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Bruce E. Bechtol, Jr. (Ph.D. Union Institute), is an award winning professor of political science at Angelo State University and a retired Marine. He was formerly on the faculty at the Marine Corps Command and Staff College (2005–2010) and the Air Command and Staff College (2003–2005). Dr. Bechtol served as an adjunct visiting professor at […]
Joe Borelli is the Minority Whip of the New York City Council, proudly representing the South Shore of Staten Island since 2015. In January of this year, he was selected to be the Chairman of the Committee on Fire and Emergency Management; the highest ranking committee a Republican or Staten Islander has ever chaired in […]
Liz Peek is a Fox News Contributor, and a columnist for The Hill and FoxNews.com. She is a weekly guest on several Fox Business shows including Varney & Company, Making Money with Charles Payne, After the Bell, Evening Edit and appears frequently on Neil Cavuto’s Coast-to-Coast, Fox & Friends, Fox & Friends First and other […]
Bestselling author Andrew C. McCarthy is a contributing editor at National Review, a senior fellow at the National Review Institute, and a Fox News contributor. He is a former Chief Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of New York and led the terrorism prosecution against the “Blind Sheikh” (Omar Abdel Rahman) and eleven […]
Derk Jan Eppink (born 7 November 1958) is a Dutch writer and politician, and former cabinet secretary for European Commissioners Bolkestein (1999–2004) and Kallas (2004–2007). In 2009, he was elected to the European Parliament for a Flemish party and sat on the European Conservatives and Reformists Group (ECR) Executive as Vice-President. He masters various languages […]
Heather Mac Donald is the Thomas W. Smith Fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor of City Journal. She is a recipient of the 2005 Bradley Prize. Mac Donald’s work at City Journal has canvassed a range of topics, including higher education, immigration, policing and “racial” profiling, homelessness and homeless advocacy, criminal-justice reform, […]
John Fund is national-affairs columnist for National Review. He worked for the Wall Street Journal for more than two decades, starting in 1984, and was a member of the newspaper’s editorial board from 1995 to 2001. Fund has written for Esquire, Reader’s Digest, Reason, and the New Republic. He co-wrote Cleaning House: America’s Campaign for […]
Michael Cutler is a retired Senior Special Agent of the former INS (Immigration and Naturalization Service). He is a fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies, and specializes in the nexus between immigration and national security, the impact of immigration on the criminal justice system and strategies to combat illegal immigration, secure our nation’s borders […]
Sam Nunberg is both an accomplished attorney as well as a political strategist with a focus on communications, messaging, and persuasive narratives. Mr. Nunberg has worked on successful presidential and senatorial campaigns. In 2008, Mr. Nunberg was an adviser to Gov. Mitt Romney with a focus on grassroots coalitions and conservative outreach. From 2011 until […]
James Fitzsimmons is a former FBI Special Agent and Joint Terrorism Task Force member.
