Carol Platt Liebau is an attorney, political analyst and commentator based near New York. 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) 2013 Townhall.com, A Salem Communications Web. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED jim.dearras@townhall.com (Jim De Arras) Mon, 05 Sep 2011 04:01:00 GMT Mon, 05 Sep 2011 04:01:00 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ This week, as President Obama prepares for a big jobs speech (yet again!), even his partisans have begun to lose hope that he’s going to have any new or effective ideas about how to create jobs in... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolPlattLiebau/2011/09/05/obama_uses_euphemism_to_obscure_his_unpopular_agenda fb6412bc-c54c-4c22-a475-c79e02f0444e Mon, 05 Sep 2011 04:01:00 GMT Buoyed by poll data claiming that Americans finally embrace "taxing the rich" in order to reduce the skyrocketing national debt and deficit, the President spent last week's bus tour calling for "shared sacrifice" and... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolPlattLiebau/2011/08/22/presidents_economic_policy_is_limited_to_class_warfare fd9b29c0-12a9-4ee6-9b8e-d44da72aff0a Mon, 22 Aug 2011 15:46:00 GMT Tonight's Republican presidential debate marks the beginning of the real campaign season, when GOP regulars start looking in earnest at the declared candidates for their party's nomination. Participants include... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolPlattLiebau/2011/06/13/a_checklist_for_tonight's_gop_debate c744f8b0-50f7-4d15-a003-464ce17f34d1 Mon, 13 Jun 2011 04:00:00 GMT For the last week, California has existed under a "State of Emergency" - at least, according to the California Teacher's Association. The union's invocation of "emergency" status has been intended to pressure state... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolPlattLiebau/2011/05/16/shouldnt_californias_state_workers_share_the_sacrifice 183689bd-d18e-4c6a-8bd7-5825009ac220 Mon, 16 May 2011 14:58:00 GMT As the GOP prepares to release its 2012 budget on Tuesday, news reports reveal that the document proposes more than $4 trillion in cuts over the next decade, along with spending caps and reforms to Medicare and... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolPlattLiebau/2011/04/04/in_calmness,_not_drama,_lies_republican_strength c12b2015-655e-44cd-acb4-e89d506ecae7 Mon, 04 Apr 2011 11:18:00 GMT After the past few weeks, many GOP conservatives - and Tea Partiers - are beginning to understand how some of the Obamaphiles feel. Like Obama supporters, conservatives worked hard to secure leadership that, we... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolPlattLiebau/2011/03/07/a_word_of_warning_for_hill_republicans 47c8ceeb-e651-4fb9-b814-c671ea601806 Mon, 07 Mar 2011 05:01:00 GMT There's no doubt that the government-union protests taking place in Madison, Wisconsin are about fiscal responsibility, and the public sector learning to live within its means. But they're also about much, much more. ... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolPlattLiebau/2011/02/21/message_to_madison_no_special_treatment_for_government_workers! f2a24574-e2dd-4e9a-945c-a922bc47651e Mon, 21 Feb 2011 13:35:29 GMT Big Labor is reaping the rewards for having poured a billion dollars into the Democrats' coffers during the 2008 elections - and spending millions more last November. In a furtive, Friday-afternoon news dump, the Obama http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolPlattLiebau/2011/02/07/the_obama_administrations_tsa_giveaway 6f3e68bc-20e6-4a9d-88e0-a34e803e4f68 Mon, 07 Feb 2011 05:01:00 GMT Saturday marked the 38th anniversary of Roe vs. Wade, the Supreme Court decision establishing abortion as a constitutional right throughout the United States. Perhaps coincidentally, that anniversary capped off a... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolPlattLiebau/2011/01/24/there_should_be_common_ground_-_even_in_the_abortion_debate 8d37c785-57b6-47ee-ae61-96d3a548046a Mon, 24 Jan 2011 05:01:00 GMT As the nation reeled from news that a gunman had shot a group of Arizona citizens including Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, an all-too-predictable response emanated from some on the left. Despite news reports... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolPlattLiebau/2011/01/10/left-wing_blame_game_wont_work_with_arizona_tragedy f34e44b5-25d3-42f9-a1c9-8c5a2acd5e5b Mon, 10 Jan 2011 05:01:00 GMT With approximately 21 million Americans flying during the 12-day period surrounding Thanksgiving - and more preparing to fly over the Christmas holidays -- the public debate over the new, intrusive TSA searches isn't... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolPlattLiebau/2010/11/29/treating_terrorists_like_americans_-_and_americans_like_terrorists 74df41a7-986e-454f-9776-293154d627a4 Mon, 29 Nov 2010 05:00:42 GMT Election Day is a scant 24 hours away - which means that it's almost all over but the shouting. Most Americans long ago decided whom they will support. For those who might be wavering, here are a few reasons why... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolPlattLiebau/2010/11/01/six_good_reasons_to_vote_republican dd5606ce-aca0-4a80-b8e0-211227f913af Mon, 01 Nov 2010 04:01:00 GMT With pollsters predicting catastrophic losses for his party, President Obama has resorted to unsavory tactics on the campaign trail. Race-based appeals, demonization of the Chamber of Commerce and fabricating details... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolPlattLiebau/2010/10/18/by_the_numbers_the_democrats_deplorable_record 20c80003-9257-46a2-a0a4-e4a2ca61cd9d Mon, 18 Oct 2010 04:00:47 GMT It's an old lawyers' cliché: If you don't have the law on your side, use the facts. If you don't have the facts, pound the table. Apparently, the Obama/Pelosi Democrats have decided they need to pound the table - at... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolPlattLiebau/2010/10/04/republicans_should_prepare_for_october_surprises 7d30aef0-b7d8-4730-976c-b9b81ac8da4d Mon, 04 Oct 2010 04:00:56 GMT