Posted on 02/27/2008 12:25:08 PM PST by Delacon
Did you look in “breaking news?”
Impressive economium, thanks for posting.
IBTRIP
I think that this eulogy to Mr. Buckley is worthy of a separate post.
Do you think itâs also worthy of being placed in breaking news over and over and over? Kinda negates the purpose of having a breaking news area doesn’t it?
I too have patiently, politely, but persistently, called to mind previous posts of the same thing.
This was not simply a repost of the same news that has been posted, I'm sure, many times already today.
This was a specifically and uniquely relevant article pertaining to that news, unduplicated elsewhere in its message and authors.
Perhaps you are objecting to the breaking news category, and I am defending that it was worthy of separate posting at all.
If that's the case, my replies are not relevant to your concern, and I apologize for confusing your reasonable point.
And an interesting and pivotal challenge was recalled by this author, when he noted:
...it was not at all obvious that anti-Communists, traditionalists, constitutionalists, and enthusiasts for free markets would all be able to take shelter under the same tent....Indeed, that appears to be the problem today as well, if not so much at National Review, but within the Republican Party which is tossing out anyone with a sense of history, anti-communist bent, and strong constitutional conservative beliefs.
It was a newbie mistake. I am still learning the ettiquette involved with posting to FR. If by “breaking news” it has to be the first mention of a particular situation, then I stand corrected. I thought anything happening for the first time on a particual day could also qualify as “breaking news” even if it was not the first post to carry the particular info.
I don’t know if I should consider myself insulted or not. ;-)
Reagan, Rukeyser, Buckley...the good guys are going. RIP Mr. Buckley.
One can be pedantic and reasonable at the same time.
In tribute to William F. Buckley, Jr. ...
Btt
Thank you for posting this article. It conveys accurately and succinctly all that needs to be know at this sad time. May the Perpetual Light shine upon him and may his family be comforted in their grief.
I was just discussing with the most reasonable (<grin>) ASA Vet the merits of this posting.
NEWT GINGRICH
Before there was Goldwater or Reagan, there was Bill Buckley.
From writing books, to creating, leading, and sustaining National Review, to his 33-year run as the host of TV's Firing Line, Bill Buckley became the indispensable intellectual advocate from whose energy, intelligence, wit, and enthusiasm the best of modern conservatism drew its inspiration and encouragement.
It was not until William F. Buckley Jr., founded National Review in 1955 that the tide began to slowly turn for conservatives. National Review was a lonely voice of conservatism in an overwhelmingly liberal establishment. Buckley began what led to Senator Barry Goldwater and his Conscience of a Conservative, which led to the seizing of power by the conservatives from the moderate establishment within the Republican party. From that emerged Ronald Reagan. Bill stood up to defend freedom as a positive value of greater moral worth than either the state or the elite, and over time his work had a transformational impact on the quality of American politics that continues even today.
He was a wonderful friend, a great patriot, and a lively human being. Callista and I are praying for him and those who loved him. He will be missed.
Newt Gingrich is former Speaker of the House of Representatives.
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