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Tom Adkins
Tom Adkins is an American political pundit, political writer, public speaker and real estate investor.

He is widely recognized by his trademark long hair, conservative-libertarian politics, and an 18" tattoo of Ronald Reagan.

Adkins was a professional musician until 1983, touring in various bands across the United States and Canada.

He began his professional real estate career in 1985.

WRITING

His political awakening began after realizing taxes were the largest expense of most home buyers, then following the money trail of government waste and corruption.

This new path began with a prolific letter writing campaign to the Philadelphia Inquirer [] whose editors eventually asked him to contribute op-ed pieces. Adkins immediately became notorious for attacking controversial subjects head-on with a hard-right, in-your-face attitude. Numerous articles got picked up nationally, along with viral internet play, and he expected to be noticed by national conservative magazines. However, he was unsatisfied with the members-only process of selecting contributors by most national conservative publications. Adkins united with similarly disaffected conservative internet writers and bloggers to form “CommonConservative.com,” a web magazine for new conservative writers. This opened the door to national exposure and numerous republications in local and national magazines and newspapers.

As Adkins moved towards television punditry, CommonConservative.com eventually folded.

A few notable articles:

”Burn That Flag” has been republished for several years in Chicken Soup For The American Soul. '''

"Traditional Mother and Father: Still the Best Choice for Children" is featured in Patterns For College Writing, America's most widely used primer for college freshman English composition instruction.

”Sun Tzu and Four American Presidents,” a comparison of Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George HW Bush and Bill Clinton through the eyes of Sun Tzu, author of “The Art Of War”

 ”White Guilt Is Dead” Originally published by the Philadelphia Inquirer

”Strange Bedfellows,” describes the unholy alliance between homosexual America and the Catholic Church.

"Threats From Within warns of excessive terrorist profiling, while ignoring possible American terrorists.

(all articles originally published but no longer cached by the Philadelphia Inquirer)

TELEVISION

Adkins television appearances began on Bill Mahr’s Politically Incorrect [] in September of 1999. This created an opportunity for various TV appearances at WPVI [] in Philadelphia, then CN8 [] in Philadelphia and eventually CNN []and FOX NEWS [].

At this publication, he has made over 500 television appearances, including: ABC -Politically Incorrect with Bill Mahr

FOX News

-Beyond The News

-Hannity & Colmes

-Your World w/Neil Cavuto

-Cavuto on Business

-Cashin’ in

-Bulls & Bears

-Fox & Friends

-Studio B w/Shepard Smith

CNN

- NewsNight w/ Aaron brown

-CNN Live

-Open House

CN8

-It’s Your Call w/Lynn Doyle

 OXYGEN

-Pure Oxygen

WPVI

-Philly After Midnight

-Morning show

His TV punditry has offered both highlights and lowlights.


 * Before the vote counting was over, Adkins accurately predicted Democrats would “carp endlessly” if they lost the Florida recounts and thus the 2000 election.


 * He is infamously known for his appearance on Fox News predicting 2008 real estate prices would rise 10%.


 * Adkins is also remembered on CNN for answering a live-audience heckler who demanded “What do you know about torture?” Adkins response: “I know everything about torture, sir…I’ve been married 20 years.”

Adkins is more recently known for his rousing speeches at various Tea Party rallies, which can be found…

Morristown Tea Party July 4 2009

Morristown 9-7-2009

Adkins is married to Fox News host Brenda Buttner. []