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Gore Vidal Knocks His Longtime Rival, Bill Buckley, During National Book Awards

Huffington Post | Marcus Baram | Posted 11.19.2009 | Books

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At Wednesday night's National Book Awards, honoree Gore Vidal got in one last dig at his arch-rival, conservative intellectual William F. Buckley, who...

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Perfecting the Paranoid Style in 500 BC and 2009

Lapham's Quarterly | Posted 11.11.2009 | Media

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If Glenn Beck's days as the center of attention are numbered, as David Brooks claims they are, it will not be because of his coarseness or his rejectionism, but because of his imperviousness to doubt.

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Change, Not a Restoration: The Death of Conservatism and Rebirth of Reform

John R. Bohrer | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics

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The lies and the screaming that captured the health care discussion in August have a lot of Republicans thinking they've got the Democrats right where they want 'em. They are wrong.

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FDR's New Deal, JFK's New Frontier, Barack Obama's New Foundation

Paul Abrams | Posted 09.04.2009 | Politics

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The benefit of the decay of the old is that it provides space not to rebuild the foundation so that it fits with the modern world.The "New Foundation" is the theme of the Obama presidency.

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William F. Buckley Considered Suicide In Final Months: Son

New York Post, W | Posted 05.18.2009 | Media

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Conservative icon, National Review founder, and devout Catholic William F. Buckley, who died in February 2008 while battling emphysema, reportedly con...

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Sunday Roundup

Arianna Huffington | Posted 04.14.2009 | Politics

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Hot on the heels of his Reversal on Rush, RNC Chairman Michael Steele this week delivered his U-turn on Choice -- first saying women "absolutely" have the right to choose abortion then, after having his knuckles rapped, asserting his pro-life bona fides: "always have been, always will be." At a time when there is a serious discussion around the world about the future of capitalism, including a must-read series in the Financial Times, the GOP is so devoid of actual ideas that spineless lightweights like Steele -- and cartoon characters like Rush Limbaugh, Joe the Plumber, and Sarah Palin -- are able to step in and fill the intellectual void. Bill Buckley must be spinning in his grave.

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Why Are the Republicans Such Anti-Obama Liars?

Frank Schaeffer | Posted 04.01.2009 | Politics

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The religious right infection (of wanting failure to prove a moral/religious point) has become the Republican illness: root for failure so "we" win ideologically.

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Michael Phelps In Good Company

Keith Thomson | Posted 03.08.2009 | Green

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According to a 2002 Time/CNN poll, 47% of Americans have smoked marijuana. Here's a list of famous users and advocates of the plant.

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Will Obama's Presidency End the Progressive Movement?

Rupert Russell | Posted 02.20.2009 | Politics

Progressive billionaires, bloggers and grassroots activists mobilized less against a conservative president than a complicit mainstream media and a Bush-enabling Democratic establishment.

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Christopher Buckley Publishing Book About Parents, William F. And Pat Buckley

Vanity Fair | Bob Colacello | Posted 01.01.2009 | Media

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Dead or alive, the Buckleys continue to command attention. The BBC has a William F. Buckley documentary in production, and two biographies are on the ...

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Why the Conservatives Won't Crack-up, But the Left Probably Will

Rupert Russell | Posted 12.25.2008 | Politics

The conservative Counter-Establishment is the most cast-iron entanglement of alliances and dependencies known in modern American history.

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Liberal Media to Blame? Not This Time: Apostate Conservatives Nail Coffin Shut

Brian Normoyle | Posted 11.30.2008 | Politics

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Nearly two years of presidential politics are finally coming to an end and it appears John McCain--out of "gimmicks du jour"--has decided to spend muc...

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Sarah Palin...If You Don't Read, You Don't Lead

Stefan Sirucek | Posted 05.02.2009 | Home

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As many know, in her Oct. 3 "do-over" interview with Carl Cameron of Fox News, Sarah Palin claimed to read the New York Times and the Economist. Then...

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The Beat (It) Goes On: A Conservative Stampede

Jerry Weissman | Posted 11.15.2008 | Media

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The McCain-Palin ticket has had a severe impact on the writers of the right and sent them running for the hills. Witness the crescendo of the stampede.

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The More Things Change: Norman Mailer and the 1964 Republican Convention

Erik Lundegaard | Posted 11.13.2008 | Entertainment

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Goldwater lost that election, of course, he lost big, but in later years even the much-hated media would see that convention, and that loss, as the birth of the modern Republican party.

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William F. Buckley Left Illegitimate Grandson Out Of His Will: "I Intentionally Make No Provisions For Said Jonathan, Who...Shall Be Deemed To Have Predeceased Me"

New York Post | Dareh Gregorian | Posted 11.02.2008 | Media

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Before he died, William F. Buckley Jr. put his young grandson on the firing line. The intellectual conservative icon - renowned for his erudition an...

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William F. Buckley Dead At 82

AP | HILLEL ITALIE | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

NEW YORK — William F. Buckley Jr., the erudite Ivy Leaguer and conservative herald who showered huge and scornful words on liberalism as he obse...

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The Buck Stops Here, Unless You Marry It (Or Were Sired By It, Or Are Its Cousin...)

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

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I read with interest Christopher Buckley's comment this weekend on the "American Idea," as inspired by the Atlantic's 150th anniversary celebration an...

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