Ed Martin

Ed Martin is president of Eagle Forum, the pro-family education and policy organization founded in 1972 by Phyllis Schlafly, who is CEO. A former chairman of the Missouri Republican Party, Ed also was a member of the Republican National Committee, where he led the fight to censure the political consultants who ran race-baiting ads in the 2014 Mississippi Senate Republican primary. A Roman Catholic, he trained in ethics and law in Indonesia, Italy and the United States. Ed and his wife, Carol, a physician, live in St. Louis and have two sons, two daughters and a boxer puppy.

Articles by Ed Martin

ED MARTIN: Band (of consultants) paid on: Explaining Scott Walker

First, the requisite compliment: Gov. Scott Walker is a wonderful guy and a true leader. What he has done in standing up to the unions is remarkable and will be remembered in history.

September 23, 2015

ED MARTIN: Planned Parenthood exposed: We are all complicit

I find it so difficult to watch the Planned Parenthood videos which reveal Planned Parenthood affiliates as trafficking in baby parts. I am a father who has held my premature baby as well as my other full-term newborns, and that has left me with a sense of wonder for the little ones and a need to protect them.

August 13, 2015

ED MARTIN: Trump vs. Kelly: an Establishment Trap

At first blush (of blood to the cheeks, let me be clear), the spat between Donald Trump and Megyn Kelly is all about women. But if you take a closer look, you'll see that it's really not: It's a trap of the Establishment.

August 11, 2015

ED MARTIN: Lawless Obama deserves fast track to nowhere

What conservatives have long known - that President Obama has no respect for the law - is clear to the broader American public.

May 21, 2015

ED MARTIN: GOP candidates should force contested convention

As Kevin Costner contemplated what to do in the iconic "Field of Dreams," a voice from on high gave him advice he would follow throughout the film: "Go the distance."

May 12, 2015

ED MARTIN: Republican choices and echoes

"Choice or Echo" is a blog inspired by Phyllis Schlafly's book "A Choice Not An Echo," which argued that the 1964 Republican nominee for president must be a real conservative because Americans deserved a real choice in the presidential election not just an echo of the same old, same old.

May 12, 2015