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Friday, January 6, 2023
Welcome to our Weekend Edition with host Kerby Anderson. His co-hosts are First Liberty Institute's Kelly Shackelford and IPI's Dr. Merrill "Buddy" Matthews. Topics for discussion include the challenge to find a new Speaker of the House, the Supreme Court's cases, the economy, welfare, and immigration. It's a jam-packed show! Please call or contact us with your perspective, call 800-351-1212 or you can post a comment or question on Facebook at facebook.com/pointofviewradio. Show Page: https://pointofview.net/shows/friday-january-6-2023/
Welcome to our Weekend Edition with host Kerby Anderson. His co-hosts are First Liberty Institute's Kelly Shackelford and IPI's Dr. Merrill "Buddy" Matthews. Topics for discussion include the challenge to find a new Speaker of the House, the Supreme Court's cases, the economy, welfare, and immigration. It's a jam-packed show! Please call or contact us with your perspective, call 800-351-1212 or you can post a comment or question on Facebook at facebook.com/pointofviewradio. Show Page: https://pointofview.net/shows/friday-january-6-2023/

HOST

Kerby Anderson

Kerby Anderson

Host — Point of View

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 (governm...

GUESTS

Kelly Shackelford

Kelly Shackelford

President and CEO — Liberty Institute

Kelly Shackelford, Esq., has been president and CEO of Liberty Institute since 1997. Mr. Shackelford is a constitutional scholar who has argued before the United States Supreme Court, testified before...

Kelly Shackelford, Esq., has been president and CEO of Liberty Institute since 1997. 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.

Merrill (Buddy) Matthews, PhD

Merrill (Buddy) Matthews, PhD

Resident Scholar | Analyst | Writer — Institute for Policy Innovation

Merrill Matthews, Ph.D., is a resident scholar with the Institute for Policy Innovation, a research-based, public policy “think tank.” He is a health policy expert and weekly contributor at Forbes.com...

Merrill Matthews, Ph.D., is a resident scholar with the Institute for Policy Innovation, a research-based, public policy “think tank.” He is a health policy expert and weekly contributor at Forbes.com. He also serves as Vice Chairman of the Texas Advisory Committee of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. Dr. Matthews is a past president of the Health Economics Roundtable for the National Association for Business Economics, the largest trade association of business economists. Dr. Matthews also served for 10 years as the medical ethicist for the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center’s Institutional Review Board for Human Experimentation, and has contributed chapters to several books, including Physician Assisted Suicide: Expanding the Debate and The 21st Century Health Care Leader and, in 2009, Stop Paying the Crooks (on Medicare fraud). He has been published in numerous journals and newspapers, including The Wall Street Journal, Investor’s Business Daily, Barron’s, USA Today, Forbes magazine and the Washington Times. He was an award-winning political analyst for the USA Radio Network. Dr. Matthews received his Ph.D. in Humanities from the University of Texas.

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