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Earlier, Fund co-authored ''Cleaning House: America's Campaign for Term Limits'' (Regnery Gateway, 1992, ISBN 0-89526-516-8) with [[James K. Coyne, III|James Coyne]]. Some [[left-wing]] commentators claim that [[Rush Limbaugh]]'s book, ''The Way Things Ought To Be'', was [[ghostwriter|ghostwritten]] by Fund.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/20/books/review/020QUEENA.html | title = Ghosts in the Machine | author = [[Joe Queenan]] | work = [[The New York Times]] | date = March 2005 | accessdate = 2006-09-25 }}</ref> |
Earlier, Fund co-authored ''Cleaning House: America's Campaign for Term Limits'' (Regnery Gateway, 1992, ISBN 0-89526-516-8) with [[James K. Coyne, III|James Coyne]]. Some [[left-wing]] commentators claim that [[Rush Limbaugh]]'s book, ''The Way Things Ought To Be'', was [[ghostwriter|ghostwritten]] by Fund.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/20/books/review/020QUEENA.html | title = Ghosts in the Machine | author = [[Joe Queenan]] | work = [[The New York Times]] | date = March 2005 | accessdate = 2006-09-25 }}</ref> |
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In his twenties, John Fund was an active supporter of the California Libertarian Party and became one of the Executive Directors before accepting a position with the Cato Institute. Fund was also a fan of the teachings of Ayn Rand and once attended an "Intensive" put on by Nathaniel Branden, Ayn Rand's former protégé.{{Fact|date=September 2007}} |
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John Fund Born 1957 in Tucson, Arizona. Fund is an American political journalist and columnist for the The Wall Street Journal. He also writes for Political Diary, a daily column hosted at OpinionJournal.com. Fund's commentary is conservative.
Career
Fund joined The Wall Street Journal as a deputy editorial features editor. He is now a member of the editorial board of The Wall Street Journal, and articles he has written have appeared in Esquire, Reader's Digest, Reason, The New Republic, and National Review.
Fund authored a book, Stealing Elections: How Voter Fraud Threatens Our Democracy (Encounter Books, 2004, ISBN 1-59403-061-8) about the U.S. system, which he describes as "a haphazard, fraud-prone election system befitting an emerging Third World country rather than the world's leading democracy".
Earlier, Fund co-authored Cleaning House: America's Campaign for Term Limits (Regnery Gateway, 1992, ISBN 0-89526-516-8) with James Coyne. Some left-wing commentators claim that Rush Limbaugh's book, The Way Things Ought To Be, was ghostwritten by Fund.[1]
References
- ^ Joe Queenan (March 2005). "Ghosts in the Machine". The New York Times. Retrieved 2006-09-25.
External links
- Official biography at OpinionJournal.com.
- Archive of Fund's columns at OpinionJournal.com.
- "Leave it to Deaver" Fund writes about meeting Michael Deaver and Ronald Reagan while in high school.