Journalist to be top policy adviser to Bush

Washington, May 25 (UNI) Karl Zinsmeister, a well-known journalist and longtime scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, will now be the top domestic policy adviser to US President George W Bush.

Mr Zinsmeister, who has served for the past 12 years as Editor-in-Chief of the conservative American Enterprise magazine, is expected to assume his White House post on June 12.

His main focus in his writings and articles has been cultural issues, as well as social and economic trends. His columns for the magazine included peices praising Wal-Mart's efficiency and extolling the role of religion in forming the glue that bonds communities, according to the Washington Post.

Mr Zinsmeister, comes in place of Claude A Allen, who was forced to step down in February, after being charged with stealing more than 5,000 dollars in a phony refund scheme.

Mr Zinsmeister, 47, also has written three books defending the war in Iraq, a nation he has visited four times as an embedded journalist.

His books focus on the everyday work of the US troops, whose progress in fulfilling a noble mission, he argues, is often overlooked by much of the media.

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