James "Jim" P. Pinkerton (born March 11, 1958) is an American

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, and

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Career

A graduate of

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(1975) and

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(1980), he served on the

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staff under both

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and

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and on each of their presidential campaigns from 1980 to 1992. In January 2008, he became a senior adviser to the

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After Washington

Since his time in government Pinkerton has become a columnist for ''

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'' and a Fox News Channel Contributor (1996 to present). He is a former panelist (1998–2013) on the

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program ''

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'', and a frequent contributor to

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as well as an occasional contributor to ''

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'', ''

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'', and other publications. In the past, he was a senior fellow at both the

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and the

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, a lecturer at the Graduate School of Political Management at

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, a member of the Board of Advisors at the National Federation of Republican Assemblies, and a contributing editor of ''

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'' and ''

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''. He frequently appears on Bloggingheads.tv, often in video discussions with journalist

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and other media personalities. He is now the editor of CureStrategy.org. In 2011, he became the co-chair of the RATE Coalition, a bi-partisan group of 35 companies and associations dedicated to corporate tax reform. Although he is a Republican with views broadly in sync with the GOP, he has sometimes divergent ideas: For example, in a Bloggingheads discussion with economist

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, Pinkerton described his political ideology as "Hamiltonian". He favors a robust US industrial policy that would stimulate industry and calls himself a "

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". Pinkerton moderated the 2008 Libertarian presidential debate in Denver. Leaked emails obtained by

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showed that former

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Campaign Manager and then

Executive Chairman,

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, sent Pinkerton an article due to be published on far-right website on the taxonomy of the

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Personal life

On June 7, 2008, Pinkerton married Elizabeth Dial. Pinkerton is 6 feet, 9 inches tall.

References

External links

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