[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

‘What are you talking about? NR spent years purging and smearing anyone who didn’t toe the party line.’

If you are referring to Birchers and anti-Semites, yes NR has helped cleanse the conservative movement of such trash. A brilliant column by Frum, thanks for the reminder of what a mainstream, FR type conservative he used to be. A true loss to the conservative movement. Also a useful reminder of why paleocons no longer are part of conservatism.

[Forgotten Amendments]

It was a miserable tirade by a snarky party hack. At least symbolically, it marked the end of NR as a serious publication. This was the height of Bushbotism. Now, the magazine was the officially property of “heavyweights” like Jonah Goldberg and Ramesh. Yawn. Pro-abortion/pro-$1 a gallon fed tax on gasoline / “Christianity caused the Holocaust” Charles Krauthammer was a NR conservative. Korean War vet Bob Novak was “unpatriotic”.

Frum is a miserable weasel who is reaping what he sowed. And I miss the days when I would get/give NR subscriptions for Christmas.

[Jack Black]

If you are referring to Birchers and anti-Semites, yes NR has helped cleanse the conservative movement of such trash.

I realize that Oregon isn't the center of the conservative world, but there are still active John Birchers here. About a year before the last Presidential campaign kicked off I attended an "End the Fed" rally and several of the people there were from the JBS.

I'm not familiar with the history of the JBS in any detial. I'd only really heard of them mentioned in passing as a popular group at the height of the McCarthy era who were adamently anti-communist. Why do you call them trash?

BTW: I should be clear that the people pictured above were at the 'End the Fed' rally, but are not necessarily the JBS members. I remember one of them was a woman, don't know about any others.