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Grant Starrett
Grant Everett Starrett is an American real estate developer and conservative attorney who resides in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. He was a Republican candidate for Congress in Tennessee’s 4th District in 2016. Hlost Early life and education Starrett grew up in California. He has been politically conservative since junior high school and politically active since high school. "I came to consider myself a hawkish fairly traditional Christian conservative – part of the ‘old majority,’ if you will.” Starrett attended Stanford University and Vanderbilt Law School. Disappointed with the Stanford chapter of the College Republicans, he founded the Stanford Conservative Society and grew it to over 500 members. Starrett raised over $200,000 for the 2008 Romney campaign as chair of Students for Mitt, which he grew to over 4,500 members. At Vanderbilt he was president of the student chapter of the Federalist Society, president of the Vanderbilt Law School Republicans, and an officer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brackets
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American Center For Law And Justice
The American Center for Law & Justice (ACLJ) is a politically conservative, Christian-based legal organization in the United States. It is headquartered in Washington, D.C., and associated with Regent University School of Law in Virginia Beach, Virginia. The ACLJ was founded in 1990 by law school graduate and evangelical minister Pat Robertson with the stated "mandate to protect religious and constitutional freedoms". ACLJ generally pursues constitutional issues and conservative Christian ideals in courts of law. The leaders of the ACLJ also occasionally engage in public debates to present their perspective on legal and constitutional issues. The ACLJ is described as being "committed to ensuring the ongoing viability of freedom and liberty in the United States and around the world" by "focusing on U.S. constitutional law, European Union law and human rights law" to protect "universal, God-given and inalienable rights," according to Charity Navigator, which also issued a "Low Con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People From Murfreesboro, Tennessee
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Freedom Caucus
The Freedom Caucus, also known as the House Freedom Caucus, is a congressional caucus consisting of conservative Republican members of the United States House of Representatives. It is generally considered to be the most conservative and farthest-right bloc within the House Republican Conference. The caucus was formed in January 2015 by a group of conservatives and Tea Party movement members, with the aim of pushing the Republican leadership to the right. Its first chairman, Jim Jordan, described the caucus as a "smaller, more cohesive, more agile and more active" group of conservative representatives. The caucus is positioned right-wing to far-right on the political spectrum, with some members holding right-wing populist beliefs, such as opposition to immigration reform. The group takes hardline conservative positions and favors social conservativism and small government. The group sought dozens of times to repeal the Affordable Care Act. Established as an ultra-conservative a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Power Line
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James Dobson
James Clayton Dobson Jr. (born April 21, 1936) is an American evangelical Christian author, psychologist, and founder of Focus on the Family (FOTF), which he led from 1977 until 2010. In the 1980s he was ranked as one of the most influential spokesmen for conservative social positions in American public life. Although never an ordained minister, he was called "the nation's most influential evangelical leader" by ''The New York Times'' while ''Slate'' portrayed him as a successor to evangelical leaders Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson. As part of his former role in the organization, he produced the daily radio program ''Focus on the Family'', which the organization has said was broadcast in more than a dozen languages and on over 7,000 stations worldwide, and reportedly heard daily by more than 220 million people in 164 countries. ''Focus on the Family'' was also carried by about sixty U.S. television stations daily. Dobson also founded the Family Research Council in 1981. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Levin
Mark Reed Levin (; born September 21, 1957) is an American lawyer, author, and radio personality. He is the host of syndicated radio show Broadcast syndication is the practice of leasing the right to broadcasting television shows and radio programs to multiple television stations and radio stations, without going through a broadcast network. It is common in the United States where ... ''The Mark Levin Show'', as well as ''Life, Liberty & Levin'' on Fox News. Levin worked in the Presidency of Ronald Reagan, administration of President Ronald Reagan and was a chief of staff for Attorney General Edwin Meese. He is the former president of the Landmark Legal Foundation, a The New York Times Best Seller list, ''New York Times'' best-selling author of seven books, and contributes commentary to media outlets such as ''National Review Online''. Since 2015, Levin has been editor-in-chief of the ''Conservative Review'' and is known for his incendiary commentary. He has been describe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugh Hewitt
Hugh Hewitt (born February 22, 1956) is an American radio talk show host with the Salem Radio Network and an attorney, academic, and author. A conservative, he writes about law, society, politics, and media bias in the United States. Hewitt is a former official in the Reagan Administration, the former president and CEO of the Richard Nixon Foundation, a law professor at Chapman University School of Law, a columnist for ''The Washington Post'' and a regular political commentator on Fox News Channel. Early life Hewitt was born on February 22, 1956 in Warren, Ohio. He is the son of Marguerite (née Rohl) and William Robert Hewitt. He describes himself as "a descendant of both Ulster and the Republic through a green-orange marriage of immigrants from County Down and County Clare". He attended John F. Kennedy Catholic High School in Warren, Ohio. He then graduated ''cum laude'' from Harvard University with a B.A. in government in 1978. After leaving Harvard, he worked as a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RedState
''RedState'' is an American conservative political blog. Prior to 2017, it organized "RedState gatherings", a summer convention for conservative activists and grassroots political activism which featured many prominent public figures in conservative politics. ''RedState'' is owned by the Salem Media Group, a conservative media company. History ''RedState'' was founded in 2004 as a 527 group by conservative bloggers Joshua Treviño, Ben Domenech, and Mike Krempasky. In March 2006, co-founder Domenech was hired as a blogger by the '' Washington Post Online'', but was criticised for alleged plagiarism in some of his prior writings during college. At the end of his first week, Domenech resigned, eventually admitting to plagiarism. He took a leave of absence from ''RedState'' at the time, to which he returned in July 2006. Erick Erickson, who had joined ''RedState'' in 2006, became the editor-in-chief and CEO. On November 16, 2006, former congressman Tom DeLay posted a diary. Se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erick Erickson
Erick Woods Erickson (born June 3, 1975) is a conservative American radio host and blogger. He hosts a three-hour weekday talk show on WSB 95.5 FM and 750 AM in Atlanta, which is syndicated to other radio stations around the U.S. He also writes a right-wing blog called ''The Resurgent''. Prior to this, he was editor-in-chief and CEO of another conservative political blog called RedState. He was a political contributor for CNN and then briefly for the Fox News Channel, which terminated Erickson's affiliation with the network. Early life and career Erick-Woods Erickson was born in Jackson in East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, moved to Dubai, United Arab Emirates when he was five, and returned to Jackson when he was fifteen. Erickson attended the American School of Dubai, previously known as the Jumeirah American School. His father worked for Conoco Oil as an oil company production foreman. Erickson received a bachelor's degree from Mercer University in Macon, Georgia, and a J.D. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scott DesJarlais
Scott Eugene DesJarlais (; born February 21, 1964) is an American politician and physician serving as the United States House of Representatives, U.S. representative for since 2011. The district stretches across East Tennessee, East and Middle Tennessee. He is a member of the Republican Party (United States), Republican Party. Early life, education, and medical career DesJarlais was born in 1964 in Des Moines, Iowa, to Joe DesJarlais, a barber, and Sylvia, a registered nurse. He grew up in Sturgis, South Dakota. Over ten years he, his parents and his brother and sister built their own house in Sturgis; his parents still live there. DesJarlais earned his undergraduate degree in Chemistry and Psychology from the University of South Dakota in 1987 and his Doctor of Medicine from the University of South Dakota, University of South Dakota School of Medicine in 1991. He moved to East Tennessee in 1993 to practice medicine as a generalist. U.S. House of Representatives Elections 201 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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