Necessary Roughness

One of America’s greatest conservative minds has been called home. ABC News reports that William F. Buckley has died at 82. At this point the cause of death has not been released, but it was known he had emphysema.

“For people of my generation, Bill Buckley was pretty much the first intelligent, witty, well-educated conservative one saw on television,” fellow conservative William Kristol, editor of the Weekly Standard, said at the time the show ended. “He legitimized conservatism as an intellectual movement and therefore as a political movement.”

Rest in peace, sir.

Blackfive has a nice tribute.