Announcing our Inaugural Writers and Bloggers

Delegation to Israel

Clifford D. May

@CliffordDMay

Clifford D. May is the President of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, created immediately following the 9/11 attacks on the United States. Under his leadership, FDD has become one of the nation’s most highly regarded policy institutes and a sought-after voice on a wide range of national security issues. He has helped FDD to assemble a staff and advisory board of the most compelling scholars and experts whose ideas and research have helped shape important policies and legislation on terrorism, Islamism and democratization. Mr. May has had a long and distinguished career in international relations, journalism, communications and politics. A veteran news reporter, foreign correspondent and editor (at The New York Times and other publications), he has covered stories in more than two dozen countries, including Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Israel, the West Bank, Sudan, Ethiopia, China, Uzbekistan, Northern Ireland and Russia. He is a frequent guest on national and international television and radio news programs, providing analysis and participating in debates on national security issues. He writes a weekly column that is nationally distributed by Scripps Howard News Service and he is a regular contributor for National Review Online, Townhall.com, Pundicity.com, The American Spectator and Moment magazine. His writing has appeared also in The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, The Atlantic and other publications. He is the co-editor of a book on the conflict in Afghanistan and Pakistan, as well as a book on energy policy.

Guy Benson

@guypbenson

Guy Benson is a conservative political commentator, analyst, and reporter.  He serves as Political Editor of Townhall.com, a prominent conservative online publication, and is among America's youngest top-market political talk show hosts. Guy is a frequent television guest, offering analysis on Fox News, CNBC, Fox Business Network, C-SPAN and The Blaze TV.  His written work primarily appears on Townhall's Tipsheet Blog, though he is also a contributor to HotAir.com's 'Green Room' and has written for National Review Online.  He appears regularly on the nationally-syndicated Hugh Hewitt radio show, which he guest hosts.  A former White House intern, Guy graduated with honors from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism in 2007.

Heidi Daroff

@IDFfan, @Isrl4Evr 

Heidi Daroff is the social media director for Israel Forever, a non-profit organization that develops supports and promotes virtual experiential learning opportunities to celebrate and strengthen the personal connection to Israel for people around the world. Heidi is active in EMET, and advocates for Israel in more political way. Heidi was raised by Zionists, and earned a Master's Degree in Humanities and Social Thought at New York University. As part of that program, she spent two summers studying Jewish History and the Holocaust in Krakow, Poland; earning a certificate from Jagellonian University.

Robin Mazyck

@RobinCBNNews

Robin Mazyck is the Washington, DC Bureau Chief for CBN News. She was Political Producer for the network's 2008 election coverage and traveled the country with CBN News' David Brody as his producer. From Alaska to Puerto Rico, Robin interviewed a number of prominent politicians and national figures for the network, including Mike Huckabee, Dennis Kucinich, Michael Steele, comedian George Lopez and actress Ericka Alexander. She began her career as a producer in Lansing, MI at WILX. Robin has worked at CNN International and CNN Airport Network. Before joining CBN News, she was an executive producer at the NBC affiliate in Raleigh, NC.

KT McFarland

@ktmcfarland

Kathleen Troia "KT" McFarland is the FOX News National Security Analyst and appears regularly on all FOX News and FOX Business News shows.  Ms. McFarland created and is host of FOXnews.com's DEFCON3, one of the most popular national security shows on the Internet.  She writes a regular column for FOXNews.com, and is a regular on a number of national radio shows, including IMUS, FOX, ABC, WMAL and WOR. Ms. McFarland held national security posts in the Nixon, Ford and Reagan Administrations: as an aide to Dr. Henry Kissinger on the NSC Staff (1970-76); member of the Senate Armed Services Committee Staff (1981); Senior Speechwriter to Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger and later the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (PA) and Pentagon Spokesman (1981-84). Ms. McFarland received the Defense Department's highest civilian award for her work in the Reagan Administration (1985).  She wrote the Weinberger Principles of War Speech which outlined the Reagan Administration's policy towards use of force, and was a forerunner to the Powell Doctrine. Ms. McFarland was a Republican candidate for the US Senate from New York (2006).

Seth McLaughlin

@SethMcLaughlin1

Seth McLaughlin grew up in Maine and has been a journalist for over a decade, working his way up the ranks as a local, state and national reporter.  He is now a congressional reporter at The Washington Times, where he covers politics and policy on Capitol Hill and keeps tabs on the rising stars within the Republican ranks. From 2010 to 2012, Seth covered the battle for the GOP presidential nomination and for the White House, crisscrossing the nation aboard Mitt Romney's campaign plane.  He also has covered state government in Virginia. Before that, Seth reported for the Providence Journal and earned a master's degree from the University of Illinois Springfield in Public Affairs Reporting while covering the state legislature. He also received a bachelor's degree in English from Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. He and his wife, Roselena, live in Washington, D.C.

Deroy Murdock

Deroy Murdock is an American syndicated columnist with the Scripps Howard News Service and a contributing editor with National Review Online. A native of Los Angeles, California, Murdock lives in New York City. Murdock is a first-generation America. His columns appear in The New York Post, The Boston Herald, The Washington Times, National Review, The Orange County Register and many other newspapers and magazines in the United States and abroad. He is a Fox News Contributor whose political commentary also has aired on ABC's Nightline, NBC Nightly News, CNN, MSNBC, PBS, other television news channels, and numerous radio outlets. Murdock is also a Senior Fellow with the Atlas Economic Research Foundation in Washington, D.C. and a Media Fellow with the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace at Stanford University. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Diana Prichard

@diana_prichard

Diana Prichard is a freelance writer who specializes in food policy, agriculture, and conservative politics. She lives on and operates a small alternative hog farm along with her husband and two school-aged daughters. Her work has been featured by outlets such as CNN, The New York Times, MSNBC's iVillage, BlogHer, and others.  She also authors the blog Righteous Bacon and can be found on both Twitter and Facebook.

Sandy Rios

@SandyRiosTweet

Sandy Rios is the Vice President of Family-Pac Federal, a FOX News Contributor, a conservative columnist and host of Sandy Rios in the Morning on AFR Talk. Family-Pac Federal is a national conservative political action committee which focuses on both economic and social issues and works to support such candidates as Marco Rubio, Jim DeMint, Tom Coburn and Michele Bachmann. Sandy Rios joined the Fox News Channel as a contributor in 2005. She has appeared on the O'Reilly Factor, Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, Neil Cavuto, and is a regular with Megyn Kelly. Whether defending America's Military, advocating for religious freedom, analyzing presidential politics, or the social and moral dilemmas of the day, Sandy brings her unique perspective to a wide variety of issues. Sandy writes commentary for The Daily Caller, Townhall.com, RealClear Politics and Onenewsnow.com. She is the former President of Culture Campaign and was ten years the host of the Sandy Rios Show in Chicago where she interviewed newsmakers and pundits like Ann Coulter, Steve Forbes, Ambassador John Bolton, Juan Williams, Bill Krystol, congressmen, and presidential candidates. The National Religious Broadcasters chose Sandy the 2010 Radio Personality of the Year. She has received an Angel Award, a TESLA, and seven Silver Microphone Awards for her work in radio.

Erik Telford

@BlameTelford

Erik Telford is currently the Vice President of Strategic Initiatives and Outreach at the Franklin Center for Government and Public Integrity. Previously he was the Deputy Director of Communications for Americans for Prosperity and the Executive Director of RightOnline, a project for the Americans for Prosperity Foundation. Previously, he worked for GSPM as the Assistant Director of Marketing and Communications. Telford graduated from George Washington University with an M.A. in Political Management and B.A. in American Studies and Political Science.

Betsy Woodruff

@woodruffbets

Betsy Woodruff graduated cum laude from Hillsdale College in May 2012 with a degree in English. A member of the school's Dow Journalism Program, she served as copy editor, circulation manager, reporter, Opinions editor, and City News editor for The Hillsdale Collegian, and won numerous awards for her writing and reporting, including a Michigan Press Association award for a feature piece on students converting to Catholicism.  She interned for The Toledo (Ohio) Free Press, the Washington Examiner local news desk (RIP), and the National Review's DC office. After graduating, she moved to New York to work for National Review as a William F. Buckley Fellow. After seven months in New York, she transferred to DC, where she covers policymaking and campaigns