An Old Testament prophet said, "And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land[.]"  That's part of a Bible verse from Ezekiel – chapter 22, verse 30 – and the gist of what Ezekiel said is that God went looking for a man to stand in the gap to stop sin's encroachment.  It was 600 B.C. or so that God judged His people.  Fast-forward some 2,600 years to the days of William F. Buckley.  Mr. Buckley said something similar to Ezekiel's words when Buckley defined a conservative as "someone who stands athwart history, yelling Stop."  Buckley's quote is on point.  Not since Ronald Reagan has a U.S. president said something like that and meant it.  There is another whose words echo Buckley's, but let's digress a bit before we concern ourselves with him. It was August of 1968, and I remember it as...(Read Full Article)