Our Staff and Contributors

EIC Staff:

• Publisher/Founder - Thomas Heffner. Also runs a personal blog, Prepare for Your Future.

• Editor - Alexia Cameron. Graduate of The Ohio State University with a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism.

• Staff Writer - Dustin Ensinger. Graduate of The Ohio State University with a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism and Political Science.

• News Analyst/Staff Writer - Craig Harrington. Graduate of The Ohio State University with a Bachelor of Arts in History and Political Science.

• Director of Digital Communications - E. David Ferriman. Senior pursuing a degree in Digital Communications at Franklin University.

• IT - Ed Shadi. Senior pursuing a degree in Computer Science at Franklin University.

Some of our Featured Contributors have included:

• Senator Byron Dorgan the junior United States Senator from North Dakota, a member of the North Dakota Democratic-NPL Party, the North Dakota affiliate of the Democratic Party. In the Senate, he is Chairman of the Democratic Policy Committee and Chairman of the Committee on Indian Affairs.

• Dan Merica - a political cartoonist and commentator.

• Danny Schechter - an author, producer, blogger, two-time Emmy winner and media critic. He worked as Producer for ABC's 20/20 for eight years and has directed multiple television specials and films.

• Senator Ernest F. Hollings - served as a Democratic United States Senator from South Carolina from 1966 to 2005, as Governor of South Carolina (1959-1963) and Lt. Governor (1955-1959).

• Jack Davis - a former congressional candidate for New York’s 26th District.

• Pat Choate - an economist, author and the 1996 Reform Party Vice President candidate, running-mate of H. Ross Perot.

• Paul Craig Roberts - a nationally syndicated columnist and economist, has served as an assistant editor and columnist from The Wall Street Journal and Business Week. He was also the Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for the Reagan Administration.

• Perry L. Weed - attorney, economist and author.

• Patrick Buchanan - an American political commentator, author, syndicated columnist, politician, and broadcaster. Buchanan was a senior adviser to American presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, and Ronald Reagan, and was an original host on CNN's Crossfire. He sought the Republican presidential nomination in 1992 and 1996 and ran on the Reform Party ticket in the 2000 presidential election. He co-founded The American Conservative magazine and launched a paleoconservative foundation named The American Cause.

• Richard C. Cook - author and former U.S. federal government analyst, whose career included service with the U.S. Civil Service Commission, the Food and Drug Administration, the Carter White House, NASA, and the U.S. Treasury Department.

• Thom Hartmann - an American radio host, author, and liberal political commentator. He is a lay scholar of the history and textual analysis of the United States Constitution, electronic voting fraud, and environmental issues like global warming.

• W. Raymond Mills - Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Michigan in 1958, taught at Ohio State for 23 years in the Department of City and Regional Planning.