In 1974, I was a freshman at Texas A&M and a member of the Student Conference on National Affairs. SCONA hosted Dr. Friedman as a speaker at its annual conference.

I had the opportunity to meet Dr. Friedman and to shake his hand. I got so excited about it, that the minute he walked away, I began to hyperventilate. I had to sit on a bench and put my head down for a few minutes. Later, while attending a cocktail party in his honor, my friends watched me like a hawk in the event I repeated my earlier performance.

I never got excited about rock stars–in fact, I fell asleep during every rock concert I attended in my youth. But Milton Friedman? He was bigger than the Beatles to me.

Thomas Sowell writes about his personal experiences with Dr. Friedman in the Wall Street Journal today.

Gary North wrote about him earlier this week.

My hero.

This thoroughly disgusts me. No, not what Jim Webb wrote in his books. I am disgusted with George Allan’s campaign.

I have read every single one of Jim Webb’s books. My favorites are Born Fighting and A Country Such A This. They are gritty and realistic and manly—they are NOT pornograpy or a glorification of perversion as Allan’s campaign would have you believe.

I had trouble with Fields of Fire because it was written in manly talk (I don’t know how else to describe it). It reminded me of going to lunch with a bunch of guys who talk about sports and cars.

I would prefer that the sex scenes in his book all involve marriage or be a little more romantic–but I think that Webb was writing for men. He is an expert on Vietnamese culture and has been going back there for decades. The, so called underage “sex” scene, is tied to culture–not sex as I understand it.

Jim Webb is too darn liberal on abortion and domestic issues–but I think that he has a lot more integrity than Allan and this just proves it to me. He is too good for the Democrats! I’m going to give him some more money.

(I would like the “macaca” hangers-on to his campaign to shut up! They are lunatics!)

Jim Webb who is running for U.S. Senator in Virginia, will be on television tonight. I just got the following notice:

Dear Jim Webb supporters,

You’re invited to watch Jim’s first national television appearance since officially kicking off his campaign earlier this week. Jim will be the special guest on Comedy Central’s ‘The Colbert Report’ tonight at 11:30 p.m. The show will re-air on Thursday at 10:30 a.m. and 8:30 p.m.

WHAT: Jim Webb on The Colbert Report

WHERE: Comedy Central

WHEN: Wednesday, March 8, 2006
11:30 PM

Note that the above is Eastern Time. I have never heard of this show, but I intend to watch.

James H. Webb, former Secretary of the Navy under Reagan, has announced that he will run as a Democrat against Sen. George Allan of Virginia. I am going to donate to his campaign.

I interviewed him on Mychal Massie’s show Straight Talk on Right Talk Radio last October about his book Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America. I blogged about him here and here. Go read his articles here.

Republicans screwed up when they lost this man. I’m not going to support their candidate in Virginia just because he is a Republican.