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January 17, 2009 - 9:00 AM Ambassador Banquet & Conference Center Erie, PA
Ramesh Ponnuru
"You'll love Ramesh!" -- Jacki Ragan, National Right to Life Director of State Organizational Development
Ramesh Ponnuru is a Senior Editor of National Review Magazine and the author of The Party of Death, published in 2006 by Regnery. The Party of Death examines abortion and euthanasia and how "pro-choice" activists struggle to dominate the political parties, the judicial system, and the mainstream media. As Charles Colson has observed, the book is a "carefully researched and rigorously argued work [that] skillfully rebuts the seductive arguments of America's merchants of death." Ponnuru has published articles in numerous newspapers including the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, Newsday, and the New York Post. He has also written for The Weekly Standard, Policy Review, The New Republic, First Things, Reason and other publications. He has appeared on CNN's Inside Politics, NBC's The McLaughlin Group, MSNBC's Buchanan & Press and Donahue, CNBC's Kudlow & Cramer, PBS's The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, CSPAN's Washington Journal, Comedy Central's Politically Incorrect, Fox News, and NPR's Morning Edition. Ponnuru has been a fellow at the Institute of Economic Affairs in London and a media fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. Of Asian Indian descent, Ramesh Ponnuru grew up in Prairie Village, Kansas. He graduated high school at age 16 and went on to Princeton University, graduating summa cum laude with a B.A. in history. Dr. Robert George, the well-known McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton, described Ponnuru's history thesis as "superb" and "the kind of work one expects from a young professor." The thesis focused on a friend-of-the-court brief filed by 281 (apparently pro-abortion) historians in the Webster v. Reproductive Health Services abortion case that was heard by the U.S. Supreme Court. Ponnuru argued that the brief seriously misrepresented historical fact and that it actually contradicted material that was previously published by many of the historians who signed the brief. Some of those disingenuous historians were teaching right there at Princeton. "I'm very proud that he was my student," said Dr. George. "He's a brilliant young man, not only a person of the highest intellectual gifts but also one of integrity and personal rectitude. He is not afraid to criticize his own side.... He's extremely fair-minded." Ponnuru lives in Washington D.C. with his wife April and young daughter Mary.
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