatism Is Dying? Oct 6, 2009
So it's downright weird that at this moment, we are being asked to ponder how far we have fallen from the glory days of William F. Buckley and Milton Friedman. "How awful for you," say those who never sympathized with conservatism, "that you have been reduced to Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity.". (Townhall.com)
The Attempted Murder Of Conservatism Oct 4, 2009
On the other hand, to Tanenhaus most influential modern conservative writers and thinkers, like Charles Krauthammer, Michael Barone and even the late William F. Buckley Jr., of whom Tanenhaus is writing a biography, are not true Burkean conservatives but extremist "revanchists.". Page. (Investors Business Daily)
Glenn Beck's world order endangers the right Oct 3, 2009
In 1962, William F. Buckley published in National Review a lengthy denunciation of paranoid John Birch Society founder Robert Welch. How long, Buckley asked, can the right tolerate his malicious gibberish without losing credibility. (Athens Banner-Herald)
Sam Tanenhaus Says Conservatism Is Dead. Is It? Oct 2, 2009
These two strands, revanchist and realist, have been present throughout the history of the American right and, as you vividly demonstrate in the case of William F. Buckley Jr., often coexist in the work of leading conservative intellectuals ... Sam Tanenhaus, the author of , is the editor of the New York Times Book Review and the "Week in Review" section and is at work on a biography of William F. Buckley Jr. What did you think of this article. (Slate)
The Death (And Life) of Conservatism Sep 26, 2009
And yet Tanenhaus makes his counter-intuitive case with elegance and rigor, drawing on the ideas and policies of dozens of writers and public figures-including Edmund Burke, James Burnham, Whittaker Chamber, William F. Buckley, and Michael Oakeshott-whose conservative credentials are unimpeachable. An intellectually serious conservatism would jump at the chance to engage with an author who uses its leading lights to argue that the movement has gone seriously astray. (CBS News)
Irving Kristol's Clear Thinking Sep 23, 2009
I am a National Review guy, and William F. Buckley would be the first face etched on my American-conservative Mount Rushmore, but, aside from my father, no single person had a bigger impact on my political thinking than Kristol, whose funeral was Tuesday. The obituaries have focused on Irving's role as the "godfather of neoconservatism" and the founder of the Public Interest. (Townhall.com)
Conservative Writer Irving Kristol Dies at 89 Sep 21, 2009
Barry Goldwater and William F. Buckley, whose National Review journal Irving Kristol found "insufficiently analytical and 'intellectual,'" most neoconservatives were not lifelong Republicans. They were former Democrats, often academics, who broke with their party over Vietnam, race relations and what they regarded as the breakdown of civic order. (Newsmax)
Lewis, Scott vote to keep funding ACORN Sep 18, 2009
3:41 pm September 17, 2009, by Kyle Wingfield. The House just this afternoon voted 345 to 75 to for scandal-plagued ACORN, after a similar measure 83 to 7 on Monday. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
Five Alternatives to Mark Levin Sep 17, 2009
It soon became a favorite of a prep-school senior named William F. Buckley Jr. as well ... William F. Buckley Jr., who in 1951 had shot to fame with the publication of , and who would found National Review in 1955, still called himself an individualist. (The American Conservative)
Letters to the editor Sep 9, 2009
It is time for all intellectual Republicans to renounce all these idiotic John Birch Society types as did William F. Buckley Jr., Sen. Barry Goldwater, Gov. Ronald Reagan and Gov. Nelson Rockefeller in 1962. (Sacramento Bee -- Opinion)
The demise of conservatism Sep 4, 2009
The columnist in 1968 was, of course, William F. Buckley Jr., and on President Lyndon B. Johnson's abrupt withdrawal from the presidential race, he was nothing if not circumspect. Why. (Albany Times Union)
Conservatism's Exaggerated Death Sep 4, 2009
And Tanenhaus is writing an authorized biography of William F. Buckley Jr., modern conservatism's most influential figure ... For starters, many conservatives - foremost among them William F. Buckley Jr. - reasonably saw in Bush's free-spending ways, signature expansion of federal responsibility for education with the 2001 No Child Left Behind Act, signing into law in 2003 of a huge Medicare prescription-drug benefit, and, after the Iraq invasion, advocacy of democracy promotion as a leading... (CBS News -- Opinion)
Conservative Curriculum Quotas? Aug 28, 2009
John Rawls, Edmund Burke, Adam Smith, Karl Marx, J. S. Mill, J.-J. Rousseau, Howard Zinn, Robert Nozick, Ayn Rand, Russell Kirk, Paulo Freire, C. Wright Mills, Ludwig von Mises, Martha Nussbaum, Michael Oakeshott, Eric Voegelin, Albert Jay Nock, Reinhold Niebuhr, Charles Reich, Herbert Marcuse, Angela Davis, Alasdair MacIntyre, William F. Buckley, Barbara Ehrenreich, Milton Friedman, Murray Rothbard, John Kenneth Galbraith, Charles Taylor, F.A. Hayek. Who is missing. (The American Conservative)
The Lesson of the Kennedys Aug 28, 2009
What remains finally memorable about President Kennedy, William F. Buckley Jr. said, is the image of martyred beauty. The late president was the St. Sebastian of American politicians, and his heirs and assigns have been drawing on his political capital for nearly half a century now. (CBS News)
Dwight Was Right Aug 26, 2009
He was, of course, William F. Buckley, Jr., who died last February aged eighty-two, nearly six decades after he timed that first book deliberately to spoil the party. God and Man at Yale was a magnificent display of ingratitude, a polemical denunciation of the author s alma mater for indoctrinating the sons of Christian individualists as atheistic socialists, a succ;s fou and a portent. (The American Conservative)
Today's Papers Aug 25, 2009
Introducing "The Slatest," a better news aggregator. - By David Plotz - Slate Magazine. (Slate)
Debating About Bill Buckley Aug 21, 2009
At CPAC last February I on the life and legacy of William F. Buckley Jr. My copanelists James Panero of the New Criterion and Matthew Continetti of the Weekly Standard and I had three very different takes on this founding father of Cold War conservatism. We mixed it up enjoyably, I thought. (The American Conservative)
The Passing of a Legend Aug 20, 2009
In a short span of months America's lost Tony Snow, William F. Buckley, now Bob Novak. Really devastating. (Townhall.com)
The barely veiled threat of violence sometimes not veiled at all Aug 18, 2009
What used to be the Republican party with real values and educated members about the time William F. Buckley Jr. was at his height at the National Review is completely dead; never to return again. It s been downhill ever since. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
Why Newt Gingrich Converted to Catholicism Aug 17, 2009
Until their deaths in the past year, Father Richard John Neuhaus and National Review founder William F. Buckley Jr. presided over an intellectual haven for conservatives put off by Evangelicals who rail against experts and lites. Catholicism offers Gingrich not just a strong religious tradition and community. (Time.com)
Hitler and Health Care Aug 12, 2009
WASHINGTON -- During live television coverage of the 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago, novelist Gore Vidal famously called William F. Buckley a " crypto-Nazi." To which Buckley famously replied (in addition to other choice words), "Stop calling me a crypto-Nazi or I'll sock you in the goddamn face and you'll stay plastered.". Buckley later apologized. (Townhall.com)
CQ: How 'birthers' can defy political mainstream Aug 6, 2009
Thats why todays GOP leaders would be hard pressed to duplicate the feat of Barry Goldwater and William F. Buckley Jr., who in 1962 coordinated a campaign to discredit the John Birch Society. Their fear was that the views of its founder, Robert Welch, who once called President Dwight D. Eisenhower a dedicated, conscious agent of the Communist conspiracy, would drag down the rest of the conservative movement. (MSNBC -- Politics)
Lack-Of-Progress Report: Obama At 6 Months Aug 6, 2009
"National Review (NR) is a biweekly magazine and web site, founded by the late author William F. Buckley, Jr. in 1955 and based in New York City. It describes itself as "America's most widely read and influential magazine and web site for Republican/conservative news, commentary, and opinion. "[1] It is usually considered the center of intellectual activity for the American Conservative movement in the twentieth century.". (CBS News)
New York Trading Down Aug 4, 2009
In many ways, Hoffman s talk of tough love for Republicans is not unlike that of the late William F. Buckley, Jr., back in 1965 when he became the first-ever nominee of the fledgling Conservative Party for mayor of New York. Although liberal GOPer John Lindsay emerged triumphant in the race, Buckley s strong showing (13. (Human Events Online)
It's All About Gates Jul 29, 2009
You have shown the country why William F. Buckley won laughter all over America when he wittily observed that, rather than be governed by the Harvard faculty, he would prefer to be governed by the first 300 names in the Cambridge telephone directory. COPYRIGHT 2009. (The American Conservative)
Keyes, Birthers, Buckley and Birchers: Oh my! Jul 29, 2009
National Review Founder William F. Buckley, Jr., Arizona Sen. Barry Goldwater, conservative historian and philosopher Russell Kirk, and American Enterprise Institute President William Baroody took it upon themselves secretly to meet at The Breakers hotel in Palm Beach, where they decided Welch and the Birchers would have to be excommunicated from the Conservative Movement, lest their lunacy taint reasonable and responsible conservative political activity. (MSNBC -- Politics)
Sgt. Crowley, a Cop in Full Jul 28, 2009
You have shown the country why William F. Buckley won laughter all over America when he wittily observed that, rather than be governed by the Harvard faculty, he would prefer to be governed by the first 300 names in the Cambridge telephone directory. Reader Comments: () Here are a few of the comments submitted by our readers. (Human Events Online)
Is There a Co-Pay with Forced Abortion? Jul 27, 2009
N]either the Declaration of Independence nor the Constitution mentions a right to reproduce," observes the learned professor. OK, so, by any reasonable standard this guy's an off-the-rails, helmet-for-his-own-safety, bona fide barking Moonbat. He makes Ward Churchill look like William F. Buckley. He's piggy Napoleon from Orwell's "Animal Farm" personified. But that's not what's so unsettling. There are plenty of nuts in the world. In fact, Harvard alone accounts for a significant percentage of... (Townhall.com)
Joe Scarborough Goes Paleo -- Maybe Jul 24, 2009
Instead of Bush, Scarborough takes his cues from Edmund Burke, Russell Kirk, and more familiar figures such as Reagan and William F. Buckley Jr. Sometimes Scarborough s invocation of such grand figures sits uneasily with his prose, which reflects his background in campaign speeches and television soundbites: [L]ike Bill Buckley I have a lot of Burke in me, and Burke s thinking starts with this: Respect reality. Understand the age you re living in, understand its facts. (The American Conservative)
A Generation Without a Moon Walk Jul 21, 2009
William F. Buckley, Jr., and the poet and novelist James Dickey (Deliverance) were there. Thirty-three years later Bill would write. (Human Events Online)
Is the Pope Capitalist? Jul 21, 2009
On Christmas Eve 1958, in a letter to his friend William F. Buckley Jr., he wrote, capitalism is not, and by its essential nature cannot conceivably be, conservative. This is particularly true of capitalism in the United States, which knew no Middle Ages; which was born, in so far as it was ideological, in the Enlightenment. (The American Conservative)
Click to read:Inside Holland's "Half Baked" Pot Policy Jul 15, 2009
"- William F. Buckley Jr. quote on Marijuana"When a private enterprise fails, it is closed down; when a government enterprise fails, it is expanded ... "Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could." - William F. Buckley Jr. quote on Marijuana. (CBS News)
Raymond Jewett, 84; ran small businesses with care Jul 13, 2009
He liked to regale his family and friends with a story about an impromptu political debate with classmate William F. Buckley, who had already become a well-known conservative debater. Mr. Jewett reported that in one exchange, Buckley said to him: What do you know about these issues. (Boston Globe)
The next conservative thinkers Jul 12, 2009
By definition, conservatism prefers the past to the present - in William F. Buckley s famous formulation, history was something to be stood athwart and sternly told to stop - but over the past half year, the present has been particularly trying for American conservatives ... William F. Buckley was widely admired for his determination and ability to bring a diversity of conservative voices into National Review, and similarly, McArdle s blog is among the best at organizing the cacophony of the... (Boston Globe)
Palin resigning as Alaska governor Jul 10, 2009
"It's very easy to say that the liberal media is caving in on her, and yes, they are; but she has given them a lot of raw meat. The woman is inarticulate, undereducated, and I pose this question: 'What do you think William F. Buckley would have thought of her as the standard-bearer for the conservative party? I think a lot of this criticism is well-deserved. ... So what are we talking about here? We're not talking about a great statesman of profound experiencewhose banner is integrity. We're... (Jefferson City News Tribune, MO)
Sarah is the conservative’s Oprah Jul 9, 2009
It says something about the conservative movement when they have gone from leaders like Barry Goldwater and William F. Buckley to Sarah Palin. Mac. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
A Tale of Two Buckleys Jul 7, 2009
I have never met Christopher Buckley, nor, I think, his attractive socialite mother, Pat, but have a dim and distant memory of his father, William F. Buckley Jr., from when he came to visit my parents in England ... It is this attitude that allows for the sort of statements that appear on William F. Buckley s Wikipedia entry extolling him as the most important public intellectual in the United States in the past half century or the first great ecumenical figure of American conservatism ...... (The American Conservative)
Click to read:Some Educated Opinions on Pundits Jul 5, 2009
"William F. Buckley wrote 'God and Man at Yale.' Then, he went from books to speaking to a TV talk show, and really was the first modern multimedia pundit.". William Buckley's "Firing Line" ran for more than three decades. (CBS News -- 60 minutes II)
Wunderkind needs to grow up a bit Jul 3, 2009
Without that life experience he s simply channeling the voices of the past: William F. Buckley, William Bennett, even Newt Gingrich. But Republicans will need their somebody long before Jonathan gets it. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
MSNBC Host Produces a Book on Conservatism Jul 2, 2009
All it takes is a return to conservatism s roots, he argues, namely the pillars promoted by the likes of William F. Buckley and President Ronald Reagan. The latter s sunny spirit and ability to politely engage his ideological foes stand as the biggest lesson for today s GOP. It s also the hallmark of Scarborough s text. (Human Events Online)
RIGHT PLACE, RIGHT TIME Jun 29, 2009
Having had a letter to National Review published as a cover story when he was 15, he became the (secretly) anointed heir to William F. Buckley's magazine at 23 ... Coming of Age with William F. Buckley Jr. and the Conservative Movement. (New York Post -- Opinions)
Trouble in Utopia Jun 25, 2009
Articles receiving the most comments in the past 72 hours. Have your hours or pay at work been reduced as a result of the recession. (Logan Herald Journal, UT)
A Short Introduction Jun 24, 2009
Third, I extensively studied the modern conservative and libertarian movements (which led to on Murray Rothbard and the New Left) and came to believe that American conservatism since William F. Buckley has been a schizophrenic movement, dedicated to a number of incompatible goals: small government and militarism, virtue and coerced family values , republicanism and empire. So I ve gone from passionate right-winger to someone who questions whether being right wing as it is currently understood is... (The American Conservative)
The Phenom From Tehran Jun 20, 2009
Garry Wills his old friend William F. Buckley Jr. "Bill was basically egalitarian," Wills argues. Of Buckley's rejection of racism and anti-Semitism, Wills says, "The real measure of Bill was the extent to which he overcame the prejudices he began with because of his family." Enlisting in the CIA as a young man, Buckley didn't disclose a family secret and beat the polygraph, later telling Wills, "I guess that if you think you have a right to tell a lie, it will not register as one.". (Slate)
Roger Ebert decries Bill OReillys shrillness Jun 19, 2009
I wonder how much of their playbook comes from those seminal encounters between William F. Buckley and Gore Vidal during (wait for it) the 1968 Democratic Convention, at the height of the Vietnam War ... At list William F. Buckley was intelligent and verbose. (Harper's Magazine)
Watergate Planner Hunt's FBI File Released Jun 17, 2009
He told an FBI interviewer that he wanted the pardon in part "to clear his name for his children." That sentiment was repeated by many of the approximately 20 people who knew Hunt and were interviewed by the FBI. They ranged from his neighbors to CIA colleagues like National Review founder William F. Buckley Jr. and even his high school music teacher, who called him a musically talented trumpet player and singer. Hunt's pardon request was one of approximately 2,000 Reagan got during his eight... (Newsmax)
Lionel Trilling: A Modern Burke Jun 16, 2009
In 1968, William F. Buckley Jr. persuaded Governor Reagan, who was quietly running for the Republican nomination, that he needed me for a speechwriter. He did not. (The American Conservative)
Make headlines at June 18 event Jun 16, 2009
Buckley recently published Losing Mum and Pup: A Memoir about his famous parents, Patricia Buckley and William F. Buckley Jr.. Overnight for 2 at Wyndham Hotel in downtown Cleveland. (Cleveland Jewish News, OH)
Tory Anarchist Jun 16, 2009
I was pleasantly surprised by William F. Buckley Jr. s posthumously published Goldwater book, Flying High, which turned out to be, in part. (Clarence Manion figures prominently. (The American Conservative)
Vanity Fair Releases Reagan Archive Jun 5, 2009
The June 1985 cover, shot by Harry Benson, with William F. Buckley Jr. s The Way They Are inside; Ronnie & Nancy, by Bob Colacello, August 2004; from Nancy Reagan s Solo Role, July 2009; from Inside the Reagan Diaries, April 2007; from Dick & Ronnie & God & Gorby, by James Mann, February 2009 ... Bob Colacello, William F. Buckley Jr., and others examine their lives and legacy ... by William F. Buckley Jr. (June 1985) It s the most public romance in the world. (Newsmax)
Viereck Revisited May 25, 2009
Viereck s own attempt to define conservatism came years before Meyer s, at a time when Robert Taft still called himself a (classical) liberal and William F. Buckley Jr. preferred the term individualist ... He embodied a kind of pre-neoconservatism none of us had any use for, William F. Buckley told Tom Reiss in 2005. (The American Conservative)
Losing Mum and Pup May 24, 2009
" Generally, it goes on here with humor rather than hand-wringing, no matter how bad things get. At times, Buckley offers a sort of guidebook for fellow baby boomers on late-stage care and understanding of dying parents.Even here, though, he finds mischievous laughs. His hospital updates, e-mailed to family and friends as his father is treated for kidney and other ailments, get zanier as days drag on and the author gets punchier. One day, his seriocomic "Urine Report" describes the fluid's color... (Sioux City Journal, IO)
The call to have a family and serve God May 24, 2009
"By all accounts, the man who recently is more than capable of doing both. The Rev. Alberto Cuti?, a 40-year-old Roman Catholic priest, built a devoted international following through his service as pastor of the parish in Miami Beach, his immensely popular Spanish-language radio and television ministry, and his widely distributed advice column. "Father Oprah," he was nicknamed, both for his gifts as a broadcaster and his empathy for the struggles so many face when it comes to , sex, and... (Boston Globe)
Notre Dame Pacifier? May 22, 2009
As William F. Buckley looks down from Heaven towards his spoiled brat of a nephew, I imagine that he's saying, this isn't the tone in which to pusue our cause. " Location: IL Reply # 2 Date: May 21, 2009 - 11:38 PM EST Not our president The illegal alien mass murder of US children..This is what we're dealing with, 50 million dead babies since their insane death cult took over from DC. There's no chance to respect those people at all. They're just like the worst dictators of the world. MURDER... (Townhall.com)
