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Buckley??: immigration = a more Catholic America
Maybe that's why Buckley wasn't so worked up about 12 million undocumenteds.
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Kausfiles
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jvanke
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March 4, 2008
Social Engineering and Hypocrisy
At least Buckley was not a hypocrite. He understood that social progress is based on the presence of a rational and educated majority. Democracy with the ignorant majority is not better then tyranny. Society stagnates when independent productive achievers began to be socially demonized and even punished for their accomplishments. Society had ...
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Obit
by
itr2008
on
February 29, 2008
Re: Buckley was the worst kind of bigot.
ProudInfidel:No, liberals like the Clintons are the worst kind of bigots. You know the kind, they pretend to care about all the ''suffering'' of all minorities in ''racist America'' so they can exploit them for votes to gain power. Then when they get the votes, all that supposed ''suffering'' is forgotten and it's back to business as usual making ...
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Obit
by
gzuckier
on
February 28, 2008
Re: Buckley
josepardinas: A pompous ass if ever there was one. But I have to admit that he could mesmerize the conservative boobs of our glorious republic with his snake-like sibilants. As to his passing: I'm always happy to see a thinning of the right-wing ranks. One can only hope that we will not soon see his like. it's well worth finding the ...
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Obit
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gzuckier
on
February 28, 2008
Re: His Sailing books
apparently he not only played, but also built harpsichords.
Posted to
Obit
by
gzuckier
on
February 28, 2008
Re: Not a racist?????
from http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2008/02/27/DI2008022701866.html Plainview, N.Y.: Hi John. Do you think Bill Buckley rued the day he didn't support Martin Luther King in the '50s? I got the impression in watching him that his decision about the '50s and early civil rights movement was a great regret that he didn't ...
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Obit
by
gzuckier
on
February 28, 2008
William F Buckly dead and I'm grateful
Buckley.. the self-canonized anti-human Calvinist... firmly devout in his faith that there are the :chosen'' him of course and the rest of us. Just like devout Calvinist Reagan, he advocated an America based on ignoring the needs of the have-nots in favor of the haves. As Calvin dicvtated, the chosen have a covenant of wealth and their God ...
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Obit
by
oldgringo
on
February 27, 2008