We have a cache of the handsome paperback edition of Bill Buckley’s 1997 “Autobiography of Faith.” Acclaimed far and wide (a Publishers Weekly “Best Books of the Year” and a New York Times “Notable Book of the Year”), you can get a copy for only $10.00,

Santorum and morality is as different as night and day, when you consider his involvement in the John Ensign resignation over sexcapades, by warning Ensign what was going on in an email he forwarded from the man asking for help whose wife Ensign was ‘sha

Washington, D.C. - infoZine - Scripps Howard Foundation Wire - Buckley, called the patron saint of the conservative movement, was a singular, luminary figure of American conservatism for decades before his death in 2008. Now the American conservative mov

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I still maintain my leather-bound copy of The Conscience of a Conservative in a very prominent place in my library, but it is a book that I never have to refer to because the above manifesto is as much a part of my being as it was of Barry Goldwater’s. I

I think the people’s anger with Congress is misplaced. They need to blame themselves, as well as their parents and grandparents, who voted for representatives in both parties whose goal was to expand this alphabet soup of administrative bureaucracies (EP

(Optional soundtrack to this blog post...) As predicted this morning by someone looking very much like myself, and wearing my socks to boot, there has been a general birthing of cows all over the right side of the docks of Blogistan over Clint Eastwood's

Governor Haley Barbour Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation & Library February 6, 2012 Thank you. It is a high honor for me to be asked to speak at the celebration of President Reagan’s one hundred and first birthday, and I want to thank Mrs. Reagan and

Let's cut to the chase and go to the real meaning of the word "conservative": Status quo no matter what it takes; in essence, a refusal to progress. I think Russell Kirk, the author of The Conservative Mind, is a good place to start: Kirk wrote: Being ne

Sawtell beachcomber Bill Buckley has captured the king tide damage to Sawtell Beach. SAWTELL'S beaches have been hammered by heavy seas during the recent wild weather. Regular beachcombing resident Bill Buckley has captured the latest damage, which has s

Heavy seas have caused further heavy beach erosion at Sawtell. Photo: Bill Buckley. SAWTELL'S beaches have been hammered by heavy seas during the recent wild weather. Regular beachcombing resident Bill Buckley has caputed the latest damage, which has see

Who gives a damn, if he's the nominee he'll be an illegitimate nominee because it took the full force of the establishment and faux conservative media to sell his lies and distortions, none bigger than Mitt Romney is a conservative, and to simultaneously

Conservatives must have thought they died and went to heaven when the Roundtable segment of ABC’s This Week began Sunday. There were syndicated columnist George Will and talk radio’s Laura Ingraham facing off on the state of the Republican presidential r

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney’s contention that Newt Gingrich isn’t really a Reaganite is “preposterous,” historian Craig Shirley writes in an Op-Ed in South Florida’s Sun Sentinel. Shirley, author of three books about President Ronald Reagan, no

Few argue against Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich’s skills as a communicator. Throughout his campaign resurgence, the former Speaker has dubbed himself a “bold,“ ”Georgia Reagan conservative” and his opponent Mitt Romney a “timid Massachu

Just when it seemed the presidential campaign could not become odder, it has. If, as I wrote last week here, Mitt is an improbable savior for America, Newt Agonistes is an apparition that the mothers of America could use to frighten their children into e

Despite the fact as was noted yesterday on Chris Hayes' Saturday show on MSNBC, that Newt Gingrich's national favorability ratings nationwide are absolutely terrible, that didn't stop Sen. Lindsey Graham and former Gov. Haley Barbour from trying to put t

After thanking family and staff, Texas governor Rick Perry announced this morning that he would suspend his campaign and endorse Newt Gingrich. Saying that he saw “no viable path forward for me in this 2012 campaign,” Perry called Gingrich a “visionary”

Tony Blankley was a convinced and convincing conservative. He knew he couldn’t convince me, but he relished the debate. In that, he was like Bill Buckley - fierce, erudite, irreverent. Tony could quote Churchill perfectly and from memory, invoke Cicero i