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C-SPAN2/Book TV Presents:
"Buckley: William F. Buckley Jr. and the Rise of American Conservatism" by Carl Bogus.
Future Airings
Saturday, February 11th at 7pm (ET)
Sunday, February 12th at 6am (ET)
Sunday, February 12th at 4:30pm (ET)
About the Program
Carl Bogus, law professor at Roger Williams University, recalls the personal and professional life of political commentator, William F. Buckley, Jr. (1925-2008). Mr. Buckley was the...
From the PROVIDENCE JOURNAL: "What would Roger Williams have done?" by Ed Fitzpatrick
January 29, 2012: What would Roger Williams have thought about the prayer banner at Cranston High School West?
Many are raising that question amid bitter debate about the banner, which a federal judge has ordered removed. But few are in a better position to provide an answer than John M. Barry, author of a new book titled "Roger Williams and the Creation of the American Soul...
From MSNBC: "CEOs rake in huge sums when their companies go bankrupt" by Martha C. White
Jan. 27, 2012: When companies go bankrupt, the misery is shared among many: Bond holders are wiped out, retirees see their pensions and benefits vanish, and employees lose their jobs.
But some feel no pain at all: CEOs and other top executives of companies that go through Chapter 11 receive robust compensation in the form of salary, stock grants and other benefits.
In some cases, they earn even more money...
From MASSACHUSETTS LAWYERS WEEKLY: "New Bedford, Gloucester sue to stop ‘illegal’ fishing rules" by Dan McDonald
January 19th, 2012: Two iconic Massachusetts fishing ports are in court battling federal regulations that they say are economically crippling their communities and undoing a New England way of life that has spanned generations.
The regulations are intended to keep fish stocks healthy, but the plaintiffs, including the cities of New Bedford and Gloucester, claim they were...
From the ABA Journal: "Unknown Knowns: Torture Suits Against Rumsfeld May Revive a 40-Year-Old Liability Case" by Leslie A. Gordon
Feb 1, 2012 - Asked in 2002 whether there was any evidence that Iraq had supplied terrorists with weapons of mass destruction, then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld famously opined: “As we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say, we know there are some things we do not know. But there are...
From GOLOCALPROV: "Cranston Prayer Controversy: What will it Cost?" by Patricia Resende
CRANSTON, R.I., January 21, 2012 - The debate over whether to remove a prayer banner from the auditorium at Cranston West High School has sparked controversy, and one factor in that debate is just how much time and money taxpayers and officials are willing to spend to prove their point.
The lawsuit was brought by the Rhode Island Local Affiliate of American Civil Liberties Union against the Cranston School...
From the WAYNE INDEPENDENT, Honesdale, Pa.: "Janine Edwards takes over as first female DA in county" by Greg Little
HONESDALE, Penn., Jan 18, 2012 — She’s the first female district attorney to ever serve Wayne County.
But Janine Edwards [RWU Law '97] doesn’t look at her new position in that light. Her goal is simply to be a good district attorney and to serve the people of Wayne County.
“The taxpayers deserve to have a DA who can bring prosecution to conviction,” said Edwards during an...
From the PROVIDENCE JOURNAL: "R.I. lawyers urge action on Guantanamo detainees: Their former client is among the last being held at detention camp in Cuba" by Katie Mulvaney, Journal Staff Writer
PROVIDENCE, Jan. 15, 2012 –– Northern Alliance forces captured Mullah Norullah Noori in 2001, after a days-long battle in Northern Afghanistan. Ten years later, Noori remains one of 171 men still held by the United States in a detention camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
The American authorities labeled...
From THE ECONOMIST: "World patent war 1.0" by P.L.
Dec 19th 2011 -- HTC, a Taiwanese maker of smartphones, could clearly have done without this sort of Christmas present. On December 19th America’s International Trade Commission (ITC) ruled on one of the most closely watched of the many patent battles being fought over mobile phones. It upheld a judge’s decision, made in July, that some of HTC’s devices that use Google’s Android operating system infringe a patent owned by Apple, creator of the...
From the PROVIDENCE JOURNAL: "Local ties for WikiLeaks defense: Adjunct Roger Williams School of Law professor is part of defense team for accused soldier" by Katie Mulvaney
BRISTOL, Dec. 21, 2011 –– A defense lawyer in the case of an Army intelligence analyst accused of leaking a trove of classified military information to Wiki-Leaks website has ties to Rhode Island’s first and only law school.
David E. Coombs, a lawyer who specializes in court-martial defense, taught trial advocacy and...
From the Providence Journal: "Johnston lawyer sues Facebook over privacy" by Gregory Smith, Journal Staff Writer
PROVIDENCE, December 18, 2011 — On his personal Facebook page, lawyer Edward Stravato [RWU Law '11] lists some of his interests and favorite movies and posts photographs.
Although he is on Facebook, the dominant Internet social-networking site, which links participants with their “friends,” Stravato does not find Facebook to be very friendly.
He dislikes its privacy practices...
From National Public Radio's Weekend Edition Saturday: "Soldier's Hearing Weighs Harm From Wikileaks" by Carrie Johnson
Military prosecutors say Army Pvt. Bradley Manning downloaded troves of secret documents from a computer station in Baghdad and passed them to Wikileaks. If investigators recommend that Manning face court martial, it could land him in prison for the rest of his life. NPR's Carrie Johnson reports.
December 17, 2011: SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Army Private Bradley Manning turns 24 years...
From NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO (NPR)'s All Things Considered: "William F. Buckley, Father Of American Conservatism" by Guy Raz
Carl T. Bogus is a law professor at Roger Williams University and wrote "Why Lawsuits Are Good for America: Disciplined Democracy, Big Business and the Common Law."
December 17, 2011: When William F. Buckley burst onto the national scene in 1955, conservatism was a dead letter in American politics.
"Lots of people thought that it was outdated, anachronistic, prehistoric,...
From THE UNIVERSITY BOOKMAN: "Buckley and Individualist Conservatism" by Gerald J. Russello
Buckley: William F. Buckley, Jr. and the Rise of American Conservatismby Carl T. Bogus.Bloomsbury Press, 2011. 405 pp. $30.00.
William F. Buckley, Jr. continues to stand as the representative conservative of the postwar era. Bon vivant, former CIA operative, heir to an oil fortune—not to mention best-selling writer of spy novels and founding editor of National Review, still conservatism’s standard-bearer...
From THE NEW YORK TIMES SUNDAY BOOK REVIEW: "William F. Buckley Jr.: Right Man, Right Time" by Geoffrey Kabaservice
Published: December 9, 2011 (Online); December 11, 2011 (Print)
BUCKLEY: William F. Buckley Jr. and the Rise of American ConservatismBy Carl T. BogusIllustrated. 405 pp. Bloomsbury Press. $30.
William F. Buckley Jr. was an immodest man with much to be immodest about. Not only was he the high priest of the modern American conservative movement and the founding editor in chief of...
