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Best of Weigel: A Look Back

By | 06.28.10 | 4:42 pm

Now that the ethically dubious publication of some of his private emails has derailed Dave Weigel’s tenure at The Washington Post by raising questions about his ability to report effectively on the conservative movement, we thought it would be a good time to highlight just how effective Weigel can be. More…

New Mexico Republicans Try to Bring Down Anti-War Candidate

By | 03.19.10 | 3:05 pm

Last year I profiled Adam Kokesh, an Iraq War veteran who became a fiery anti-war activist and launched a 2010 GOP bid for Congress. Since then, he’s become a more credible candidate for the nomination in NM-3, typically the bluest district in New Mexico — and has come under More…

Anti-War Activist Mounts GOP Campaign for Congress

By | 12.18.09 | 6:00 am

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) had barely begun to give his acceptance speech at the 2008 Republican National Convention when a clamor went up in the upper levels of St. Paul’s XCel Center. Adam Kokesh, a marine who had become a leader of Iraq Veterans Against the More…

The Guy Who Brought the AR-15 to an Obama Speech Meets a GOP Candidate

By | 12.04.09 | 2:17 pm

Adam Kokesh is one of the more intriguing Republican congressional candidates of the 2010 cycle. A 27-year-old libertarian who became a leader of Iraq Veterans Against the War, Kokesh is mounting a Ron Paul-style antiwar, small-government campaign in the heavily Democratic 3rd district of New Mexico — it More…

Mike Gravel Returns!

By | 10.14.09 | 3:05 pm

The 2008 Democratic and Libertarian presidential hopeful resurfaces to give a barely audible endorsement to Adam Kokesh, a libertarian activist who’s running for Congress in New Mexico’s heavily Democratic 3rd District. Kokesh is running basically unchallenged for the Republican nomination, running an anti-war campaign in a district Republicans are More…

Anti-War Libertarian Activist Running for Congress

By | 05.01.09 | 12:23 pm

Adam Kokesh, a libertarian Marine Corps veteran who became a fairly prominent anti-Iraq War activist, is running for Congress as an independent in New Mexico’s 3rd Congressional District.

After leaving the Marine Corps, I joined the monumental fight to end the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan, bring our

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