Remembering WFB
“[Buckley’s] catalogue of achievement, impressive though it is, formed merely the integument of Bill Buckley’s activities. The core centered around a twofold conviction and an accident of temperament.
The conviction was… that liberty is essential to our humanity; but, second, that genuine liberty requires acknowledgment of what transcends and gives direction to our endeavors – in other words, that genuine liberty requires faith.
Buckley’s embrace of liberty made him, famously, the scourge of political tyrants who would trample upon freedom, and latitudinarian anarchists who would beguile us with counterfeit substitutes….”
WFB: Here’s how to do a real debate
~ BEN STEIN— “What would the world be like if there had been no William F. Buckley?” …. (spectator.org)
~ WILLIAM F BUCKLEY, JR, 1925-2008: SHADES OF GRAY, AND BLACKIE– A Cold Warrior, and novelist …. (nro)
~ SHAIDLE: Buckley rightly remembered, by Coulter, as enfant terrible …. (fivefeetoffury)
Steyn News
~ ROB BREAKENRIDGE – Rights commissions biggest clowns in anti-free-speech circus …. (blazingcatfur.blog, canada.com)
~ DEB GYAPONG— “Whoa! Friendly fire alert! Janet Epp Buckingham is one of the good guys!” …. (deborahgyapong.blog)
~ CELESTIAL JUNKSTERS— Look Into Your Future: Little by little, bit by bit, “progressive” bureaucrats are taking our culture apart …. (cjunk.blog)
~ GOOD NEWS? A fresh look at free speech: Party leaders promise review of human rights commission …. (canada.com)
~ JIHADIST Canadians funded terrorism …. (dustmybroom)
~ CANADIAN LEFTIST ROYALTY DEFECTS— no, not to the political right, silly! Avi Lewis now on Al Jazeera. Lame CBC Failure Shows True Colours, Joins the Enemy …. (Various)
On the alleged besiegment of North American Muslims:
“I think that it’s highly exaggerated– that Muslims living in America or in the West are under siege. If that were the case, we know of groups in history who were under seige, and what they usually do is they would leave. I don’t see any American Muslim leaving and going back to a Muslim Country.”
~ Ayaan Hirsi Ali ~
~ MUSLIM TOLERANCE? JORDAN: OFFICIALS DEPORT MORE CHRISTIANS, DEPLORE COMPASS REPORT– Church council condemnation of article came at government’s urging …. (compassdirect)
~ LAWISKEWL shocks world with timely out of date, almost useful info– “Lessons from Potential Blogging Libel Suit in Canada”.. [GASP!] and they’re even allowing comments (for the moment) …. (lawiscool)
~ SOCON.CA— “The recent testimony by the CBC concerning their fraudulent and dishonest use of March for Life rallies has caused me to reflect on how they’ve treated the whole freedom of speech issue facing Canada right now” …. (socon.ca)
~ VIA INSTAPUNDIT— THE NEWSPEAK VERSION OF “Human Rights Activists” …. (instapundit)
~ DAILY BAYONET— How to Present Evidence 101 …. (dailybayonet.blog)
~ FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION–SPEECH AND PRESS: “Hmm.. yet more reasons to consider a move to the USA” …. (blazingcatfur.blog)
~ JAY CURRIE— The EverReady Bunny of Lunacy…Cherniak. And “How Blog Wars Should End” …. (jaycurrie.info-syn.com)
~ GUARDIAN COMMENTARY: The prophet and politics– “The Prophet Muhammad was the first person to establish an Islamic state – and he should have been the last” …. (guardian.co.uk)
~ ANGLOCATH BLOG— “Is there anything that makes all Canadians one people?” …. (anglocath.blog)
~ BRAVEHEARTED British Bishop Refuses to Back Down on Islamist Threat, by Mark D. Tooley– How the “secular policy of multiculturalism has led to disastrous consequences.” …. (frontpagemag)
~ UK TORY LEADER David Cameron: No to Shari’a and no to multiculturalism. In other news, “UK police to learn Qur’an, Sharia” …. (archbishop-cranmer.blog, JiWa)
~ DAVID WARREN: “I think this is the key to much that seems chaotic in the endless demands of “progressives” and “activists” on outwardly unrelated fronts. I am increasingly convinced that a wide range of phenomena, from environmentalist hysterias, to assaults on social “stereotypes,” to the retreat before radical Islam, all depend on this peculiar ambition to replace something with nothing” …. (davidwarrenonline)
~ LEXVIEW— VOL126: Islam and the Pope: God and Rationality …. (culturalrenewal.ca)
~ VIA THE BEEB— “The largest survey to date of Muslims worldwide suggests the vast majority want Western democracy and freedoms, but do not want them to be imposed” …. (bbc)
~ THE DEATH OF THE GROWN-UP: “The problem, as West views it, is not merely rejection of authority but rejection of the responsibility to assert authority on any level, wreaking havoc in the family and the local community and rendering the West as a whole all the more vulnerable to jihadist assault” …. (firstthings.com)
~ BLAZING CATFUR— Freedom of speech versus freedom of expression? From Jolly Old England courtesy A View from Middle England by Arden Forester …. (blazingcatfur.blog)
~ SILENCING. IN CANADA. KELOWNA, BC – University pro-life groups across the country are trying to fight back against a growing hostility from student union leaders who want to silence them …. (cw)
~ THE BIG PICTURE— “It is a profoundly sad irony in the modern world that people are willing to ignore the very means that is indispensable for producing what they most ardently desire. They shun truth and expect justice to flower in a barren desert” …. (catholiceducation)
Ezra Levant News
~ FACT-CHECKING, please– Calling all researchers! “Let’s document every occasion that Warman has either filed a suit against someone or threatened to do so” …. (Ezra, TI, 5fof)
~ MARGARET WENTE— “The “human right” to have manic episodes while testing artillery”?!? Original article …. (Ezra, Various)
~ EZRA ASKS “What does a real anti-Nazi hero look like?” …. (ezralevant.com)
~ LEXVIEW– VOL 146: Is There Suppression of Discussion about Islam and the Funding of International Terrorism? …. (culturalrenewal.ca)
~ PACHECO— Sacrificing for what? …. (socon.ca)
~ PEACE-LOVING Imam From Va. Mosque Now Thought to Have Aided Al-Qaeda …. (washingtonpost)
~ LEXVIEW– VOL 151— VOL 151: Human Rights, The Prophet Cartoons and the Case of Ezra Levant …. (culturalrenewal.ca)
A Swift Sunrise 