Conservative Icon Dies

Paul M. Weyrich, the conservative kingpin who was the first president of the Heritage Foundation and the chairman and CEO of the Free Congress Foundation, died this morning at 1:00 a.m. At The Corner, Grover Norquist pays tribute: “Paul Weyrich created institutions and networks that incubated new and old powerful policies and strategies to advance liberty. … He understood that only freedom could successfully promote traditional values. He brought leaders of various freedom impulses together. Most of the successes of the Conservative movement since the 1970s flowed from structures, organizations, and coalitions he started, created or nurtured.”