Consumer reporter, investigative journalist, author, libertarian columnist and host and commentator of Fox Business Network (FBN), John Stossel has received numerous honors and awards in his decade of career. His views on economics are largely supportive of the free market. He is author of Give Me a Break and Myths, Lies, and Downright Stupidity.

Author of NYT best-seller, Battle Ready, a book on his military career and foreign affairs, Anthony Zinni is a retired four-star General in the United States Marine Corps and a former Commander in Chief of U.S. Central Command. Additionally he is an instructor at the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University.

Bob Schieffer has been with CBS News since 1969, serving 23 years as anchor on the Saturday edition of CBS Evening News. He is one of few journalists to have covered all four of the major Washington national assignments. Most recently he has acted as the moderator of the 2008 presidential debate between Senator Barack Obama and Senator John McCain.

Credited with creating "the last refuge of intelligent conversation on television," Rose and his popular PBS program illuminate the personalities and events that define our society. Also a correspondent for 60 Minutes II, he brings his relentless curiosity and penetrating insight to the podium as the ideal moderator or insightful commentator on politics and culture.

Benjamin R. Barber has combined a career as a distinguished scholar and political theorist with a life of practical commitment to democratic civic practices and the arts that has given him widespread experience as an educational and ...

Internationally recognized as a leading expert on Hizballah, Hamas, al-Qaeda and other militant Islamic movements, Magnus Ranstorp is the Chief Scientist at the Centre for Asymmetric Threat Studies at the Swedish National Defense College. Magnus is author of Hizballah in Lebanon and In the Service of Al-Qaeda.

Veteran political journalist and bestselling author, Thomas DeFrank is the Washington bureau chief of the New York Daily News where he directs coverage of the nation's capital for the country's third-largest metropolitan daily newspaper. DeFrank is author of Write it When I'm Gone: Remarkable Off-the-Record Conversations with Gerald R. Ford.

Former President of Columbia and Secretary General of the Organization of American States, Cesar Gaviria was instrumental in advancing the concept of integral solidarity and reforming its technical cooperation programs. Gaviria is known in Latin America as a conflict mediator, an advocate of democracy and a staunch supporter of regional integration and defender of human rights.

During his career as a network newsman, Bill Kurtis covered such notable stories as the Richard Speck murders and the Charles Manson trial. In 1990 Bill founded Kurtis Productions which produced programs for A&E including Investigative Reports and Cold Case File. Bill provided satirical narration for the blockbuster hit, Anchorman. Bill's latest book is The Death Penalty On Trial: Crisis In American Justice.

As a correspondent for NBC News, Ashleigh Banfield has appeared on the programs "The Today Show," "NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw," and "Dateline." She is an anchor on MSNBC and an Emmy Award winning international television news correspondent and host who has reported breaking news from across the country and around the globe.