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Here are some things written in the not so distant, but already fading, past. Most of the material here consists of newspaper editorials or material written for political magazines.

Rush Limbaugh and His Enemas was done for an old, defunct webrag known as The Greater Ozarks Bastinado. And yes, the title was pilfered from Buckley's book.
Liberty magazine published my review of Hunter S. Thompson's The proud highway as Epistles from the Edge way back in the twentieth century.
I wrote The Other House on Garibaldi Street when the FBI's lies pertaining to the Waco massacre first begain to unravel. It was published in SpinTech magazine.
I also wrote my take on the Littleton killings and a little piece on the real political center for SpinTech.
Some people think that it's their business what people read... and when so observed in the affair of Abercrombie, Fitch and Finch, there were those who took exception.
I've always been a Beatles fan...but when I wrote You Say You Want a Revolution? for The Libertarian Enterprise, I found out that some consider me to be a seditious Beatles fan.
An issue that is close to my heart...and my kidneys....and my liver...Why can't we put organs on the free market?. When I wrote on that subject for the Springfield News-Leader, I ended up having to do a followup to further explain myself.
Missouri is "The Show Me State." In two terms as state attorney general, two terms as gvovernor, and one U.S. Senate stint, John Aschroft has shown me who and what he is.
Caleb Carr has some ideas on Internet regulation. I dissent.
There are three kinds of lies: Lies, Damn Lies and Republican Rhetoric. A dissection of George Bush's first budget as president. (02/28/01)
One of Bush's nuttier ideas is keeping the welfare state but handing over the attendant money and power to his buddies on the religious right.
A Pox on Both Their Houses! No one, least of all government, is innocent in bringing about California's power "crisis."
The Republicans are well on their way to becoming a third party in American politics, so naturally they blame ... the Libertarians. Spoiling for a Fight is my reply to Republican Liberty Caucus leader Chuck Muth's accusation that the Libertarian Party is nothing more than a "spoiler." (03/26/01)
Chalk one up for the good guys -- the reversal of the government's attempted breakup of Microsoft is good for consumers and freedom, no matter how badly Windows sucks. (06/29/01)
Independence Day gets me down. Or at least thinking. Here's Mourn on the 4th of July.
The Free Radical, a New Zealand print magazine, published Non-coercion: Concept and Context in its July, 2001 issue. Here's the essay's first web appearance.
In a Libertarian America ... is my reaction to the terror attacks of September 11th, 2001, and their aftermath.
If you have to ask "why," the answer is usually money. The Office of Homeland Security is no exception.