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Jason Mattera

JASON MATTERA is an acclaimed New York Times bestselling author and a hard-charging journalist. He was a correspondent for CRIME WATCH DAILY, a syndicated TV show produced by Warner Bros., which covered murder mysteries, shocking crimes, undercover investigations, and confronted crooks and criminals of all varieties. His dogged interviews prompted one television executive to remark, “If you see […]

Harvey Mansfield

Professor Mansfield has written on Edmund Burke and the nature of political parties, on Machiavelli and the invention of indirect government, in defense of a defensible liberalism and in favor of a Constitutional American political science. He has also written on the discovery and development of the theory of executive power, and has translated three […]

Ann McElhinney

Ann McElhinney is a NYT best-selling author, journalist, film producer and director, podcast host and one of the most successful crowdfunders in the world. She and her husband, journalist Phelim McAleer have written the NYT Best Seller Gosnell – The Untold Story of America’s Most Prolific Serial Killer, published by Regnery and available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble […]

Phelim McAleer

Phelim McAleer is a veteran investigative journalist, a New York Times best-selling author, filmmaker, podcast host, playwright and one of the world’s leading Crowdfunders. McAleer has raised almost $3m in five separate crowdfunding campaigns. His Gosnell movie was the most successful movie project ever on Indiegogo. It raised $2.37m from almost 30,000 people. The film was released on over […]

Rich Lowry

As one of the most respected conservative voices, Rich Lowry brings his sharp analysis and well-formed opinions to the political discussion through his writing and commentary. Lowry became editor of National Review in 1999 when selected by William F. Buckley, Jr. to lead the magazine. Today, National Review remains a conservative guidepost, helping to bring […]

David Limbaugh

David Limbaugh is a conservative political commentator and author. Limbaugh graduated cum laude from the University of Missouri with a bachelor’s degree in political science. He also received his Juris Doctor (J.D.) from the University of Missouri. While in law school, he was a Member of Missouri Law Review. He served in the National Guard […]

Rabbi Daniel Lapin

Rabbi Daniel Lapin, is known world-wide as a noted rabbinic scholar, best-selling author and host of the Rabbi Daniel Lapin Show. He is one of America’s most eloquent speakers and his ability to extract life principles from the Bible and transmit them in an entertaining manner has brought countless numbers of Jews and Christians closer […]

Dr. Paul Kengor

Paul Kengor, Ph.D., is professor of political science at Grove City College in Grove City, Pennsylvania, and a New York Times bestselling author of over a dozen books. He is senior director and chief academic fellow at the Institute for Faith & Freedom and former visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. His […]

Earl Johnson

ohnson’s background includes a Bachelors degree in Economics from the University of Washington and a 28 year career in the Financial Services industry which has included positions as President and CEO, Senior Vice President, Managing Director, Vice President, and Business Unit Manager with enterprises ranging from startups to large diversified financial services corporations. In March […]

Chris Horner

Christopher C. Horner is the author of three books on “global warming” and environmental policy, law and politics, including two best-sellers: ThePolitically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming and Environmentalism (2007), which spent half of 2007 on the New York Times bestseller list; Red Hot Lies: How Global Warming Alarmists Use Threats, Fraud and Deception to Keep You Misinformed (2008) […]

Jonah Goldberg

Jonah Goldberg is the Editor-in-Chief of The Dispatch. He holds the Asness Chair in Applied Liberty at the American Enterprise Institute and is a Fellow at the National Review Institute. He was previously senior editor at National Review, where he had worked for two decades. A best-selling author, his nationally syndicated column appears regularly in […]

Doug Giles

Doug Giles is the creator and host of ClashRadio.com, a winner of seven Silver Microphone Awards and two Communicator Awards. He is heard in over 150 different markets nationwide. In addition, Doug is a wildly popular columnist, pastor, campus lecturer, accomplished artist and award-winning writer. His column is read worldwide each week on the nation’s […]

Humberto Fontova

Humberto was born in Havana Cuba in 1954 and fled Cuba in 1961 with his family to New Orleans while his father was Castro and Che’s political prisoner. He has lived in the New Orleans area since 1961, earning a B.A. in Political Science from the University of New Orleans and a Master’s Degree in […]

Dr. Burt Folsom

Burt Folsom has been a college professor at many places, especially Hillsdale College in Michigan, where he still serves as distinguished fellow. He has written ten books. These books include The Myth of the Robber Barons, which is published by Young America’s Foundation and will soon be in its ninth edition. He has also written […]

Dan Flynn

Daniel J. Flynn is the author of Blue Collar Intellectuals: When the Enlightened and the Everyman Elevated America; A Conservative History of the American Left; Intellectual Morons: How Ideology Makes Smart People Fall for Stupid Ideas; and Why the Left Hates America.  Flynn writes a column for HumanEvents.com and regularly contributes to FrontPageMag.com. His articles have appeared […]

Michelle Easton

Michelle Easton is the president of the Clare Boothe Luce Center for Conservative Women (CBL), an organization she founded in 1993 as the Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute, which puts forward conservative women role models who promote traditional family values and prepares young women for conservative leadership. CBL also produces an annual calendar and hosts […]

Nonie Darwish

Born in Cairo, Nonie was later raised in the Gaza Strip. In the 1950s, Egypt occupied Gaza and Gamal Abdel Nasser, who later became Egypt’s president, appointed her father to lead the fedayeen guerilla operations, whose sole mission was to destroy Israel. As Nasser rallied the Arab world to wipe out the Jewish State, Arabs […]

Dinesh D’Souza

Dinesh D’Souza has had a 25-year career as a writer, scholar, and public intellectual. A former policy analyst in the Reagan White House, D’Souza also served as John M. Olin Fellow at theAmerican Enterprise Institute, and the Robert and Karen Rishwain Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He served as the president of The […]

Ward Connerly

Ward Connerly, author of the autobiography, Creating Equal: My Fight Against Race Preferences, is founder and chairman of the American Civil Rights Institute, a national, not-for-profit organization aimed at educating the public about the need to move beyond racial and gender preferences. Mr. Connerly has gained national attention and respect as an outspoken advocate of equal opportunity […]

Jed Babbin

Jed Babbin is the best-selling author of, In the Words of Our Enemies, (Regnery 2007), Inside the Asylum:  Why the UN and Old Europe are Worse than You Think(Regnery 2004) and, Showdown: Why China Wants War with the United States, (with Edward Timperlake, Regnery, 2006.)  He is a former Air Force officer who served as a deputy undersecretary […]

John Ashcroft

As Attorney General in the George W. Bush administration, Mr. Ashcroft has been credited with overseeing an historic era of safety and security for our country in the wake of the tragic events of September 11th. Under his watch, the Justice Department focused on its number one priority: preventing another terrorist attack. Mr. Ashcroft led […]

Raj Kannappan

As vice president & director of YAF’s Center for Entrepreneurship & Free Enterprise, Raj Kannappan leads the organization’s efforts to educate and inspire students to advance free market ideas among their peers. His focus is growing the share of young people who adopt the free enterprise philosophy—through free market student conferences and seminars, campus lectures, […]

Jessica Jensen

Jessica serves as vice president & chief of staff at Young America’s Foundation. She works directly with the president to help manage the administrative and operational aspects of Young America’s Foundation. In this capacity, she communicates the Foundation’s goals and initiatives with the Foundation’s entire team, board members, and key stakeholders. Jessica edits and designs monthly […]

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