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Ana Quintana is a policy analyst for Latin America and the Western Hemisphere in The Heritage Foundation’s Allison Center for Foreign and National Security Policy Studies.

Dr. Barry Latzer is the Emeritus Professor of Criminal Justice at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the author of many books on the death penalty and state constitutional criminal procedure. His latest book is titled The Rise and Fall of Violent Crime in America.

John Yoo is a Professor of Law at the University of California at Berkeley, and a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute.  He is a former advisor in the Justice Department as well as a former clerk to Justice Clarence Thomas. His books include Crisis and Command, War by Other Means, The Powers of War and Peace, and Point of Attack: Preventive War, International Law, and Global Welfare.  His most recent project is co-editing,  Liberty's Nemesis: The Unchecked Expansion of the State.

Peter Ferrara is director of policy for the Carleson Center for Public Policy and senior fellow for entitlement and budget policy with the Heartland Institute. He served in the White House Office of Policy Development under President Reagan and as associate deputy attorney general under President George H. W. Bush. He writes a weekly column at Spectator.org and also writes for townhall.com and  Forbes.com. He lives in McLean, Virginia, and Easton, Pennsylvania.

Ilya Shapiro is a senior fellow in constitutional studies at the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank, and editor-in-chief of the Cato Supreme Court Review."

Dan Bongino served in the Secret Service during the administrations of Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama. He is also a former candidate for both the House and the Senate, and currently hosts a radio show on WMAL, and ConservativeReview.com. His first book, Life Inside the Bubble, was a New York Timesbestseller. And his latest book is titled “The Fight: A Secret Service Agent's Inside Account of Security Failings and the Political Machine.”

Allen West served as an US Representative representing Florida's 22nd and 18th District. He is a 22 year veteran of the military where he earned the rank of Lieutenant Colonel as well as a Bronze Star and a Meritorious Service Medal. He is a Fox News contributor, founder of AllenBWest.com, the author of the bestseller Guardian of the Republic: An American Ronin’s Journey to Faith, Family and Freedom, and CEO of the National Center for Policy Analysis.

Robert S. Levine is Professor of English and a Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland. His past works include Dislocating Race and Nation; Martin Delany, Frederick Douglass, and the Politics of Representative Identity; and Conspiracy and Romance: Studies in Brockden Brown, Cooper, Hawthorne, and Melville. His latest work is entitled, The Lives of Frederick Douglass.

Michelle Malkin is a premier political blogger as well as syndicated columnist; bestselling author, the founder of HotAir.com,twitchy.com, and MichelleMalkin.com. Her new book, co-authored with John Miano is, Sold Out: How High-Tech Billionaires & Bipartisan Beltway Crapweasels Are Screwing America's Best & Brightest Workers.

Kevin D. Williamson writes for National Review, and his work has appeared in publications including Politico and the New York Post. He is the author of The End Is Near and It’s Going To Be Awesome, The Politically Incorrect Guide to Socialism, and the Broadsides The Dependency Agenda and What Doomed Detroit. His latest book is entitled, The Case Against Trump.

Steve Forbes is CEO and Editor-in-Chief of Forbes magazine, and the chairmanForbes Media, which encompasses Forbes, ForbesLife, Forbes.com, Investopedia.com, the RealClear sites and a host of other properties.  His latest book, written with Elizabeth Ames, is titled Reviving America: How Repealing Obamacare, Replacing the Tax Code and Reforming The Fed will Restore Hope and Prosperity.  

A.F. Branco is one of today’s most widely followed editorial cartoonists whose work has been cited by some of our nation’s most prominent Conservative figures.  His work is published regularly on a number of conservative websites includingLegalInsurrection.com and his new book is titled Comically Incorrect: A Collection of the Politically-Incorrect Comics.

Allen West is the CEO of the National Center for Policy Analysis. Previously, he served as an US Representative representing Florida's 22nd and 18th Districts. He is a 22 year veteran of the military where he earned the rank of Lieutenant Colonel as well as a Bronze Star and a Meritorious Service Medal. He is a Fox News contributor, founder of AllenBWest.com, and the author of the bestseller Guardian of the Republic: An American Ronin’s Journey to Faith, Family and Freedom.

Dr David Altman is senior vice-president at the Netanya Academic College and vice-chair of the college's Strategic Dialogue Center. His new book is entitled, Six Years Later.

Niall Ferguson is the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard, a Senior Research Fellow of the Hoover Institution, and the author of numerous well-respected bestsellers, including The Ascent of Money, The Great Degeneration, and The House of Rothschild.  His latest book is entitled, Kissinger: 1923-1968: The Idealist.

Brian Kilmeade is the cohost of the Fox News Channel's morning show Fox & Friends and host of the daily national radio show Kilmeade & Friends. Kilmeade is the author of three prior books, including the bestselling George Washington's Secret Six. His latest book, written with hisSecret Six co-author Don Yaeger, is entitled, Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates: The Forgotten War That Changed American History

William A. Jacobson is a Clinical Professor of Law and Director of the Securities Law Clinic at Cornell University and the 2014 CPAC Blog Bash Blogger of the Year. He is the founder of Legal Insurrection, one the nations’s top conservative websites and its sister site, College Insurrection.

Theodore Roosevelt Johnson, III is an opinion columnist, speaker, 2011-2012 White House Fellow, PhD candidate, and military officer. He writes and speaks on issues of race and politics. His latest essay is titled  “Yes, Republicans Can Win Black Voters” and can be found on NationalReview.com.

Allen West served as an US Representative representing Florida's 22nd and 18th District. He is a 22 year veteran of the military where he earned the rank of Lieutenant Colonel as well as a Bronze Star and a Meritorious Service Medal. He is a Fox News contributor, founder of AllenBWest.com, the author of the bestseller Guardian of the Republic: An American Ronin’s Journey to Faith, Family and Freedom, and CEO of the National Center for Policy Analysis.

Dennis Lynch is the Director of Photography for Court TV, and has covered some of the highest profile trials of the past few decades, including though of O.J. Simpson, Robert Blake, Phil Spector, and Kobe Bryant. His new book is entitled, Shooting Saddam: Crimes against humanity and the Quest for a Decent Cup Of Coffee.