Wednesday Chronicle - Vol. 09 No. 08 Smug THE FOUNDATION “[G]overnment, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.” –Thomas Paine THE DEMO-GOGUES Transferring wealth to those to whom the wealth belongs: “[W]e have lived through an ...

Dead William F. Buckley Jr. has penned a RATHER RIBALD essay for Kathryn Jean Lopez’s National Review magazine about the year 1976, when the Buckley plutocrats invited the Reagan plutocrats to their 2,000-year-old chateau, “Great Elm,” in Connecticut colony, for the annual Thanksgi...

This week, Esquire.com posted the magazine's most recent "What I've Learned" interview with Gore Vidal. While Mr. Vidal's interview was as erudite and prickly as the great man himself (samples: "'You got to meet everyone—Jackie Kennedy, William Burroughs.' People always put that sen...

Like choosing Rosie O'Donnell to vouch that someone isn't a 9-11 conspiracy nut? Of all the people Mika Brzezinski might have selected as a character reference for her father when he was portrayed as a problem for Obama with Jewish voters, Pat Buchanan isn't the first one who springs to mind. Yet th...

Evan Gahr writes: The New York Times has turned Barack Obama’s denunciation of Jeremiah Wright into a racial injustice. The paper of record’s editorial today on Obama finally heeding calls to break with his race-baiting minister bitches that "African-Americans are regularly called u...

Nobel Peace Prize winner Jimmy Carter is spending quality time with terrorists again THE FOUNDATION “It is the madness of folly, to expect mercy from those who have refused to do justice; and even mercy, where conquest is the object, is only a trick of war; the cunning of the fox is as murdero...

Jason Maoz writes for The Jewish Press: Among his many other accomplishments, William F. Buckley Jr. made the conservative movement a far less forbidding place for Jews. Conservatism in the early 1960’s was, fairly or not, largely defined in the Jewish mind as a downscale hothouse of paranoia,...

Bill Kristol thinks that William F. Buckley Jr.'s death last week was perfectly timed and truly conservative. "It's fitting that Bill's last evening," Kristol writes in his latest New York Times column today, "was filled with music and graced by friendship, both of which gave him so much joy." And, ...

William F. Buckley Jr., founder of conservative ideas and delightful sailor, died earlier this week. This afternoon, the Nation posted an article challenging Buckley's legacy. "Buckley's so-called boldness and playfulness had an ideological flip-side," Richard Kim writes, "cruelty, pettiness and a t...

William F. Buckley Jr., the founder of conservative politics, died yesterday, leaving a decrepit magazine and its very-Y2K blog as heirs. If you thought the endless eulogies on the National Review's Corner blog might veer towards hyperbole as the news cycles went on, you were underestimating. How is...