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BRETT M. DECKER

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Brett M. Decker is Managing Editor of the Editorial and Opinion Pages. Before joining The Washington Times in 2009, he was senior vice president at the Export-Import Bank and Pentagon Federal Credit Union. Previously, he was based in Hong Kong as an editor and editorial page writer for The Wall Street Journal. He has held positions as national political reporter for the Evans & Novak Inside Report, television producer for the cable program Insights with Robert Novak, and as a speechwriter to House Majority Whip (later Majority Leader) Tom DeLay. He has written for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, International Herald Tribune, Far Eastern Economic Review, International Economy and National Review. His first book, Global Filipino, was published by Regnery in December 2008, with forewords by three former Philippine presidents. He has a B.A. in political science from Albion College, master’s in national security and strategic studies from the U.S. Naval War College, and in government from Johns Hopkins University, where he is an adjunct professor of government.

Opinion Editors

FRANK PERLEY

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Frank Perley is Senior Editor for Opinion. Joining the newspaper at its inception in 1982, he has held a variety of newsroom roles. Early in his career, he spent five years reporting from Fairfax, Virginia, and Prince George’s County, Maryland. He won a first-place award from the Maryland, Delaware-D.C. Press Association for spot news. Later, he worked as an assistant editor with the national news desk and as executive assistant to the editor in chief. Moving from the newsroom to the newspaper’s corporate office, he spent several years in the post of vice president for corporate affairs. Returning to the news division in 1992, he has served as articles editor for the Commentary section for the past17 years. He contributes reviews of science fiction works and politics to the newspaper’s books section.

BENJAMIN P. TYREE

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Ben Tyree is Deputy Opinion Editor. He has worked for the Times for 25 years and on its Commentary staff since the early 1990s. In his current post, he has written a number of opinion articles, including reports on visits to Greece and Cuba, and has participated in broadcast discussions on Radio America (“This Week From Washington”). He also has participated in a number of top-level conferences at Johns Hopkins University in Washington and at Cambridge University in England with German and British officials on trans-Atlantic relations and has written analysis and commentary on the European political and foreign affairs outlook. Earlier, he was a business reporter and copy editor for The Times. Before coming to The Times, he was managing editor of the Daily Report for Executives and the Daily Tax Report and founding managing editor of the Weekly Tax Report and of the Energy Users Report at The Bureau of National Affairs Inc. (BNA), a private, Washington publishing firm of specialized and business-oriented publications. He started at BNA as a reporter covering environmental, energy and natural resource issues in Congress and the executive branch. He later was a regular correspondent in London for BNA’s International Environmental Report and also wrote columns on the international oil outlook and on London developments for the New York Journal of Commerce. Mr. Tyree was a co-author as well as editor of BNA’s “Natural Gas Users Handbook” and a contributing author to Government Institute's book “Energy Law and Regulation,” both published in 1976. He was a regularly featured speaker at the BNA Environment & Safety Briefing Session and also spoke before such groups as the American Law Libraries Association, the Legal Writing Institute and a U.S. Chamber of Commerce energy conference. He is a former account executive of the international public relations firm of Hill & Knowlton and a public-relations writer and media planner for Johns Hopkins University. He did freelance writing and research on a proposed new publication as a consultant for Congressional Quarterly and also was freelance writer for Buraff Publications, a newsletter firm, both in the late 1980s. He started in journalism as a news department aide at U.S. News & World Report. He has written freelance articles on political and historical topics for the World & I and Insight magazines. He has a bachelor’s degree (Regent’s) from the University of the State of New York, a general course certificate from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a master’s degree from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. At The Washington Times, he has won four awards from the Maryland, Delaware-D.C. Press Association as a columnist and headline writer. He is a media fellow of Stanford University’s Hoover Institution.

Editorial Writers

CHRISTIAN BOURGE

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Christian Bourge is an Editorial Writer, covering Congress. He has over a decade of experience covering politics and policy on Capitol Hill and within the federal government. He broke exclusive stories from inside Congress and the federal bureaucracy at United Press International and Congress Daily, including the 2009 disclosure that a top Department of Homeland Security official violated key security protocols leading to her suspension. His views can also be heard every weekend on the roundtable political talk show The Capitol Hills Blues on XM Satellite Radio channel 165 – Talk Radio.

QUIN HILLYER

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Quin Hillyer is an associate editor for The Washington Times and a senior editor for The American Spectator magazine. He has won awards for journalistic excellence at the local, state, regional and national levels. He has been published professionally in well over 50 publications, including the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the Houston Chronicle, the San Francisco Chronicle, Investors Business Daily, National Review, the Weekly Standard, Human Events and The New Republic Online. He is a former editorial writer and columnist for the Washington Examiner, the Mobile Register and the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, and a former Managing Editor of Gambit Weekly in New Orleans. He has appeared dozens of times as a television analyst in Washington DC, Alabama, Arkansas and Louisiana, and as a guest on hundreds of national and local radio shows. Hillyer also has worked in professional or volunteer capacities in dozens of political campaigns, and served for five years as press secretary for U.S. House Appropriations Committee Chairman Bob Livingston of New Orleans. He was an original executive board member of the internationally acclaimed Louisiana Coalition Against Racism and Nazism, formed to halt the then-meteoric political rise of former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke. Hillyer also has volunteered in leadership roles for numerous church, civic, and educational organizations. He is a cum laude graduate of Georgetown University, and is a Fellow of the Loyola University (New Orleans) Institute of Politics and of Leadership Coastal Alabama.

JOHN R. LOTT JR.

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John Lott is Senior Editorial Writer – Economics. He also is a senior research scientist at the University of Maryland and writes weekly for FoxNews.com. Previously he held positions at the University of Chicago, Yale, Stanford, UCLA, Wharton, and Rice and was the chief economist at the United States Sentencing Commission during 1988 and 1989. He has published over 90 articles in academic journals and written five books, among them More Guns, Less Crime and Freedomnomics. He received his Ph.D. in economics from UCLA in 1984.

JAMES S. ROBBINS

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Jim Robbins is Senior Editorial Writer for Foreign Affairs. He also is a senior fellow in national security affairs at the American Foreign Policy Council. A former special assistant in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, in 2007 he was awarded the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Joint Meritorious Civilian Service Award. He has written for National Review Online, the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and other publications. He appears frequently on international television and radio including the BBC, Voice of America, Al Jazeera, MSNBC and the Fox News Channel. He holds a Ph.D. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and has taught at the National Defense University and Marine Corps University. Dr. Robbins is the author of the critically acclaimed Last in Their Class: Custer, Pickett and the Goats of West Point.

Web

KERRY PICKET

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Kerry Picket is the Editorial Pages Online Producer, responsible for audio and visual editorial-commentary content and interfacing with the web. She was at the Media Research Center as an associate producer for the video sharing site Eyeblast.tv and a blogger for Newsbusters.org. Before that she produced news content for Robin Quivers at the Howard Stern Show on Sirius Satellite radio, wrote copy for MTV Radio, and worked as a production assistant at MTV.com.

Letters

WINDSOR MANN

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Windsor Mann is Letters Editor. He previously worked at Fox News Channel, the 2004 Bush-Cheney campaign headquarters, and as a researcher for Christopher Hitchens (God Is Not Great), Stephen F. Hayes (Cheney) and Jonah Goldberg (Liberal Fascism). His articles have appeared in The Weekly Standard, National Review Online, The American Spectator, The Washington Examiner and The Washington Times.

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