Harris Sherline is a retired Certified Public Accountant and executive. His diverse business background includes experience as a partner in a public accounting firm, as a principal in a number of business ventures and as CEO of a hospital. His conservative commentaries appear weekly in two Santa Barbara newspapers. In addition, he writes editorials for a widely read weblog, which has a world-wide following of about 200,000 readers. His weblog is "Opinionfest.com."