Posted on 08/16/2010 9:08:01 AM PDT by Borges
RIP.
The L.A. Times had a more even-handed obituary. Not too bad for a newspaper that leans far left:
http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-james-kilpatrick-20100817,0,1928236.story
excerpt:
Described by political commentator and columnist George Will as “a Jeffersonian, Virginia, small-government, free-market, classic conservative,” Kilpatrick once defined a conservative as one who says “no” more than “yes.”
“If you think of the body politic as a machine, the liberals’ habit is to accelerate,” he told an interviewer some years ago. “The conservatives’ function is to apply the brakes.”
” fiery advocate of racial segregation as a Richmond newspaper editor in the 1950s “
Gee, I wonder why no one bothered to print why.
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The L.A. Times explained why:
During this period he also became an outspoken opponent of desegregation. He editorialized against the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1954 ruling in Brown vs. Board of Education, which declared school segregation unconstitutional. The centerpiece of Kilpatrick’s opposition was a 19th century doctrine called “interposition,” which said that states had the right to override a federal mandate that encroached on their sovereign authority. Bolstered by Kilpatrick’s editorials, several Southern states used the interposition argument to pass laws favorable to segregation. Kilpatrick also wrote a book, “The Sovereign States” (1957), to drum up support for the doctrine outside the South, but it failed to gain traction.
http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-james-kilpatrick-20100817,0,1928236.story
National Review, on which he was a senior editor, held out for state sovereignty throughout the turbulent sixties, during the magazine's high-water mark as a conservative counterpart to The New Republic. Sadly, W.F. Buckley late in his life recanted this very traditionalist position. The magazine today, of course, bears hardly any resemblance to its former self.
Historian Thomas E. Woods, Jr. has updated the concept Kilpatrick espoused beginning in his earlier career as newspaper editor. A good primer to prepare for the coming battle with Washington over 0bamacare (and much other mandated mischief), Woods' new book, Nullification: How to Resist Federal Tyranny in the 21st Century, needs to be on your reading list if it's not already.
Did the lamestreams even give him a break for being pro-abo?
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