Carol Platt Liebau is an attorney, political analyst and commentator based near Los Angeles. She has provided analysis and commentary on national television for PBS, CNN, the Fox News Channel, and MSNBC, and has appeared locally on the Orange County News Channel and Cox Cable. In addition, Carol serves as a substitute host for KABC radio in Southern California and for the nationally syndicated "Hugh Hewitt Show." She has been a guest on a variety of radio programs across the country, including nationally-syndicated shows like "Beyond the Beltway," "Dateline: Washington," and "American Scene," as well as on Southern California PUblic Radio and Pacifica Radio. A weekly columnist for CaliforniaRepublic.org, she has also contributed to the editorial pages of The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Times, The Orange County Register, The Sacramento Bee and The St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Her work has appeared online at Human Events and FrontPage Magazine, as well. Carol's work in politics began early. Born on February 13, 1967 and raised in St. Louis, Missouri, Carol attended Princeton University, where she was Editorial Chairman of The Daily Princetonian and graduated in 1989 with a degree from The Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. The summer before her sophomore year, she joined the first Senate campaign for former Governor (and current U.S. Senator) Christopher "Kit" Bond (R-MO), where she spearheaded the opposition research on then-Lt. Governor Harriett Woods. After Princeton, Carol headed off to Harvard Law School, where she served as the first female managing editor of the Harvard Law Review and graduated in 1992. Carol then moved to Washington, D.C. to become a law clerk for Reagan appointee Judge David B. Sentelle of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. In that capacity, she assisted Judge Sentelle with matters arising from his status as chief of the three-judge panel charged with appointing prosecutors under the now-defunct Independent Counsel Act. At the conclusion of her clerkship, Carol went to Capitol Hill. She served as legislative assistant to Senator Bond, specializing in Judiciary, Crime, Tax, Small Business and Nominations matters and handling the legal issues pertaining to oversight of the Executive Office of the President. Carol also consulted on judiciary and crime issues for the 1994 U.S. Senate campaign of John D. Ashcroft. She subsequently returned to St. Louis in 1994, and practiced law in St. Louis at Armstrong, Teasdale LLP, as part of the firm's appellate and litigation departments. Consistent with her ongoing political interests, she also served as Spokesman for Missouri Women for Dole in 1996, and later directed Senator Bond's office in eastern Missouri. In that capacity, Carol acted as a surrogate for the senator at official events, and advised on and oversaw the implementation of assorted policy matters. She left St. Louis in 1998, upon her marriage to F. Jack Liebau - a third generation Californian. Since moving to California, Carol has served as a policy advisor and counsel for Tom Campbell's U.S. Senate campaign in 2000. She has also enjoyed having the opportunity to travel widely throughout California to present speeches, including keynote addresses for the Golden State Republican Women Leaders' Forum; the California Federation of Republican Women's biennial conference; the San Diego County Federation of Republican Women's 76th Annual Convention; and the San Bernardino County Federation of Republican Women's Conference in 2003. Carol also assists on a variety of free-lance projects, including providing advice on the script for Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde, and participates extensively in volunteer work for organizations as diverse as the Junior League of Pasadena and Soldiers' Angels. Carol lives in San Marino, California, with her husband, Jack, and Winston, their four-year-old West Highland white terrier. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolPlattLiebau http://media.townhall.com/TownHall/icons/TH-feed-icon-128x128.gif http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolPlattLiebau TownHall.com, Where your opinion counts. 128 Copyright (c) 2008 Townhall.com, A Salem Communications Web. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED jim.dearras@townhall.com (Jim De Arras) Mon, 30 Jun 2008 04:00:47 GMT Mon, 30 Jun 2008 04:00:47 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ There was something sweetly naïve about the shock elicited by news out of Gloucester, Massachusetts that a group of 17 girls, no older than 16, may have had a pact to get pregnant together. But what was, perhaps, most... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolPlattLiebau/2008/06/30/gloucester_girls_explode_myths_about_teen_pregnancy 4000d083-a9e1-411a-a39b-015e7775a162 Mon, 30 Jun 2008 04:00:47 GMT Barack Obama may be lacking in judgment and experience - most recently demonstrated by the selection of former Fannie Mae CEO Jim Johnson to vet his veeps (along with Eric Holder, who signed off on Bill Clinton's pardon... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolPlattLiebau/2008/06/16/change_you_can_believe_in_--_or_change_you_just_wont_believe 88f79e34-6927-4f9c-abca-83e167aa69ff Mon, 16 Jun 2008 04:00:41 GMT For someone whose campaign supposedly brought with it the promise of racial healing, Barack Obama has so far done little to effect any meaningful interracial understanding. His press conference yesterday, announcing his... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolPlattLiebau/2008/06/02/barack_obama_dividing_by_race_to_conquer f5d7affd-7b7d-468a-a34f-e980df4d79f3 Mon, 02 Jun 2008 04:00:33 GMT When the California Supreme Court created a "right" to gay marriage last week, it was entirely foreseeable that opponents of the ruling would organize. For the second time in eight years, Golden State voters will most... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolPlattLiebau/2008/05/19/gay_marriage_and_the_limits_of_private_sexual_behavior 18377f28-4da1-49df-b7af-bf01283a3e87 Mon, 19 May 2008 04:00:58 GMT In recent weeks, Hillary Clinton has won a "strange new respect" from legions of Americans who have despised her since she emerged on the national scene in 1992. As Barack Obama has been pinned between the twin... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolPlattLiebau/2008/05/05/hillary_clinton_when_elitism_is_as_elitism_does cb98ada8-8fae-4c1e-8291-c73fcf2c21e9 Mon, 05 May 2008 04:00:26 GMT With his recent comments about frustrated small-town people "cling[ing] to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment," Barack Obama signaled that he... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolPlattLiebau/2008/04/21/who_gets_to_decide_what_"matters" 231e23e7-eeb9-4810-a4b7-9e9834a32210 Mon, 21 Apr 2008 04:00:08 GMT If you ever get the blues, just remember - it could always get worse. You could be forced to spend the week listening to the rhetoric of Michelle Obama or Hillary Clinton. Judging from last week's news reports, that... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolPlattLiebau/2008/04/07/the_cynic_vs_the_radical_hillary_clinton_and_michelle_obama f1303b7e-53c6-45e5-a5d0-7f353b01e9c4 Mon, 07 Apr 2008 04:01:01 GMT It was a fateful decision - and a significant strategic mistake. Battered by the controversy over the remarks of his mentor and pastor, Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama delivered a speech designed to switch the national... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolPlattLiebau/2008/03/24/barack_obamas_big_mistake_--_and_how_he_fixes_it b845038b-b364-4b2c-a7ed-4133a066bd3f Mon, 24 Mar 2008 04:00:50 GMT Hillary Clinton's victories in Ohio, Texas and Rhode Island left many on the right gleeful at the prospect of Democrats deploying against one other the identity politics they've so effectively used against Republicans... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolPlattLiebau/2008/03/10/the_clintons_legacy_of_love 7368638d-c331-4938-ba8c-f1a10e5411de Mon, 10 Mar 2008 04:00:00 GMT For once, liberals and conservatives can agree on something: The New York Times acted shamefully in publishing a story in part suggesting that John McCain might have had an extramarital affair. The piece, laced with... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolPlattLiebau/2008/02/25/the_new_york_times_assault_on_working_women 8a09351f-7e0b-4f58-aab0-21dbb9d8ece9 Mon, 25 Feb 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mike Huckabee's 3:1 win over John McCain in Kansas this weekend sends a loud warning to the Arizona senator - and allows the glib Arkansan to justify remaining in the presidential race. As the sole remaining credible... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolPlattLiebau/2008/02/10/huckabee_placing_power_above_principle_or_party 7b4f0311-9279-46fe-8902-cb2331622aae Sun, 10 Feb 2008 17:00:16 GMT Last week, Bill Clinton took pains to point out that a Hillary Clinton-John McCain match-up would be "the most civilized election in American history" because the candidates "like and respect each other" so much. ... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolPlattLiebau/2008/01/28/the_unique_threat_of_john_mccain f45d37a1-dde5-4f37-a6d1-4e60f97eed2b Mon, 28 Jan 2008 05:00:47 GMT In the Capitol rotunda, there's a piece of marble etched with the faces of famous women like Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. But part of it will remain conspicuously untouched - bare until the image of the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolPlattLiebau/2008/01/14/clinton_turns_back_the_clock_on_female_leaders_for_her_own_political_gain ce50249c-44aa-40a8-85be-7d422898a8b5 Mon, 14 Jan 2008 05:00:32 GMT Could preteen sex actually be a good thing? In what's being billed as a blow to conventional wisdom, recent news stories have heralded two studies that appear to assert positive benefits to early sexual experience. The... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolPlattLiebau/2007/12/17/teen_sex_the_new_midnight_basketball ae88efeb-3861-410c-88e2-dae3c4059289 Mon, 17 Dec 2007 05:00:54 GMT Last week's CNN/YouTube debate was revealing - at least when it comes to what the mainstream media obviously thinks of political conservatives. The selection of questions about worldwide conspiracies, punishing women... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolPlattLiebau/2007/12/03/mike_huckabees_missed_opportunity 28dfc329-8abd-416d-8551-881a741d1612 Mon, 03 Dec 2007 05:00:28 GMT