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Friday, September 1, 2017

Welcome to our Weekend Edition show. This week, Kerby is joined by Debbie Georgatos and First Liberty’s Kelly Shackelford. Together they will look at some of the top stories in the week and give you their point of view, weigh in with your view point when you call us in-studio at 800-351-1212.

We will also hear briefly from Clare Lopez, vice president for research and analysis at the Center for Security Policy, she sheds light on what is the core US national security interest in Afghanistan.

Kerby Anderson
Kerby Anderson
Host, Point of View Radio Talk Show

Kerby Anderson is host of Point of View Radio Talk Show and also serves as the President of Probe Ministries. He holds masters degrees from Yale University (science) and Georgetown University (government). He also serves as a visiting professor at Dallas Theological Seminary and has spoken on dozens of university campuses including University of Michigan, Vanderbilt University, Princeton University, Johns HopkinsRead More

Guests
Debbie Georgatos
Debbie Georgatos
Attorney | Author | Radio Host
Debbie Georgatos is a lawyer, political consultant, conservative activist and author, whose first book, Ladies, Can We Talk? America Needs Our Vote! encourages women to embrace liberty-upholding conservative solutions to the challenges America faces. Her book and book talks inspire women to step up and take a prominent leadership role in the American political conversation, and to recognize that they have tremendous power to shape America’s future.
Kelly Shackelford
Kelly Shackelford
President and CEO - First Liberty Institute
Mr. Shackelford is a constitutional scholar who has argued before the United States Supreme Court, testified before the U.S. House and Senate on constitutional issues, and has won three state landmark First Amendment and religious liberty cases in the past few years alone. He was recently named one of the 25 greatest Texas lawyers of the past quarter century by Texas Lawyer, and is the recipient of the prestigious William Bentley Ball Award for Life and Religious Freedom Defense for his leadership and pioneering work protecting religious freedom.
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Praying
US courts: Can’t pray at work, can’t pray at home
  By: Kelly Shackelford and James C. Ho - thehill.com - September 1, 2017 The day after the U.S. Supreme Court ended its 2015-2016 term, three justices issued a troubling statement. It was four months after ...
Federal Court Judicial Vacancies
The Supreme Court takes about 70 cases per year, while federal courts of appeals handle about 35,000 cases annually. Judges who become part of the federal judiciary (that hears 99 percent of all federal cases) hold immense power over the lives of Americans – including over their religious freedoms.
Clare Lopez
Vice President Research & Analysis - Center for Security Policy
Clare M. Lopez is the Vice President for Research and Analysis at the Center for Security Policy, a Senior Fellow at the London Center for Policy Research, and a member of the Board of Advisors for the Canadian Mackenzie Institute. Since 2013, she has served as a member of the Citizens Commission on Benghazi. Also Vice President of the Intelligence Summit, she formerly was a career operations officer with the Central Intelligence Agency, a professor at the Centre for Counterintelligence and Security Studies, Executive Director of the Iran Policy Committee from 2005-2006, and has served as a consultant, intelligence analyst, and researcher for a variety of defense firms. She was named a Lincoln Fellow at the Claremont Institute in 2011.

Ms. Lopez is a regular contributor to print and broadcast media on subjects related to Iran and the Middle East and the co-author of two published books on Iran.
Afghanistan Strategy
Trump’s Afghanistan Strategy
Claire Lopez, Center for Security Policy vice president for research and analysis spoke with Breitbart News Daily SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Tuesday in reaction to President Trump’s Afghanistan announcement. Saying there were some elements of the ...
Progressive Values and Christianity
  by: David French - nationalreview.com - August 30, 2017 A mayor’s backlash against a basic statement of Evangelical Christian belief signals an ominous turn in the culture wars. Don’t ever forget that, for some ...
Sen. Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio Tweets Unconstitutional
By: William M. Briggs - stream.org - August 30, 2017 The Freedom From Religion Foundation is so upset that Senator Marco Rubio has been tweeting quotations from the Bible, they wrote him a hot letter about ...
Blocking Judicial Nominees
By: Rachel Alexander - stream.org - August 30, 2017 Thanks to Democrats abusing Senate rules, there are now more judicial vacancies than there were when President Donald Trump first took office. Even though he is “naming ...
Better Side of Divided America
The Better Side of Divided America
By: Jonah Goldberg - townhall.com - August 30, 2017 Even hurricanes have a silver lining: The downpour washes away a lot of bull. Don't get me wrong. This is a tragedy for untold thousands of ...
Evacuees ride in a Coast Guard helicopter after being rescued due to Tropical Storm Harvey flood waters in Beaumont
NOT America At Its Best
by Kyle Smith - nationalreview.com - August 31, 2017 The piece’s problems didn’t end with the title. ‘Houston,” declared a Slate headline, “Doesn’t Showcase ‘America at Its Best.’” When a tweet promoting the article from ...
Harvey Victims
Why a Woman Is Refusing to Donate to Harvey Victims
By: Matt Vespa - townhall.com - August 31, 2017 Okay—well, if you want contrarianism, Salon and the Washington Post-affiliated Slate are your go-to places. Hurricane Harvey pummeled Texas’ gulf Coast with wind, rain, and flooding, ...
John McCain
Using Senate Rules
Getting the Senate back to work doesn’t require changing its rules. Republicans have all the tools they need to curb Democrats’ ability to obstruct. By: James Wallner - thefederalist.com Democrats have threatened to filibuster Republican efforts ...
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