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Buckley and Legalize It, Don’t Criticize It

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The Munchkin Wrangler remembers Bill Buckley’s position on the War on Drugs.
Drug prohibition has accomplished none of its intended goals. Just like alcohol prohibition, it has created a multi-billion dollar black market, and despite the expenditure of billions of dollars in the prosecution of this war, drugs are available in every city and town in [...]

Unrepentant Elitist Conservative Made A Marine

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Clark Stookbury explains how much a younger Stooks was influenced by the work of Bill Buckley:

The influence didn’t last and I doubt if I even qualify as a conservative (whatever that means) anymore; but I was once so enamored of Buckley’s brand of Cold War Conservatism that I joined the Marine Corps

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William F. Buckley, R.I.P.

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I am not conservative in many of my beliefs. However, I was raised by conservatives in a house where Bill Buckley was revered. The only non-art magazine (my dad was an art teacher) that my dad read regularly was ‘National Review‘. As a teenager I didn’t like much about the magazine, other than the fact it was as well edited and written as anything outside of the ‘New Yorker’.

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