Penna Dexter is a radio commentator and columnist for various Christian conservative outlets. She is a frequent commentator and guest host for Point of View Radio Talk Show with Kerby Anderson. Her weekly commentaries air on the Moody Broadcasting Network and the Bott Radio Network. Penna’s columns appear at Baptist Press and the Christian Post blog page. Penna is an executive at Todd Dexter & Associates, the integrated marketing consulting company founded by her husband, Todd Dexter.

For eight years she served as Marlin Maddoux’s co-host on Point of View and for two years she co-hosted a daily drive time live broadcast on the Dallas-based Criswell Radio Network.

Penna’s interest in conservative politics and the issues that affect the family began when she was a child working on political campaigns with her parents. She graduated from the University of Southern California with a degree in International Relations. She spent 8 years in the banking industry. She and her husband Todd have three children who are in their twenties. They are members of Trinity Presbyterian Church.

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.

Tom Leppert is a former mayor of Dallas who served from June 2007- February 2011.

He was the Chairman and CEO of The Turner Corportation from 1999-2006. He has served in the leadership of various organization including Vice Chairman of Pacific Century Financial Corp. and Bank of Hawaii (1996-1997), President and CEO for Castle and Cooke Hawaii (1989-1996), National Partner at Trammell Crow Company (1986-1989), and Elected Partner/ Principal McKinsey and Company (1979-1986).

He was appointed by President Ronald Reagan to serve as a White House Fellow in 1984.

He received his MBA from Harvard Business School (1979) and his BA in Economics and Accounting from Claremont McKenna College (1977).

We have not yet learned the identity of the militant radicals who, in a patently coordinated attack targeting Dallas police, have killed five cops and wounded at least six others. I am thus sympathetic to the cautions against jumping to conclusions – to the notion that the Black Lives Matter protest that was the setting for the attack was hijacked by, as opposed to an abettor of, the militants. That said, President Obama has wasted no time politicizing the attack. From Poland this morning, he punctuated his remarks praising the heroism and sacrifice of police, with the familiar demagoguery: We all need to be concerned about “racial disparity in the justice system” (as if there were no drastic racial disparities in offense behavior, and therefore that the police discriminate against African-Americans in enforcing the laws); and of course, “When people are armed with powerful weapons, it makes attacks more deadly and more tragic” (as if the real problem here is guns rather than radical ideology).

‘Black Lives Matter’ supporters responded to the sniper attack in Dallas by celebrating the murder of the five police officers who were gunned down in cold blood.

BLM sympathizers took to Twitter to express their joy at the carnage, with one commenting, “Y’all pigs got what was coming for y’all.”

“Next time a group wants to organize a police shoot, do like Dallas tonight, but have extra men/women to flank the Pigs!,” added another.

“Dude hell yeah someone is shooting pigs in dallas. Solidarity,” commented another user.

“DALLAS keep smoking dem pigs keep up the work,” remarked another.

Last night’s events in Dallas were as painfully predictable as they were tragic.

As I wrote almost a year ago after BLM supporters had plotted to bomb a police station in Ferguson, “Black Lives Matter cannot be described as anything other than a domestic terrorist organization.”

A Facebook page claiming to represent a black power group has posted messages claiming responsibility for the deaths of five police officers in Dallas.

Five officers were gunned down by at least two shooters who picked out officers from an 'elevated position' - believed to be a multi-storey car park.

It came in the week of public outrage over the deaths of two unarmed black men shot by police.

Three officers - Michael Kroll, Brent Thomspon and Patrick Zamarripa have been identified so far.

The so-called Black Power Political Organization claimed on its Facebook account that it was behind the attack and that 'more assassinations are coming'.

However, authorities in Dallas have not confirmed any political link to the shootings.

Little is known about the BPPO group, which had just over 300 followers on Facebook and does not appear to have any other social media accounts or presence on Google.