Patrick Coyle is the vice president for Young America’s Foundation. Human Events named Mr. Coyle as one of the top ten young conservative activists in the nation, citing his success in reaching hundreds of thousands of students by sending high profile conservative speakers to college campuses. He is also co-editor with Foundation president Ron Robinson of The Conservative Guide to Campus Activism and wrote the Campus Conservative Battleplan, both of which are published by Young America’s Foundation. His success has made him a target of a radical leftist website that has published his home address and phone number in an attempt to stop his conservative activism. 

Mr. Coyle is also responsible for overseeing student programs including creating and implementing new activist initiatives, resources, and materials. A few of the programs created under his tenure include the 9/11: Never Forget Project, No More Che Day, and Freedom Week. He also developed and runs the Foundation’s activist rewards program, Club 100, which has over 2,500 members from over 500 colleges and universities across America.

 Mr. Coyle is a graduate of Penn State University, where he first became active in the Conservative Movement by joining the Penn State Young Americans for Freedom (PS-YAF) of which he eventually became chairman. During his years with PS-YAF, he battled against the liberal orthodoxy. The Rush Limbaugh Radio Program featured a protest he organized against a liberal political science professor.  He also worked with the Foundation to bring numerous speakers to his campus, including Walter Williams, G. Gordon Liddy, and MTV VJ, Kennedy. 

For his dedication, Mr. Coyle was awarded the 1999 Shining Star Award from the Coalition on Urban Renewal and Education. He has been quoted in Time Magazine, The Washington Times, Washington Post, and the Atlanta Journal Constitution and his speeches have been covered by C-SPAN.

Mr. Coyle is also a founding board member of the Nittany Freedom Foundation. The Nittany Freedom Foundation works to provide financial and logistical support to conservative students at Penn State University.

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By Bob Ellis on June 17th, 2009

Back in the 1980s President Ronald Reagan made a huge step in changing the dynamic of the Cold War standoff between the free West and the Soviet block.

Not content to continue clinging to the MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction) doctrine of nuclear warfare–where, ostensibly, neither side would use nuclear weapons first for fear of massive retaliation which would assure the mutual destruction of both parties–Reagan determined to protect the American people rather than rely on the sensibility and temperament of our enemies.  Reagan declared the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) to build a system which could stop incoming ballistic missile attack.

The Leftist media mocked the plan, calling it “Star Wars,” but Reagan was to have the last laugh.

Along with the rest of Reagan’s military buildup, this brought the Soviets to the negotiating table with a serious mindset perhaps for the first time ever.  As a condition to reduce the numbers in the nuclear arsenal of both sides, the Soviets wanted us to give up SDI.  Reagan refused to budge, and while arms reduction talks appeared to falter for a while, we ended up with the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty.  I was fortunate enough to have a front-row seat for some of this, being stationed at a Ground Launch Cruise Missile (GLCM) base in England where I was sometimes tasked with guarding visiting Soviet inspection teams.

Our SDI program languished under President Bill Clinton’s dismantling of America’s defenses, but President George W. bush revived the program.  Under Bush, the program developed to the point where our technology was able to successfully shoot down several ballistic missiles in flight. Today, significant portions of a still incomplete missile umbrella are in place in Alaska and elsewhere, providing limited protection to the United States.

Despite the success of this program, Barack Obama campaigned on the promise to gut our national defense, including missile defense.

But with Iran and North Korea actively working on nuclear programs and improved missile systems, the world may just be a more dangerous place than during the Cold War.  The Soviets were ruthless, but they weren’t stupid.  North Korea, unlike their bygone communist neighbor, is a fanatical, irrational, unpredictable regime.  The same could be said for Iran, only multiplied many times over.  At a time when America needs protection from ballistic missile attack like never before, President Obama remains intent on leaving us vulnerable.

The Heritage Foundation has prepared an educating, compelling film called “33 Minutes,” which is about how long we would have if a ballistic missile attack was launched against us.  Can you imagine living in Los Angeles and knowing that an incoming nuclear missile has given you less than 33 minutes to live?  Can you imagine having friends and family living in Seattle, knowing that an incoming nuclear missile will erase their lives in less than 33 minutes?

Christopher J. Farrell joined Judicial Watch in 1999 as the organization’s Director of Investigations & Research, and has been a member of the Board of Directors since September 2003.

Chris is a native of Long Island, New York. He was a Distinguished Military Graduate from Fordham University with a B.A. in History, whereupon he accepted a Regular Army Commission and served as a Military Intelligence Officer – specializing in Counterintelligence and Human Intelligence. Chris is a graduate of the Military IntelligenceOfficers Basic and Advanced Courses, the U.S. Army Advanced Counterintelligence Training Course, the Combined Arms Services Staff School of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, the Defense Intelligence Agency’s Military Operations Training Course, and the Haus Rissen Institut für Politik und Wirtschaft in Hamburg, Germany.

He has pursued additional graduate studies in National Security Studies, specializing in unconventional warfare and terrorism. Following command and staff assignments that included three tours of duty in the Federal Republic of Germany, and one tour at Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe, Chris returned to civilian life as a contractor to the defense and intelligence communities. He also provided management and training consulting services to non-profit organizations, and was active in the establishment of a small, private, co-ed Christian high school where he both taught and served as director.

Chris has appeared on numerous national TV and radio shows, and has authored dozens of articles. He recently contributed a chapter on terrorism to Dr. Irwin Redlener’s book “Americans at Risk” (Alfred A. Knopf: New York, 2006). Chris maintains a busy lecture schedule on both government corruption issues and intelligence matters.

He is a Senior Staff Associate of Columbia University’s National Center for Disaster Preparedness at the Mailman School of Public Health. He is a member of the Association of Former Intelligence Officers; the American Society of Access Professionals; the International Counter-Terrorism Officers Association; the Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals; and is a constituent member of the State Department’s Overseas Security Advisory Council.

On December 15, 2006, the United Nations Department of Public Information accredited Judicial Watch with association as a non-governmental organization. Chris serves as the Judicial Watch main representative to United Nations Headquarters in New York. Chris and his family reside in Virginia.