Dont miss this post 2008 election wrap-up with J. Scott and
Chuck Browder with several special return guests.Prior to joining IWF, Amy participated in the Charles G. Koch Associate Program where she worked with the Civil Justice Reform Group, a national organization founded by corporate general counsel to address civil justice reform efforts at the state level. She has also worked for the American Legislative Exchange Council.
Before moving to Washington, DC, Amy began her career working alongside several influential members of the Georgia General Assembly. During this time she participated in the passage of a number of substantive pieces of legislation, and served in various roles on several Congressional and state legislative campaigns.
Amy holds a Juris Doctor degree from Georgia State University College, a Master of Public Administration degree from Georgia College & State University and a Bachelor of Science degree in political science also from Georgia College & State University.
Floyd Brown is an author, speaker and media commentator.
Time magazine wrote: “Brown has stature among devoted conservatives that almost matches his physical heft (6 ft. 6 in. and 240 lbs.)�?
He is president of Excellentia Inc., a consulting company specializing in non profit organizational strategy, development and marketing.
From 2001 until 2006 he served as the executive director of Young America’s Foundation, which saved Rancho del Cielo also known as Ronald Reagan’s Ranch or Western White House. As executive director Brown oversaw the preservation of the historic ranch and the building of the 20 million dollar Reagan Ranch Center in downtown Santa Barbara, California.
Brown is the author of three books and wrote the first bestselling Clinton expose Slick Willie: Why America Cannot Trust Bill Clinton in 1992. He was credited with launching the impeachment movement against President Clinton.
Brown has written extensively for many publications including the San Francisco Chronicle, the Washington Times, National Review and Human Events. As a commentator he has appeared on numerous network and cable TV shows including: CNN’s Crossfire, the CBS Evening News, ABC’s Primetime, NBC’s Today Show, FOX News, MSNBC and more. From 1995 until 2000 he hosted his own talk radio show on Seattle’s KVI 570 AM.
As a speaker he has traveled coast to coast speaking at many universities including Dartmouth, University of Pennsylvania, Notre Dame, University of Miami and the California Polytechnic University (Cal-Poly).
In 1988 Brown formed Citizens United. Citizens United is the largest conservative citizens’ action organization in America. Several Brown organized campaigns have been studied for their effectiveness; these include the effort to secure the confirmation of Judge Clarence Thomas, and the independent campaigns against Michael Dukakis and Bill Clinton. The anti Dukakis effort produced the famous “Willie Horton�? commercial.
He is active in the Republican Party and was a delegate to both the 2000 and 1996 National conventions. In 1996 he served on that Republican National Convention Platform Committee. He has been an advisor and consultant to many political campaigns including the Bush, Dole and Forbes for President campaigns. He managed the Dole for President campaign in Iowa, Minnesota, South Dakota and Nebraska in 1988.
He served in President Reagan’s campaigns and as a political appointee in the Reagan administration. He credits a meeting with President Reagan in 1976 for sparking his interest in public service.You may visit his website at www.floydbrown.com
Mr. Hawkins is a professional blogger who runs conservativegrapevine.com and rightwingnews.com He also writes a weekly column for Townhall.com and consulted for the Duncan Hunter for President campaign.
Todd A. DuBord was raised in the Bay Area of Northern
California, in an atheist and agnostic background. As a young adult, he sensed
that there was much more to life than he had been led to believe. Initially
incorporating a wider pursuit of the world religions, Todd prayed to God, “If
you show me the truths and purpose of this life, I will spend the rest of my
life helping people to understand them.”
Mr. Hawkins is a professional blogger who runs
Kristen Fyfe joined the staff of the Culture and Media Institute on November
20, 2006. Fyfe will serve as a Senior Writer for CMI. Fyfe was recently employed
by the Alexandria, VA office of the Parents Television Council as a Senior
Writer and Editor. In the spring of 2006 she authored a study documenting the
violent content of children’s television. That study received unparalleled press
coverage for the organization. 
Carrie Borzillo-Vrenna has written about music for such music
magazines as Billboard, Spin, RollingStone.com and Alternative Press. She has
covered the celebrity world, most recently for People, where she served as a
staff correspondent before resigning to work on her next book, as well as Us
Weekly and Teen People. The writer also penned the sex and relationship advice
column “Dr. Love” for Gene Simmons defunct Gene Simmons Tongue magazine and the
“Miss Truth” gossip column for the also-defunct award-winning allstarnews.com.
She has appeared as a music and/or relationship expert on MTV, VH1, Fuse, E!,
CNN, and MSNBC among others.
Stephen Mansfield is the New York Times
bestselling author of The Faith of George W. Bush, The Faith of the
American Soldier, Then Darkness Fled: The Liberating Wisdom of Booker T.
Washington, and Never Give In: The Extraordinary Character of Winston
Churchill, among other works of history and biography. Founder of both The
Mansfield Group, a research and communications firm, and Chartwell Literary
Group, which creates and manages literary projects, Stephen is also in wide
demand as a lecturer and inspirational speaker. 
This is the long awaited un-cut installment of
our interview with legendary stand-up comic and writer Bob Schimmel. WARNING!!! This segment should contain
explicit material. No one under the age
of 18, or over the age of 40 should consume this archive. The side effects of listening to this
broadcast could include: warping your mind, curving your spine, and losing the
war for the allies. Enjoy!
David D. Perlmutter is a professor at the William Allen White
School of Journalism & Mass Communications, University of Kansas. He received
his BA and MA from the University of Pennsylvania and his Ph.D. from the
University of Minnesota. He has served as a Board member of the American
Association of Political Consultants and now sits on the National Law
Enforcement Museum Advisory Committee for its Media Exhibit. A documentary
photographer, he is the author or editor of seven books on political
communication and persuasion:
Opio Sokoni is a Howard University trained lawyer working as the
General Manager of Portland, Oregon’s KBMS radio where he self produces a
politics and Hip Hop radio show. Opio has previously worked for the Drug Policy
Alliance, TransAfrica and Amnesty International. His multimedia interviews have
included Congressional members and entertainment icons such as Harry Belafonte
and Russell Simmons. His writings have appeared in the Boston Globe,
The Black Commentator, the Washington Times, DaveyD.com and
numerous popular websites. He has also appeared on C-SPAN and the O'Reilly
Factor. An activist filmmaker, he has written, directed and produced two
documentary films, and last year, premiered the first ever activist film, "Turn
Off Channel Zero" which targets Viacom as a major source of negative media
portrayals of African Americans. Opio is the author of an award-winning
children’s book (I Want to Be a Lawyer When I Grow Up) and an activist manual (Poli-Tainment:
Making Struggle Sexy). Mr. Sokoni was the lead organizer and consultant for the
Appeal for Redress campaign - a movement of active duty military members
appealing to end the war in Iraq - it was a featured broadcast on "60 Minutes."
He runs the news and culture website
Clintons4mccain was started as a grass roots effort by Cristi Adkins, Anne
Franklin,
Professor Lichtman’s books include Prejudice and
Old Politics: The Presidential Election of 1928; Your Family History; Ecological
Inference; and The Keys to the White House. He was named the 1992-1993
Scholar-Teacher of the Year, the university’s highest faculty honor, and has
provided commentary for all major U.S. broadcasting networks and cable
companies, the Voice of America, and many foreign broadcast companies, including
BBC and CBC. He worked with Dan Rather as a CBS consultant during the
impeachment of President Clinton, served as the 2004 election-night analyst for
BBC Worldwide, and is now political analyst for CNN Headline News. His more than
100 scholarly and popular articles have appeared in such journals and newspapers
as the American Historical Review, the Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences, the New York Times, and the Washington Post. He is also a columnist
for the Montgomery Gazette and has served as an expert witness in more than 70
voting rights and redistricting cases.
Ronald Kessler is the New York Times bestselling
author of seventeen non-fiction books. Kessler began his career as a journalist
in 1964 on the Worcester Telegram, followed by three years as an investigative
reporter and editorial writer with the Boston Herald. In 1968, he joined the
Wall Street Journal as a reporter in the New York bureau. He became an
investigative reporter with the Washington Post in 1970 and continued as a staff
writer until 1985.
This is a show you won't want to miss, with two great repeat offenders: columnist Jill Zimon and comedian/satirist (maybe guest host of 
Adam Fogel is the Right to Vote Director at FairVote-The Center
for Voting and Democracy. He developed a voting curriculum for high schools to
encourage students to get involved in the political process and register to
vote. 
Bob Barr represented the 7th District of Georgia in the U. S. House of
Representatives from 1995 to 2003, serving as a senior member of the Judiciary
Committee, as Vice-Chairman of the Government Reform Committee, and as a member
of the Committee on Financial Services. He now practices law with the Law
Offices of Edwin Marger, and runs a consulting firm, Liberty Strategies LLC,
headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia and with offices in the Washington, D.C. area.
Cato's executive vice president David Boaz has played a key role in the
development of the Cato Institute and the libertarian movement. He is a
provocative commentator and a leading authority on domestic issues such as
education choice, drug legalization, the growth of government, and the rise of
libertarianism. He is the author of 
Don't miss this hilarious interview with Steve Young, a former stand-up comedian, whos social and political satire
is recognized as some of the funniest, yet still poignant, observations with his
stories regularly gracing the op-ed pages of major newspapers across the country
and placing Steve in demand as a TV "pundit" on networks such as the Fox
News Channel and CNN, as well as appearing on The Today Show,
Connie Chung and Good Morning America.
Check out Third Rail's very first episode, where we handicap the presidential primary races and interview actor John Mahon. John is a veteran actor who has appeared in
such works as:
