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As regular readers know, when I went to Eye-Rack I made a deal with the ethics folks at the Department of Defense. I could continue to write from Iraq - the Iraq Travelogues - but I had to extend the subscription of everyone who paid for Mullings for the amount of time I was an employee of the US Government.

As that period was only supposed to be a couple of months, the regular February subscription drive would have taken place in April.

However, as my term of employment in Baghdad extended to just about SIX MONTHS, the earliest the renewal period could have begun was August. August is a horrible month for a subscription drive, so I waited until September which, as you know, has now arrived.

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Mullings is a real business. It requires paid subscriptions and advertising to continue. Mullings is not a subsidiary of a large corporation. It is the basic building block - the charmed quark for those who took (and stayed awake during) Physics 113 - of the American economy: A small business run by one person.

That person happens to be me, and I happen to love doing it.

Nevertheless, like any business it requires a steady, dependable revenue stream. Or two. A significant portion of the annual revenue necessary comes from Mullings readers who choose to pay $25 to keep the column going.

It's a little like listening to National Public Radio. If you pay their annual fee, you can listen to everything they broadcast. If you don't pay � you can still listen.

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For those who may be new to Mull World, I do not consider myself to be a journalist. And journalists absolutely don't consider me to be a journalist.

I am a political hack. I am good at it. I am proud of it. Politics is what makes the unique American form of self-governance function. Although it is considered a requirement for reporters and academics to belittle the process; it works more often than not - even when the edges are strained to the breaking point as they were in 2000.

Mullings is a pointedly Conservative political column. I try not to be mean, but neither do I attempt to be even-handed. I think Liberalism is wrong-headed and I am perfectly happy to point out the faults and blunders of our friends on the Left - as they are eager to point our what they consider to be our shortcomings.

The secret to understanding my approach is this: I consider those on the Left to be my political opponents; not my enemies.

The columns generally run about 700 words (which is about the length of a standard opinion piece in your newspaper) and comes to your e-mail inbox as a complete column every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.

Each of those columns is accompanied by a "Secret Decoder Ring" page (SDR) which contains photos, additional links, explanations of obscure references and other things which I find amusing, aggravating or both. There is a link at the bottom of every edition of Mullings page which takes you to the SDR.

In addition to the three-days-a-week Mullings column, there are irregular Travelogues which are not unlike the Iraq adventures except they generally don't include stories of people who are actively trying to kill me. At least no one I'm aware of.

The Travelogues are included in the subscription price.

In a normal year - a normal year being defined as one during which I spend exactly zero days in Iraq or any other war zone - each edition of Mullings costs about a dime.

When you consider the amount of material I provide you to beat that Liberal jerk (with whom you have to share an office) over the head with, it is a terrific bargain.

So, if you don't remember when you were due for renewal, the answer is: TODAY!

If you have never subscribed (or you wish to subscribe on behalf of someone who has never done so) please consider today a good day to do that, as well.

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Thank you and be safe,

Rich