James Traficant's release from jail reminded us all of his -- in retrospect -- charming eccentricities: The hair, the grandiosity, the "beam me up."

His first column in newest issue of the American Free Press -- described by the Anti-Defamation League as an "anti-Semitic, conspiracy-oriented publication" -- is a reminder of what, to some, where always less charming features of his career.

"I encourage you to subscribe to AFP and read my weekly column," he writes in a column that runs online opposite a piece calling for a new investigation of 9/11. "I plan to address the influence and power of AIPAC and its control over our very lives. The reason to abolish the Federal Reserve system; the reason to abolish our Communist progressive income tax; the absolute need to repeal the 16th Amendment to the Constitution; and my proposals to save and create jobs; to stop the hemorrhaging of our federal debt, to reverse our massive trade deficit and stop illegal immigration."...