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If you’ve gotten the same mass-forwarded e-mail as Michael Brendan Dougherty’s friend, your reply-to-all begins here.

According to the Center for American Progress, the war is Iraq is costing $177 million per day, $7.4 million per hour, and $122,820 per minute. The Center has available a Cost of Iraq War Ticker that can be added to websites.

Former Minnesota Sen. Eugene McCarthy died yesterday at the age of 89. Reactions here.

Last June, Patrick Buchanan asked, “Who is the Eugene McCarthy of this generation?” In a June 2004 interview with Salon.com, McCarthy explained his decision to challenge LBJ on an antiwar platform:

I thought someone ought to challenge this ridiculous war, and I also thought a great deal about the domestic agitation and confusion. And I realized the Senate wasn’t going to do it when [it failed] to repeal the 1965 Tonkin Gulf Authorization. The repeal got five votes. That was in ’67; it wasn’t like 1965 when people still believed the Tonkin Resolution was the real thing. And I said, I guess a number of times, that one of the principal responsibilities the Senate had is to be involved in a serious way in foreign policy, and that the ultimate act of foreign policy is war. Therefore the Senate had a special responsibility when war comes to say, “Do we want it? Is it in the interest of the country?” And I thought that we’d reached that point and passed it and, well, it sounds self-serving, but if the Senate wouldn’t do it, that didn’t excuse me for not doing it. Because one senator could take responsibility for the whole body if he wanted to fulfill his constitutional duties.

John Nichols eulogizes the poet-statesman here.

I just now read Chris Matthew Sciabarra’s note at Liberty and Power that Bill Bradford, editor of Liberty Magazine, lost his life to cancer on Thursday, December 8. He was 58.

I am very sad to hear this. I had the pleasure of meeting Bill at the LP National Convention in Atlanta in 2004, and was fortunate to write several book reviews for Liberty over the last couple years.

Bill Bradford, on top of being a dedicated hard-working libertarian editor, was very strongly opposed to the war machine. I had several long conversations with him on the phone and he told me more than once that there wasn’t a war in the U.S. government’s history that he thought was necessary and unavoidable — that there was always a better way than war to achieve the desired results. We have lost, among other things, another force for peace with his death.

This morning, Rational Review reports the untimely death of R.W. Bradford, publisher of Liberty magazine. He was 58 and had fought heroically against cancer for many months.

I first met Bill Bradford 26 years ago. He was a dedicated and unwavering fighter for liberty and peace. The libertarian and antiwar movements have lost a great friend.

Thanks to Tom Knapp, Jeff Riggenbach, and Stephen Cox for transmitting this sad information.

Saturday from 6-8 pm EST on the Weekend Interview Show, I’ll be talking with Larisa Alexandrovna from Raw Story about the Fitzgerald investigation and related matters. Then in the second hour, my friend Anthony Gregory from the Independent Institute will return to discuss the question of whether the state really protects anyone at all.

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Then at 9 pm EST, Karen Kwiatkowski, host of the new show American Forum, will be interviewing persecuted non-commissioned officer Al Lorentz, author of this great essay about the disaster in Iraq.

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