William F. Buckley at 100

 From Mark Judge at Hot Air:

 This year marks the 100th anniversary of William F. Buckley’s birth and the 70th anniversary of National Review, the magazine he founded.  There have been several tributes to the godfather of modern conservatism. It’s also a proper occasion to note that Buckley would have loved the Anti-Communist Film Festival. I’m working out the details to hold the event next year. Buckley would have loved the in-your-face-ness of the festival, as well as the powerful cultural component. We are taking on Hollywood on its own turf, renting out a theater in Washington, D.C., and showing some classic anti-communist films.

    This is a different and more powerful approach to changing the culture than delivering a white paper at a think tank. William F. Buckley would know this because Buckley was not just an erudite and brilliant thinker, but a fighter. This was pointed out by Daniel J. Flynn recently in The Imaginative Conservative. In researching Buckley, Flynn noted that “the aspect of his personality that surprised most pertained to his capacity to morph into Bill ‘the Brawler’ Buckley when the situation called for it.” (Read more.)