Check out this wonderful tribute in the Mobile Register to the 50th anniversary of National Review and its venerable founder William F. Buckley Jr. (Who will turn 80 next month). I'd say without his presence, acolytes at National Review and others throughout the conservative journalism universe, this nation and the world in general would have fallen to the wayside at the hands of the statists and their friends within the totalitarian Soviet Union a long time ago. So thank you Mr. Buckley for being so brave in founding this upstart magazine in the fall of 1955 and pronouncing in a publisher's statement on November 19, 1955:
We have nothing to offer but the best that is in us. That, a thousand Liberals who read this sentiment will say with relief, is clearly not enough! It isn't enough. But it is at this point that we steal the march. For we offer, besides ourselves, a position that has not grown old under the weight of a gigantic, parasitic bureaucracy, a position untempered by the doctoral dissertations of a generation of Ph.D's in social architecture, unattenuated by a thousand vulgar promises to a thousand different pressure groups, uncorroded by a cynical contempt for human freedom. And that, ladies and gentlemen, leaves us just about the hottest thing in town.Indeed, they still seem to be the toast of the town in the salons of D.C. Hopefully, the Republicans in Congress will take time to reflect on Buckley's statement and get some of that "ole time religion" of smaller government. We'll see. Once again thank you Mr. Buckley for introducing National Review and the ushering in of the modern conservative movement.
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