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His writings tend to attack and ridicule the claimed stupidity and duplicitousness of [[liberal]]s (both in the {{USA}} and world-wide) and those in the "left wing" in general, focusing in particular on the [[global warming denial|nonexistence]] of [[global warming]] and other [[neoconservative]] themes. | His writings tend to attack and ridicule the claimed stupidity and duplicitousness of [[liberal]]s (both in the {{USA}} and world-wide) and those in the "left wing" in general, focusing in particular on the [[global warming denial|nonexistence]] of [[global warming]] and other [[neoconservative]] themes. | ||
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| + | His late father, J.W. Ham, was a career cryptographer in the Army Signal Corps from 1940 to 1966. [http://triangle.johnlocke.org/blog/?p=2257] | ||
His daughter, {{wpalt|Mary Katharine Ham}}, wrote for the conservative [[townhall.com]] web site from 2005 to 2008 and is now Online Editor (and a [http://www.examiner.com/blogs-421-hamblog blogger]) for the ''[[Washington Examiner]]''. | His daughter, {{wpalt|Mary Katharine Ham}}, wrote for the conservative [[townhall.com]] web site from 2005 to 2008 and is now Online Editor (and a [http://www.examiner.com/blogs-421-hamblog blogger]) for the ''[[Washington Examiner]]''. | ||
Revision as of 01:40, 19 June 2008
Overview
Jon Ham is a conservative journalist in North Carolina works for the John Locke Foundation and regularly blogs on Right Angles, a section of the JLF's web site dedicated to the Research Triangle area of North Carolina. He also writes for Carolina Journal.
His writings tend to attack and ridicule the claimed stupidity and duplicitousness of liberals (both in the United States and world-wide) and those in the "left wing" in general, focusing in particular on the nonexistence of global warming and other neoconservative themes.
His late father, J.W. Ham, was a career cryptographer in the Army Signal Corps from 1940 to 1966. [1]
His daughter, Mary Katharine Ham [W], wrote for the conservative townhall.com web site from 2005 to 2008 and is now Online Editor (and a blogger) for the Washington Examiner.
Related Pages
- User:Woozle/JLF: List of Woozle's comments on Ham's Right Angles blog
Links
Reference
- bio at the John Locke Foundation
- articles at Carolina Journal (bio is copied from JLF)
Discussion
praise
- 2006-07-21 Jon Ham on Agenda Journalism: "Betsy Newmark pointed me to this excellent column by Jon Ham on the way journalism has changed, and not for the better."
criticism
- 2007-11-06 Is Jon Ham a moron or what?: "I keep telling myself that there's absolutely no reason to waste my time reading the John Locke Foundation's "Right Angles" blog. And yet, like a wreck on the highway, sometimes i can't help driving by at a slow speed, staring in disbelief."