Is Pat Buchanan Anti-Semitic?
I pose this question to you, dear readers, because John Podhoretz and Glenn Reynolds are charging that he is and site this column in which he calls Israel's action against Hezbollah and Lebanon "un-Christian" as proof. Here's the quotation in its context, plus a little more from the column that I think goes to the question: But what Israel is ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on July 21, 2006 15:04
Iraq War Progress Report: A Matter of Time
Thomas Ricks is embedded with the 101st Airborne in "the forwardmost American position in the so-called Triangle of Death southwest of Baghdad." He has a long page one piece in today's WaPo arguing that the war has gone through three distinct phases and remarkably different that three years ago, substantially better in some ways and worse in others. Several aspects make ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on February 26, 2006 14:50
Miers Debate Shows Elite-Mainstream Conservative Divide
Noam Scheiber has an interesting look at the divide between mainstream conservatives and conservative intellectuals, as exemplied by the Harriet Miers embroglio. Conservatives were above elitism. Then came Miers (TNR) In many ways, the biggest fault line emerging among conservatives is between East Coast elites, on the one hand, and rank-and-file conservatives elsewhere in the country. As soon as ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on October 6, 2005 11:34
Buckley Praying for Pope’s Death
Drudge links Wednesday's column by William F. Buckley, Jr., arguably the founder of the modern American conservative movement and inarguably a devout Roman Catholic. At church on Sunday the congregation was asked to pray for the recovery of the pope. I have abstained from doing so. I hope that he will not recover. The seizure brought on by his dramatic trip ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on February 11, 2005 15:35
Can Conservative Talk Shows Survive Victory?
Right-Wing Wins Take Wind Out of Talk-Show Hosts (WaPo) Their guy just won reelection by 3.5 million votes. Their party strengthened its majority in the House, in the Senate and in statehouses, with the Supreme Court probably soon to follow. "Moral values" -- their kind of stuff -- are très chic. This could be a disaster for the nation's right-wing talk-show hosts. Election ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on November 17, 2004 12:56
Ron Reagan to Speak at Democratic National Convention
CNN - Democrats give Ron Reagan prime time speaking slot Ron Reagan will speak in prime time at the Democratic National Convention on the importance of stem cell research, a senior adviser to presumptive Democratic nominee Sen. John Kerry told CNN on Sunday. The Kerry adviser, who did not want to be identified, said the appearance of the younger son of ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on July 12, 2004 14:25
William F. Buckley, Jr. Retires
NYT -- National Review Founder Says It's Time to Leave Stage [RSS] n 1954, when Ronald Reagan was still a registered Democrat and host of "General Electric Theater," the 28-year-old William Frank Buckley Jr. decided to start a magazine as a standard-bearer for the fledgling conservative movement. In the 50-year ascent of the American right since then, his publication, National ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on June 29, 2004 08:39
Assessing the Apology
It's a shame more of our best columnists don't blog. Nowadays, print columns seem to be in something of a time warp. Exhibit #9202 is the arrival this morning of two columns on Richard Clarke's apology for 9/11, which seems oh so last week in Internet time, by two of the very best. William F. Buckley, Jr. is in ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on April 2, 2004 08:23
SCHWARZENEGGER IS QUALIFIED?
William F. Buckley, Jr. apparently thinks so, citing Jerry Brown: Everyone in the United States, it seems, has commented on the California scene. The insight of Jerry Brown warrants attention. Mr. Brown is a little screwy but very bright, and did two terms as governor. To skeptics he said: "It's obvious Schwarzenegger is qualified. I mean, what does it take ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on August 25, 2003 13:39
SOLDIERS, WHINING, AND THE PRESS
There have been a few interesting reactions about the US soldiers who complained about having to stay in Iraq to ABC TV cameras. Today, there are two very different takes from two writers I've followed for years, Ralph Peters and William F. Buckley, Jr. both veterans from two different generations. Both men agree that it's not hard to find soldiers with ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on July 18, 2003 21:50
