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srussell
02-27-2008, 12:57 PM
The conservative intellectual giant, William F. Buckley Jr died (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,333055,00.html).

Sam
Tamera
02-27-2008, 01:12 PM
It seems God is taking a lot of great people home lately.
Rebecca
02-27-2008, 01:26 PM
It seems God is taking a lot of great people home lately.

I've noticed that, too.

Rebecca
ProfessorAlan
02-27-2008, 01:56 PM
major contributions, he made.
Xenia
02-27-2008, 02:10 PM
Ahhhhhh :(
Phy
02-27-2008, 11:30 PM
It seems God is taking a lot of great people home lately.

I wouldn't place that on God. Buckley /was/ 82, after all.

Eric Burns wrote up a nice piece here:
http://www.websnark.com/archives/2008/02/requiescat_in_p_3.html

Buckley's record isn't spotless, as he himself would say. He and the National Review he founded opposed the Civil Rights Act in the 50's and 60's, for example. But unlike many in public life, on either side of the aisle, he didn't simply recant this position later on -- he said that they had been out and out wrong, and that the Civil Rights Act had been a watershed moment not just in American life, but conservative life as well.

And that is one of the things that made Buckley so remarkable. He could hold an opinion, have new information come in, and acknowledge that his opinion was wrong and revise it.