CK Rairden is the publisher and managing editor of The National Ledger. Mr. Rairden is a political columnist and pundit and the former national editor of the Washington Dispatch. He has appeared on various Fox News Channel programs including "The Big Story with John Gibson" and "DaySide." He is a weekly contributor to several newspapers including The East Valley (AZ) Tribune and The Platte County (MO) Landmark. Mr. Rairden is the principal author of The Scribe Journal.
Cris Bergman is the senior editor of The National Ledger. Ms. Bergman spent eight years in publishing before taking off a few years to stay at home with her young children. She returns to publishing in her official capacity as senior editor and will also use her contacts in the music industry to assist in managing and producing the pop culture content for The National Ledger.
Jill Atkins is an associate editor of The National Ledger. Ms. Atkins is an entertainment news writer and resides in Hollywood. She was the director of online communications for a legal firm in for five years in Los Angeles before resigning in May to chase her dream of writing a mystery novel. She is a photography buff and is now working on that first novel.
Nancy Streets is an Associate Editor of The National Ledger. Ms. Streets has seven years experience in writing and teaching. She is also an entertainment and news writer and oversees much of the celebrity coverage in the "Pop Culture" section of The National Ledger . She resides in Manhattan.
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Steve Chapman is a columnist and editorial writer for the Chicago Tribune and has been a member of the Tribune editorial board since 1981. He attended Harvard University, where he was on the staff of the Harvard Crimson, and graduated with honors in 1976. He has been a fellow at the American Academy in Berlin and the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, and has served on the Visiting Committee of the University of Chicago Law School.
Froma Harrop is a frequent guest on NPR and leading talk shows across the country and is an independent and witty voice for the thinking reader. Born in New York City, Harrop grew up on Long Island. She received a bachelor's degree from New York University, where she majored in history. Harrop lives in Providence, R.I. and is currently a member of the Providence Journal editorial board.
Lynda Hirsch, the woman daytime TV producers call "the person who knows everything about daytime soaps," began writing celebrity profiles when she was 17. She graduated with a master's in fine and professional arts from Kent State University. Hirsch has become recognized as the authority on daytime television. Lynda maintains homes in both Cleveland and Manhattan, where she stays abreast of the latest happenings in the world of daytime television.
David Limbaugh, a columnist and attorney practicing in Cape Girardeau, Mo., is the author of, most recently, "Persecution: How Liberals Are Waging War Against Christianity" He was admitted to the Missouri Bar in 1978 and began practicing law in September 1978 and has continued in practice since. He is presently a partner in the law firm of Limbaugh, Russell, Payne and Howard.
Chuck Norris is the star of more than 20 films and the long-running TV series "Walker, Texas Ranger." His book, "Against All Odds," tells the inspirational story of how he overcame abject poverty from childhood, the effects of his father's alcoholism and desertion of the family, and his own shyness and lack of strength and ability early in his life. Learn more about his life and ministry at his official website, ChuckNorris.com.
Robert Novak is the author of one of the longest running syndicated columns in the nation, "Inside Report" and produces a twice-monthly newsletter, the Evans-Novak Political Report. He is a commentator for CNN and is the 2001 winner of the National Press Club's "Fourth Estate" award for lifetime achievement in journalism.
Debra J. Saunders is a one-time registered Democrat turned Republican; she claims no loyalty to either party and takes pride in her unpredictability and irreverence for big-party politics. "I'm a Republican," she says, "but not a good Republican." She graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Massachusetts at Boston with a B.A. in Greek and Latin.
Roger Simon is the chief political columnist of politico.com, an award-winning journalist and a New York Times best-selling author. He is a two-time winner of the Washington Monthly Journalism Award for political reporting. Simon has been a Poynter Media Fellow at Yale University, a Hoover Media Fellow at Stanford University, and in the spring of 2005 was a Kennedy School of Government Institute of Politics Fellow at Harvard University.
Matt Towery, is a graduate of England's Cambridge University and Florida's Stetson University Law School (Cum Laude) and served as the chairman of former Speaker Newt Gingrich's political organization from 1992 until Gingrich left Congress. He is a former Georgia state representative, the author of several books and currently heads the polling and political information firm InsiderAdvantage.
Marilyn Beck and Stacy Jenel Smith are featured in over 100 print publications and other media outlets with cutting edge celebrity news and insider scoop. The Beck/Smith syndicated newspaper column includes exclusive in-depth, behind-the-scenes reports on the stars, on the business of television and movie-making, and on the recording, publishing and media beats.
Marilyn Beck is the show business reporter who changed entertainment coverage from frothy social notes to wide-ranging news. In her years on the beat, Hollywood's premier syndicated columnist has often moved stories off the entertainment page and onto the front page. Stacy Jenel Smith is a frequent guest on television and radio programs, Smith served as a regular correspondent on E! Entertainment Television's "The Gossip Show" for five years.
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Lynda Johnson is an associate editor for the National Ledger and also oversees the pop journal section of the publication including her Pop Three column that takes a look the three stories in the wonderful world of pop culture and combines them into one succinct pop three column..
Lynn Hayes has been an astrologer for over 20 years, specializing in psychological astrology. She maintains an astrology website at www.astrodynamics.net and contributes astrological profiles of people in the news to the National Ledger and other publications. She also writes a daily blog on astrological phenomena called Astrological Musings.
Contributing Writers
Chris Adamo has edited and wrote for "The Wyoming Christian", the state newsletter for Christian Coalition of Wyoming. During that period, he developed an acute awareness of the harm being done to Conservatism by liberal activists within the Republican Party as well as the Democrats. This remains a favorite theme of his articles, which now appear as a regular feature on GOPUSA. Mr. Adamo is a member of Right Writers of America.
Mike Bates has written a weekly column of opinion - or nonsense, depending on your viewpoint - since 1985 for the (southwest suburban Chicago) Reporter Newspapers. Additionally, his articles have appeared in the Congressional Record, the Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Sun-Times and the Mensa Journal. Mike retired from his "real" job at 50, thus giving him greater opportunity to annoy Leftists and work on his comb over, not necessarily in that order. As a lad, he distributed Goldwater campaign literature and since then has steadily moved further to the Right. He is the author of "Right Angles and Other Obstinate Truths."
Felicia Benamon hails from a military family (Navy). Patriotism was ingrained in her at a young age. She participated in ROTC...Reserve Officers Training Corps while in school and joined the Army in 2003. However the stay in the Army did not last long. Felicia quickly left the Army after becoming ill and realizing what her true calling is, to be involved in politics. She really started becoming aware of political issues during the 2000 election. And since then, has worked hard to fight for conservative issues. She is politically active locally, working behind the scenes as a campaign worker and advisor.
Thomas E. Brewton had the great good fortune in the middle 1950s at Louisiana State University to study under two of the 20th century's great minds: Eric Voegelin in political science, and Walter Berns in Constitutional law. These two professors opened the door of education to a glimpse of Western civilization and of American political and social thought as they had been before socialism was unconstitutionally established as the official national religion of the United States in 1933.
Justin Darr is a free lance writer from the Philadelphia area where he lives with this wife, Erin, and twin children. He has worked on various political campaigns at all levels, served as an election official to verify ballot counts, and specializes in political philosophy, western world history, and the development of American society. He can be read widely on the Web and in publications across North America and Europe.
Chris Davis entered the military in 1989. He served as a Combat Medic, during Panama, Desert Storm, and many other deployments, between 1989-1992. He served as a Multiple Launch Rocket Systems crew chief. On his deployment to White Sands Missile Range, he contemplated the role of the modern soldier. His first novel, Elective Decisions, (ISBN, 1-59374-121-9) released by the Creek Press in June of 2004. His second book, In Defense of Liberty, was released in March of 2005 by the Creek Press.
Tom Fitton is the President and Chief Spokesman of Judicial Watch. Fitton is also a political analyst, previously working for America's Voice and National Empowerment Television. Mr. Fitton also provides strategic guidance and leadership on Judicial Watch's other efforts to fight government corruption. He is a former employee of the International Policy Forum, the Leadership Institute and Accuracy in Media. He is married to Kelli Fitton. They have two daughters, and live in Washington, D.C.
E. Ralph Hostetter, a prominent businessman and publisher, also is an award-winning columnist and Vice Chairman of the Free Congress Foundation Board of Directors. Hostetter is chairman and publisher of American Farm Publications Inc., Easton, Md., and former president and owner of TriState Publishing Company, Elkton, Md., a chain of 13 community newspapers. He was elected to the Maryland-Delaware-D.C. Press Association Newspaper Hall of Fame in 1990. The New Jersey Agricultural Society awarded Hostetter its highest award, the Gold Medallion, in 2003.
Warner Todd Huston's commentary is sometimes irreverent often historically based. Additionally, he has been a guest on several radio programs to discuss his opinion editorials and current events. He has also written for several history magazines and appears in the new book "Americans on Politics, Policy and Pop Culture" which can be purchased on amazon.com.
Cliff Kincaid serves as editor of the Accuracy in Media (AIM) Report and is a veteran journalist and media critic. Cliff concentrated in journalism and communications at the University of Toledo, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree. He has written or co-authored nine books on media and cultural affairs and foreign policy issues.
Jim Kouri, CPP is currently fifth vice-president of the National Association of Chiefs of Police. He's former chief at a New York City housing project in Washington Heights nicknamed "Crack City" by reporters covering the drug war in the 1980s. In addition, he served as director of public safety at a New Jersey university and director of security for several major organizations. He writes for many police and crime magazines including Chief of Police, Police Times, The Narc Officer, Campus Law Enforcement Journal, and others, and he's a columnist for TheConservativeVoice.Com.
Thomas Lindaman is a columnist and editor for CommonConservative.com. He holds a Masters degree in Mass Communication from Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, and a Bachelors degree in English with a minor in Journalism from the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls, Iowa. He lives in Des Moines where he works for a mortgage company.
Robert Meyer is a hardy soul who hails from the Cheesehead country of the upper midwest. Robert is known by his opponents as a "clever rhetorician" who often exposes the fallacies of knee-jerk arguments presented in local papers. Seeking to develop precepts for every aspect of life based on a conservative Christian worldview. Robert often gleans inspiration from looking off his back deck, over the scenic Fox river and recalling the wise counsel of those who mentored him.
Nancy Salvato is the President of the Basics Project, a non-profit, non-partisan research and educational project whose mission is to promote the education of the American public on the basic elements of relevant political, legal and social issues important to our country. She is an experienced educator and an independent contractor with Prism Educational Consulting. She serves as Educational Liaison for Illinois Senator Carole Pankau. She works nationally and locally furthering the cause of Education Reform.
As a former collegiate football player, Brad Snyder graduated from Evangel College of Springfield, Missouri, in 1982, with a Bachelors Degree in Business Administration and Economics. His occupation has been divided between careers as a stock broker, Director of Business Development for a commercial insurance brokerage firm, and most recently financial management within the healthcare industry.
Christopher J. Stephens adjunct college English instructor for Northeastern University, Wentworth Institute of Technology, Western New England College, and Corinthian Colleges, Inc. Christopher is a proofreader, fact checker, and editor for teachers-discovery.com and anaxosinc.com. His work regularly appears in the METRO newspapers.
Nathan Tabor is a conservative political activist based in Kernersville, North Carolina. He has a bacheloršs degree in psychology and a masteršs degree in public policy. He is a contributing editor at www.theconservativevoice.com and blogs at Crosswalk.com and HumanEventsOnline.com.
Rudy Takala is 16 years old and lives in Minnesota. He was home schooled for nine years, and currently attends a local community college full time. Newspapers he's written for or appears in regularly include The North Carolina Conservative, The Recumbent, and The American Eagle. Rudy hopes for a career in which he is able to continue antagonizing proponents of the State. Currently, he spends his free time laboring over a book concerning the American government's school system.
Paul M. Weyrich is Chairman and CEO of the Free Congress Research and Education Foundation. He served as President of the foundation from 1977 to 2002. From 1989 to 1996, Mr. Weyrich served as President of the Kreible Institute of the Free Congress Foundation, responsible for training democracy movements in the states comprising the Former Soviet Empire. Mr. Weyrich is a regular guest on daily radio and television talk shows. A sought-after writer, Mr. Weyrich has published policy reports and journals on a variety of conservative issues and has contributed editorials to The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal.
JB Williams is a business man, a husband, a father, and a writer. A no nonsense commentator on American politics, American history, and American philosophy. A hard hitting columnist, attacking the socialist cancer plaguing America today. He has a pragmatic "common Joe" approach to even the toughest issues facing our nation. He has a degree in BS from the school of hard knocks, and a uniquely entertaining way of helping even the most liberal among us, to discover the obvious. He is published nationwide and in many countries around the globe, and is currently working on a book.
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