Robert B. Bluey is director of the Center for Media & Public Policy at The Heritage Foundation. He maintains a blog at RobertBluey.com, serves as a contributor to the prominent conservative blog RedState, and is a contributing editor to Human Events, the national conservative weekly. At Heritage, he hosts at weekly meeting of conservative bloggers, oversees the Computer-Assisted Research and Reporting program and writes about politics, public policy, media and culture. Bluey was among a select group of bloggers invited to the White House in September 2006 for the bill signing ceremony for the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act, legislation that won passage with the help of bloggers. He was also invited to CNN's Election Night Blog Party in November 2006. He frequently speaks on panels about blogging and online journalism. Prior to joining Heritage in 2007, Bluey served as editor of HumanEvents.com, which he transformed into a popular destination for conservative journalism. He was named editor of the Web site in November 2005 after spending a year as assistant editor and later managing editor of Human Events' print edition. Bluey also worked at Cybercast News Service, where he was the first journalist to report on the forged CBS documents on President Bush's National Guard service. He covered the Republican and Democrat conventions in 2004. He grew up in upstate New York and graduated from Ithaca College, where he edited the college's award-winning newspaper, The Ithacan. During his college years, he worked for the Clinton Courier, Traverse City Record-Eagle and The Los Angeles Times. After college, he was awarded a year-long fellowship at the Student Press Law Center in Arlington, Va. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RobertBluey http://media.townhall.com/TownHall/icons/TH-feed-icon-128x128.gif http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RobertBluey 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) Sun, 01 Jun 2008 04:00:27 GMT Sun, 01 Jun 2008 04:00:27 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ When lawmakers return to Capitol Hill this week, a group of House Republicans known as the FIT Force will unveil an effort to expose Washington waste. Led by Rep. Thaddeus McCotter (R-Mich.), this newly formed Fiscal... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RobertBluey/2008/06/01/republicans_fumble_the_farm_bill f5298cc2-7fc6-4472-8513-b368d9a82f83 Sun, 01 Jun 2008 04:00:27 GMT Exactly one year after angering conservatives with an amnesty bill for illegal aliens, Sen. John McCain managed to fire up the right again last week-only this time he's proposing a massive plan to combat global warming... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RobertBluey/2008/05/18/mccains_global_warming_plan_threatens_economy e4c0f343-93b3-4033-9b94-20de0c0486be Sun, 18 May 2008 04:01:00 GMT The Labor Department's seven-year effort to improve financial reporting and disclosure by unions could come to a screeching halt once President Bush leaves office. Sen. Barack Obama's support for ending federal... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RobertBluey/2008/05/11/obama_signals_less_union_oversight 6b36330d-10b4-47f1-9f2d-84ff164f3782 Sun, 11 May 2008 04:01:00 GMT Talk about bad timing. Gas prices are spiking and U.S. energy policy is contributing to skyrocketing food costs, yet environmentalists apparently want to make it even more expensive to live in America. And they're... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RobertBluey/2008/05/04/polar_bear_politics 11924665-0c7e-4a3c-b753-990bdb597bfd Sun, 04 May 2008 04:01:00 GMT A congressional Web site devoted to spending reform may soon fall victim to a nearly 10-year-old House rule governing online activity. If the Web site is axed, it will serve as an embarrassing example of just how behind... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RobertBluey/2008/02/24/congress_operates_in_the_dark_ages 28da720f-f1ae-44d5-93b6-d3f4dfc2109e Sun, 24 Feb 2008 05:00:49 GMT Just when it appeared House Republicans had turned the corner on earmark reform, party leaders did the unthinkable. They picked pork-loving Rep. Jo Bonner (R-Ala.) for the vacant seat on the Appropriations Committee,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RobertBluey/2008/02/17/backtracking_on_earmark_reform 6b8dc187-3328-4ad8-8a02-72cc30fc1911 Sun, 17 Feb 2008 05:00:00 GMT Seven minutes into his final State of the Union address, President Bush declared war on earmarks. It took him seven years and came after significant expense to taxpayers, but it was a sign that official Washington might... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RobertBluey/2008/02/03/porkbusting_goes_primetime 18931f2a-af08-4790-bf06-25b94b8dfb17 Sun, 03 Feb 2008 05:00:13 GMT I wouldn't want Hank Paulson negotiating on my behalf. The U.S. treasury secretary did such a poor job representing the White House in negotiations on the economic stimulus deal, it wasn't clear if Paulson was... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RobertBluey/2008/01/27/nothing_stimulating_about_this_deal 4beb640e-491a-43f6-9328-2b4570f6f5fb Sun, 27 Jan 2008 05:00:45 GMT President Bush doesn't like to admit he's made mistakes. But if White House chatter about an economic stimulus package is true, the president is about to repeat a misstep made early in his first term. I'm talking http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RobertBluey/2008/01/20/government_handouts_won't_help_economy 0f28fa40-3ebd-46f1-8c42-cd87caae1210 Sun, 20 Jan 2008 05:01:00 GMT Members of Congress return to Washington this week $4,100 richer. During their three-week vacation, the annual cost-of-living adjustment kicked in, bringing the salary of a congressman to $169,300. At a time when... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RobertBluey/2008/01/13/a_pay_raise_for_poor_performance e8c54a65-4b93-4244-ad75-fc9b456343d8 Sun, 13 Jan 2008 05:00:09 GMT All eyes will be on New Hampshire Wednesday morning for the first true primary in the 2008 elections. But even as hardy New Englanders trudge to the polls, something at least as consequential will happening in... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RobertBluey/2008/01/06/fighting_vote_fraud_with_photo_id 9189f2aa-96c2-48a1-b100-aab195a07a40 Sun, 06 Jan 2008 05:01:00 GMT Earmarks were supposed to be a thing of the past for Republicans after allegations of corruption cost the GOP control of Congress in 2006. Throughout 2007, Republicans acknowledged repeatedly that straying from... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RobertBluey/2007/12/30/new_year's_resolution_for_republicans_end_earmarks 7a14c322-1a8b-4b13-a9ac-fe0def0602ef Sun, 30 Dec 2007 05:00:01 GMT The federal government's union watchdog agency will have to get by on less next year. The mammoth omnibus spending bill passed last week hacks nearly $3 million from the Office of Labor Management Standards -- a small... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RobertBluey/2007/12/23/big_labors_unfulfilled_wish_list 9ddc626b-6df5-482a-a84f-b19ae3294600 Sun, 23 Dec 2007 05:01:00 GMT Feeling pressure to wrap up work on 11 of the 12 unfinished appropriations bills that fund the federal government, congressional Democrats will push this week to pass a mammoth omnibus spending package just in time for... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RobertBluey/2007/12/16/will_republicans_go_soft_on_spending 4b5c2611-a77e-404f-bf24-cecc0038b92b Sun, 16 Dec 2007 05:00:18 GMT Sen. Jim DeMint is as frustrated as anyone on Capitol Hill about Congress's failure to wrap up work on the federal budget. With 11 of the 12 appropriations bills unfinished and U.S. troops in need of funding, DeMint... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RobertBluey/2007/12/09/how_to_save_taxpayers_$31_billion aadf425b-9b9d-45ab-a91c-50e329bddedb Sun, 09 Dec 2007 05:01:00 GMT