John Konop is a businessman in the credit card processing industry and lives in Cherokee County Georgia. John challenged U.S. Congressman Tom Price in the 2006 Republican primary and is an outspoken advocate of trade, immigration, and spending reform.

Eric Langborgh has been blogging for over three years now at his personal weblog, Borg Blog, and more recently at the blog of The American Civil Rights Union (ACRU), where he is employed as their director of development. Given the way conservatism has been largely diluted of meaning, Eric largely eschews the label. Rather, he is a constitutionalist. But if you are looking for a deeper political philosophy, he may be considered a paleoconservative or paleolibertarian, depending on his mood, and is in favor of free markets, severely limited government, federalism, and the role of tradition and private institutions in providing the necessary foundations of liberty.

Prior to joining the ACRU, Eric worked for six-plus years at the Bill of Rights Institute, a national educational non-profit, where he served as the Institute’s director of donor relations. His early work at the Institute as education programs coordinator included the development of a graduate level program for American History and Civics teachers and writing essays for use in high school classrooms on America’s Founding Fathers and their influence on and views of the Bill of Rights.

From January 1999 to January 2001, Eric worked for Accuracy in Academia, a campus watchdog organization, coordinating numerous educational conferences at colleges and universities throughout the United States, and serving as managing editor of its monthly newspaper, Campus Report. An alumnus of Pennsylvania State University, Eric’s experience in the news industry has included an internship at the National Journalism Center as a reporter for the national conservative newsweekly, Human Events.
Eric has had more than 50 articles and essays published and has delivered a number of speeches on a variety of subjects dealing with the U.S. Constitution, American history, politics, education, and more.