More on Mr. Buckley

Since the day of William F. Buckley's passing, there have been many fitting tributes to him. None more fitting than this one by his nephew, L. Brent Bozell III.

The same link also provides an audio link so you can hear his first, if not only, interview since his uncle's death, with Mark Levin.

The American Thinker posts highlights of and links to Peggy Noonan's and George Will's tributes to Buckley. Both are good reading.

Finally, at least for now...Bruce Walker wrote a very good piece about the Conservative Qualities Reagan and Buckley had in common. Here are a couple of paragraphs:

No Leftist will ever be as loved by Americans as that "Arch-Conservative" Reagan and no Leftist will ever be as respected and admired as William F. Buckley, Jr. While conservatives thrash about to define ourselves, to find ourselves, to seek our inner selves, let us first study a bit what made these two giants unifying leaders who they were.

The first common characteristic is that both men were devoutly religious -- it is impossible to think of either man without soon noting the importance of God in the biography. Buckley's first book, God and Man at Yale, wrote about the absence of God from universities: who else then would have even noticed? Yet Buckley, a deeply religious man, realized that all political problems are ultimately moral problems, and all moral problems ultimately religious problems. The attempt to expunge God from politics, therefore, was the first step toward totalitarianism and the sort moldy social jelly that it Europe today.

Reagan also put God above all else. Buckley and Reagan, however, were not the sort of political-religious leaders like Huckabee. Neither man would have said a word about Romney's Mormonism. The God of Buckley and Reagan had very long arms. It was a God that Catholics and Protestants, Jews and Christians each recognized well. This God was concerned about unborn children, but just as concerned about souls trapped in the Gulag.

As a natural consequence of the importance of God in their lives, Buckley and Reagan believed in the divine purpose of marriage and family. Buckley was married once and for a very long time. Reagan did have one unhappy marriage, but that was a Hollywood marriage, and his long and loving marriage to Nancy shows just how important he considered a happy and devoted home life. Both men grounded themselves in those natural bulwarks of conservative values, faith and family, values which when working right in the lives of men make the Left less than unnecessary.

Buckley and Reagan were also men with a genuine love of life. They were not morose (although both were, at times, seriously worried about America and American values in the world.) Buckley at the sail or harpsichord, Reagan chopping wood or riding a horse -- these images of happy men whose life was not just politics -- are part of what a full life should be. Both men had a wonderful sense of humor to complement a life of decent fun.

There's more, but I don't want to steal his thunder. Be sure to read the entire piece.

Marvin Olasky, of WORLD Magazine remembers Mr. Buckley.

There may be more good tributes and if I stumble upon them, I'll be sure to post them.