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is a New York Times best-selling author, commentator, news analyst and law professor. He is a pundit for NewsMax.com and author of the popular weekly column “The Left Coast Report,” where he takes a humorous poke at the politics of Hollywood. His latest book is Hollywood Nation: Left Coast Lies, Old Media Spin, and the New Media Revolution (2005). Hirsen teaches law at California’s Trinity Law School and Biola University.

is a conservative art critic, essayist and social commentator. He is managing editor, co-editor and co-publisher of the New Criterion magazine, a monthly review of the arts and intellectual life, and an art critic for the London Spectator. Kimball contributes to numerous journals in the US and England. He is the author of many books, including his most recent, The Rape of the Masters: How Political Correctness Sabotages Art (2004).

is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research. He studies the UN, neo-conservatism, the history of socialism and communism, the Arab-Israeli conflict, and global democracy, terrorism, and the Bush doctrine. His most recent book is The Future of the United Nations: Understanding the Past to Chart a Way Forward (2005).

is executive director of The Creative Coalition, a nonprofit, nonpartisan, social and political advocacy organization for the arts and entertainment industry. She is dedicated to educating and mobilizing the arts community on issues of public importance, particularly the First Amendment, arts advocacy and public education.

is a film producer, director and political activist. His first feature documentary was Unprecedented: The 2000 Political Election (2002). Most recently he directed and produced Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price (2005). His new media company, Brave New Films, is working on producing films that will influence the debates on the most important issues of the day.

a writer of fiction, nonfiction, and screenplays, is a professor at UCLA where he chairs the graduate program in screenwriting. His students enjoy great success at the studios and networks.