James P Pinkerton

Jim Pinkerton joined FOX News Channel in 1996 as a Washington, D.C.-based political analyst. He is also a regular on "FOX News Watch."

Pinkerton worked in the White House under Presidents Reagan and Bush, and also in the 1980, 1984, 1988, and 1992 Republican presidential campaigns. He is currently a columnist for Newsday in New York, a columnist for TechCentralStation.com, and a fellow at the New America Foundation in Washington, D.C.

Pinkerton is the author of "What Comes Next: The End of Big Government and the New Paradigm Ahead."

Pinkerton's work has also appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, USA Today, The New Republic, National Review, Foreign Affairs, Slate.com, Space.com, and many other publications.

He is a graduate of Stanford University.

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  • November 09, 2009

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    by James Pinkerton

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    Obama Ignores Terror Threat at His Own Peril

    Communism is gone but Islamic radicalism and jihadism are with us. President Obama will have to find an effective way to deal with this new threat or the American people will find someone else who can.

  • October 13, 2009

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    by James Pinkerton

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    5 Thoughts On the Baucus Bill

    Why has it been so hard for Democrats to come together on some kind of health care legislation?

  • October 06, 2009

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    by James Pinkerton

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    Bobby Jindal's Brave Move

    The Louisiana governor urges his fellow Republicans to "join the battle of ideas" on health care. How did his fellow members of the GOP respond?

  • September 28, 2009

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    What Obama Doesn't Get About Americans and Health Care, Part 2

    Are we doomed to face ever-increasing health care costs because people want more treatment? Not if we see health care and medicine as dynamic and if we recognize that the variables of health and medicine can be changed. 

  • September 21, 2009

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    What Obama Doesn't Get About Americans and Health Care

    Supporters of Obama's health care reform plan are all about "cost curves." While it's important to keep costs down, the curves that the American people really want to see bent are the curves of sickness and disease. Bend those “disease curves� downward, and the American people, currently deeply skeptical of the whole political crew in Washington, would rally in support.

  • August 24, 2009

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    by James Pinkerton

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    Obama Needs to Focus on HEALTH, Not Health Insurance

    Here's a history lesson the Obama White House failed to learn -- it doesn't matter whether they write the bill, or Congress does it; people just don't like the idea of "health insurance reform."

  • July 21, 2009

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    The Mad Scientist at the White House

    There's a genuine big shot inside the White House who has advocated the sort of population-control policies that we associate with Hitler, Stalin, Mao, and power-drunk mad scientists in science-fiction movies. And President Obama appointed him.

  • July 20, 2009

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    Not a New Deal But a BAD Deal

    What if Obama succeeds in cutting back on health care, in the name of "controlling costs?" To liberal Dems the whole point of putting the government in charge of health care is so that planners in Washington will be able to "improve" the system which means rationing.

  • July 19, 2009

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    by James Pinkerton

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    The Seminal Super Bowl

    Culturally, on the national stage of celebrity, the Broadway Joe ethos of livin' large set an enduring pattern. And it all began in 1969.

  • July 06, 2009

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    by James Pinkerton

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    Obama's Katrina

    Make no mistake, the economic crisis and Obama's failure to create real jobs with his stimulus package means we're looking at this president's Katrina. 

  • July 01, 2009

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    by James Pinkerton

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    The Middle Class Has Just Five Friends on the Supreme Court

    So now the middle-class majority in America knows who its friends are. The names of those friends are Anthony Kennedy, John Roberts, Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas, and Samuel Alito. 

  • June 24, 2009

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    by James Pinkerton

    opinion

    Steve Jobs -- Health Care Poster Boy

    If people have the money, if they get the chance, they will spend more on health care -- and happily so. 

  • June 19, 2009

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    by James Pinkerton

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    JAMES P. PINKERTON: Anti-Christian Bigotry at The Washington Post

    Are Christian missionaries "pernicious"? The Washington Post seems to think so. You know the word "pernicious," which Webster's defines as "highly injurious or destructive." Webster's then offers these synonyms for "pernicious," including, "noxious," "deleterious," and "detrimental." As is so typical of the Post, and of the MSM in general, this little bit [...]

  • June 16, 2009

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    by James Pinkerton

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    The Washington Post Wants YOU to Bail Out California!

    Should the federal government bail out the state of California? You know, the federal government that owes trillions--should it give borrowed money to a state that owes billions? The Washington Post sure seems to think so.

  • June 03, 2009

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    by James Pinkerton

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    Nancy Reagan, Queen of Our Hearts

    Nancy Reagan, born nearly nine decades ago, has now lived long enough to see her late husband, President Ronald Reagan, permanently enshrined in the pantheon of America's civic faith: A statue of The Gipper now

  • May 26, 2009

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    by James Pinkerton

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    Will Democrats Become a Permanent Majority Thanks to Internet Voting?

    The election news from Hawaii seems both interesting and unobjectionable: Honolulu has became the first jurisdiction to run an "all digital" election--that is, all the ballots were cast on the Internet, or by telephone.

  • May 14, 2009

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    by James Pinkerton

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    What If 'Star Trek' Is a Gift from God?

    What if "Star Trek" is a gift from God? We know that "Star Trek," the number one movie in the country right now, is a gift to Paramount Studios, but seriously, what if "Star Trek" is a gift from God?

    If

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