OpenMarket (Free subscription) | 02/01/2009
When Barry Goldwater and Frank Sinatra both passed away in 1998, it felt to me like the 20th century was truly coming to an end. Wish we had them around now. Yesterday, Fidel and Raul Castro marked half a century in power — so two generations of Cuban adults on the island have known no government [...]
Times of the Internet (Free subscription) | 01/01/2009
PHOENIX, Jan. 1 (UPI) -- Barry Goldwater, the late senator from Arizona who shaped the conservative movement, was remembered Thursday on the 100th anniversary of his birth. The Goldwater family planned to lay a wreath at a statue of the senator in Phoenix, The Arizona Republic reported. Goldwater left the Senate in 1987 and died in 1998 at the age of 90. Barry Goldwater...
Moldova.org (Free subscription) | 01/01/2009
Barry Goldwater, the late senator from Arizona who shaped the conservative movement, was remembered Thursday on the 100th anniversary of his birth.The Goldwater family planned to lay a wreath at a statue of the senator in Phoenix, The Arizona Republic reported. Goldwater left the Senate in 1987 and died in 1998 at the age of 90.Barry Goldwater Jr., who served...
Arizona Republic (Free subscription) | 01/01/2009
If he were still alive, Arizona's Barry Goldwater would be 100 years old today. He also likely would be dismayed by the state of his Republican Party.
VOT3R (Free subscription) | 01/01/2009
Barry Goldwater, the sharp-tongued senator from Arizona whose failed 1964 presidential campaign marked the launch of the modern conservative movement, was born 100 years ago Thursday.
Vlad Tepes (Free subscription) | yesterday
Extremism in the defence of liberty is no vice. Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue. -Barry Goldwater
Save The GOP (Free subscription) | 05/01/2009
January 1st was the 100th birthday of our beloved Barry Goldwater, expressed at another site as AuH2O, happy birthday Barry. Bill Richardson has decided to spare president-elect Obama anymore embarrassment and preemptively resign as Secretary of Commerce. But a grand jury in New Mexico is currently looking into charges of “pay-to-play” in the awarding of a state [...]
mitchieville (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
... no such thing as excess in the defense of keeping one’s husband from hugging some other broad (as Barry Goldwater once said). This seems to an example of taking the principle “If I can’t play by my rules, I’m taking my bat and ball home” except with the addition “where I’ll pour gasoline on them and incinerate them so no one else can play with them.” Oh, and also it’s someone else’s...
Vlad Tepes (Free subscription) | yesterday
Extremism in the defence of liberty is no vice. Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue. -Barry Goldwater
American Election 2008 (Free subscription) | 06/01/2009
... I am currently writing a book entitled, "The Conscience of a Libertarian" patterned after my hero Barry Goldwater and his all-time conservative best-seller, "The Conscience of a Conservative." In my book, I present Barry Goldwater's insightful philosophy back in 1959 (when he wrote his book) to prove that nothing in politics ever really changes. It has been half a century...
The Adventures of Roberta X (Free subscription) | 05/01/2009
I was never a big fan of our current President. He's no Ronald Reagan -- and President Reagan was no Barry Goldwater. But I digress. The morning's login brought up the usual froth and bilgewater, including various flavors of political commentary. Quoth The Nation : The Israeli invasion of Gaza, launched Saturday, might very well be George W. Bush's last and final war crime. Say what?...
Vlad Tepes (Free subscription) | 06/01/2009
Extremism in the defence of liberty is no vice. Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue. -Barry Goldwater
The Corner (Free subscription) | 02/01/2009
Though the day is almost over, it's probably worth noting that today would have been Barry Goldwater's 100th birthday.
- Are You Riled Up? - (Free subscription) | 02/01/2009
Conservatives look to Flake to rescue GOP Arizona Republic, AZ - 25 minutes ago. And Flake, 45, recently laid the preliminary groundwork to follow two other Arizona Republican mavericks - John McCain and Barry Goldwater - into the …[Continue Reading] Other Interesting Articles Flagstaff Today - News and Photos » New York artists capture the … Daly admits [...]
The Greenbelt (Free subscription) | 01/01/2009
Today is the birthday of many , including Lorenzo de' Medici, Paul Revere, Mad Anthony Wayne, Sir James George Frazer, Pierre de Coubertin, George Washington Carver, E. M. Forster, Xavier Cugat, Dana Andrews, Barry Goldwater, Hank Greenberg, Boris Vladimirovich Gnedenko, J. D. Salinger, Frank Langella, and me. Fresh from The Greenbelt
