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Caryn Abramowitz, coauthor of Cross-Cultural Adoption, is a freelance writer and editor. She is a lawyer by trade and the author of many legal and other types of articles in a variety of publications. She lives in Philadelphia with her husband, Andy, and their daughter Chloe Skye.
David Aikman, author of Jesus in Beijing and former Time magazine Beijing bureau chief, is an author, journalist, and foreign policy consultant. After more than two decades with Time magazine—which had him reporting from more than fifty countries and interviewing such figures as Boris Yeltsin, Billy Graham, Manuel Noriega, Mother Teresa, and Alexander Solzhenitsyn—he became a freelance writer and commentator. He has appeared on many major news programs and has written extensively for Foreign Affairs, The American Spectator, and The Weekly Standard. A former senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center and a senior fellow at Trinity Forum, he has written several books on subjects ranging from Mikhail Gorbachev to the Tiananmen Square massacre in Beijing. Fluent in Russian, Chinese, French, and German, Aikman was educated at Oxford and took his doctoral degree in Russian and Chinese history from the University of Washington. He lives in northern Virginia with his family.
Gary Aldrich is the author of the celebrated #1 New York Times bestseller Unlimited Access: An FBI Agent Inside the Clinton White House—which first exposed the corruption in the Clinton administration. Prior to authoring Unlimited Access he spent twenty-six years as a special agent in the FBI, where he received many awards for his distinguished service. During his career with the FBI, he specialized in white-collar crime, including fraud and political corruption. In 1998 he founded the Patrick Henry Center for Individual Liberty to assist and support whistle-blowers opposed to serious wrongdoing in the federal government. He lives with his wife and family near Washington, D.C.
Brian C. Anderson, author of South Park Conservatives: The Revolt against Liberal Media Bias, is senior editor of the Manhattan Institute’s City Journal. He has written on politics and culture for the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, the New York Post, National Review, Commentary, First Things, the Claremont Review of Books, and many other magazines and papers. He is also the author of Raymond Aron: The Recovery of the Political. He lives with his wife and two young sons in Westchester County, New York.
Jed Babbin is the author of In the Words of Our Enemies, Inside the Asylum: Why the UN and Old Europe Are Worse Than You Think and Showdown: Why China Wants War with the United States, as well as the novel Legacy of Valor. A former Air Force JAG, he served as a deputy undersecretary of defense in the first Bush administration, is editor of Human Events, has written for the American Spectator, RealClearPolitics.com, and other outlets, appears frequently on television as a military and foreign affairs analyst—including on The O’Reilly Factor, FOX & Friends, and Scarborough Country—and has served as a guest host on radio for Oliver North, Laura Ingraham, Hugh Hewitt, and John Batchelor. He lives near Leesburg, Virginia.
James Jay Baker, author of Shooting Straight, is the former executive director of the NRA's Institute for Legislative Action, where he led the battle for our Second Amendment rights on Capitol Hill, in the state capitals, and in cities across the country. A former prosecuting attorney, he is member of the bar in Missouri, Washington, D.C., and the Supreme Court.
Haley Barbour, author of Agenda for America: A Republican Direction for the Future, is Chairman of the Republican National Committee and of the National Policy Forum. Prior to his election to the RNC in 1993, Mr. Barbour was a partner in the law firm of Barbour and Rogers, and in 1985 served as Ronald Reagan’s director of the White House Office of Political Affairs. Mr. Barbour lives with his wife and two sons in Yazoo City, Mississippi.
Mac Barnes, author of Total Wealth, is an efficiency expert and systems analyst with a decades-long record of sound investment advice. He is currently in charge of quality programming for Bloomberg Financial Markets where he has worked since 1983. A graduate of Princeton University and the New York University Business School, he has almost thirty years of Wall Street experience, including both hands-on trading and investment as well as detailed market analysis for Merrill Lynch, Salomon Brothers, and Bloomberg. In addition to serving as editor of a magazine on stock options, he often conducts seminars on “The Power to Get Wealth” that have won praise from expert audiences for years. He resides with his wife and three children in Locust, New Jersey, and is an avid windsurfer, inventor (with multiple patents), and prison fellowship ministry volunteer.
Michael Barone, author of The New Americans, is one of America’s foremost political historians and commentators. A senior writer at US News & World Report and a regular panelist on The McLaughlin Group, he has for the past thirty years served as coauthor of the biannual Almanac of American Politics. He is also the author of Our Country: The Shaping of America from Roosevelt to Reagan. A graduate of Harvard University and Yale Law School, Barone lives in Washington, DC.
Josh Barr, author of Good Enough to Be Great, has been a sportswriter for the Washington Post for seven years, including four seasons covering University of Maryland athletics. He played tennis at Lafayette College but still fondly remembers walking across on cold nights to play pickup basketball in the old Memorial Gym. Josh and Jodi live in Bethesda, Maryland, with their dog, Schad.
William J. Bennett, author of Why We Fight, is codirector of Empower America and founder and chairman of K12, an Internet-based elementary and secondary school. He is the editor of The Book of Virtues and The Moral Compass and the author of several books, including the bestsellers The Death of Outrage and The Educated Child: A Parent’s Guide. He lives in Chevy Chase, Maryland, with his wife, Elayne, and their two sons.
Henrik Bering, author of Helmut Kohl: The Man Who Reunited Germany, Rebuilt Europe, and Thwarted the Soviet Empire, has been a foreign correspondent, covering Europe, the former Soviet Union, and the Middle East. His byline has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, National Review, The American Spectator, and Commentary. A graduate of Oxford University (Pembroke College), he was a professional journalism fellow at Stanford University. His first book, Outpost Berlin: The History of the American Military Forces in Berlin, 1945-1994, was published in 1995. He lives in Washington, DC.
Tom Bethell, author of The Politically Incorrect Guide™ to Science, is a senior editor at the American Spectator. He has contributed to many publications, including the New York Times magazine, Atlantic Monthly, Harper’s, Crisis, and National Review. He writes often on science. Tom Wolfe has called Bethell “one of our most brilliant essayists.” Bethell was born and raised in England and graduated from Oxford University in 1962 with a degree in philosophy, physiology, and psychology. He lives in Washington, D.C.
Shyam Bhatia, author of Brighter than the Baghdad Sun, has been Middle East correspondent and diplomatic editor for London’s Observer newspaper. He is the author of Nuclear Rivals in the Middle East and India’s Nuclear Bomb.
Tony Blankley, author of The West's Last Chance, is the editorial page editor of the Washington Times, a regular panelist on The McLaughlin Group, a nationally syndicated columnist with Creators Syndicate, and a popular speaker and radio and television pundit. For seven years he was press secretary to then Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, and before that served President Ronald Reagan as a speechwriter and senior policy analyst.
Edward H. Bonekemper, III, author of A Victor, Not a Butcher, received his B.A. cum laude in American history from Muhlenberg College, his M.A. in American history from Old Dominion University, and his J.D. from Yale Law School. He is the author of How Robert E. Lee Lost the Civil War. Currently, he is a visiting lecturer in military history at Muhlenberg College and an adjunct history professor at American Military University. He and his teacher wife of forty years, Susan Weidemoyer Bonekemper, live in Fairfax Station, Virginia.
Eric Breindel, author of The Venona Secrets, studied at Harvard College, the London School of Economics, and Harvard Law School. Named senior vice president of News Corporation in 1997, he was also a syndicated columnist and the moderator of Fox News Watch, a weekly national public affairs television program. Previously, he had served more than a decade as editorial page editor of the New York Post and worked on the Senate Intelligence Committee. Breindel died in 1998 at the age of forty-two.
Bay Buchanan, author of The Extreme Makeover of Hillary (Rodham) Clinton, has spent the past thirty years in politics and was appointed by President Ronald Reagan to be the treasurer of the United States. A frequent political commentator on television, she has worked for CNBC/MSNBC as co-host of Equal Time and for CNN as a political analyst for Inside Politics. Currently she is a political analyst for CNN’s The Situation Room. A native of Washington, D.C., she lives in northern Virginia and is the proud mother of three sons.
Patrick J. Buchanan, author of A Republic, Not an Empire, is a political commentator and nationally syndicated columnist. He has been a founding panelist on three national television shows on CNN and NBC, authored four books, including The Great Betrayal and Right from the Beginning, and served as a senior White House adviser of Presidents Nixon, Ford, and Reagan. Buchanan is making his third run for the Republican presidential nomination. He lives with his wife, Shelley, in McLean, Virginia.
William F. Buckley Jr., author of the bestselling Miles Gone By and Getting it Right, is a syndicated columnist, author, editor, television host, and adventurer. He is the founder of National Review and was the host of the Emmy Award–winning Firing Line, the longest-running program in television history with the same host. He is the award-winning author of many bestsellers, starting with God and Man at Yale. He lives in Connecticut.
Major General Josiah Bunting III, author of An Education for Our Time, is superintendent of the Virginia Military Institute. A Rhodes scholar, he has worked extensively in both secondary and higher education, having taught at West Point, served as headmaster of Lawrenceville School, and been president of Hampden-Sydney College and Briarcliff College. He is the author of three books, including The Lionheads, voted one of Time magazine’s Ten Best Novels of the year. General Bunting lives with his family in Lexington, Virginia.
John M. Caher, coauthor of A Time for Reflection, is currently Albany bureau chief for the New York Law Journal. A journalist and author, he lives in Clifton, N.Y., with his wife and three daughters.
Reporting for the VRWC, and the author of The Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy's Dossier on Hillary Clinton, Amanda B. Carpenter roams Capitol Hill digging out the stories the mainstream media ignores, and delivering news-breaking scoops for Human Events, the national conservative weekly. A graduate of Ball State University and a champion debater, Carpenter lives in Washington, D.C.
Marshall N. Carter, author of Promises to Keep: Saving Social Security’s Dream, is chairman and CEO of State Street Bank and Trust Company. He served two combat tours in Vietnam, was a White House Fellow, and worked at Chase Manhattan Bank before joining State Street in 1991. Active in industry and global organizations, he is a member of the board of directors of Euroclear in Brussels and the Council of Foreign Relations.
Mona Charen’s column on politics and culture is syndicated in more than 200 newspapers. She is the author of Useful Idiots: How Liberals Got It Wrong in the Cold War and Still Blame America First. Before becoming a columnist and television commentator on CNN’s Capital Gang, Charen wrote speeches in the Reagan White House for Nancy Reagan and worked on the presidential campaign of Jack Kemp. After graduating from Barnard College, Columbia University, she began her career in journalism at National Review magazine. She lives in Virginia with her husband and three children.
Harrison Clark, author of All Cloudless Glory, after obtaining his doctorate in economics from Harvard, served in the Treasury and State Departments and as a naval intelligence officer in World War II. Later he served as an economic adviser with the World Bank, where he drafted several economic development programs for underdeveloped countries and was amazed to discover that George Washington had formulated a similar program for the United States over a century and a half earlier. Over thirty years in the making, All Cloudless Glory is the culmination of Clark’s research and writing on the subject of George Washington.
Angelo M. Codevilla, author of Between the Alps & a Hard Place is a professor of international relations at Boston University. He has been a US Naval officer, a US Foreign Service officer, a senior staff member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, and a senior research fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. His books include Informing Statecraft, War: Ends and Means (with Paul Seabury), and The Character of Nations. He lives in Dubois, Wyoming and Wayland, Massachusetts.
Tom Connery, author of Honour Be Damned, lives in the centuries-old port of Deal in Kent, England, with his wife and two children. He has written three Markham of the Marines novels, and as David Donachie he is the author of the Harry Ludlow novels, published in Britain.
Jerome Corsi, coauthor of Unfit for Command, received his Ph.D. from Harvard University and is an expert on political violence and the antiwar movement in the United States. The author of many articles and books, he lives in New Jersey.
Amy Coughlin, author of Cross-Cultural Adoption, is an adoptive mom, lawyer, teacher, and writer. She lives in Center City, Philadelphia, with her husband, Rich, and their two daughters, Audrey and Natalie.
Ann Coulter, author of High Crimes and Misdemeanors and an attorney and legal affairs correspondent, is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right. She has worked for the Senate Judiciary Committee and clerked for the US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. Coulter lives in New York and Washington, DC.
H. W. Crocker III, author of The Old Limey, was educated in England and California, and has worked as a journalist, speechwriter for the governor of California, and book editor. He is the author of the best-selling Robert E. Lee on Leadership. He lives in Northern Virginia, midway between the California and English coasts.
