Ellis Henican has the most diverse portfolio of anyone working in American journalism today. He is a staff columnist for Newsday, a political analyst at the Fox News Channel and the host of a nationally syndicated weekend show on the Talk Radio Network. He is also the voice of “Stormy� on the hit Cartoon Network series, “Sealab 2021.�

Henican’s award-winning newspaper column -- a personal, opinionated look at the news of the day – appears in the paper’s front news section every Wednesday, Friday and Sunday. Working from Newsday’s Manhattan newsroom, he specializes in finding the human angle inside the news. His work puts him in the middle of politics, business, crime, race and the occasional tabloid silliness. One day, he is writing from the campaign trail. The next, he’s digging into a scandal in New York or poking fun at some self-important celebrity. Before taking on his current assignment, Henican wrote Newsday’s subway column, leading the paper to a Pulitzer Prize for the Union Square train wreck.

In recent years, Henican has built a strong presence on TV and radio, appearing on most of the major broadcast and cable networks. He is in his sixth year under contract to the Fox News Channel, where he is a regular fixture on the network’s prime-time, early-morning and mid-day shows. He also fills in as a guest host. At Fox, Henican is known for his lively take on the news and for dissecting complex issue in an engaging way. He has been an integral part of network’s coverage of the Sept. 11th terror attacks, the Clinton impeachment, Election 2004 and virtually every other significant news story of the past six years. His early television experience included co-hosting a weekly transit program on New York-1, the city’s all-news channel. His weekly “Culture Clash� segments -- an irreverent look at television, movies and pop-culture trends – were a popular daytime feature on the USA Network.

Henican has become a familiar voice on talk radio in New York and across America. His new national weekend program, “The Ellis Henican Show,� is syndicated by the Talk Radio Network and heard in several dozen of the nation’s top markets. Each Saturday afternoon, Henican delivers a fast-paced, two-hour romp through the news – local, national, serious, silly and those maddeningly little stories that bug everyone. Before launching his current show, Henican had a 10-year run as a talk host and daily commentator at Bloomberg Radio in New York. On the lighter side, Henican provides the voice for Derek “Stormy� Waters, a good-looking but decidedly dim crewman on “Sealab 2021.� Now in its fourth season, the popular animated program airs Sunday nights on the Cartoon Network as part of the “Adult Swim� programming bloc.

Henican is a sought-after public speaker. His articles have been published in various national magazines, including The New Republic, Cosmopolitan and Penthouse. He has ghost-written two books for Simon & Schuster -- an inside account of the nation’s largest drug-treatment program and a best-selling motivational business book. His work has been recognized with the Meyer Berger Award for Distinguished Writing About New York City, the National Clarion Award for Column Writing and shares of two Pulitzer Prizes for Spot News.

Born in Virginia and raised in New Orleans, Henican earned a bachelor’s degree in political science from Hampshire College. He has a master’s degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where he won the top student prize, the Pulitzer Traveling Fellowship. He began his career as a reporter at the Kentucky Post and the Albany (N.Y.) Knickerbocker News.

Make sure to check out both his HD radio show and homepage.

Mark Williams is an opinion journalist. He is based in Sacramento, California. Williams is a regular contributor to Fox News Channel, MSNBC and Court TV and writes a newspaper column for the new Sacramento Union newspaper. Additionally he has filled in for radio talk hosts on a number of radio outlets.

He coined the term "Hildebeast" and uses it on TV, in print and on the radio to refer to Hillary Clinton. While extremely supportive of the invasion of Iraq (and an advocate of invading Iran while suggesting that Mecca also be "high on our list"), and out in front of the movement to deport illegal aliens, he also supports same sex marriage, stating that a true conservative believes that the government should leave people's bedrooms alone. He is very active in raising funds for pet shelters and adoption efforts. His dog, "Casey the pound dog" often appears when he shows up to protest Arnold Schwarzenegger (for whom he coined the term "Schwarzenkennedy"). Casey has also appeared on TV as a "spokesdog" for animal adoptions.

Williams led listeners on a lobbying trip to Capitol Hill in a drive to support immigration reform. In 2005 he and his wife (Holly) traveled to Iraq and broadcast several shows from various locations around Baghdad.

In June 2007 Williams formed MarkTalk LLC, an Internet-based, on-demand content delivery project anchored by his own daily Podcast and incorporating Podcasts, Web streams and Internet Radio from other professional journalists; interactive audio, video and text commentary.  Check out his show, The Mark Williams Show, at marktalk.com

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

Ron Maxwell is an independent film director and writer from Clifton, New Jersey. He is most famous for directing the American Civil War epics Gettysburg (1993) and Gods and Generals (2003).  The third part of the Civil War trilogy written by Michael Shaara and his son Jeffrey Shaara, The Last Full Measure, is a project currently waiting for financial backing, since the bankroller of the first two parts, Ted Turner, backed out following the poor reception of Gods and Generals.  This may be due in part to the media's reaction to United States Senator, George Allen (Republican-Virginia) and Senator Robert Byrd (Democrat-West Virginia) appearing in cameo roles, both playing Confederate officers. Texas Senator Phil Gramm appears as a member of the Virginia Legislature early in the film.

Mr. Maxwell graduated from New York University (NYU) Institute of Film in the late 1960s and is a member of the Writers Guild of America, East, Directors Guild of America and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.  He is presently in post-production on a full-length feature film documentary about immigration reform.

 

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.

As contributing editor at the Writer Guild Of America’s "Written By" magazine, Steve’s reputation has given him serious entrance to the best writers and producers in the industry while also allowing him one more outlet to lampoon the entertainment business he cares so much about.

No matter what the venue, Steve always seems to be creating something unique and important.  In TV he has written for Boy Meets World, Cybill, The Smart Guy and (the new) Family Affair, as well as being acknowledged with the Prism Award and a Humanitas nomination. 

As a film director/writer Steve turned the power brokers of Hollywood on their funny bones with his biting/satirical film, My Dinner With Ovitz (www.mydinnerwithovitz.com).

As an author of the inspiring "Great Failures Of The Extremely Successful" (Tallfellow Press, Sept 2002) he was able to get the greats of many different fields to share their remarkable stories of adversity. Of "Great Failures...", Jack Canfield, co-creator of "Chicken Soup For The Soul," said, "When you finish reading this amazing book, you will never let failure or fear of failure stand in your way again."

Steve has more than shown his grasp of creating stories and characters that both entertain and enlighten (without it being jammed down our children’s throats).  Executive editor, Rosemary Brosnan of his whacked-out novel, "130 Tales of Winchell Mink" (Harper Collins 2004), "...it's one of the funniest and freshest manuscripts I've ever read."  "15 Minutes" (Harper Collins, 2005), another fun adventure novel, will follow.

Also, be sure to also check out the second half of the show with Chad Foster, Mayor of the City of Eagle Pass, Texas and also the President of the Texas Border Coalition.  Eagle Pass has been sued by the U.S. government for access to land to construct a border fence between the United States and Mexico.

Mayor Foster's organization was founded in 1998, when communities throughout the Texas Border Region came together to form the Texas Border Infrastructure Coalition (TBIC) to develop key recommendations for the 76th Texas Legislature. Cities, counties, workforce development organizations, community colleges, universities, and hundreds of individuals participated in subcommittees charges with the responsibilities of developing strategies to address the infrastructure needs of the region.

Today, the organization is known as the Texas Border Coalition (TBC) and it continues to be a collective voice of border mayors, county judges, and communities on issues that affect Texas-Mexico board region quality of life. TBC's vision is to be recognized leader and authority for the Texas-Mexico region in order to bring attention to the infrastructure needs of the communities along the border.