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William F. Buckley passed away this morning, and is undoubtedly now with our Lord.  I can only imagine the episode of "Firing Line" he is hosting.  William F. Buckley -- for anyone who has voted for a Republican since 1980 -- is a giant among men. 

WFB created the modern conservative movement.  There is no doubt about this.  In the late 1950s, through his books (God and Man at Yale and McCarthy's Enemies) and his founding of National Review, William F. Buckley reinvigorated a moribund conservative movement saddled with racists, conspiracy-mongers, and isolationists.  He stoked the fires of American's who yearned for smaller government, lower taxes, greater freedom, and responsibility.  He united the ideas of free-market capitalism with social conservatism, bringing in the famous "third leg" of the stool-- national defense conservatives -- that allowed the Republican Party to nominate a libertarian in 1964 and elect an avowed and unabashed conservative in 1980 and 1984.

His life was a triumph.  Any of us who write or think or vote conservative owe him our thanks and promise to carry on the fight.  He was a giant among men.