Kate O'Beirne

Kate O'Beirne

Kate O'Beirne is the Washington editor of "National Review". Her column, "Bread and Circuses," covers Congress, politics, and U.S. domestic policy.

O’Beirne was a regular contributor on CNN's Saturday night political roundtable program, "The Capital Gang", along with Al Hunt, Mark Shields, Robert Novak, and Margaret Carlson. O'Beirne and Novak typically argued the conservative viewpoint, while Hunt, Shields, and Carlson provided the liberal viewpoint. She also served as a substitute host on CNN's "Crossfire", as well as a commentator for the "NewsHour with Jim Lehrer". She is currently a political analyst for MSNBC's "Hardball".

She is the author of "Women Who Make the World Worse: and How Their Radical Feminist Assault Is Ruining Our Schools, Families, Military, and Sports".

Biography

Born Kate Walsh, she was raised in a traditional Irish Catholic family in Manhasset, New York. After graduating from high school in 1967, she attended Good Counsel College majoring in English and journalism, but took a leave of absence to work on the successful 1970 U.S. Senate campaign of Conservative Party of New York member James Buckley. She returned to his office as an aide after graduation.

In 1976, she graduated from St. John's University (New York) law school, in the same year married James O'Beirne, an infantry officer in the United States Army (now White House liaison to The Pentagon). For the next ten years, she traveled with him and raised their two sons.

In 1986, the family moved to Washington, DC, and she served as deputy assistant secretary for legislation at the Department of Health and Human Services until 1988. She moved on to become deputy director of domestic-policy studies at the [http://www.heritage.org Heritage Foundation] , where she supervised studies in the area of health care, welfare, education, and housing. She later became vice president of government relations, responsible for keeping Washington policymakers abreast of Heritage proposals and research findings in all areas of the Foundation’s study, while serving as a contributing editor for National Review.

In 1992, President of the United States George H. W. Bush named her to the Presidential Commission on Women in the Armed Forces, although she has never served in the military. In 1995, she began work as part-time contributing editor for "NR", but was soon appointed Washington editor. Her work on the magazine led to her invitation to join "The Capital Gang", and from there her other work in television.

She received an honorary degree from St. John's [http://www.stjohns.edu/] in 1997.

Women Who Make the World Worse

"Women Who Make the World Worse" was published in December, 2005 by Sentinel HC. The hardcover: edition is 256 pages (ISBN 1-59523-009-2).

Husband's involvement in questionable hiring policies

Kate O'Beirne's husband James O'Beirne ran the office at the Pentagon that was in charge of selecting candidates for the Coalition Provisional Authority, charged with reconstructing Iraq. According to the Washington Post, "To pass muster with O'Beirne, a political appointee who screens prospective political appointees for Defense Department posts, applicants didn't need to be experts in the Middle East or in post-conflict reconstruction. What seemed most important was loyalty to the Bush administration." [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/16/AR2006091600193_pf.html]

External links

* [http://archive.stjohns.edu/pls/portal30/sjudev.school.home?p_siteid=41&p_navbar=878&p_id=63748 St. John's University profile]

* [http://mediamatters.org/issues_topics/people/kateobeirne Kate O'Beirne directory] , Media Matters for America


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