William F. Buckley

Fusion power on the right

2013-03-21 00:00:00

"At CPAC, the Future Looks Libertarian," read a dispatch on Time magazine's website. "CPAC: Rand Paul's Big Moment," proclaimed The Week magazine. Meanwhile, The New York Times headlined its story about the annual conservative political action...

Brain-lock inside the Beltway

2012-12-03 04:00:00

It's at times like this I'm ashamed to admit I live inside the Beltway. Well, that's probably not specific enough since I'm usually ashamed to admit I live inside the Beltway. Still, the second you try to explain the stupidity of this "fiscal cliff"...

How long 'til liberals start pining for the good old days of George W. Bush?

2012-06-18 03:00:00

My daughter learned a neat rhetorical trick to avoid eating things she doesn't like. "Daddy, I actually really like spinach, it's just that this spinach tastes different." Democrats and the journalists who love them play a similar game with Republicans...

What does Ruth Bader Ginsburg mean by 'conservative'?

2012-04-02 03:00:00

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburglikes the Indian Healthcare Improvement Act and other ingredients of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, aka "Obamacare." Why, she asked toward the end of three days of hearings, shouldn't the court...

NAACP says it's time to end the drug war; what about you?

2011-07-31 05:00:00

There was a quake last week, but you likely didn't feel it. See, this particular quake was not of the Earth, involved no shifting of the planetary crust. No, what shifted was a paradigm, and the implications are hopeful and profound. On Tuesday, you...

AVAM honors the angry comedy of Lewis Black

2011-05-27 16:47:58

Right at home

2008-03-09 00:00:00

The shingle-style house straddles a hillside, its windows offering sunny views in three directions. Games, books and DVDs topple from living-room shelves. In the kitchen, a young mom helps her 7-year-old daughter feed fabric through a sewing machine. The...

Calls grow for Boston cardinal to resign

2002-03-19 00:00:00

BOSTON - With the Boston Archdiocese engulfed in a sex scandal, Cardinal Bernard Law is resisting growing demands for his resignation, reflecting what some experts say is his sense of duty as well as the church's desire to preserve its hierarchy. Law has...

Making the List

2004-06-28 00:00:00

WASHINGTON -The list in the back of Bill Clinton's memoir is an embodiment of the political pecking order, a tiny-print world of foreign dignitaries, campaign advisers, fund-raisers, celebrities and assorted high-achievers. For the former president, there...

Goldberg: Fusion power on the right

2013-03-19 00:00:00

"At CPAC, the Future Looks Libertarian," read a dispatch on Time magazine's website. "CPAC: Rand Paul's Big Moment," proclaimed the Week magazine. Meanwhile, the New York Times headlined its story about the annual conservative political action...

Guarding the right's flank

2013-03-13 00:00:00

To understand what is wrong with today's political right, look no further than the American Conservative Union. The ACU made headlines last month when it snubbed New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie. A source told National Review that Christie hadn't been...

Higher education, R.I.P.

2013-02-22 16:30:04

What ever happened to the medium once known as Little Magazines? This country once had a select group of literary and political journals that represented the vanguard of American thought and art. Some were both literary and political. High Culture, it was...

Jr., keep in mind that a decade ago a Porsche SUV was as heretical to that brand as a line of toasters would have been. So in a way it s surprising Maserati didn t do this sooner (though, as the company points out, a Kubang SUV concept was presented at the 2003 Detoit Auto Show).

2011-09-13 23:07:37

In 1976, William F. Buckley Jr., pictured at pie-free ease in 1982, was attacked with a pie thrown by Aron Kay, whose targets included Watergate figure G. Gordon Liddy and Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, among many others.

2011-07-19 12:07:22

William F. Buckley Jr. died Wednesday at age 82. The conservative commentator is pictured in October 2005 at the White House, where President Bush was among the speakers at a tribute to Buckley and his National Review magazine.

2008-02-27 10:26:56