In Bill Anderson's comment below about how the Bushies abuse all who oppose them, fascist style, he mentions that the great James Bovard is never published in the War Street Journal anymore, whereas he was one of the op-ed page's stars ten years ago. They also used to publish an article or two of mine every year, and a half dozen or so letters to the editor as well, usually placing them at the top of the letters page. Then all of a sudden there were no more acceptances, not even of the shortest letter.
The explanation is a Machiavellian takeover of the editorial page by the neocons. All of a sudden a youngster named Max Boot, who was barely out of college, became the editorial features editor, a very prestigious job. He was the gatekeeper of all articles to be considered for publication in the WSJ (Or rather his benefactor, Irving Kristol, was). Gone were the days when someone with some actual education and background in business and economics held the job as lead commentator at the Wall Street Journal.
As LRC readers know, Boot is one of the zanier imperialistic, warmongering neocons(Even zanier than the frustrated California raisin farmer/NRO pundit, Victor Davis Hanson). Excellent writers like Bovard and Paul Craig Roberts were purged because they criticized the state. The WSJ would henceforth be devoted to the cause of "national greatness conservativism," on display today in Iraq.
At around the time Boot took over, Billy Kristol published his piece in the WSJ defining "national greatness conservativism" and his "Project for a New American Century," another phrase used by the neoconmen to descibe what is going on in Iraq today. This publication marked the more or less "official" takeover of the Journal's editorial page by the conniving neoconmen.
