Fred Reed is a columnist for The Washington Times. A former marine, Reed is a streety police writer, an occasional terrified war correspondent, and an aficionado of raffish bars. His often satirical and opinionated columns are released weekly.

Reed notes that his columns are often provocative, and calls himself "an equal-opportunity irritant."

Fred's articles: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FredOnEverything/?yguid=22765296

There is also another Fred Reed, a poet working mainly in the Northumbrian dialect of English.