Welcome to another Weekend Edition show. Joining Kerby around the table today is Penna Dexter and Kelly Shackelford. Together they will take a look at the top stories in the news today and give you their biblical point of view. Also joining us to speak briefly on last night’s police shooting in Dallas, is former Mayor, Tom Leppert.
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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.
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).
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.”
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.