Conservative Writer William F. Buckley Jr. Dies at 82 »
Posted By IcCaRus 1 year, 8 months ago in NewsWilliam F. Buckley Jr., the erudite Ivy Leaguer and conservative herald who showered huge and scornful words on liberalism as he observed, abetted and cheered on the right's post-World War II rise from the fringes to the White House, died Wednesday. He was 82.
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IcCaRus1 year, 8 months ago
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FTA: "Editor, columnist, novelist, debater, TV talk show star of "Firing Line," harpsichordist, trans-oceanic sailor and even a good-natured loser in a New York mayor's race, Buckley worked at a daunting pace, taking as little as 20 minutes to write a column for his magazine, the National Review."
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IcCaRus1 year, 8 months ago
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i rarely agreed with Bill Buckley. however, he was a class act, unlike MOST of todays pundits. i used to watch firing line occasionally and i was always impressed with his intelligence and integrity. although, it was always obvious that no one was more impressed with bill buckley than bill buckley.
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engineer1 year, 8 months ago
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earthlingerer1 year, 8 months ago
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Let's not forget that he was a true conservative, and of the vanguard at that.
Buckley was outspoken in his view that ALL illegal drugs be OUTRIGHTLY made legal. Crack, PCP, heroin, all the way down to alcohol, caffeine and marijuana. Later, for obvious reasons, he was in favor of banning tobacco .
He was also in favor of decriminalized, or legal, prostitution.
Let's remember that to think any differently about these topics makes you a simple "Lib".
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earthlingerer1 year, 8 months ago
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He certainly did change conservatism from an anti-war to a pro-military one.
He also was clear to say that Bush is conservative, but "not a conservative".
On Iraq: "One cannot doubt that the American objective in Iraq has failed."
A conservative who was a thinking conservative, not one of the ditto-parrots we see all the time here.
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Obaku1 year, 8 months ago
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The first statement of principles of the modern conservative movement, adopted at the home of early ACU supporter William F. Buckley, Jr., and authored by former ACU Chairman M. Stanton Evans.
Adopted in conference at Sharon, Connecticut, on 11 September 1960.
IN THIS TIME of moral and political crises, it is the responsibility of the youth of America to affirm certain eternal truths.
WE, as young conservatives believe:
THAT foremost among the transcendent values is the individual's use of his God-give free will, whence derives his right to be free from the restrictions of arbitrary force;
THAT liberty is indivisible, and that political freedom cannot long exist without economic freedom;
THAT the purpose of government is to protect those freedoms through the preservation of internal order, the provision of national defense, and the administration of justice;
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Obaku1 year, 8 months ago
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THAT when government ventures beyond these rightful functions, it accumulates power, which tends to diminish order and liberty;
THAT the Constitution of the United States is the best arrangement yet devised for empowering government to fulfill its proper role, while restraining it from the concentration and abuse of power;
THAT the genius of the Constitution - the division of powers - is summed up in the clause that reserves primacy to the several states, or to the people in those spheres not specifically delegated to the Federal government;
THAT the market economy, allocating resources by the free play of supply and demand, is the single economic system compatible with the requirements of personal freedom and constitutional government, and that it is at the same time the most productive supplier of human needs;
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Obaku1 year, 8 months ago
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THAT when government interferes with the work of the market economy, it tends to reduce the moral and physical strength of the nation, that when it takes from one to bestow on another, it diminishes the incentive of the first, the integrity of the second, and the moral autonomy of both;
THAT we will be free only so long as the national sovereignty of the United States is secure; that history shows periods of freedom are rare, and can exist only when free citizens concertedly defend their rights against all enemies, FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC;
THAT American foreign policy must be judged by this criterion: does it serve the just interests of the United States?
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IcCaRus1 year, 8 months ago
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also FTA:
"Yet on the platform he was all handsome, reptilian languor, flexing his imposing vocabulary ever so slowly, accenting each point with an arched brow or rolling tongue and savoring an opponent's discomfort with wide-eyed glee."
THATS what i remember about him. whoever he was debating, no matter what their stature, he always seemed to intimidate them.
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joeeddie1 year, 8 months ago
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I loved when he turned the corners of his mouth up a little bit in a wry little smile when he was pulling someone's chain. You just knew that the thrill of the pun drove some of his behavior. He looked down his nose and over his glasses with expert effect. I think he was much less of stuffed shirt than he let on. RIP William.
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Poulenc1 year, 8 months ago
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"...THAT when government interferes with the work of the market economy, it tends to reduce the moral and physical strength of the nation, that when it takes from one to bestow on another, it diminishes the incentive of the first, the integrity of the second, and the moral autonomy of both..."
Ah! The worm in the rose! Or should I say, the cancer in the cig....
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