Floyd and Mary Beth Brown
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Floyd and Mary Beth Brown are both bestselling authors and speakers.
Time magazine wrote of Floyd: "Brown has stature among devoted conservatives that almost matches his physical heft (6 ft. 6 in. and 240 lbs.)" Together they write a weekly column about politics, culture and the economy for www.caglepost.com. They also blog at www.2minuteview.com.
Mary Beth's latest book, Condi: Life of a Steel Magnolia was published by Thomas Nelson. www.condibook.com. Her book Hand of Providence: the Strong and Quiet Faith of Ronald Reagan appeared on both The New York Times and USA Today bestseller lists in 2004.
Floyd is president of Excellentia Inc., a consulting company specializing in new media, and philanthropy for conservatives. www.excellentiainc.com.
From 2001 until 2006 he served as the executive director of Young America’s Foundation, which saved Rancho del Cielo, Ronald Reagan’s Ranch and Western White House. As executive director Brown oversaw the preservation of the historic ranch home and the building of the $20 million Reagan Ranch Center in downtown Santa Barbara, California.
In 1988, working from their kitchen table, they formed Citizens United and Floyd served as its President until 2001. Citizens United is the largest and most effective conservative citizens’ action organization in America.
They have both written extensively for many publications including the San Francisco Chronicle, The Washington Times, National Review and Human Events.
As commentators they have both appeared on numerous network and cable TV shows including: CNN’s Crossfire, the CBS Evening News, ABC’s Primetime, NBC’s Today Show, FOX News, MSNBC and more. From 1995 until 2000 Floyd hosted his own talk radio show on Seattle’s KVI 570 AM.
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Floyd and Mary Beth Brown (Dec 29, 2011)
The first of every year, we encourage you to look around, set some goals and live intentionally. As a family we meet together early in the year, devour some quality Chinese... more
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Floyd and Mary Beth Brown (Dec 16, 2011)
Americans are familiar with unmanned spy drones providing surveillance of Iranian nuclear complexes and Taliban armed militants combating American troops along the border... more
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Floyd and Mary Beth Brown (Dec 03, 2011)
If you are like us, every day you pick up a smartphone and you send email, visit with friends on Facebook, send a text message or even log into your bank's website and pay a... more
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Floyd and Mary Beth Brown (Dec 03, 2011)
If you are like us, every day you pick up a smartphone and you send email, visit with friends on Facebook, send a text message or even log into your bank's... more
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Floyd and Mary Beth Brown (Nov 21, 2011)
Washington is once again in a deal making mode, and you are about to lose again. When Congress passed the massive debt increase bill earlier this year, it abdicated... more
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Floyd and Mary Beth Brown (Nov 11, 2011)
America's mainstream media is hard at work on the Obama re-election effort. Nonstop reporting on the Herman Cain allegations, the break-up of the European Union and Occupy... more
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Floyd and Mary Beth Brown (Nov 07, 2011)
Barack Obama is rarely at the White House. He prefers to attempt to govern the USA from his flying fortress, Air Force One.
Today he is in Cannes, France to meet with the... more
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Floyd and Mary Beth Brown (Oct 31, 2011)
Twenty years ago this month Clarence Thomas was sworn in as an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. The battle to confirm him was vicious, and Floyd had a... more
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Floyd and Mary Beth Brown (Oct 21, 2011)
Some exciting developments in the Republican presidential race are being ignored by the media. We believe Americans will be excited when they understand the revolutionary... more
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Floyd and Mary Beth Brown (Oct 15, 2011)
Prepare for violence. We remember this crowd.
The year was 1999 and the anarchists descended on Seattle to stop a meeting of the World Trade Organization (WTO). We lived... more
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Floyd and Mary Beth Brown (Oct 08, 2011)
America’s media is obsessed with every tick of every poll. The reason they cover polls is because they don’t want to cover ideas. Republicans should resist being sucked into... more
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Floyd and Mary Beth Brown (Sep 23, 2011)
Today one of America's most important conservative leaders is under brutal assault from the radical left, and he desperately needs conservatives from across... more
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Floyd and Mary Beth Brown (Sep 19, 2011)
Corruption inside the Obama administration runs rampant. The list of scandals grows longer by the moment, with a new one popping up at an ever-increasing rate. However, the... more
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Floyd and Mary Beth Brown (Sep 08, 2011)
Brian Williams must crave attention. In the latest Republican debate, instead of moderating, he personally debated all the participants. The actual discussion between... more
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Floyd and Mary Beth Brown (Aug 31, 2011)
Summer is a time of strong memories. Memories of sunshine, lemonade and bicycles flood our minds. Summertime is the season when our youth is so close we can almost reach out... more
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Floyd and Mary Beth Brown (Aug 19, 2011)
Obama says he will get focused on the jobs problem just as soon as he returns from his August vacation in Martha's Vineyard. Like the more famous Hamptons, the Vineyard is a... more
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Floyd and Mary Beth Brown (Aug 04, 2011)
Washington is obsessed by picking winners and losers. But the establishment media has the story all wrong again. The Republicans, they say won this skirmish over debt. But... more
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Floyd and Mary Beth Brown (Jul 29, 2011)
The playbook of the Washington establishment is getting old. Whether it is the Boehner plan, the Boehner plan version 2.0, the Reid plan or the Obama non plan, it all is... more
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Floyd and Mary Beth Brown (Jul 22, 2011)
The media frenzy over Republican Senators and Barack Obama making nice over the debt ceiling crisis exposes for all Americans to see the extent to which both parties are... more
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Floyd and Mary Beth Brown (Jul 15, 2011)
Gold isn’t money? How could America get to this point we asked in astonishment upon hearing the Chairman of the Federal Reserve proclaim, “Gold isn’t Money.”
No wonder... more
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Floyd and Mary Beth Brown (Jul 09, 2011)
Writing a syndicated column in 2011 is night and day different from when we started writing for publication in the 1990's. The overriding change is the volume and immediacy... more
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Floyd and Mary Beth Brown (Jul 03, 2011)
This a Fourth of July we are reflecting on the Founding Father's intensive study of the Roman civilization. Knowing history, they embraced Rome's virtues and eschewed her... more
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Floyd and Mary Beth Brown (Jun 25, 2011)
Speculation is running rampant about why House Majority Leader Eric Cantor walked out of debt ceiling talks with Democrats. Most of the speculation is credited by pundits... more
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Floyd and Mary Beth Brown (Jun 17, 2011)
Reading Al Gore's comments on Mitt Romney we were reminded of all of the reason's we don't trust the man: "Good for Mitt Romney though we've long passed the point where weak... more
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Floyd and Mary Beth Brown (Jun 09, 2011)
Some of the best TV in America comes and goes too quickly. This past year we enjoyed the short lived FOX police drama, Chicago Code. The show featured the battle for police... more
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Floyd and Mary Beth Brown (Jun 02, 2011)
Memorial Day is a time for reflection about the sacrifices of the many men and women who gave it all so that we could enjoy the blessings of Liberty. Growing up in the... more
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Floyd and Mary Beth Brown (May 27, 2011)
The worst economic conditions in recent memory were during the Jimmy Carter era of stagflation. Stagflation was a term coined in the 1970s to describe high unemployment... more
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Floyd and Mary Beth Brown (May 20, 2011)
Rush Limbaugh is starting a movement, a movement to draft Texas Governor Rick Perry for President. Here's what Rush said this week on this radio program: "There's no way... more
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Floyd and Mary Beth Brown (May 13, 2011)
It has been a busy week in presidential politics. With Barack Obama gaining only a minimal boost from the slaying of Osama Bin Laden, it is now obvious to Republicans... more
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Floyd and Mary Beth Brown (May 05, 2011)
While Barack Obama spends his time running victory laps around the country over the killing of Osama Bin Laden, the American economy is careening toward a dangerous... more
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Floyd and Mary Beth Brown (Apr 29, 2011)
Mao taught his follower, "Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed." Obama practices his politics as the master taught.
In his speech before... more
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Floyd and Mary Beth Brown (Apr 22, 2011)
John Boehner will be writing his own political obituary if he capitulates again to Barack Obama and raises the debt ceiling of the US government.
Boehner says he wants to... more
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Floyd and Mary Beth Brown (Apr 14, 2011)
Obama is a born again deficit cutter. He wants, according to his speech at George Washington University this week, to slim down nation's deficit by a whopping four trillion... more
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Floyd and Mary Beth Brown (Apr 08, 2011)
Mr. Boehner, keep up the fight. The American people do not fear an Obama veto, or the specter of a government shutdown, or the slanderous words of Progressives (and their... more
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Floyd and Mary Beth Brown (Apr 01, 2011)
One of the most surreal experiences of our lives was watching an unelected bureaucrat pick and choose what ballots she wanted to count in the closely contested election... more
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Floyd and Mary Beth Brown (Mar 05, 2011)
Watching Charlie Sheen's outbursts is a great entertainment for Americans. Here is a guy who has it all, fame, fortune, a great career and it is all crashing in on him... more
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Floyd and Mary Beth Brown (Feb 18, 2011)
"If we do this [change the date of the Washington holiday celebration], ten years from now our school children will not know what February 22 means. They will not know or... more
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Floyd and Mary Beth Brown (Feb 10, 2011)
On a beautifully calm winter day near the Sea of Galilee, Governor Mike Huckabee shared with a group of Americans his concern for the future of Israel. With riots raging... more
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Floyd and Mary Beth Brown (Jan 13, 2011)
It is unusual for a President to launch a re-election nearly two years before the vote, but this is exactly what Barack Obama is laying the ground work for. Without fanfare... more
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Floyd and Mary Beth Brown (Jan 07, 2011)
Fear-mongering works, why not try again? This must be the thinking behind Obama's latest attempts to manipulate the new Congress. Austan Goolsbee, chairman of the U.S.... more