Bill Safire, the neocon warmonger and welfare-statist who wrote propaganda speeches for Dick Nixon, has died at 79. He was an erudite guy and the NY Times’s first “op-ed” columnist, op-ed meaning “pretending to disasgree with the regime.” But I will always remember his telling me, over the phone in 1981, how much he disliked Ron Paul’s libertarian ideas, especially his opposition to foreign aid and US interventionism in the Middle East. I had made the mistake of including him on a congressional press list that outraged him.

The Best of Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.