Conservative icon William F. Buckley has passed away.  He was 82.  The Hartford Courant story features a classic Buckley quote that summarizes his life and times:

“I am, I fully grant, a phenomenon, but not because of any speed in composition,” he wrote in The New York Times Book Review in 1986. “I asked myself the other day, `Who else, on so many issues, has been so right so much of the time?’ I couldn’t think of anyone.”