If the Badger Herald was an “opposition rag” during its formative years, its government subsidized competitor, the Daily Cardinal, was a “Maoist rag.”

Qualitatively, there was little difference between the 2 papers.

In the Spring of ‘77, in one edition, the Cardinal ran porno pics on its cover page.

In an edition of September of ‘76, the Cardinal’s editorial page was a full page picture of Communist dictator, Mao Tse Tung, with his love poetry underneath.

It was a different era.

“The Badger Herald is no longer a conservative publication”

Obviously, you never read your own paper when you were editor, nor have you read it since.

Come on, Mac, UW has nearly always been a liberal campus. The Badger herald is really nothing more than a bunch of nitwits anyway. Other than that, good luck with whatever you’re doing now. I used to read your column in the BH and enjoyed it immensely. Cheers!

MAC IS BACK, MAC IS BACK!

panoply of cheers, m

From the mouth of your hero, Mac:

“The central question… is whether the White community in the South is entitled to take such measures as are necessary to prevail, politically and culturally, in areas in which it does not predominate numerically? The sobering answer is Yes…. National Review believes that the South’s premises are correct…

The great majority of the Negroes of the South who do not vote do not care to vote, and would not know for what to vote if they could…”

“The Communists, in fact, invented the term “McCarthyism,” and devised most of the ideology that went with it…. The liberals, on a roaring civil rights jag… lowered their guard and the Communists closed…. “[A]nti-McCarthyism” as a movement… was a united front, the broadest and most successful the Communists have ever catalyzed in this country…

The whole concept of “fascism” for that matter has been a fraud from the beginning. Like “peaceful coexistence” and “detente,” it is a tactical invention of the Soviet Agitprop, and boils down in practice to the simple definition: fascism is any regime that outlaws Communism…”

“Lincoln was the Caesar Lincoln claimed to be trying to prevent; and that the Caesarism we all need to fear is the contemporary [Civil Rights] movement, dedicated like Lincoln to egalitarian reforms sanctioned by mandates emanating from national majorities…

[T]he legality of the 14th amendment…. The argument that it was improperly ratified is historically irrefragable…”

But I suppose it’s not implausible to maintain that fascism, racism, and McCarthyism are conservative values.

More wisdom from an intellectual giant:

“The central question that emerges … is whether the White community in the South is entitled to take such measures as are necessary to prevail, politically and culturally, in areas in which it does not prevail numerically? The sobering answer is Yes — the White community is so entitled because, for the time being, it is the advanced race. It is not easy, and it is unpleasant, to adduce statistics evidencing the cultural superiority of White over Negro: but it is a fact that obtrudes, one that cannot be hidden by ever-so-busy egalitarians and anthropologists.”

“I know of nothing in human history that would lead us to conclude that miscegenation is desirable.”

“The merits of the argument aside, Mr. Buckley irrevocably proved that his brand of candor did not lend itself to public life when an Op-Ed article he wrote for The New York Times offered a partial cure for the AIDS epidemic: “Everyone detected with AIDS should be tattooed in the upper forearm to prevent common needle users, and on the buttocks, to prevent the victimization of homosexuals,” he wrote.”

“But whatever the exact net result in the restricted field of school desegregation, what a price we are paying for Brown! It would be ridiculous to hold the Supreme Court solely to blame for the ludicrously named ‘civil rights movement’ — that is, the Negro revolt.”

“‘Integration’ and ‘Communization’ are, after all, pretty closely synonymous. In light of what is happening today, the first may be little more than a euphemism for the second. It does not take many steps to get from the ‘integrating’ of facilities to the ‘communizing’ of facilities, if the impulse is there.”

It’s rare to fined such a well written memorial combining history and contemporary events. Well done. As to William F. Buckley Jr., rest in piece your legacy remains. - Germain E. Stemme