Embracing the Permanent: William F. Buckley
and Populism
Posted By: GustoGrabber, 4/17/2022 8:08:36 AM
never heard my friend William F. Buckley, Jr., opine about the merits or deficiencies of “populism.” But I often heard him discourse about the virtues of liberty and the political, social, and moral liabilities of the Left-liberal consensus. In my view, what we call “populism” was an important ingredient in liberty as WFB understood it. That was the point of one of his most famous mots. “I’d rather be governed by the first 2,000 names in the Boston telephone directory,” he said, “than by the 2,000 people on the faculty of Harvard University.” Was this wealthy and sophisticated gadfly pulling our leg?
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never heard my friend William F. Buckley, Jr., opine about the merits or deficiencies of “populism.” But I often heard him discourse about the virtues of liberty and the political, social, and moral liabilities of the Left-liberal consensus. In my view, what we call “populism” was an important ingredient in liberty as WFB understood it. That was the point of one of his most famous mots. “I’d rather be governed by the first 2,000 names in the Boston telephone directory,” he said, “than by the 2,000 people on the faculty of Harvard University.”
Was this wealthy and sophisticated gadfly pulling our leg?
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If you’re Trump, you have political capital.
Biden’s Unfolding War on Religious Hospitals
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Landon covered this last night. Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) will be voting to confirm Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson for the United States Supreme Court. She will be the first black woman to serve on the Supreme Court. It will be Joe Biden’s biggest win to date, though it does nothing to solve the inflation, gas price, supply chain, southern border, or Ukraine crises. He won’t get a bump in the polls from this confirmation battle. Romney will join Sens. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) and Susan Collins (R-ME) in confirming Jackson.
It's always those three—always. .
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For the first time since 2017, Kim Jong Un test-fired an intercontinental ballistic missile, the Hwasong-17, the largest road-mobile missile ever launched.
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Sen. Mitt Romney on Tuesday criticized his Republican colleagues' attacks against President Joe Biden's Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's record on child pornography cases.
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A man is in custody after St. Louis police say he tried to carjack two officers in a fully marked police car. Officers were responding to a call for shots fired in the area of Chouteau and 7th around 3 a.m. Saturday morning when police say a man stepped into traffic, walked to the passenger side of the police vehicle and pointed a handgun at them.CORRECTION*
Nothing is lost with peace. All can be lost with war. Let men return to understanding. Let them resume negotiating. Negotiating with good will and with respect for each other ’ s rights, let them realize that an honorable success is never precluded when there are sincere and active negotiations. And they will feel great – with true greatness – if imposing silence on the voices of passion, whether collective or private, and leaving reason to
Concordia University professor suspended
after he wrote article criticizing school
as 'woke' 13 replies
after he wrote article criticizing school
as 'woke' 13 replies
Concordia University Wisconsin officials suspended a professor over an essay he wrote that criticized them as being "under the influence of Woke-ism."
In an essay that was published on Feb. 14 in the Christian News Missouri, Dr. Gregory Schulz wrote the search criteria for a new university president include someone who exhibits a "demonstrated belief in and commitment to equity and inclusion and who promotes racialized diversity in all its myriad forms."
These are aggressive-progressive Woke mantras," Schulz wrote.
"This Wokeness – with its dismissal and replacement of sacrosanct texts – is also anti-Lutheran inasmuch as it defies what I have been teaching and publishing as 'the first principle of Lutheran thought:'
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South Carolina mall shooting suspect's
bond set at $25,000, can go to work with
ankle monitor 23 replies
bond set at $25,000, can go to work with
ankle monitor 23 replies
A South Carolina judge set a $25,000 bond for a suspect in a mall shooting on Saturday that left 14 people injured, according to the Columbia Police Department. Jewayne Price, 22, will be on house arrest but allowed to travel to and from work while wearing an ankle monitor if he posts bond.
He was charged with unlawful carrying of a pistol and could face additional charges after the prosecutor reviews evidence. (Photo) Price is one of three people who were detained by law enforcement following the shooting. The other two adults males were released after police determined they weren't involved.