William F. Buckley Jr., one of the most versatile public figures in America, is the authentic, authoritative journalistic voice of conservatism today. One of the most widely syndicated and intensively read of all columnists -- appearing in over 300 newspapers, Buckley is the founder of National Review, the lively and respected journal of conservative thought and opinion. Buckley is the also the star of "Firing Line," the weekly television debate program which airs on the Public Broadcasting Service. Guests have included George Bush, Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford, J.K. Galbraith, Valery Giscard d'Estaing, Barry Goldwater, Germaine Greeg, Edward Heath, Henry Kissinger, The Dalai Lama, Norman Mailer, Groucho Marx, James Michener, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher and Theodore White. Buckley has written many best-selling books, including God and Man at Yale, Saving the Queen, Stained Glass and Overdrive. 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ALL RIGHTS RESERVED jim.dearras@townhall.com (Jim De Arras) Thu, 31 Jan 2008 05:01:00 GMT Thu, 31 Jan 2008 05:01:00 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ President Bush didn't give Congress, in his State of the Union address, quite what was expected, especially in the area of taxation. Several high critics of Bush, most of them running for president, spoke vociferously... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WilliamFBuckley/2008/01/31/state_of_the_union_not_so_good ffd76943-93bc-43ed-bf89-a53bcd1cfd3f Thu, 31 Jan 2008 05:01:00 GMT Students of current events writing on Tuesday morning are expected to discover whether Mr. Obama or Mrs. Clinton is responsible for the collapse of the stock market. Because the accents in which they engaged each other... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WilliamFBuckley/2008/01/22/barack_vs_hillary ecdc7e90-aaa4-47bc-90b4-c862a0258d66 Tue, 22 Jan 2008 05:01:00 GMT It is a field day for practitioners in politics. In South Carolina the hottest issue this week wasn't the specter of recession and what the federal government should do about it, but the Confederate flag. A citizens'... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WilliamFBuckley/2008/01/18/its_really_quite_simple f1c3d1e7-4d35-47c7-a2a8-c514fc2e8363 Sat, 19 Jan 2008 01:11:37 GMT Sebastian Mallaby, a journalist for The Washington Post, writes to formulate, or rather reformulate, the complaint we are entitled to make on the matter of our primary practices. Mallaby reminds us that if three people... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WilliamFBuckley/2008/01/16/primary_confusions 901507e4-5ccb-436d-b4ae-775f79ebe247 Thu, 17 Jan 2008 01:24:35 GMT It's wonderful what a mere American presidential caucus contest can do. Gov. Bill Richardson, interviewed after the Iowa caucuses, said that his ranking in the vote must be understood in the light of the parsimony of... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WilliamFBuckley/2008/01/04/produced_by_iowa 9f5ee10d-6bce-448f-bee2-6fe797669a0c Sat, 05 Jan 2008 01:15:24 GMT It happened, in the summer of 1987, that I had all the Democrats who were running for president in 1988 in an auditorium in Houston, speaking for the first time as formal candidates. All the Republicans had agreed to... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WilliamFBuckley/2007/12/27/what_they_cant_ask 8fbbf407-8379-4d16-9ffa-213ed2c2c103 Thu, 27 Dec 2007 20:55:44 GMT Some months ago I had a communication from a member of Conrad Black's defense team. The jury had just convicted him on four of the 13 charges brought against him. Said the lawyer to however many hundred people she... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WilliamFBuckley/2007/12/12/black_times 194ed23f-7077-4b4a-bae4-653df2495e87 Wed, 12 Dec 2007 23:40:25 GMT A perplexed citizen in Greenwich, Conn., writes to his local newspaper saying that the anti-abortion movement suffers from the absence of a comprehensive position on the practice. He believes that the Catholic... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WilliamFBuckley/2007/11/20/crime_punishment 0062e011-645c-4e1f-b4c0-c88c312645c9 Tue, 20 Nov 2007 05:01:00 GMT How to deal with Norman Mailer? I begin by acknowledging the truth of much that is being said about him, that he was a towering figure in American literary life for 60 years, almost unique in his search for notoriety... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WilliamFBuckley/2007/11/13/norman_mailer,_rip 5f64dc3b-eccd-4bc5-bd0f-54ff53302cdb Wed, 14 Nov 2007 00:43:37 GMT The Foundation Management Institute (FMI) lets out what can only be described as a screech of joy. The cause? "Judge Neil Shuster (of Trenton, N.J.) ruled that the Robertson family is entitled to its day in court.... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WilliamFBuckley/2007/11/06/one_up_for_the_donors 9eb19416-33b0-4de2-a225-1a029ff6f216 Wed, 07 Nov 2007 02:31:25 GMT The shooting war in New York over the question of driver's licenses for illegal aliens dramatizes several features of U.S. culture. The first of these is that the right to drive a car is the most cherished right in... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WilliamFBuckley/2007/11/03/illegalizing_illegals 2339cf5a-a8e7-42b3-a67a-aca73b7f2d4c Sat, 03 Nov 2007 04:01:00 GMT It's not as it was with President Nixon. The thought of Nixon is impossible except under the shadow of Watergate, which would have meant impeachment and probable conviction. But it isn't widely remembered that there was... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WilliamFBuckley/2007/10/27/impeach_bush d5e51c05-1311-49b7-9194-ab3f15677996 Sat, 27 Oct 2007 16:10:26 GMT There is head-scratching in the political marketplace over a looming contradiction. The candidates for president of the United States include a man identified as a Roman Catholic, and among the voters there are, of... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WilliamFBuckley/2007/10/18/what_about_the_faithful 863c4794-fbd1-4f2c-a390-d95599919bbd Thu, 18 Oct 2007 04:01:00 GMT A while back, watching television, I winced when a Democratic stalwart referred to "sanctimonious Joe." He was talking about Sen. Joe Lieberman, I quickly discovered. Since then I have begun quietly memorizing... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WilliamFBuckley/2007/10/13/sanctimonious_joe 49479797-5608-4c4a-a59e-6194798ad49d Sat, 13 Oct 2007 23:51:03 GMT In days (long) gone by, the tradition was that gentlemen engaged in media work do not disparage other gentlemen engaged in media work. The protocol was blatantly violated from time to time. How, in the age of Drew... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WilliamFBuckley/2007/10/09/the_bum_said 6e03983e-797a-47c1-a5d2-b54246085d98 Wed, 10 Oct 2007 00:27:07 GMT