Speakers

 
 
   
Owen Brennan
Owen Brennan is the Executive Producer for PJTV, an online television network, broadcasting from its headquarters in Los Angeles. He was previously a producer for Bill O’Reilly and helped launch the MSNBC program Scarborough Country. Prior to working in television, Owen served as a speechwriter for New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani from 2000-2001.

Yaron Brook
Yaron Brook is president and executive director of the Ayn Rand Institute. He is a regular contributor to Forbes.com and a contributing editor of The Objective Standard. A former finance professor, he has been published in academic as well as popular publications, and his opinion-editorials appear in major newspapers. He is frequently interviewed on national TV and radio.
Rick Calvert
Rick Calvert is the CEO and Co-Founder of BlogWorld & New Media Expo, the worlds largest social media event. He has been active in the trade show industry since 1997 serving as Director of Sales for Tradeshow Week as well as one of the nation’s largest consumer shows, Comicon. He has been a voracious new media consumer since 2000 and in 2005 launched his own blog which focuses on the growth of new and alternative media.
Avi Davis
Avi Davis is a journalist, commentator, attorney, documentary filmmaker and president of the American Freedom Alliance. . His many articles on Israel, the Middle East and Europe have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, the Melbourne Age, among many other publications throughout the world. His most recent documentary was Remembering Munich and his daily blog s can be found at The Intermediate Zone and On the Other Hand. He is the coordinator of the Is The (Real) News Dead Conference.

David Dayen
David Dayen has been blogging about state and national issues since 2004. He has written thousands of posts for his personal blog D-Day, as well as at the nationally recognized Digby's Hullabaloo and the California progressive political site Calitics. He currently writes and reports for the News Desk at FireDogLake (news.firedoglake.com). His work has appeared in the LA Times, the New York Times, the Washington Post and Capitol Weekly.

Craig Detweiler
Craig Detweiler, PhD, directs the new Center for Entertainment, Media and Culture at Pepperdine University. His cultural commentary has appeared on ABC’s Nightline, CNN, Fox News, Al Jazeera, and in The Wall Street Journal. His books include A Matrix of Meanings: Finding God in Pop Culture, Into the Dark: Seeing the Sacred in the Top Films of the 21st Century, and Halos and Avatars: Playing Video Game with God.
Leon De Winter
Leon de Winter has become one of the most successful of contemporary Dutch writers, film writers and producers. His works have focused on contemporary European identity and he has become an outspoken critic of what he believes to be Europe’s appeasement of Muslim militancy.
Ed Driscoll
Ed Driscoll produces PJM Political, Pajamas Media’s weekly show on Sirius-XM’s POTUS channel, which featured interviews in 2008 with all of the major presidential candidates or their representatives. Since 2008 he has produced Silicon Graffiti, his ongoing video blog .

Brad Friedman
Brad is an L.A.-based investigative journalist/blogger, political commentator, broadcaster, author, Commonweal Institute Fellow and Publisher of The BRAD BLOG (http://www.Bradblog.com). He is the regular fill-in host for the nationally syndicated Mike Malloy Show, and the producer/co-host of the nationally syndicated "Green News Report", a regular 6-minute radio feature heard on stations and podcasts across the country. Brad is a 2010 Project Censored award winner, for "Outstanding Investigative Journalism.

Tim Groseclose
Tim Groseclose is the Marvin Hoffenberg Professor of American Politics at UCLA. His research focuses mainly upon Congress, media bias, and mathematical models of politics. He has held faculty positions at Carnegie Mellon University, Harvard University, the Ohio State University, Stanford University, and Caltech.

Larry Greenfield
Larry Greenfield is the Executive Director of the Reagan Legacy Foundation, a senior fellow of the Claremont Institute and a noted lecturer on American foreign policy. He has served in the Armed Forces of the United States in Naval Intelligence and earned his BA in political science from UC Berkeley and his Law Degree from Georgetown University.
Hugh Hewitt
Hugh Hewitt is the host of a daily nationally syndicated talk radio show heard in more than 100 cities across the country. He is a Professor of Law at Chapman University Law School, the Executive Editor of Townhall.com, and one of the country’s most widely read bloggers at www.HughHewitt.com
Joe Hicks
Joe R. Hicks is a radio talk show host and co-founder of Community Advocates, Inc., a Los Angeles based political think-tank, created to address issues of race and human relations. He is currently a host and commentator for Pajamas Television Daily, an online television network and the former host of the weekly KFI AM 640 Talk Radio program - “The Joe Hicks Show.”

Scott Horton
Scott Horton is  a radio broadcaster and blogger whose interviews are syndicated throughout the country. He has conducted more than 1,200 interviews with journalists, politicians, pundits, lawyers and experts on foreign policy and war-time law since 2003. In 2007 Scott won the Austin Chronicle's "Best of Austin" award for his Iraq war coverage.

David Kupelian
David Kupelian is an award-winning journalist, best-selling author, and managing editor of WorldNetDaily. He is also a widely read online columnist and editor of the critically acclaimed monthly news magazine, Whistleblower. His 2010 book, How Evil Works offers fresh insights into the hidden mechanisms of seduction, corruption, and power politics.
Michael Ledeen
Michael Ledeen is the Freedom Scholar at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and a contributing editor at National Review Online. Previously, he served as a consultant to the National Security Council, the State Department, and the Defense Department. Dr. Ledeen regularly appears on Fox News and on a variety of radio talk shows.

Andrea Levin
Andrea Levin is National President of CAMERA, a media watchdog. She writes and lectures widely on media coverage of the Arab-Israeli conflict and its impact on public opinion. Her articles have appeared in newspapers and magazines such as the Boston Globe,International Herald Tribune, New Republic Online and Commentary.
Deborah Cole Micek
Deborah Cole Micek authored the first published books on new media and Twitter with: Secrets of Online Persuasion and Twitter Revolution and since has been on the cutting edge of marketing with new media. Today she is a consultant who shows business owners, politicians, and celebrities how to leverage multiple marketing channels online, attracting customers, votes and fans.
John-Paul Micek
John-Paul Micek is the founder of RPM Success Group® Inc., provider of software, systems & strategic consulting to help small business owners thrive in the New Economy. He is author of the first published book on New Media marketing; Secrets of Online Persuasion and the forthcoming Rules for Revolution.
Joel Mowbray
Joel Mowbray is an award-winning investigative journalist and nationally-syndicated columnistand is considered a leading expert on the worldwide spread of radical Islam and the increasing threat of homegrown terrorism inside the United States. His work has been published in a wide variety of top publications, including the Wall Street Journal, Los Angels. Times, National Review, New York Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and the San Diego Union-Tribune,

Michael Moynihan
Michael C. Moynihan is a senior editor of Reason magazine and Reason.com. He is a frequent commentator in the Swedish media. His writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Utne Reader, New York Post, Chicago Sun-Times, Weekly Standard, Wilson Quarterly, Politico, and numerous other publications.

Cyrus Nowrasteh
Cyrus Nowrasteh is a film maker and screenwiter. He has written for film and televison including such productions as 10,000 Black Men Named George, The Day Reagan Was Shot, La Femme Nikita and The Path to 9/11 Most recently he was the co-writer (with wife Betsy) and director of The Stoning of Soraya M., a drama portraying the plight of a woman falsely convicted of adultery in Iran.

Ronald Radosh
Ronald Radosh is the author or coauthor of 14 books, including The Rosenberg File. He has written for numerous publications including The New Republic, The Weekly Standard, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, and The Wall Street Journal. He is Professor Emeritus of History at the City University of New York and is currently an Adjunct Fellow at the Hudson Institute in Washington, DC.

Allis Radosh
Allis Radosh holds a Ph.D. in American history from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She has taught at Sarah Lawrence College and at the City University of New York . She also has served as a program officer at the National Endowment for the Humanities and is co-author, with Ronald Radosh, of Red Star Over Hollywood.
Roberta Seid
Roberta P. Seid, PhD, specialized in European Social History and taught Gender Studies at the University of Southern California. She is a member of the America Israel Demographic Research Group (AIDRG), which exposed the false myths about Palestinian and Israeli demography, and she is the Education/Research Director for StandWithUs, an education and advocacy organization. Dr. Seid has published books and articles in all these fields, and is currently teaching the history of Israel at the University of California, Irvine.

Roz Rothstein
Roz Rothstein is the CEO and founder of StandWithUs, an organization devoted to building a global organization that strengthens Israel's image through education. She holds a degree in psychology, and she became a family therapist in 1980, practicing in the state of California for over two decades. StandWithUs now has offices and chapters in 12 regions, including Los Angeles, Denver, Detroit, Chicago, New York, the Pacific Northwest, San Francisco, the United Kingdom, and Israel.

Evan Sayet
Evan Sayet is rapidly becoming one of the most in-demand speakers in the country.
His lecture to the Heritage Foundation on how Modern Liberals "think" has become a phenomenon with over a quarter million viewers on youtube alone. His book, "Regurgitating the Apple: How Modern Liberals 'Think'" will be published by Regnery in April.
Sonja Schmidt
Sonja Schmidt is a writer, comedienne, childrens' book author, producer and director. Her writing and producing contributions led to an Emmy nomination as well as the prestigious NAACP Image Prism Award. Her resume includes Fox’s In Living Color, NBC’s
Hidden Hills, the popular children’s programs C‐Bear and Jamal, City Guys, The Famous Jet Jackson, Disney’s That’s So Raven and Cory in the House. She recently optioned her first screenplay and this year created and sold a family television pilot entitled All About Glory.
Roger Simon
Roger Simon is the co-founder and CEO of Pajamas TV and is a noted novelinst and screenwriter. He is best known for his series of the eight Moses Wine detective novels, which have been translated into over a dozen languages. His many screenplays have incuded Bustin’ Loose , Scenes from a Mall and Enemies, A Love Story, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.
David Swindle
David Swindle is the managing editor of David Horowitz’s NewsReal Blog and the associate editor of FrontPage Magazine. As editor of NewsReal Blog, he leads a team of more than three dozen bloggers in examining the challenges to real news in both old and new media.
Jeff Turner
Jeff is a serial entrepreneur and a seasoned business executive of 20 plus years. In addition to his role as President at Zeek Interactive, Jeff is the founder and creative force behind Real Estate Shows. He is also widely regarded as one a leading thinkers on how to effectively use internet tools and a sought after conference speaker on topics related to emerging technologies.
Bill Whittle
Bill Whittle is a writer, film director, TV commentator and pilot. He rose to national prominence with his blog, Eject! Eject! Eject!, and it was from there that he compiled his long-format essays into his first book, Silent America. His second work, Seeing the Unseen, will be published in the Fall.

John Ziegler
John Ziegler is an award winning broadcaster, author, speaker and filmmaker. He has hosted national radio talk shows and appeared as a guest on some of the most prominent television shows in the country. He has written two books, including The Death of Free Speech. Most recently, he has created two feature length documentary films - Blocking The Path to 9/11 and Media Malpractice.
   
 
       

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