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) 2009 Townhall.com, A Salem Communications Web. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED jim.dearras@townhall.com (Jim De Arras) Mon, 28 Dec 2009 05:01:00 GMT Mon, 28 Dec 2009 05:01:00 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ Certainly, 2009 is not ending on the note that Obama supporters - or the President himself - expected. Iran develops a nuclear arsenal unchecked, spitting in the eyes of the United States and the rest of the world. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolPlattLiebau/2009/12/28/2010_year_of_the_citizen 1453bd00-704c-4d16-9c96-12363bbd0602 Mon, 28 Dec 2009 05:01:00 GMT The New York Times recently revealed that, before abandoning the idea, Barack and Michelle Obama had considered eliminating The White House's traditional nativity scene as part of an effort to celebrate a... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolPlattLiebau/2009/12/14/why_merry_christmas_matters_to_america ea48d25a-0ae8-4639-b542-907b64da449d Mon, 14 Dec 2009 05:00:40 GMT Democrats have long complained about the "wedge issues" that Republicans allegedly exploit to "divide" the country. Perhaps it's no coincidence that these so-called "wedges" are the issues where majorities or large... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolPlattLiebau/2009/11/30/democrats_created_the_wedge_that_may_defeat_them 10dc77af-6a92-4d4b-9bde-a256a587d0e1 Mon, 30 Nov 2009 05:00:20 GMT On a November evening back in 1989, it was impossible to take one's eyes from the television screen. There it was, the seemingly impossible - the Berlin Wall falling as East Germans, intoxicated by the promise of f http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolPlattLiebau/2009/11/02/why_wont_obama_celebrate_freedoms_victory f5af16fa-d998-47fa-8d97-738d57d7670c Mon, 02 Nov 2009 05:00:04 GMT Given the public disenchantment with voter-ignoring, big-government-loving Democrats in Congress and The White House, next year's elections could do much to restore some measure of fiscal sanity and common sense to... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolPlattLiebau/2009/10/19/time_for_the_gop_and_the_tea-partiers_to_grow_up 574a380e-16ad-4f80-b1fe-c412874af0c8 Mon, 19 Oct 2009 04:00:53 GMT Comic Rodney Dangerfield made a career out of enumerating the manifold ways in which - as he put it ungrammatically but colorfully - he didn't "get no respect." Today, America has a problem: An increasing number of its... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolPlattLiebau/2009/09/21/angry_citizens_just_want_some_r-e-s-p-e-c-t b4a36108-5821-4dd0-8858-13f3dc8c25c6 Mon, 21 Sep 2009 04:00:19 GMT Van Jones, the President's designated "Green Jobs Czar," resigned his post after his ties to a 9/11 "truther" group and use of a vulgarity to describe Republicans began attracting unwelcome scrutiny. Fair... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolPlattLiebau/2009/09/07/van_jones'_toxic_dump_on_obama_and_environmentalism 20f4d899-1667-40ad-8f98-9d472d104469 Mon, 07 Sep 2009 04:01:00 GMT What a relief it was to learn from the President that he has no plans, as he recently put it, to "pull the plug on Grandma." Cute phrase, isn't it? Certainly, it's easy to be flip if, like the President,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolPlattLiebau/2009/08/24/obamacare_no_dream_for_my_father dbf65f00-5d02-417b-95fd-0bfec4884457 Mon, 24 Aug 2009 04:01:00 GMT In a capital that's at partisan loggerheads, both Democrats and Republicans increasingly agree on one issue: The Obama "stimulus" plan has so far failed to provide the jobs and spur the economic growth that the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolPlattLiebau/2009/07/13/obamanomics_war_on_business_will_strangle_economic_recovery 6a43df9a-895b-4af5-9007-d5070147afb4 Mon, 13 Jul 2009 04:00:28 GMT As the end of California's fiscal year approaches, the Governor and state legislators confront a $24 billion deficit. While Republicans and Democrats wrangle over how to address the gaping shortfall, some members of... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolPlattLiebau/2009/06/29/politicians_bankrupted_california,_not_prop_13 56f718de-93c0-462e-88c4-955c871ef4ff Mon, 29 Jun 2009 04:00:38 GMT Perhaps the most revealing moment of Barack Obama's presidential candidacy came in the ABC debate conducted on April 16 of last year. Charles Gibson asked the then-senator why he would possibly consider raising the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolPlattLiebau/2009/06/15/obamacare_will_make_america_sick 931234b0-2d2a-4c83-a8ed-04e394d1ceed Mon, 15 Jun 2009 04:00:11 GMT It's a remarkable irony. Barack Obama is himself a lawyer, and came to power as a supposed champion of the "rule of law," eloquently denouncing Bush administration terrorism policies (many of which he has subsequently... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolPlattLiebau/2009/06/01/for_obama,_"law"_is_just_politics_by_another_name 3b7681eb-848b-4715-ab64-eb92a9fe8d0c Mon, 01 Jun 2009 04:00:21 GMT Once, California was known as the "Golden State." No more. It's struggling with a fiscal crisis of epic proportions. And voters are so disgusted with the ineptitude and waste of a state legislature dominated by... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolPlattLiebau/2009/05/18/california_is_liberalisms_canary_in_the_coal_mine 4f28cafc-f3a0-4a9b-b103-ab9038eb73a4 Mon, 18 May 2009 04:00:09 GMT Preparing to fill the Supreme Court seat soon to be vacated by David Souter, President Obama has announced that he wants a judge with "empathy." According to the President, his nominee must understand "justice" to be... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolPlattLiebau/2009/05/04/empathetic_justices_threaten_our_freedom 87e5fff2-4b42-4532-8533-472269f5fcd8 Mon, 04 May 2009 04:00:36 GMT The world has gone wild over the video of Susan Boyle auditioning for "Britain's Got Talent." All over the internet, her triumphant rendition of "I Had a Dream" from Les Miserables has attracted the notice of millions,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolPlattLiebau/2009/04/20/political_correctness_cant_save_susan_boyle ccb6ba8d-941c-4e48-aff5-fadd07f8da45 Mon, 20 Apr 2009 04:00:50 GMT