Follow-up

A follow-up on the previous post: Apparently, the president of Planned Parenthood has issued a statement saying that the murder of Jim Pouillon (they did report his name after all--so I was wrong) was unfortunate, but that there is "much less violence on the pro-choice side than on the pro-life side". Of course, this statement bags the question; if abortion is not murder, then this statement is true, but if abortion is murder, then violence on the pro-choice side is exponentially greater than the twenty-odd murders committed by the pro-life side over the past two decades.

Some Notes on the Death of Mr. Buckley

I can't pretend to be an expert on William F. Buckley, Jr. I have read articles by him, but I doubt that I have read an entire book that he wrote, cover to cover. I am a fan of the magazine that he founded, "The National Review," and I think that Mr. Buckley's intellectual charisma is far better than the sort of rubbish that most "conservatives" consume nowadays on Talk Radio or in Godless by Ann Coulter. A friend of mine, a Talk Radio "conservative," asked not long ago if there were any conservative writers whom I admired--I had been trashing Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh in his presence. "I'm a big fan of William F. Buckley," I said (Take that, dowg!) "The National Review" has stated that Mr. Buckley is irreplaceable. Given the current state of affairs, I would say that intellectualism in politics is, too. William F. Buckley, rest in peace.