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William F. Buckley, Still at Yale

By R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr. | November 11, 2011 | 17:08

Last weekend I was given a hint as to how an erroneous idea is born, and how it takes on a life of its own.

I was at Yale University as a guest of the William F. Buckley Jr. Program at Yale. It's run by a group of extremely winning young Yale students who are all admirably conservative. Bill would approve. They all carried themselves like young ladies and young gentlemen. They were confident in their ideas and amused.

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Some Good GOP Flip-flops

By Tony Blankley | October 07, 2011 | 12:25

William F. Buckley, Jr., founding father of the modern conservative movement, famously asserted his doctrine of voting for the most conservative candidate who is electable.

Let me presume to add an analytic codicil: The GOP and the conservative movement have tended to support the most conservative policies only when they are understood to be conservative and are plausibly supportable by the conservative half of the electorate.

Brit Hume Accepts William F. Buckley Jr. Award for Media Excellence

By NB Staff | March 20, 2009 | 15:55

Last night Fox New Channel's Brit Hume became the third recipient of the Media Research Center's William F. Buckley Jr. Award for Media Excellence.

MRC President Brent Bozell heralded Hume as "a pioneer of sorts, a journalist who recognized how the lock-step liberalism of his colleagues was damaging the profession he loved."

"Recently, a top ABC correspondent told me that letting Brit Hume leave that network was the biggest mistake it ever made," Bozell added.

You can watch Hume's acceptance speech embedded at right.  Below is a transcript of Hume's acceptance speech:

Times Watch Quotes of Note -- Nicer to Bomb-Throwing Ayers Than William Buckley

By Clay Waters | March 15, 2009 | 08:21

Presenting the latest edition of Times Watch Quotes of Note: Some of the most biased quotes from the New York Times. 

Nicer to Bomb-Thrower Ayers Than Conservative Buckley

"In your new book, Race Course: Against White Supremacy, you and your wife, Bernardine Dohrn, describe your long struggle against racism and social injustice. Do you think Obama's victory has put America on a new course?"

"How did you feel when Obama publicly disowned you, describing you as a guy in his neighborhood who had committed ‘despicable acts' when he was eight years old?"

"How do you feel when you wake up?"

"You're weirdly cheerful for a former bomb-thrower."
-- Some of New York Times Magazine "Q&A" interviewer Deborah Solomon's questions to former Weather Underground bomber Bill Ayers, February 15.

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"You have made so many offensive comments over the years. Do you regret any of them?"

"You seem indifferent to suffering. Have you ever suffered yourself?"
-- Some of Solomon's questions to the late founder of National Review, William F. Buckley, in a July 11, 2004 New York Times Magazine interview.