For eight years Penna Dexter served as co-host on Point of View with founder Marlin Maddoux. Following his passing in 2004, she has served as co-host and frequently as Kerby Anderson’s guest host. Her...

Aaron M. Renn is the publisher of the Masculinist [link: http://www.urbanophile.com/masculinist/the-masculinist-archives/], a monthly email newsletter for Christian men about the intersection of Chris...

Aaron M. Renn is the publisher of the Masculinist [link: http://www.urbanophile.com/masculinist/the-masculinist-archives/], a monthly email newsletter for Christian men about the intersection of Christianity, masculinity, and modern culture. He's also a nationally known writer about cities and an urban policy analyst. Originally from rural Southern Indiana, Aaron now lives in New York City with his wife Katy and their son Alex.

Mona Charen is one of the most prominent conservative writers in the country. She is the author of the New York Times bestseller Useful Idiots, she writes a critically acclaimed syndicated column that...

Mona Charen is one of the most prominent conservative writers in the country. She is the author of the New York Times bestseller Useful Idiots, she writes a critically acclaimed syndicated column that appears in more than 200 newspapers, and she is a contributor to National Review. Her life tracks nearly perfectly with the modern feminist movement. Charen explains, “I’ve been living in its shadow all of my life. Germaine Greer and Betty Friedan were the secular saints of my time. I’ve had both a successful career and a full family life and I don’t hesitate to put family first. You could say I’ve been working on my new book for the past thirty years.”

Dubbed the "intellectual godfather" of welfare reform (by National Review Editor Rich Lowry), Rector concentrates on a range of related issues, including the collapse of the marriage culture, the brea...

Dubbed the "intellectual godfather" of welfare reform (by National Review Editor Rich Lowry), Rector concentrates on a range of related issues, including the collapse of the marriage culture, the breakdown of the family and other social ills. He is a vocal proponent of marriage education, especially in low-income communities. Rector played a major role in crafting the 1996 federal welfare reform legislation, which, for the first time, required recipients to work or get job training in exchange for benefits. Since its passage, he has continued to examine not only the mounting costs to the taxpayer (nearly $1 trillion a year) but the role of welfare spending in undermining families. Rector’s impact on national policy includes the debate over how to fix America’s broken immigration system – both today and the last time around. His current research on the long-term fiscal costs to taxpayers of granting amnesty to an estimated 11 million unlawful immigrants, as envisioned in the Senate’s “comprehensive” immigration reform bill, builds on his influential work seven years earlier. His recent papers (among those listed below) include “The Fiscal Cost of Unlawful Immigrants and Amnesty to the U.S. Taxpayer,” “An Overview of Obama’s End Run on Welfare Reform,” “Marriage: America’s Greatest Weapon Against Child Poverty,” “Reforming the Food Stamp Program” and “Understanding Poverty in the United States." He holds a bachelor’s degree from the College of William and Mary and a master’s degree in political science from Johns Hopkins University. He is the co-author of America's Failed $5.4 Trillion War on Poverty, a comprehensive 1995 examination of U.S. welfare programs, and co-editor of Steering the Elephant: How Washington Works (1987). For his research on welfare reform, he received the Dr. W. Glenn and Rita Ricardo Campbell Award, given annually to a Heritage employee who makes "outstanding contributions to the analysis and promotion of a free society."

Dr. Cretella is President of the American College of Pediatricians (College) and a general pediatrician with a special interest in behavioral pediatrics. She was elected to the College’s Board of Dire...

Dr. Cretella is President of the American College of Pediatricians (College) and a general pediatrician with a special interest in behavioral pediatrics. She was elected to the College’s Board of Directors in 2005. Prior to being elected President in 2015, Dr. Cretella chaired the Adolescent Sexuality Committee, Pediatric Psycho-social Development Committee, and Scientific Policy Committee. In these roles she became one of the College's chief researchers, writers and spokespersons on issues of pediatric mental and sexual health. She is regularly consulted by Breitbart News, FRC, One News Now, Relevant Radio and many others. Her article Gender Dysphoria in Children and Suppression of Debate was published in the 2016 summer issue of Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons. Dr. Cretella serves on the Medical Committee of the Alliance for Therapeutic Choice and Scientific Integrity (a national organization of health professionals who advocate for psychotherapy for ego-dystonic homosexuality and gender dysphoria). Dr. Cretella served on the Board of Directors of the National Association for Research and Therapy for Homosexuality (NARTH) from 2010-2015. Dr. Cretella received her medical degree in 1994 from the University of Connecticut School of Medicine. She completed her internship and residency in pediatrics in 1997 at the Connecticut Children’s Medical Center in Hartford, Connecticut. She completed a fellowship in College Health through the University of Virginia in 1999. After 15 years of group practice in rural Connecticut and Rhode Island she left clinical practice to devote more time to family and the College. Dr. Cretella and her husband have three teenage sons and a 12-year-old daughter.