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Thursday, July 27, 2017

First hour of the show, Kerby welcomes back Robert Spencer, director of Jihad Watch. They will discuss his book, The Complete Infidel’s Guide to Free Speech (and Its Enemies). In his book, Spencer offers a bold defense of freedom of speech—the single most valuable freedom humanity has, a freedom now endangered world-wide.

In the second hour we hear from General William Boykin, Family Research Council’s executive vice president. He discusses President Trump’s ban on transgenders in the military.

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
Robert Spencer
Director - Jihad Watch
Robert Spencer is the director of Jihad Watch, a program of the David Horowitz Freedom Center, and author of the New York Times bestsellers The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades) and The Truth About Muhammad: Founder of the World’s Most Intolerant Religion, as well as eleven other books on Islam and terrorism, including Onward Muslim Soldiers: How Jihad Still Threatens America and the West, Religion of Peace: Why Christianity Is and Islam Isn’t, Stealth Jihad: How Radical Islam Is Subverting America without Guns or Bombs, Arab Winter Comes to America: The Truth About the War We’re In, and The Complete Infidel’s Guide to the Koran. His articles on Islam and other topics have appeared in the New York Post, the Washington Times, the Dallas Morning News, FrontPageMagazine.com, WorldNetDaily, Insight in the News, Human Events, National Review Online, and many other publications. He has appeared on FOX News, CNN, PBS, and C-SPAN and numerous nationally syndicated radio shows, including Michael Savage’s Savage Nation, Laura Ingraham Show, The Michael Medved Show, The Jim Bohannon Show, the BBC, and Vatican Radio discussing jihad, Islam, and terrorism.Spencer has studied Islamic theology, law, and history for more than 25 years and has trained the FBI and other government officials on the threats of Jihad in America.
The Complete Infidel's Guide to Free Speech (and Its Enemies)
From Robert Spencer, the New York Times bestselling author of The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam and The Complete Infidel's Guide to ISIS, comes a bold defense of freedom of speech—the single most valuable freedom humanity has, a freedom now endangered world-wide.
William G. Boykin
Executive Vice-President - Family Research Council
Lt. Gen. (Ret.) William G. "Jerry" Boykin serves as Family Research Council's Executive Vice President.

He was one of the original members of the U.S. Army's Delta Force. He was privileged to ultimately command these elite warriors in combat operations. Later, Jerry Boykin commanded all the Army's Green Berets as well as the Special Warfare Center and School.

In all, Lt. Gen. Boykin spent 36 years in the army, serving his last four years as the Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence. He is an ordained minister with a passion for spreading the Gospel of Jesus Christ and encouraging Christians to become warriors in God's Kingdom.

Jerry and his wife Ashley enjoy spending time with their five children and growing number of grandchildren.
Transgender Policy Could Cost Military Billions Over Ten Years
On July 1, 2016, without any systematic study of the consequences, the Obama administration reversed
longstanding policies that excluded those who identify as transgender from serving in the U.S. military
on both psychological and medical grounds.

1. As of that date, the armed services stopped discharging existing service members who suffer from gender dysphoria (unhappiness with their biological sex at birth) or who seek gender reassignment surgery, and as of October 1, 2016, began providing medical services to aid in their “transition” to living as the opposite gender.
Doing the Right Thing the Wrong Way
The president’s announcement on not allowing transgender Americans to serve in the military is the latest example of how he sabotages his own policies.

As time goes by, it’s increasingly clear that there’s something limiting and false about the “just call balls and strikes” approach to analyzing the Trump presidency. Yes, you can praise Trump when he does right and critique him when he does wrong, but at some level that small-ball approach to evaluating Trump simply fails. He does good things, and he does bad things, but he does all things against a backdrop of impulsiveness, chaos, and divisiveness that undermines sound polices even as it does immense damage to the body politic.

Take, for example, the first version of his so-called travel ban. While I agreed with the fundamental policy goals — a slight moderation on refugee admissions, general re-evaluation of security-screening procedures, and a pause on entries from specific jihadist nations — the actual implementation was so chaotic and incompetent that it not only triggered national hysteria, it undermined public support for even relatively modest immigration reforms. Trump’s administration dropped a poorly written, poorly supported policy into the public square, interpreted it as cruelly and maliciously as possible, and has been on the defensive ever since.
Wounded Warrior Explains Transgender Ban
After the news of Trump’s transgender ban in the military, the internet unsurprisingly exploded into yet another fit of rage.

I guess the millions of people who were about to drop dead where they stood because Congress will now debate Obamacare repeal aren’t an issue anymore.

Squirrel!

J.R. Salzman is a writer, wounded warrior and a veteran who has served in Iraq and he took the time Wednesday morning to share his own thoughts on the ban and life in the military. It immediately began to go viral, with Salzman eventually telling folks not to expect any more responses to the thousands of replies he’s been receiving since he first posted.

Salzman laid out a passionate and logical defense of Trump’s ban. Do you agree with him? Disagree? Drop your thoughts in the comments section…

…and thank you Mr. Salzman for your service.
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