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Lawsuit filed over Buckley family trust fund
- Six children of the sister of the late conservative columnist William F. Buckley are accusing their father of stealing money from a trust fund their mother set up using some of the Buckley family fortune.
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Mark Newgent: Republicans: Return to first principles
- American conservatism is in disarray. Save for judicial appointments and tax cuts, George W. Bush’s compassionate conservatism has been a disaster for the Republican Party and the conservative movement. The Bush era fractured the old Reagan coalition of traditionalists and libertarians.
Rick Pearcey: A tribute to the empyreal Buckley
- In St. Louis in the late 1970s, my wife Nancy and I were students at Covenant Seminary. Nancy was still in her “feminist” stage, and when a fellow student gave her a copy of William F. Buckley Jr.’s magazine National Review as a source for a paper she was writing, she was too embarrassed to be seen carrying such a “reactionary” publication. She hid it among her school papers.
“Demand a recount”
- That was the immortal response of William F. Buckley Jr., when asked what would be the first thing he would do if he actually won his rollicking, long-shot campaign for mayor of New York City in 1965. Wry, witty, self-deprecating and always a realist, Buckley provided the personality, the elan, the almost manic energy and the intellectual heft — yes, all those things at once — that were essential in catalyzing what became known as the “conservative movement” in American politics.
Yeas & Nays: Tuesday, Mar. 20
- Jeff Dufour and Patrick Gavin cover people, power and politics in the beltway each weekday. Email them at yan@dcexaminer.com .
- Jeff Dufour and Patrick Gavin cover people, power and politics in the beltway each weekday. Email them at yan@dcexaminer.com .
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