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Video: William A. Rusher, RIP
Conversations host Harry Kreisler speaks with William A. Rusher, former publisher of the “National Review”
William A. Rusher, the long-time publisher of National Review has passed away.
I wrote this a few years ago:Flap remembers back in the 80’s when Rusher was the Publisher of the National Review and wrote a letter to Rusher about his book, The Rise of the Right. To Flap’s surprise I received a handwritten note in reply.
I understand he always handled his own correspondence.
- How to Win Arguments
- The Making of the New Majority Party
- The Rise of the Right,
- The Ambiguous Legacy of the Enlightenment
- Short Course on South Africa
An archive of his Townhall columns is here and the Claremont Institute here.
The conservative movement and I mourn his passing.
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Conservative William Rusher Pens His Last Column
The end of another era for the RIGHT in the United States – William Rusher has written his last column.I began writing these columns 36 years ago and have come to the conclusion that it’s time to bring them to a close. It’s certainly not a problem of lacking subject matter. It’s simply that I am 85 now, and the energy and creative juices are just not what they used to be. Anyone in that age bracket will know what I mean.
Flap remembers back in the 80’s when Rusher was the Publisher of the National Review and wrote a letter to Rusher about his book, The Rise of the Right. To Flap’s surprise I received a handwritten note in reply.
I understand he always handled his own correspondence.
- How to Win Arguments
- The Making of the New Majority Party
- The Rise of the Right,
- The Ambiguous Legacy of the Enlightenment
- Short Course on South Africa
An archive of his Townhall columns is here and the Claremont Institute here.
Here is a long interview with Rusher regarding the American Conservative movement:
Conversations host Harry Kreisler speaks with William A. Rusher, former publisher of the “National Review”Bill will be remembered fondly and will have many years of happy retirement.
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- Oregon Democrat David "Tiger Costume" Wu Gets A Primary Challenge – Rep. David Wu (D-Ore.) officially has a Democratic challenger, as state Labor Commissioner Brad Avakian announced Monday that he will run against the embattled congressman in the 1st District Democratic primary.
"My name is Brad Avakian and I'm running to be Northwest Oregon's next Congressman," Avakian said in a statement posted on his website. "This race is about two things: what our community needs and how it can be best represented."
Avakian has reportedly been frequently mentioned as a potential candidate against Wu. The Willamette Week reported earlier this month that Avakian hired Jake Weigler, who managed Sen. Ron Wyden's (D) 2010 reelection campaign, as his political adviser.
"I love my current job — helping Oregon businesses succeed and protecting the rights of all Oregonians. But these are principles that my district needs an effective representative to pursue in Congress," Avakian added.
Avakian was elected to the Oregon House in 2002 and to the Oregon Senate in 2006, according to his biography on the state's Bureau of Labor and Industries website. He was first appointed Labor Commissioner in April 2008 to fill a vacancy, and was elected to a full term in November 2008.
Wu's strange behavior became public when the Oregonian published a report in February outlining his erratic behavior leading up to the 2010 election. Wu's staff confronted him about his behavior and urged him to get medical attention. In one strange episode, Wu emailed his staff in the middle of the night, sending photos of himself in a tiger costume for Halloween.======
And, Oregon will elect a new Congressman in 2012.
- On Bill Rusher – By John O’Sullivan at National Review – When I came to National Review as editor in 1988, I knew Bill Rusher only slightly. We had met at a conference in South Africa twelve or so years before, and though I had enjoyed his company and conversation, I felt him to be a somewhat distant figure. He seemed a type one then encountered quite often in American conservative circles — the civil but cool and reserved gentleman. To less senior staff figures in NR he was always known respectfully as “Mr. Rusher.” I guessed he would need some knowing before we got onto first-name terms.
I was quite wrong. He was friendly and helpful from the start; he encouraged me to take risks in changing the magazine in line with my own editorial vision; he smoothed my path socially with dinner invitations and advice on how to handle especially difficult colleagues (names on request). He was relaxed about the reshaping of the magazine he had helped WFB to shape in part because he had already mapped out his own departure from it. But I realized after a time that he also approved of most of what we were doing. About six months after Wick Allison had replaced him as publisher, Bill told a meeting that he thought the magazine was better than it had ever been. I was not so foolish as to take such praise literally, but I did draw two conclusions about Bill from it: first, that he was a very generous man, second that he was far more lively, open, and (in the good sense) progressive in his thinking than his reserved demeanor might deceptively suggest.
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Another excellent Obit for william Rusher, former Publisher of the Natioanl Review.
- Oregon Democrat David "Tiger Costume" Wu Gets A Primary Challenge – Rep. David Wu (D-Ore.) officially has a Democratic challenger, as state Labor Commissioner Brad Avakian announced Monday that he will run against the embattled congressman in the 1st District Democratic primary.
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- Video: Sarah Palin Delivers Blistering Speech to Wisconsin Tea Party | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – Video: Sarah Palin Delivers Blistering Speech to Wisconsin Tea Party #tcot #catcot
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In this live-and-let-live town, where medical marijuana clubs do business next to grocery stores and an annual fair celebrates sadomasochism, prostitutes could soon walk the streets without fear of arrest.
San Francisco would become the first major U.S. city to decriminalize prostitution if voters next month approve Proposition K—a measure that forbids local authorities from investigating, arresting or prosecuting anyone for selling sex.
The ballot question technically would not legalize prostitution since state law still prohibits it, but the measure would eliminate the power of local law enforcement officials to go after prostitutes.
Proponents say the measure will free up $11 million the police spend each year arresting prostitutes and allow them to form collectives.
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The fact is, that one of my personal friends, and others in her neighborhood, also friends – not only had several Vote YES on Prop 8 signs stolen, for a second time; but this time – received identical letters, containing serious death threats.
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Today, DailyKos blogger hekebolos is mustering the Kosacks (as they are sometimes known) to hunt down information about Mormons and others who have donated to "Protect Marriage," the non-profit group fighting to pass Proposition 8.
In short, he wants to dig up dirt and expose people as hypocrites. Insane! What’s more, the Kos poster has put up the list for us indicating which people are Mormon. Doubly sick and wrong!
In his own words: "Here’s the bottom line for me: if someone is willing to contribute thousands of dollars to a campaign to take away legal rights from some very dear friends of mine, they had damn well make sure their lives are beyond scrutiny–because I, for one, won’t take it lying down."
That is ugly!
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This is not the first time I have heard the AntiProposition 8 supporters trying to "OUT" the finncial supporters of the Protect Marraige Constitutional amendment -
Gov. Sarah Palin charged the state for her children to travel with her, including to events where they were not invited, and later amended expense reports to specify that they were on official business.
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In short: Like her or hate her, Palin remains VERY much in the mix as a 2012 candidate.
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Republican vice presidential nominee Gov. Sarah Palin apologized Tuesday for any misunderstanding that resulted when she referred last week to the patriotic values of "the real America" and the "pro-America areas of this great nation."
Democrats and others immediately criticized Palin, alleging she was saying that some part of the country are more patriotic than others.
Palin denied that was her intention in an interview with CNN on Tuesday.
"I don't want that misunderstood," Palin said. "If that's the way it came across, I apologize."
Speaking at a rally in North Carolina, the Alaska governor said: "We believe that the best of America is in these small towns that we get to visit, and in these wonderful little pockets of what I call the real America, being here with all of you hard-working, very patriotic, um, very, um, pro-America areas of this great nation."
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Oprah Winfrey is offering to "produce" the half-hour Barack Obama advertisement set to air on Oct. 29, a top source tells the DRUDGE REPORT. The Daytime TV dynamo has even offered up her studio space in Chicago.
"She's been begging Obama to let her help," a source explaines.
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It is not clear if the Obama campaign would pay Winfrey for any production services.
Requests for comment from Oprah went un-returned.
The Obama campaign strongly denies Oprah will be involved in the ad: Bill Richardson's former senior adviser, Mark Putnam is producing. Previously, Putnam produced commercials for Democratic campaigns in 44 states.
The TV finale is seen as a high risk move, designed to remove any remaining voter doubts on the first term senator.
CBS, NBC and FOX will air the info-commercial, with the start time of a potential World Series Game 6 being pushed back by eight minutes.
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But the recent worldwide economic downturn will, predictably, generate a demand that Washington "do something," and Washington will respond with a whole series of programs, laws and expenditures allegedly designed to improve matters. Few, if any, of them will work, but they will have the collective effect of putting government's weight on the scales against the economy's own healthy tendency to right itself. In a few years, we will learn all over again why we acquired our previous deep distrust of government "solutions."
That is why the coming barrage of new government programs will predictably be such a desperately bad idea. We cannot legislate our way out of an economic slump, because an economic slump is simply the economy's way of exhaling, prior to taking a fresh breath. We can take palliative measures, to relieve individual cases of economic discomfort, but we cannot repeal the laws of economics.
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No issue in the Proposition 8 campaign has generated as much debate as the contention by supporters that public schools in California will promote same-sex marriage if the ballot measure fails.
The Yes on 8 forces have made it the focus of their campaign strategy in television and radio ads that have been running for weeks. The ads point to Massachusetts, where gay marriage has been legal since 2003 and the issue is being taught in schools.
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It is all about legislating morality = the homosexual agenda.