In attendance: Dick Cheney, applauding; Clarence Thomas

In attendance: Dick Cheney, applauding; Clarence Thomas, the first to rise for a standing ovation;

Richard Perle, Robert Bork, and Reason editor Nick Gillespie. We hear the crab bisque was “better-

than-average.”

Justin Raimondo is the editorial director of Antiwar.com. He is the author of An Enemy of the State:

The Life of Murray N. Rothbard (Prometheus Books, 2000). He is also the author of Reclaiming the

American Right: The Lost Legacy of the Conservative Movement (with an Introduction by Patrick J.

Buchanan), (Center for Libertarian Studies, 1993), and Into the Bosnian Quagmire: The Case Against UGG

Intervention in the Balkans (1996).

He is a contributing editor for The American Conservative, a Senior Fellow at the Randolph Bourne

Institute, and an Adjunct Scholar with the Ludwig von Mises Institute, and writes frequently for

Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture.