- Glenn Greenwald
Glenn Greenwald is a former constitutional and civil rights litigator in New York City, first at the Manhattan firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, and then at the litigation firm he founded, Greenwald, Christoph. Greenwald litigated numerous high-profile and significant constitutional cases in federal and state courts around the country, including multiple First Amendment challenges. - George Will
George Frederick Will (born May 4, 1941) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning, conservative American newspaper columnist, journalist, and author. - David Brooks
Mr. Brooks joined The Weekly Standard at its inception in September 1995, having worked at The Wall Street Journal for the previous nine years. His last post at the Journal was as op-ed editor. Prior to that, he was posted in Brussels, covering Russia, the Middle East, South Africa and European affairs. His first post at the Journal was as editor of the book review section, and he filled in for five months as the Journal's movie critic. - Glenn Beck
Glenn Beck (born February 10 1964) is a conservative talk-radio and television host. His radio show, "The Glenn Beck Program", is syndicated by over 230 radio stations and on XM Satellite Radio channel 165 talk radio, which airs from 9 AM - 12 PM (ET). The Glenn Beck Program is the 3<sup>rd</sup> highest-ranked national radio talk show among adults ages 25 to 54, according to Premiere Research/Arbitron. He is sixth for overall listeners with 3.75 million a week. - Grover Norquist
Grover Norquist , once registered as a lobbyist for Microsoft and American Express, is one of many corporate lobbyists who helped shape the Economy Plan for the "new" Iraq . In an interview with Palast, Norquist boasted of moving freely at the Treasury, Defense and State Departments, and in the White House, "shaping the post-conquest economic plansa." - Brent Bozell
BRENT BOZELL, President of the Media Research Center: Well, you know, I'm institutionally sympathetic to the idea that a spouse should be off-limits if the spouses want to be off-limits, if the spouse isn't participating in the political process. In this case, you've got a spouse who is well-informed, well-educated, well-spoken and outspoken on the campaign trail campaigning on behalf of her husband. So absolutely she's fair game. Of course she is. - Byron York
Byron York is a conservative American author and journalist who lives in Washington, D.C.. - Frank Gaffney
Despite his often extremist views, Gaffney is frequently cited in the press as an "expert" on U.S. foreign policy, appearing regularly on the BBC and other radio and TV broadcasts. He is also a prolific writer, having published in most major media outlets and opinion journals, including the Wall Street Journal , USA Today , The New Republic , Washington Post , New York Times , Christian Science Monitor , Los Angeles Times , National Review , Newsday , and Commentary magazine. - John O'Sullivan
John O'Sullivan (born April 25, 1942) is a British conservative political commentator and journalist. He received his higher education at the University of London, and stood unsuccessfully as Conservative candidate in the 1970 British general election. He is Editor-in-Chief of the international affairs magazine, "The National Interest", Editor-at-Large of the magazine the "National Review", and a Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute. - Jim Talent
James Matthes "Jim" Talent (born October 18, 1956) is an American politician and former Senator from Missouri. He is a Republican and resided in the St. Louis area while serving in elected office. He identifies with the conservative wing of the Republican party, being particularly outspoken on judicial appointments, abortion and flag burning. After serving for eight years in the U.S. House of Representatives and then working as a lobbyist, … - Deroy Murdock
Deroy Murdock is a columnist with Scripps Howard News Service and a media fellow with the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace at Stanford ... - Rebecca Hagelin
Rebecca Hagelin has championed the pro-family message in both Washington and around the nation for some twenty years. She is a vice president of The Heritage Foundation ( Heritage.org ) whose vision is to "Create an America where freedom, opportunity, prosperity and civil society flourish." Her weekly column, "Heart Beat", appears on WorldNetDaily.com and Townhall.com and is characterized by its exploration of social and cultural issues through the eyes of a mother. - Robert Nisbet
Robert Alexander Nisbet (September 30, 1913. Los Angeles - September 9, 1996, Washington D.C.) was an American conservative sociologist. - Bruce Chapman
Bruce K. Chapman is the director and founder of the Discovery Institute, an American conservative think tank, with links to the religious right. He was previously a journalist, a Republican Party politician and a diplomat. - Barbara Olson
Barbara Olson (December 27, 1955 - September 11, 2001) was a conservative American television commentator who worked for Fox News Channel, CNN and several other outlets. She was a passenger on American Airlines Flight 77 when it was flown into the Pentagon in the September 11, 2001 attacks. Olson was born Barbara Kay Bracher in Houston, Texas. - Daniel Lapin
Daniel Lapin (born 1950?) is a political commentator and American Orthodox rabbi living in Mercer Island, Washington, and the founder of Toward Tradition (a conservative Jewish-Christian organization). He also once headed the Pacific Jewish Center in Venice, Los Angeles, California,(as well as the Commonwealth Loan Company and the Cascadia Business Institute). Lapin is co-chair of the conservative American Alliance of Jews and Christians. - Walter Olson
Walter K. Olson is the author of three books on the American litigation system: "The Litigation Explosion", "The Excuse Factory", and most recently "The Rule of Lawyers". Olson is a longtime senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a conservative think tank in New York City. He founded and continues to run several websites, including Overlawyered.com and the Manhattan Institute's PointOfLaw.com. - Rowland Evans
Rowland Evans, Jr. (April 28, 1921 - March 23,2001) was an American journalist. He was known best for his decades-long syndicated column and television partnership with Robert Novak, a partnership that endured, if only by way of a joint subscription newsletter, until Evans's death. Born in Whitemarsh Township, Pennsylvania, Evans attended Yale University briefly, but left to join the United States Marines and saw action in the Solomon Islands during World War II. - Florence King
Florence Virginia King (b. January 5 1936, Washington, D.C.) is an American novelist, essayist and columnist. While her early writings focused on the American South and those who live there, much of King's later work has been published in "National Review". Her column in "National Review", "The Misanthrope's Corner", was known for "serving up a smorgasbord of curmudgeonly critiques about rubes and all else bothersome to the Queen of Mean", … - Reed Irvine
Reed Irvine (September 29, 1922-November 16, 2004) was an economist turned media watchdog with known conservative sympathies. He founded the conservative Accuracy in Media, and remained its head for 35 years. Notable events were during the Persian Gulf War in 1991, "he accused CNN and its reporter Peter Arnett of airing "Saddam Hussein's version of the truth. There's no way his reporting is helping America win this war". - Nina Easton
Nina Easton (born 1958) is Washington Bureau Chief for "Fortune Magazine" and a commentator on the Fox News Channel, appearing regularly on Special Report with Brit Hume and Fox News Sunday. Prior to joining Fortune in 2006, she served as Deputy Bureau Chief and lead political writer for the "Boston Globe". She has also appeared as a commentator on ABC's "This Week," CBS's "Face the Nation," CNN's "News night" and PBS's "Washington Week," among others. - Tom Brinkman
Thomas E. Brinkman, Jr. (born December 6 1957 in Cincinnati, Ohio) is a Republican (GOP) member of the Ohio House of Representatives from Cincinnati. He is known for his opposition to higher taxes and public spending and has been nicknamed "Dr. No." Before his election to the Ohio General Assembly, he was active in Cincinnati politics and has been popular among rank-and-file conservatives for his strong anti-abortion and anti-taxation stances. - Russ Smith
Russ Smith (b. 1955 in Huntington, New York) is a newspaper publisher and columnist best known for founding the "Baltimore City Paper", "Washington City Paper" and "New York Press". After selling the Baltimore and Washington "City Paper"s for $4 million, Smith founded "New York Press" in 1989. Like his previous papers, the press was an alternative weekly. It became a caustic rival with the well-established "Village Voice". - James K. Glassman
James K. Glassman is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a Washington public policy think tank. He is editor-in-chief of The American , AEI’s bimonthly magazine of business and economics. He is the former president of The Atlantic Monthly Co., publisher of The New Republic , Executive Vice President of U.S. News & World Report , and editor-in-chief and co-owner of Roll Call , the congressional newspaper. - Corey Robin
Corey Robin is an American liberal political theorist, journalist and professor of Political Science at Brooklyn College. Despite being a progressive, he devoted his scholarly attention to the study of the contemporary forms of american conservatism and neoconservatism, as well as of the difficulties of both the liberals and the New Left in dealing with American supremacy, after the end of the Cold War. - Jimmy Duncan
John James Duncan, Jr. usually known as Jimmy Duncan, (born July 21, 1947) is a Tennessee Republican politician, representing, based in Knoxville. Duncan was born in Lebanon, Tennessee. He graduated from the University of Tennessee in 1969 with a Bachelor of Science degree and subsequently received a Juris Doctor degree from George Washington University in Washington, D.C. in 1973 and was admitted to the bar that same year. - Bill Brock
William Emerson "Bill" Brock III (born November 23, 1930) is a former Republican United States Senator from Tennessee, having served from 1971 to 1977. He was the grandson of William Emerson Brock I, who was a Democratic U.S. senator from Tennessee from 1929 to 1931. Brock was a native of Chattanooga, where his family owned a well-known candy company. He is a 1949 graduate of McCallie School and a 1953 graduate of Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia, … - Lisa de Moraes
Lisa de Moraes is a noted television columnist. Her writings, titled "The TV Column," appear regularly (but not on any particular schedule) in the Style section of "The Washington Post". As opposed to a TV critic such as the "Post"'s Tom Shales, de Moraes's columns deal mainly with the business of television, such as scheduling. Her columns are written in a distinctively irreverent tone; they usually strongly imply her opinions on the subject matter. - Foster Campbell
Foster L. Campbell, Jr. (born January 6, 1947) is a Democratic member of the Louisiana Public Service Commission, a former 26-year member of the Louisiana State Senate, and a candidate for Governor in the October 20, 2007, jungle primary. Born in Shreveport, Campbell graduated from Northwestern State University in Natchitoches with a bachelor of science degree. After graduation, he became a salesman of agricultural supplies until 1976, … - Jim Bob Duggar
James Robert (Jim Bob) Duggar, of Tontitown, Arkansas, served in the Arkansas House of Representatives from 1999 to 2002. Duggar was a candidate for the United States Senate in 2002, but lost to Tim Hutchinson. Duggar sought the Republican nomination to the Arkansas State Senate District 35 seat in Arkansas in 2006, but lost to candidate Bill Pritchard. Duggar is a real estate agent, and owns several commercial properties in his local area. - E. L. Henry
Edgerton L. "Bubba" Henry (born February 10, 1936) is a Baton Rouge attorney, lobbyist, and partner of the high-powered firm Adams and Reese who served as a Democrat in the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1968-1980. He was Speaker from 1972-1980. Henry was Governor Edwin Washington Edwards's choice for Speaker. Though he was considered reform-minded, some conservatives still questioned Henry's commitment to reform. - George W. Shannon
George Washington Shannon (February 20, 1914 - April 25, 1998) was a career Louisiana journalist who was described by a friend as "a dedicated, old-time newspaperman who dug for the facts and tried to tell it like it was." Shannon was born in El Dorado, the seat of Columbia County, in southern Arkansas. He began his career as a reporter and sports editor at the <i>El Dorado News-Times</i>, one of the Clyde E. Palmer newspapers (since WEHCO Media, Inc.). In 1935, … - Nikahang Kowsar
Nikahang Kowsar is an Iranian cartoonist, journalist, and blogger, currently living in Toronto, Canada. Kowsar was also a reformist candidate for the second term of city council of Tehran in 2003, an election won by the conservative candidates of Abadgaran. - Jared Y. Sanders Jr.
John Young Sanders, Jr., was a prominent Democratic member of the Louisiana House of Representatives, the Louisiana State Senate, and the United States House of Representatives, perhaps best known for his conservative opposition to legendary Governor and U.S. Senator Huey Pierce Long, Jr., and his support of the States' Rights Party in 1960. Sanders was born in Franklin, the seat of St. Mary Parish to Governor Jared Young Sanders, Sr. (1908-1912), … - George W. Bush
George Walker Bush is the forty-third and current President of the United States of America. Originally inaugurated on January 20, 2001, Bush was elected president in the 2000 presidential election and re-elected in the 2004 presidential election. He previously served as the forty-sixth Governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000, and is the eldest son of former United States president George H. W. Bush. - Ramesh Ponnuru
Ramesh Ponnuru (born August 16, 1974) is a Washington, D.C.-based Indian American columnist and a senior editor for "National Review" magazine. He has also written for several other newspapers and publications, including "The Weekly Standard", "Policy Review", "The New Republic" and "First Things". Ponnuru was raised in Prairie Village, Kansas. - Cal Thomas
Cal Thomas is a conservative American syndicated columnist and author. His column began in 1984 and appears in over 550 newspapers throughout the United States. He is a panelist on "Fox News Watch", a Fox News Channel program critiquing the media, and until September 2005 hosted "After Hours with Cal Thomas" on the same network. He also gives a daily radio commentary, which is heard on over 300 stations. - Jeff Jacoby
Jeff Jacoby (b. February 10, 1959) has been a "Boston Globe" opinion/editorial columnist since 1994. Born in Cleveland, he is a graduate of George Washington University and the Boston University School of Law. From 1987 to 1994, he was chief editorial writer for the Boston Herald. He generally writes from a conservative perspective, but his columns have been described as "a must-read" by the left-leaning Boston Phoenix. - Kathryn Jean Lopez
Kathryn Jean Lopez, (born March 22, probably 1976), a native of Manhattan, is an American conservative columnist, who is nationally syndicated by the United Feature Syndicate/Newspaper Enterprise Association. She is also the editor of National Review Online. Her nickname on National Review Online's group blog "The Corner", is "K-Lo", a wordplay based on "J-Lo", the popular nickname for Jennifer Lopez. Lopez grew up in the Chelsea section of lower Manhattan, … - John Carlson
John Carlson (born June 3, 1959) is a popular American conservative talk radio host on KVI, a Seattle talk radio station owned by Fisher Communications. His show formerly aired during the afternoon drive time. He now co-hosts a show on the same station in a post morning drive time slot called "The Commentators: Ken Schram and John Carlson."
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