In Washington, DC he is considered a liberal columnist. Me, I always thought that he was the white-supremacist-in-residence at the Washington Post. He once wrote justifying the ban on young African-American men at jewelery stores in Georgetown. Here he goes: "I once bought a KKK robe at a junk shop in southern Pennsylvania. I considered it historic and well worth the price, something like $1.50. I took it home to Washington, unsure of what to do with it until, that night, it occurred to me I had a problem on my hands: the maid. The woman—a black woman, as if you didn't know—was due the next day and might come across my piece of history."