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Joel Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large and In-House Counsel at Breitbart News. Prior to joining Breitbart, Pollak was a Tea Party-backed Republican candidate for Congress in Illinois and a Research Fellow at the Hudson Institute, focusing on human rights and international law. Born in South Africa, Pollak became a U.S. citizen in 1987. He holds law […]
Lawrence Mead is Professor of Politics and Public Policy at New York University, where he teaches public policy and American government. He has been a visiting professor at Harvard, Princeton, and the University of Wisconsin. He has also been a visiting fellow at Princeton and at the Hoover Institution at Stanford. Professor Mead is an […]
For more than three decades Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce served the people of New York City. When he retired, Chief Boyce left behind a legacy of honorable service, culminating with his four-year tenure overseeing 77 detective commands and various specialized units as Chief of Detectives. Garnering national attention for his 6-foot-4 frame and unparalleled […]
Professor Alan M. Dershowitz is Brooklyn native who has been called “the nation’s most peripatetic civil liberties lawyer” and one of its “most distinguished defenders of individual rights,” “the best-known criminal lawyer in the world,” “the top lawyer of last resort,” “America’s most public Jewish defender” and “Israel’s single most visible defender – the Jewish […]
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 […]
