High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Samuel Todd Francis (April 29, 1947 – February 15, 2005), known as Sam Francis, was an iconoclastic anti-capitalistpaleoconservative columnist, nationally syndicated in America, known for his controversial views on immigration, multiculturalism, miscegenation, and his involvement in debates concerning other controversial issues of the day. His supporters characterized him as a conservative and a realist, while to his critics he was a reactionary and a racist. Francis was also a leading political theorist of paleoconservatism; among his better-known stances was his claim that the Iraq War was illegitimate.