Doug Bandow
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Douglas Bandow (born ca. 1954) is a former columnist with Copley News Service and a senior fellow at the Cato Institute
Cato Institute
The Cato Institute is a libertarian think tank headquartered in Washington, D.C. It was founded in 1977 by Edward H. Crane, who remains president and CEO, and Charles Koch, chairman of the board and chief executive officer of the conglomerate Koch Industries, Inc., the largest privately held...

. He resigned from Cato in 2005 due a scandal involving payments for columns from lobbyist Jack Abramoff
Jack Abramoff
Jack Abramoff is an American former lobbyist and businessman. Convicted in 2006 of mail fraud and conspiracy, he was at the heart of an extensive corruption investigation that led to the conviction of White House officials J. Steven Griles and David Safavian, U.S. Representative Bob Ney, and nine...

 and wrote about it in the Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
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. As of March 2009, Bandow is again working at the Cato Institute.http://www.cato.org/people/bandow.html He served as a Special Assistant to President Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan
Ronald Wilson Reagan was the 40th President of the United States , the 33rd Governor of California and, prior to that, a radio, film and television actor....

 and as a Senior Policy Analyst in the 1980 Reagan for President campaign. He is also a columnist for Antiwar.com
Antiwar.com
Antiwar.com is a website devoted to opposing aggressive war, imperialism, and assaults on freedom associated with both. The editors describe their politics as libertarian. Their stated motiviation is, "to show how the imperialistic tendencies of the American government lead to a loss of civil...

.

Bandow obtained his bachelor's degree in economics
Economics
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 from Florida State University
Florida State University
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 in Tallahassee in 1976. He completed a J.D.
Juris Doctor
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 degree from Stanford in Palo Alto, California
Palo Alto, California
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 in 1979. He worked in the Reagan administration as special assistant to the president and also edited the political magazine Inquiry.http://www.cato.org/people/bandow.html He is also a conservative Presbyterian. He was strongly opposed to the Law of the Sea
Law of the sea
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 Treaty and authored several books, including The Politics of Plunder.

Abramoff scandal

Bandow resigned from Cato on December 15, 2005, after admitting he accepted payments from Abramoff — in return for publishing articles favorable to Abramoff's clients over a period of approximately ten years. He has referred to these activities as "a lapse of judgment," saying that he accepted payments for "between 12 and 24 articles" over a period of years. He stepped down after BusinessWeek Online contacted the Cato Institute to probe news of possible payments. He typically received on the order of $2,000 per article.http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/dec2005/nf20051216_1037_db016.htm

Copley News Service, which carried Doug Bandow's syndicated column, suspended him immediately after the payola
Payola
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 news became public. National Society of Newspaper Columnists President Suzette Martinez Standring said his action "isn't a lapse in judgment, it’s soul-selling. With so much practice at tweaking copy for others, I’m sure the advertising industry will welcome him." http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001700028

Steve Clemons, publisher of the blog The Washington Note, has referred to Doug Bandow as his friend and stated that he would be happy to have him guest blog again, but later withdrew that statement. He said that Bandow's resignation was sufficient penalty for his transgressions, and that the larger problem is the corruption of think tanks. http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/001148.html

Peter Ferrara
Peter Ferrara
Peter J. Ferrara is an American lawyer, policy analyst, and columnist who is the current general counsel for the American Civil Rights Union and analyst for The Heartland Institute...

, a senior policy adviser at the Institute for Policy Innovation, also took money from Abramoff to write favorable op-ed pieces. "I do that all the time. I've done that in the past, and I'll do it in the future," he explained.http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/dec2005/nf20051216_1037_db016.htm

On December 28, 2005, Chuck Muth
Chuck Muth
Chuck Muth is President and CEO of Citizen Outreach and a professional political communications consultant.He is a former executive director of the American Conservative Union, a National Chairman of the Republican Liberty Caucus, a Clark County, Nevada GOP chairman and former Nevada Republican...

, president and CEO of Citizen Outreach, announced that Bandow was joining the think tank as vice president of policy. Although Muth noted that he and Bandow did not "agree 100 percent" on every issue, he expressed admiration for his new colleague's reasoning "based on objective thought and not emotion." "He's able to justify any public policy issue from a limited government standpoint in the best tradition of our Founding Fathers," he said.http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=58698

Bandow resides in Springfield
Springfield, Virginia
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, Virginia
Virginia
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See also

  • Copley News Service
  • Loss of Strength Gradient
    Loss of Strength Gradient
    The Loss of Strength Gradient was devised by Kenneth Boulding in 1962. He argued that the amount of a nation’s military power that could be brought to bear in any part of the world depended on geographic distance. The Loss of Strength Gradient demonstrated, in graphical form, that the further away...

  • Paleolibertarianism
    Paleolibertarianism
    Paleolibertarianism is a school of thought within American libertarianism associated with the late economist Murray Rothbard, and the Ludwig von Mises Institute. It is based on a combination of right-libertarianism in politics and cultural conservatism in social thought...

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