Bernie Quigley

During the buildup to the Iraq war, Bernie Quigley came out of retirement in the bucolic splendor of the White Mountains to speak out against the invasion and the assault on our constitutional rights by the Bush administration. He was quoted on BBC world radio on the morning of the invasion and wrote over 150 articles for online journals and political newsletters, proposing that, technically, under Thomas Jefferson’s interpretation of the Constitution, the northern New England states need not participate without the explicit consent of the governors. John Kenneth Galbriath called his proposal that northern New England send its own ambassador to the U.N., if the United States no longer wanted to participate, “wonderfully to the good.”

Mr. Quigley has published poetry and award-winning nonfiction and has worked more than 30 years as a scholarly book and journal editor, political commentator and book, movie, music and art reviewer. His political essays have appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Philadelphia Daily News and varied newspapers, journals and magazines in North Carolina and northern New England. He lives in the White Mountains with his wife and four children. He is a Tunis sheep breeder and his political blog, "Quigley: Culture, Politics, Sheep," has been cited worldwide. His online art journal, "Quigley in Exile," is linked by the Jung Center in Houston and by Buddhist monks in Dharamsala and California, and its essays have been reprinted throughout the United States and Europe. He is proud to be a contributing editor to the Fighting Dems information site, which encourages Iraq war veterans to enter politics, and a featured writer for WesPAC, Wesley Clark’s home page and information site.