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Early on the morning of March 16th, 1984, William Buckley left for work at the American embassy in Beirut, Lebanon. Officially, Mr. Buckley, a decorated veteran of the Special Forces, served as the political officer at the embassy. In reality, however, Mr. Buckley was the embassy’s CIA station chief. On his way to the compound, Buckley’s car was stopped by a group of masked men, who forced him from his car at gunpoint. His assailants would later be identified as terrorists from the group Islamic Jihad, which served as an alias for the real perpetrators, Hezbollah. The circumstances surrounding the...

'Miles Gone By': Bill and God's Excellent Adventure By JON MEACHAM It is a long-ago afternoon in Rhinebeck, N.Y., and Trish Buckley has just won a blue ribbon in the annual Dutchess County Horse Show. In a box next to Trish's parents sits Franklin D. Roosevelt, squire of neighboring Hyde Park and president of the United States. ''Protocol requires the winner to ride around the ring to receive the plaudits of the spectators,'' Trish's brother recalls. ''When she rode by the president's box, F.D.R. applauded lustily, whereupon Trish abruptly turned her pigtailed head to one side.'' Arriving shortly thereafter in...

Fifty years ago, in 1954, Bill Buckley founded National Review magazine. In doing so he launched a challenge to the liberal establishment that had been in full control of the American political scene since 1932, when the Roosevelt revolution took the reins of government and began to dominate the political establishment. At the time few thought a publication dedicated to the principles of traditional American conservatism had a chance to put so much as a dent in what was then considered to be liberalism's impenetrable armor. They were wrong. In a mere 10 years the forces marshaled by National Review...

Op/Ed - William F. Buckley Yahoo!News WHO WROTE THIS? By William F. Buckley Jr. There is a swirl of controversy having to do with writing, with credit for writing, and with disclosure about who writes what and under what circumstances... There is a swirl of controversy having to do with writing, with credit for writing, and with disclosure about who writes what and under what circumstances... The case is difficult to make, who all gets credit. The stream of commentators discussing the Bragg story for some reason (those I read or saw or heard) neglected to make the contextual point...

<p>By WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY JR.</p> <p>When in 1955 I set out to publish a journal devoted to the interests of U.S. conservatism, I stressed in a preliminary circular pretty much what one would have expected on the subject. It was necessary then, and would be necessary for most of the balance of the millennium, to confront directly the challenge of Soviet-based communism; to explain, and to plead, that whatever the pains and dangers of resisting it, these were worth undergoing. In retrospect, it appears obvious that the effort was worthwhile, but it was less than obvious at crisis points, among them Hungary, Berlin, Cuba and Vietnam. History will document that the high cost of nuclear-stakes resistance dismayed more merely than U.S. Catholic bishops. Resistance a outrance engendered flesh and blood perspectives. It came down to: Is it really worth it? What do we end up having in hand, by developing and redeveloping and updating a nuclear inventory and the hardware to deliver nuclear strikes, whether pre-emptively or punitively?</p>

Monday, July 22, 2002 Published on Monday, July 22, 2002 by CommonDreams.org Why the Democrats Can't Get Their Act Together by Bruce F. Cole Excerpt: ....And speaking of weird bedfellows, some of the Left's heavy lifting has just been performed by - are we sitting down? - Bill Buckley's National Review. In a balanced, well researched and concise July 16 expose [to see this expose, click "McAuliffe's Shady Business Past"], Byron York discloses yet another Terry McAuliffe business deal that smells as bad as anything stinking up the Potomac these days. Just before the Global Crossing story broke - which...