Paul Weyrich, RIP
posted at 9:15 am on December 18, 2008 by Ed Morrissey
Conservative leader Paul Weyrich passed away today at 66. My friend Rob Bluey has the tribute at Heritage Foundation:
Paul M. Weyrich, chairman and CEO of the Free Congress Foundation and first president of The Heritage Foundation, died this morning around 1 a.m. He was 66 years old. Weyrich was a good friend to many of us at Heritage, a true leader and a man of unbending principle. He won Heritage’s prestigious Clare Boothe Luce Award in 2005.
Weyrich will be deeply missed. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family, including son Steve, who currently works at Heritage.
Weyrich began his career in Wisconsin, where he led the Young Republican chapter in Racine while attending the University of Wisconsin. He became a political reporter after graduation, but quickly became involved in political action instead. Weyrich worked as press secretary for Republican Senator Gordon Allott of Colorado, but wanted to work on public policy. He joined with Ed Fuelner to create Heritage Foundation, and a year later launched the Committee for the Survival of a Free Congress.
He spent four decades as an uncompromising and often controversial figure in American politics, fighting for conservatism and helping to expand its intellectual base. He will indeed be missed, but his work in establishing Heritage has helped launch thousands of conservative activists who will carry on his work.
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Akzed on April 5, 2013 at 1:42 PM
Yes, it changes the way you hold your self, your eyes, your weight, and features change when your facial musculature changes. This also happens to ordinary people who change moods and when the camera is from a different angle. I think your discrepancy detector has been warped by mental illness, frankly, because nothing else would account for it.
SarahW on April 5, 2013 at 7:51 PM
“Nothing else would account for it”?
Uhm… howsabout the obvious deduction that the college ID photo and the mug shot are two different young men? Is that “nothing else,” or something else?
Akzed on April 5, 2013 at 8:01 PM
We could ask the Dark Knight Rises property manager about this, but he’s dead and buried in Newtown, CT.
Akzed on April 5, 2013 at 8:06 PM
You address “the way you hold your self, your eyes, your weight, and features change when your facial musculature changes” but not eye color? Not the width of the nose?
Now I realize that you’re calling me crazy. ” I think your discrepancy detector has been warped by mental illness…” I think you are employed by those who orchestrated the Aurora massacre.
I think your denial of the obvious is warped by your involvement with the Aurora massacre hit team, frankly, because nothing else would account for it.
Akzed on April 5, 2013 at 8:18 PM
Not wanting to get involved in the personal p@ssing match, but to me The Enquirer holds more credibility than the Slimes and a lot of media outlets. Actually, there really aren’t any “legacy” media that I’d hold above The Enquirer.
Until I hear/read differently I’d tend to believe it as I do most media info.
kim roy on April 5, 2013 at 11:35 PM
So the thread is dead after we point out a particular mindset and what verbaluce is readily endorsing.
Oopsies.
rogerb on April 6, 2013 at 7:39 AM
They’re real reason for wanting gun control has nothing to do with stopping these incidents. Their desire is to control our behavior because they think they know what is better for us, just like all fascist, ignorant goons.
dogsoldier on April 6, 2013 at 9:06 AM
Worth the price of admission, right there. LOL.
Cleombrotus on April 6, 2013 at 9:26 AM
How many reports of this nature are ignored every day?
AND for good reason. The “psychiatrist” obviously did not have enough evidence. That’s typical.
This scat will become even more common as the “gun control” BS spirals out of control. Some have already blamed “anti-depressants”.
LOL
Face it, those of you who need a reason as to why he did what he did:
He’s just your run-of-the-mill psychopath seeking a legacy.
Read: “The Rage of the Random Actor” by Korem.
This guy is no more more “mentally ill” than most reading this.
~(Ä)~
Karl Magnus on April 6, 2013 at 12:38 PM
I think we need strong background checks and positive ID checks through a national database to vote. It’s for the children, you know.
Jeff2161 on April 6, 2013 at 2:12 PM
Are you serious or is this sarcasm.
While I don’t trust doctors not to sell out to the government, especially these new doctor-lites that Obamacare will usher in to contain costs, the idea that a psychiatrist’s comments of warning should go unchecked and unnoticed by police due to insufficient ‘evidence’ is preposterous — certainly so with the laws we have today mandating reporting of certain forms of homocidal ideation, and considering the legal basis for MDs’ authority to involuntarily commit.
And then, to ignore a complaint of stalking, and electronic threats and harrassment (which are especially easy to check), especially by a psychiatrist, as unworthy of any notice because of insufficient evidence is particularly ludicrous (not the rapper).
You’ve got to be kidding, right?
flicker on April 6, 2013 at 8:54 PM
A guy called a talk show in Philly to report that after telling his doc that he drinks two six-packs a night, the doc reported him to the police and he lost his driver’s license.
So I think the authorities are not bashful about reacting to the concerns of medical professionals regarding their patients’ psych problems, real or imagined. Not that I agree with them in the case I mentioned, I’m just sayin.
Of course, given the fact that the shooter’s mug shot bears no resemblance to his purported college ID photo, there are other problems with this uh, event that demand investigation.
Akzed on April 7, 2013 at 9:29 AM
Enforce the laws on the books, a brillant new idea.
JackM on April 8, 2013 at 9:01 AM
On another thread, I blamed the people of Colorado for that jackass congresswoman who can’t articulate the difference between a large capcity magazine from a vibrator. I also demanded they tell us exactly how they were going to make things right.
I now blame them for all the harm the Colorado gun grabbers will do to America.
And I want them to fix it. Now.
JackM on April 8, 2013 at 9:07 AM
Dr. Fenton should have told the police she knew of a gun that was going to take one of her patients on a killing spree.
JackM on April 8, 2013 at 9:18 AM
Liberals should be ashamed as they tap dance in the pool of blood drawn by murdered children.
JackM on April 8, 2013 at 9:50 AM
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