William F. Buckley, Jr. | 1925-2008

Today the world lost one of the most important men of the last century.  In the leftist dominated post WWII environment, Bill Buckley took conservatism and made it the respectable, formidable political force which it is today. To put things in perspective, if there had been no William F. Buckley, there is a good chance there would have been no President Ronald W. Reagan, no Rush Limbaugh (and therefore no conservative talk radio), and no National Review Magazine (and perhaps an absence of the host of other conservative periodicals out there).  At least, they would not exist in the same way they do today.

A sad day indeed.