Dear Friends at Free Press: Harvey Wasserman is basically right about the Spanish-American War. But McKinley did call for an inquiry first, so it isn't correct to portray him as a warmonger. And the story of the "rape" of the Cuban Joan of Arc is tragi-comic in itself, because Hearst had laid the…

I'm a friend and contributing writer, as you know. I don't want FreePress to think I've lost confidence in them, or vice versa. I hope we'll stay friends. But really, folks! James A. Baker III was, more than any other individual, responsible for stopping the recount in Florida in 2000. He was…