William B. Scott recently retired as the Rocky Mountain Bureau Chief for Aviation Week & Space Technology magazine. He focused primarily on advanced aerospace and weapons technology, business,...

David Seaman is an independent journalist and frequent contributor to Business Insider. He has been a lively guest on CNN Headline News, FOX News, ABC News Digital, among others, and on his humble...

Charles Seife is a writer for Science magazine, where he covers physics and cosmology. He is the author of Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea and Alpha and Omega: The Search for the Beginning...

Lt. Col. Tony Shaffer is a Bronze Star Medal recipient who is a CIA-trained senior intelligence operations officer and reserve Army lieutenant colonel with more than twenty-two years of experience...

Attorney Robert Shapiro is the head of his firm's white-collar criminal defense section. He was admitted to the California State Bar in 1969. A graduate of UCLA, he holds a Bachelor of Science...

Jeff Sharlet, New York Times bestselling author of The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power (Harper, 2008) and a contributing editor for Harper’s and Rolling Stone,...

Mike Shedlock (Mish) is a registered investment advisor representative for Sitka Pacific Capital Management, an asset management firm geared towards individuals seeking strong performance with low...

Craig Shirley has been professionally involved in American politics and government for almost three decades. He has worked in government and on campaigns at the congressional, gubernatorial, and...

Dr. Michael Sikirica is a physician, board certified in Anatomic Pathology, Clinical Pathology, Forensic pathology and Neuropathology practicing in the capitol district area of upstate New York....

Joel Skousen is the publisher of the World Affairs Brief, a weekly news analysis service found at www.worldaffairsbrief.com. Mr. Skousen is a political scientist by training and speaks multiple...

Charles R. Smith is one of America's leading experts on cyber technology and its implications for war, terrorism, privacy and every way technology interacts with our lives. He is an exclusive...

Jeffrey M. Smith has been involved with genetically modified (GM) foods for nearly a decade. He worked for non-profit and political groups on the issue and in 1998, ran for U.S. Congress to raise...

Craig R. Smith is the chairman of the board of Swiss America Trading Corporation and an author, commentator and popular media guest. He hosted two nationally syndicated talk radio shows during the...

Norm Stamper was a police officer for 34 years. He served as chief of the Seattle Police Department from 1994 to 2000. In his 28 years with SDPD Norm rose quickly through the ranks and as a deputy...

Christopher Steiner is a civil engineer and a staff writer at Forbes magazine. The concept for his book "$20 Per Gallon" was conceived of when he wondered, simply, how will our lives...

Ted Sumner is a former undercover police officer with the San Jose Police Department, who worked under deep cover infiltrating various drug trafficking organizations in the 70’s. He left the...

Captain Kelly Sweeney is a Master Mariner, holding the highest Captain's license the Coast Guard issues to commercial mariners. He graduated from the California Maritime Academy in 1983 with a...

Michael W. Taft is a serious student of evolution and the capacities of the human brain. A professional researcher and writer for more than two decades, Taft is fascinated by what neuroscience,...

Webster Griffin Tarpley is one of the most incisive critics of Anglo-American hegemony. As an activist historian he is best known for his book – George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography (1992), a...

Dave Thomas is the President of New Mexicans for Science and Reason (NMSR), an organization that consists of individuals, including scientists and non-professionals alike, who share the goals of...

Brad Thor, a graduate of the University of Southern California, has served as a member of the Department of Homeland Security's Analytic Red Cell Program and is the #1 New York Times bestselling...

Jesse Ventura is the former Independent Governor of Minnesota. He is also a former U.S. Navy SEAL, professional wrestler, movie actor, and a visiting fellow at Harvard Kennedy School of...

Robert Vicino is an entrepreneur with a global history of success. Robert is perhaps best known as the guy who successfully mounted a 90' tall King Kong replica atop the Empire State Building for...

Damon Vickers is the founder of Nine Points Management and Research, a Seattle-based investment firm that has correctly called three market tops since 2000: the dot-com bust, real estate bubble...

Bill Waggoner has been in the Internet Marketing Business for 16 years and has encountered every Internet scam artist you could possibly imagine. His website is about exposing the lies, myths,...

John Weisman received his BA in English Literature from Bard College. From 1989-1991, he was a Senior Fellow at the Annenberg Washington Program for Communications Policy Studies of Northwestern...

Lindsey Williams, who has been an ordained Baptist minister for 28 years, went to Alaska in 1971 as a missionary. The Transalaska oil pipeline began its construction phase in 1974, and because of...

John Truman Wolfe has been a senior credit officer for two California banks. He is the co-founder of a prestigious Los Angeles-based business-management company where he oversaw the business and...

Frosty Wooldridge possesses a unique view of the world, cultures and families that he obtained bicycling 100,000 miles around the globe in the past 25 years. He graduated from Michigan State...