“William F. Buckley” on The Daily Caller

The name Buckley is revered in the conservative world and especially in the universe of correspondents and employees of National Review, the flagship conservative magazine founded by the late William F. Buckley, Jr. 55 years ago. WFB, as he was often referred to in print, is considered by many the founder of the modern conservative movement. (more)

NEW YORK (AP) — Kelsey Grammer is an investor and public face supporting a new network that launched Wednesday with entertainment designed to appeal to political conservatives. (more)

Since assuming office, President Obama has garnered his fair share of high-profile critics. But few have been as omnipresent and implacable as John Bolton. From his near constant appearances on Fox News and HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher” to his steady stream of op-eds in the Wall Street Journal and the New York Daily News, the 61-year-old former Ambassador to the United Nations and Under Secretary of State for Arms Control under President George W. Bush has been relentless in his critiques of President Obama’s agenda, especially in the realm of foreign policy. (more)

One of my favorite journalistic features at the moment is a series on the sports website Deadspin.com.  The site currently is compiling writing samples from various “student-athletes,” in order to determine who is “America’s Dumbest Student Athlete.”  To be sure, there is no shortage of competition for that title.  From all over the country, entries to this prestigious contest have poured in like submissions to the Publisher’s Clearing House Sweepstakes. (more)

William F. Buckley Jr.: The Maker of a Movement (more)

Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh famously said he hoped President Obama would “fail” in January, 2009. Almost a year later, when Limbaugh was rushed to the hospital with chest pains, Washington Post reporter David Weigel had a wish of his own. “I hope he fails,” Weigel cracked to fellow liberal reporters on the “Journolist” email list-serv. (more)

At the suggestion of my astounded sister (also the most logical person on the planet), but against my better judgment, I watched a television program called “Radical Parenting.” If you’re unfamilar with the term, think of it this way: living in opposite world. There. That’s it. (more)

The problem with the mainstream media is not that they are liberals. It’s that they are cowards. They simply will not engage with any thought that threatens their worldview. (more)

It is not often that I pay much attention to those who tread beyond the margins of respectable political opinion, much less on the fringes of American society. But after reading a member of Young Americans for Liberty’s response to my recent article here at The Daily Caller, I’d like to volunteer some thoughts. (more)

During the course of 16 years spent writing commentary columns, first in newspapers and subsequently online for The Daily Caller and other outlets, one often wonders if they are having an influence beyond the message boards and many personal e-mails sent from engaged readers. (more)

It’s been a year since Stephen Moore’s article, “Atlas Shrugged: from Fiction to Fact in 52 Years,”seemed to ignite an explosion of interest in Ayn Rand. Sales of this prescient novel tripled; two Rand biographies have been selling like hotcakes; and references to her in the media have skyrocketed. (more)

There aren’t many — if any — young activists here at the National Tea Party Convention in Nashville. (more)

Abstract: What do conservatives want? To be free, to live virtuous and productive lives, to be secure from threats beyond and within our borders, and to live in a society that sustains and encourages these aspirations: freedom, virtue, safety–goals reflected in the libertarian, traditionalist, and national security dimensions of the conservative movement and coalition. But to achieve these perennial goals, conservatives must communicate in language that connects with the great majority of the American people in all stations of life. Virtually all conservatives hold in common the conviction that there is indeed an "eternal meaning." The recent past has been unsettling to American conservatives, but in the words of William F. Buckley Jr. nearly 50 years ago, "the wells of regeneration are infinitely deep." (more)