One of the goals of “Fort Buckley” is to showcase some of the best conservative political writers on the Web.  There are none better than the authors of Powerline.  Powerline was started by Minneapolis lawyers Scott Johnson and John Hinderaker.  Sick of reading and hearing nothing but liberal media, they decided to do something about it, and Powerline was born. 

 They helped lead the conservative blogosphere response when “60 Minutes” ran a story based on, as Wikiped...

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With Tuesday’s primary (Missouri) and caucii (Colorado and Minnesota) behind us, Republican presidential candidates, their campaigns and the national media will soon turn their thoughts southwest. Arizona’s primary is the 28th.

I’ll bet that many professional political consultants or MSM political reporters see Arizona as one big population center (metro Phoenix) surrounded by a series of outlying, secondary places (Tucson, Yuma, Flagstaff).

If we asked them “What pops in...

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Somehow, I must have closed the comment section. I don’t know how, but that’s no surprise—Word Press bedevils me daily.

The comments are now open, for anyone who’s interested.

Yesterday, as I filled my gas tank in Phoenix, I noticed the cost topped $60. Filling up my car hasn’t cost that much in a long time.

Gas prices are indeed rising. What’s worse—look for prices to get higher this summer. From ABCNews.Com’s article on January 6th, titled “Forecast: 2012 Worst Year For Gas Prices:” (All emphasis in the blockquotes is added).

To the dismay of drivers across the country, 2011 went down in the record books as having the most expen...

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One of the reasons I write “Fort Buckley” is to “spread the wealth” of the good writing I see on the conservative blogosphere. To be sure, some (many?) TC.com readers don’t see the same “wealth” that I do, or even any value at all. Well, we’ll have to agree to disagree.

One of the wisest voices I’ve encountered in conservative media is that of Victor David Hanson. A classicist at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, Hanson writes f...

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During the remembrances of last weekend, I heard expressions of regret at how little civility has improved since last January. For example, Tucson Weekly editor Jimmy Boegle wrote, in his paper’s issue that commemorated the anniversary, that “all those calls for civility seem to have fallen on deaf ears.””

If you wanted to see some of that ongoing incivility, all you had to do was turn the page of the Weekly, to Tom Danehy’s column.

“Come on, fake-ass conservativ...

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“An allegation unchallenged is an allegation believed.”

That piece of advice, from former Wyoming Senator Alan Simpson, is one of the reasons I started “Fort Buckley” in the first place.

I blog mostly during election seasons, and it’s election season. Hence, Fort Buckley runs up its flag again…to half-staff.

This weekend is a time for reflection, remembrance and grieving. So is Monday, our first day back to work after the anniversary of January 8th, 2010. (The...

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On September 1st, the day after the city primary election, people all over Tucson were asking themselves “Who was that masked man?”

No, they’re not Lone Ranger aficianados. They read the Arizona Daily Star‘s hardcopy edition.

At first, the cynic, the conservative and the Republican in me all wondered if the Arizona Daily Star was deliberately trying to pee on Rick Grinnell’s big day. Or, perhaps the Star was sending a fingerprints-free shout-out to the Rothschil...

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Not everything in life is politics.

There are beaches to walk on, sandcastles to build, soft custard cones to eat…and critical things like that command one’s attention.

There will be plenty of time for politics, and other things, in the fall.

Accordingly, Fort Buckley is on hiatus until Labor Day.

Slainte!

Last Wednesday’s Citizen headlined this blog that criticized House Budget Chair Paul Ryan’s (R-Wis) plan for Medicare reform. The story was based on a report that—according to the story, at least—was from the “U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee.” The report gave a scathing review of Rep. Ryan’s plan to fix Medicare.

Damning stuff! A joint Congressional committee took Rep. Ryan’s plan to task! Congressmen AND Senators, from BOTH parties! At a ti...

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Rep Paul Ryan, chairman of the House Budget Committee—the ONLY Congressional Budget Committee that, five months into the current congressional session, has actually produced a budget!—responded to the Democratic Party’s Congressional win in NY 26:

“[NY-26] is a preview of scare tactics, distortions, demagoguery to try to scare seniors into voting for them,” he said. “The irony of it is we’re the ones directly protecting Medicare’s current benefits for current seniors....

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Remember civility? How important it was in Tucson just a few months ago. Hey, the University of Arizona even set up a Civility Institute! Anytime a Republican or Tea Partier cleared his throat, we all heard cries for conservatives…er, I mean “everyone”…to be civil. And, of course, to respect free speech. Remember what Voltaire said: I may disagree with what you say, but I’ll defend to the death your right to say it.

Funny, but everyone seemed to lose interest in civ...

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