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Gordon Guthrie Chang (章家敦 Zhāng Jiādūn) is an American columnist, blogger, television pundit, author and lawyer. Chang lived and worked in Shanghai and Hong Kong for almost two decades and now writes primarily on China, Asia, and nuclear proliferation. His writings have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, Commentary, and […]
Stephen Moore is an American writer and television commentator on economic issues. He co-founded and served as president of the Club for Growth from 1999 to 2004. Moore is a former member of the Wall Street Journal editorial board. He worked at the Heritage Foundation during the period from 1983 to 1987 and again since 2014. Moore advised Herman Cain’s 2012 presidential campaign […]
William McGowan is the author of three books: Only Man Is Vile: The Tragedy of Sri Lanka (Farrar, Straus & Giroux); Coloring The News: How Political Correctness Has Corrupted American Journalism(Encounter Books, 2002) for which he won a National Press Club Award; and Gray Lady Down: The Decline and Fall of the New York Times.(Encounter […]
Assemblyman Dov Hikind served the 48th Assembly District for more than three decades as an outspoken advocate for his constituency, battling discrimination, anti-Semitism, Holocaust denial, and human rights violations. In the 30+ years of his tenure, Dov has committed himself to the immediate concerns of his constituency and is proudest of mediating, facilitating, and advocating […]
Deroy Murdock has been a National Review Online contributing editor since June 2000. His weekly column, “This Opinion Just In . . .,” appears in the New York Post, Washington Times, Boston Herald, Orange County Register, and other U.S. newspapers from coast to coast. Murdock is a Fox News Contributor. He was a regular panelist […]
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 […]
