I Was A Finalist For The Pulitzer

I Happen To Be One Of Those In The Antiwar Part Of Things Who Actually Supported Bill Clinton When He Sent The Cruise Missiles In To Take Out Bin Laden. I Had Thought We Had The Right To Use Special Forces To Go In For Bin Laden. He Had Attacked American Embassies. He Attacked Ships. And So, I Didn't See Any Need To Coddle The Taliban.

And New People Come In, And It Doesn't Go Along With Their Politics, And They Fire Me, End The Column, Silence A Voice In Los Angeles. They Can't Silence It Nationally, But They Are Able To Do It There.

We've Had The Trivialization Of Our Politics Going On Ever Since We Had Electronic Media.

Eisenhower Provided The First Break In The Cold War, By Bringing Khrushchev To The United States, In Humanizing The Soviets; And Then Nixon, By Making The Opening To China; And Then Reagan, Even Meeting In Reykjavik With Gorbachev And Acknowledging That Nuclear Weapons Are A Horror. So I Won't Accept That Republicans Just Escalate. Republicans, At Least When They Were More Moderate, They Were Maybe Even More Isolationist, They Sometimes Brought Sanity To The Debate. We Don't Have That Now. We Have - All These Republicans Have Gone Off The Neoconservative Deep End.

The Paper Nominated Me 12 Or 13 Times For The Pulitzer Prize.