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Mar 11, 1958 66 years old
American political analyst
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About James Pinkerton
- James "Jim" P.
- Pinkerton (born March 11, 1958) is a columnist, author, and political analyst.
- A graduate of Evanston Township High School (1975) and Stanford University (1980), he served on the White House staff under both Ronald Reagan and George H.W.
- Bush and on each of their presidential campaigns from 1980 to 1992.
- In January 2008, he became a senior adviser to the Mike Huckabee 2008 presidential campaign.Since his time in government he has become a columnist for Newsday and a Fox News Channel Contributor (1996 to present).
- He is a former panelist (1998-2013) on the Fox News program Fox News Watch, and a frequent contributor to Breitbart as well as an occasional contributor to The Huffington Post, National Review, and other publications.
- In the past, he was a senior fellow at both the Free Enterprise Fund and the New America Foundation, a lecturer at the Graduate School of Political Management at The George Washington University, a member of the Board of Advisors at the National Federation of Republican Assemblies, and a contributing editor of The American Conservative and USA Today.
- He frequently appears on Bloggingheads.tv, often in video discussions with journalist David Corn and other media personalities.
- He is now the editor of CureStrategy.org. In 2011, he became the co-chair of the RATE Coalition, a bi-partisan group of 35 companies and associations dedicated to corporate tax reform.Although he is a Republican with views broadly in sync with the GOP, he has sometimes divergent ideas: For example, in a Bloggingheads discussion with economist Glenn Loury, Pinkerton described his political ideology as "Hamiltonian".
- He favors a robust US industrial policy that would stimulate industry and calls himself a "big government libertarian".Pinkerton moderated the 2008 Libertarian presidential debate in Denver.On June 7, 2008, he married Elizabeth Dial.
