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Jesse Helms did not lead "the rise of the modern conservative movement."-- (The Volokh Conspiracy)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 04:07:00 GMT

And – most of all — I don’t see how NBC has the nerve to say that both critics and supporters agree that “Helms led the rise of the modern conservative movement.” Until Martin Savidge said so, I had never heard anyone say anything even remotely like that. I’ve heard many people or groups credited with leading the modern conservative movement: Ronald Reagan, Barry Goldwater, William Buckley,...

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What WATBs they are at The Corner. (INSTAPUTZ)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 23:56:00 GMT

Levin, in full whining mode : I have noticed some of the smears lobbed at William Buckley in other places since his death; Jesse Helms is in for even more of it. Other prominent conservatives will face the same. Unfortunately, such is the nature of these things now. Poor, poor Jesse. Soon after the Senate vote on the Confederate flag insignia, Sen. Jesse Helms (R.-N.C.) ran into Mosely-Braun...

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Condolezza Rice: ‘I Am Proud Of The Decision’ To Invade Iraq (Think Progress)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 18:45:51 GMT

In an interview last March with Bloomberg’s Judy Woodruff, the late conservative scholar William F. Buckley said President Bush’s legacy would be judged purely on Iraq. He stressed, “It’s important that we acknowledge in the inner councils of state that it (the war) has failed, so that we should look for opportunities to cope with [...]

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Torture vs Intelligence (The Daily Dish)

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 18:22:00 GMT

... captured and tortured themselves. Old hands will recall the case of the CIA Beirut station chief, William Buckley, taken hostage in Beirut in 1984 by Hezbollah or Islamic Jihad, and held until his death there in 1985. An operational assignment to Beirut after the Buckley affair was a personal security nightmare -- but the heightened concerns were limited to that rough neighborhood....

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Christopher Hitchens (a new us)

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 18:05:49 GMT

... much as I once did, but he definitely falls into the category of conservative writers like George F. Will, P.J. O’Rourke, and the late William F. Buckley Jr. that I really admire. While I am sure Hithcens would not enjoy being classified with these three for me they are all excellent writers who present a bright thesis and than unpack it through the course of their piece.

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WFB & El Rushbo (The Corner)

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:30:02 GMT

From that Limbaugh profile: Not everyone in the big city gave Limbaugh the cold shoulder. William F. Buckley Jr., the publisher of The National Review, saw the young broadcaster's star power and took Limbaugh into his orbit. Limbaugh was honored by the attention. "I grew up on National Review and Mr. Buckley," Limbaugh told me. "Aside from my father, he's the most influential man...

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Why Oh Why Can't We Have a Better Press Corps? (Peter Beinart Strikes Again Edition) (Grasping Reality with Both Hands)

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:56:28 GMT

It is safe to say that Peter Beinart makes a very serious, thoughtful, argument that has never been made in such detail or with such care: Balancing Act: The Other Wilsonianism The contrast with the development of modern conservative foreign policy is instructive. When William F. Buckley, James Burnham, and the other founding editors of National Review set out in the 1950s to devise...

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William F. Buckley and Civil Rights (PoliGazette)

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:00:49 GMT

All too often, people - albeit especially progressives - assume that conservatives were strongly opposed to the civil rights movement, back in the early second part of the 20th century. Conservatives, most progressives believe, were opposed to equal rights and equal treatment because they were either racist or because they, well, opposed any change because [...]

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Civil Rights & the Conservative Movement (RealClearPolitics)

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 06:41:12 GMT

On April 4, 2008, mourners gathered at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York to memorialize William F. Buckley, Jr., who had died five weeks earlier. That same Friday, mourners one thousand miles away gathered at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis to memorialize Martin Luther King, Jr., who had been murdered there exactly 40 years before. The coincidence resonates. Drawing on exceptional rhetorical...

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E-book standards ramifications—IF Microsoft warms up to open source in the near future, as some are hoping? (TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home)

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 13:30:31 GMT

... that be? The grubby, money-making corporation ahead of the oh-so-staid nonprofit? The late William F. Buckley Jr. once suggested that Gates buy the TeleRead concept from me for $1. What a shame that Billg’s proprietary approach, especially his DRM fixation, gummed things up. I never could pursue this to the max. Not that the idea is "for sale." It’s in the public domain and builds...

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Davids Bookhself 93 (David Frum's Diary)

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 21:27:29 GMT

... This breathtaking argument bumps into an obvious counterargument: What about all the Catholics? William F. Buckley, Rudolph W. Giuliani, Sean Hannity, Russell Kirk, Clare Boothe Luce, Joseph R. McCarthy, Michael Novak, Bill O’Reilly, Antonin Scalia, Phyllis Schlafly and William E. Simon hardly seem marginal to the past or present of American conservatism. Indeed, enumerating...

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Demographics David Brooks Didn’t Make Up (Iqra'i)

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 13:57:01 GMT

... while I add some blogs to Google Reader. [ 1 ] I won’t suggest that, were he sixty years younger, William F. Buckley would probably have been part of the Yale Mafia — it would be far too egotistical. (Ah, paralipsis.)

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At a Last Party, Real Estate Claims the Night (New York Times)

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 03:40:57 GMT

A memorial of sorts at the former New York home of Pat and William F. Buckley Jr., was also a preview of objects that the Buckleys’ son is selling at Christie’s later this year.

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When Big Government Was Bad (The West Virginia Rebel's Blog)

noreply@blogger.com (WestVirginiaRebel) — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 23:04:00 GMT

A look back at a time when conservatives actually cared about too much Presidential power: The right-wing intellectuals who coalesced around William F. Buckley’s National Review associated powerful presidents with activist liberalism: the New Deal, the New Frontier, the Great Society. Therre was a time when you could hear conservative heroes like Barry Goldwater say the sort of things...

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They’ll Be Watching You (The Valve)

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 14:33:55 GMT

... himself “The Boot,” he brags about having made his political career as a low-rent imitator of William F. Buckley--authoring Harvard Hates America and an equally cheesy political novel. By way of a postscript: Like adjunct faculty unionism, sending detectives to the homes of trustees is an idea whose time has come. Indeed, it’s long overdue. I have a proposal, Chronicle of Higher Ed...

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What is a Conservative? What is a Liberal? What is a Progressive? What is a Libertarian? (illinoisreview)

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:00:00 GMT

by Mark Rhoads Last year a student at Loyola University of Chicago asked me how did I define what "a conservative" was. His question reminded me of what William F. Buckley, Jr. said about Sen. Bob Dole during the 1996...

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On Our Own (Prospect.org)

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 04:13:32 GMT

... few doomed to irrelevance in a liberal age) through the spooky-sounding Mont Pelerin Society, William F. Buckley's "fusionism" of libertarians and traditionalists, then to Barry Goldwater, the movement's emergence into political power under Ronald Reagan, and then the late, decadent phase, it is a fascinating, absorbing story. For liberals living in the conservative era, conservative...

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Gore Vidal's inconvenient truths (Salon.com)

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 01:46:21 GMT

... might have coveted -- "Chased by whom?" -- and succinctly described his feelings on the death of William F. Buckley: "I thought hell is bound to be a livelier place, as he joins forever those whom he served in life, applauding their prejudices and fanning their hatred." In the course of what must have been a terrifying conversation, Solomon managed to ask Vidal why critics prefer...

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Situational Constitutionalism on the Right (Gene Healy)

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 20:46:34 GMT

... shift in detail. For a taste, click here . The right-wing intellectuals who coalesced around William F. Buckley’s National Review associated powerful presidents with activist liberalism: the New Deal, the New Frontier, the Great Society. Therre was a time when you could hear conservative heroes like Barry Goldwater say the sort of things that would get Sean Hannity to call for treason...

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My Conservative Manifesto X (The Judge Report)

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 01:49:55 GMT

(Regular readers will recall that I am producing this series in no particular logical or chronological order). In a way, I guess I grew up with the modern conservative movement. The year I was born, 1951, was the same year that William F. Buckley, Jr’s God and Man at Yale first took its lofty spot on Dad’s bookshelf, where it scrunched next to Whittaker Chambers’ Witness for many years,...

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