DAVID DUKE was hounded out of Richmond:

Originally promoted on Duke’s Web page as a major policy address on the potential war with Iraq — Duke opposes the war, predictably arguing that it is the product of a conspiracy among the Sharon government, American Jews and the American government — the speech was supposed to have been Duke’s swan song.

No major hotels were willing to rent him a conference room, so he wound up at a Quality Inn that was, to his horror, owned by an Indian. Meryl Yourish has the scoop on what she calls his “feeble last hurrah.”