This Week: Michelle Malkin and Andrew Malcolm

Guest: Michelle Malkin

Topic: Malkin’s book “Culture of Corruption”

Bio: Michelle Malkin is a nationally syndicated columnist for Creators Syndicate. Her wide-ranging and news-breaking commentary has been honored by several national organizations. Her twice-weekly column is published by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Miami Herald, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Detroit News, Washington Times, Rocky Mountain News, Philadelphia Daily News, Houston Chronicle, Chicago Sun-Times, and New York Post, among a rapidly growing number of newspapers across the country. She also appears weekly in Jewish World Review. Malkin began her career in newspaper journalism with the Los Angeles Daily News, where she worked as an editorial writer and weekly columnist from 1992-94. In 1995, she was named Warren Brookes Fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C. In 1996, she joined the editorial board of the Seattle Times, where she penned editorials and weekly columns for three and a half years. Malkin, the daughter of Filipino immigrants, was born in Philadelphia, Pa. in 1970 and raised in southern New Jersey. She worked as a press inserter, tax preparation aide, and network news librarian. She is also a lapsed classical pianist. Malkin is a graduate of Oberlin College.

Guest: Andrew Malcolm

Topic: Malcolm’s feud with Keith Olbermann

Bio: Andrew Malcolm's immigrant parents repeatedly stressed the importance of active participation in a democracy. Early lessons included learning the alphabetical list of states by watching televised roll calls of national political conventions. That childhood exposure led to a lifelong fascination with politics, including 40-plus years of covering them and a brief stint practicing them as press secretary to Laura Bush in 1999-2000. A veteran foreign and national correspondent, Malcolm served on the Times Editorial Board and was a Pulitzer finalist in 2004. He is the author of 10 nonfiction books and father of four.

This Week: Juan Williams

Guest: Juan Williams

Topic: Juan’s book, Enough: The Phony Leaders, Dead-End Movements, and Culture of Failure That Are Undermining Black America--and What We Can Do About It

Bio: Juan Williams joined FOX News in 1997 as a political contributor. He is a regular panelist on FOX Broadcasting's Sunday morning public affairs program, "FOX News Sunday." In addition, Williams anchors weekend daytime live coverage on the FOX News Channel. Before coming to FOX, Williams spent 23 years at The Washington Post, where he served as an editorial writer, op-ed columnist and White House correspondent. From 2000-2001, Williams hosted National Public Radio's (NPR) national call-in show "Talk of the Nation." Williams is currently a senior national correspondent for NPR. The recipient of an Emmy Award for television documentary writing, Williams also won widespread critical acclaim for a series of documentaries including, "Politics:The New Black Power" and "A. Philip Randolph: For Jobs and Freedom." He is the author of the non-fiction bestseller, "Eyes on The Prize: America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965" and "Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary." Williams has also written numerous articles for national magazines including Fortune, The Atlantic Monthly, Ebony, GQ and The New Republic, in addition to appearing on numerous television programs including ABC's "Nightline," PBS' "Washington Week in Review" and "Oprah."

This Week: Jeb Bush

Guest: Jeb Bush

Topic: What we must do to win the educational arms race.

Bio: Jeb Bush is Founder, Chairman of the Board and President of the Foundation for Excellence in Education. He served as the 43rd governor of Florida, from 1999 through 2007. During his two terms, Bush championed major reform of education. Florida raised academic standards, required accountability in public schools and created the most ambitious school choice program in the nation. The transformation is underway and the progress is measurable. More students are reading, writing and doing math and science on or above grade level. More high school seniors are earning a diploma and fewer students are dropping out. Florida’s third through 10th grade students are outscoring 60-70 percent of their peers in all other states in both reading and math. Bush took time out of his successful business career to serve as Florida’s secretary of commerce under Bob Martinez, Florida's 40th governor, where he promoted the state worldwide. Bush earned a bachelor’s degree in Latin American Affairs from the University of Texas at Austin. Bush and his wife Columba live in Miami and have three grown children. Bush is the son of President George H.W. Bush and Barbara Bush.

This Week: Tucker Carlson and Jim Copland

Guest: Tucker Carlson

Topic: The Tea Party Phenomenon and Tucker’s new site, The Daily Caller

Bio: An original voice in American media, Tucker Carlson brings insightful commentary, infused with humor and passion, to the new political landscape. As a contributor to FOX News, the editor-in-chief of the newly launched Daily Caller news site and a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, Tucker Carlson deconstructs the day's events with wry skepticism, a unique perspective and provocative interviews. Carlson has hosted a number of different nightly news programs on various networks over the past 10 years, including CNN's Crossfire, and several shows on MSNBC and PBS. One of the media's wittiest and most entertaining commentators, Carlson brings his informed viewpoint to discuss politics in America including his take on the 2010 midterm elections and the administration of Barack Obama. Author of Politicians, Partisans, and Parasites and a regular contributor to Esquire, Carlson's work has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, New York Magazine, Reader's Digest, Forbes and GQ. He was a finalist for a 2004 National Magazine Award for an Esquire article chronicling his trip to Africa with the Rev. Al Sharpton.

Guest: Jim Copland

Topic: A New Report Put Out by the Manhattan Institute.

Bio: Director of the Manhattan Institute's Center for Legal Policy, which seeks to communicate thoughtful ideas on civil justice reform to real decision-makers. Mr. Copland serves as managing editor of the Institute's PointOfLaw.com, a web magazine that brings together information and opinion on the U.S. litigation system; and project manager for the Institute's Trial Lawyers, Inc. series of publications that examine the size, scope, and inner workings of America's lawsuit industry. Mr. Copland has published opinion columns in national, local, and online newspapers, including The Wall Street Journal, The National Law Journal, Investors Business Daily, and National Review Online. He has appeared on various television and radio shows, including those on Fox News, MSNBC, CNBC, C-SPAN, and NPR. He has testified before Congress and is a regular speaker and conference participant discussing tort reform issues.

This Week: Dr. Arthur Laffer

Guest: Dr. Arthur Laffer

Topic: Economy in Peril: Solutions are Available!

Bio: Laffer is best known for the Laffer curve, which gained notoriety by demonstrating that in certain situations, a decrease in tax rates could result in an increase in tax revenues. Although he does not claim to have invented this concept, it was popularized with policy-makers following an afternoon meeting with Dick Cheney in which he reportedly sketched the curve on a napkin to illustrate his argument; the term "Laffer curve" was coined by Jude Wanniski (a writer for the Wall Street Journal), who was also present. Founder and CEO of Laffer Associates in San Diego, he received a BA in economics from Yale University in 1963. He graduated from Stanford University with an MBA in 1965 and a PhD in economics in 1971. He has six children. His followers include Lawrence Kudlow, the co-host of Kudlow & Co. on CNBC; and Donald Luskin, author of the tendentious blog, The Conspiracy to Keep You Poor and Stupid. Some regard Art Laffer as the greatest intransigent genius in recent memory.

This Week: Star Parker

Guest: Star Parker

Topic: Welfare reform and Star’s work at The C.U.R.E

Bio: Star Parker is the founder and president of CURE, the Coalition for Urban Renewal & Education, a 501c3 non-profit think tank that provides a national voice of reason on issues of race and poverty in the media, inner city neighborhoods, and public policy. Prior to her involvement in social activism, Star Parker was a single welfare mother in Los Angeles, California. After receiving Christ, Star returned to college, received a BS degree in marketing and launched an urban Christian magazine. The 1992 Los Angeles riots destroyed her business, yet served as a springboard for her focus on faith and market-based alternatives to empower the lives of the poor. Star has written three books. Her autobiography "Pimps, Whores & Welfare Brats" was released in 1997 by Pocket Books, "Uncle Sam's Plantation" is released by Thomas Nelson in the fall of 2003, and "White Ghetto: How Middle Class America Reflects Inner City Decay" was released in 2006.

This Week: Lionel Chetwynd

Guest: Lionel Chetwynd

Topic: Filmmaker Oliver Stone and his view of American History

Bio: Lionel Chetwynd was born in London, England, and moved to Canada at the age of eight, growing up in Montreal and Toronto. Chetwynd has written, produced, and directed over 21 documentaries. He has received both Oscar and Emmy nominations, six Writers Guild of American nominations, including an award, the New York Film Festival Gold Medal, two Christophers, two George Washington Freedom Medals, and six Telly Awards. A naturalized U.S. citizen, Chetwynd wrote THE AMERICAN 1776, the official United States Bicentennial Film. In 1987, he helped create and he wrote a tribute to the U.S. Constitution as part of the Bi-Centennial celebration staged before members of the U.S. Supreme Court, Congress, and members of the President's Cabinet. In 2001, President George W. Bush appointed him to The President's Committee on the Arts & Humanities.