Staff Writer for the Weekly Standard. His writing has also appeared in National Review Online, The Philadelphia Inquirer, the Boston Globe, HughHewitt.com and Townhall.com. He regularly guest-hosts the nationally broadcast Hugh Hewitt Radio Show. Dean has been battling Cystic Fibrosis for four decades. Author of [The Plucky Smart Kid with the Fatal Disease](http://store.pamphleteerpress.com/10.html). "Staying alive has required constant effort and a lot of luck. There have been good times and bad times. And occasionally there has been enlightenment."

Dave Nalle grew up all over the world, attending American and British schools, and ended up in Austin after getting graduate degrees at the University of Texas. He has worked a variety of political jobs on both sides of the aisle in DC and in Austin and ran for State Representative in 2002. He has been a magazine editor, a freelance writer, a game designer and taught college history for more than a decade. He now designs fonts for a living, edits the Politics section of BlogCritics and is working on two new books for release next year.

David D. Perlmutter is a professor and associate dean for graduate studies & research at the William Allen White School of Journalism & Mass Communications, University of Kansas. He writes a regular column, "P&T Confidential," for the Chronicle of Higher Education. He has been interviewed by most major news networks and newspapers, from the New York Times to CNN and ABC. He is editor of the blog of the Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics at the University of Kansas.