Project: "Regulatory Robber Barons," investigating how some big businesses work with government regulators to stifle competition.

Bio:

The project became Tim's first book, The Big Ripoff: How Big Business and Big Government Steal Your Money, which was released in July 2006 by John Wiley & Sons, and won first prize in the Intercollegiate Studies Institute's 2008 Culture of Enterprise competition as well as the 2006 Lysander Spooner Award for "best book on liberty" from Laissez-Faire Books. Currently, Tim is the senior political columnist at the Washington Examiner, where he writes two columns per week and blogs daily. He is an MSNBC contributor. Tim worked for the late columnist Robert Novak for four years including as a reporter and editor for the Evans-Novak Political Report. Tim has also been an editor at Regnery Publishing, the Warren T. Brookes Journalism Fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, and a reporter at Human Events. His second book, Obamanomics, was published by Regnery in 2009. He received a B.A. in liberal arts from St. John's College in Annapolis, Md. He lives in the D.C. area with his wife, Katie, and their four children.