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Thursday, October 19, 2017
Today's guest host is Debbie Georgatos. In the first hour, she chats with Dr. Everett Piper, president of Oklahoma Wesleyan University. They discuss education, politics, freedom, justice, common sense, human dignity, sexual responsibility, and moral objectivity. In the second hour, Katherine Kersten, senior policy fellow at Center of the American Experiment joins Debbie by phone. She discusses left-wing influence on public schools in Minnesota. Join the conversation by giving us a call at 800-351-1212.
Today's guest host is Debbie Georgatos. In the first hour, she chats with Dr. Everett Piper, president of Oklahoma Wesleyan University. They discuss education, politics, freedom, justice, common sense, human dignity, sexual responsibility, and moral objectivity. In the second hour, Katherine Kersten, senior policy fellow at Center of the American Experiment joins Debbie by phone. She discusses left-wing influence on public schools in Minnesota. Join the conversation by giving us a call at 800-351-1212.

HOST

Debbie Georgatos

Debbie Georgatos

Lawyer, political consultant, — field_542d8190101fc

Debbie Georgatos is a lawyer, political consultant, conservative activist and author, whose first book, Ladies, Can We Talk? America Needs Our Vote! encourages women to embrace liberty-upholding conse...

GUESTS

Dr. Everett Piper

Dr. Everett Piper

President — Oklahoma Wesleyan University

Dr. Everett Piper has served as the president of Oklahoma Wesleyan University in Bartlesville, Oklahoma since August of 2002. His credentials include a B.A. from Spring Arbor University, a M.A. from B...

Dr. Everett Piper has served as the president of Oklahoma Wesleyan University in Bartlesville, Oklahoma since August of 2002. His credentials include a B.A. from Spring Arbor University, a M.A. from Bowling Green State University, and a Ph.D. from Michigan State University. Dr. Piper speaks boldly and unapologetically on issues such as natural law, unalienable rights, self-evident truths, and the unavoidable consequences of ideas on personal, political, community, and corporate well-being. His commentary rhetorically confronts the reader and listener to consider issues such as freedom, justice, common sense, human dignity, sexual responsibility, and moral objectivity. Piper is specifically passionate in arguing that postmodern political correctness is really nothing more than an unvarnished ploy to consolidate power among society’s elites and to, thus, restrict the individual freedoms and rights of the general public. Opinion as the final measure of right and wrong always leads to the rise of the “rule of the gang” or “the tyranny of one.” Dr. Piper writes for numerous publications including the Examiner Enterprise, Chuck Colson’s Breakpoint Magazine, and Crosswalk.com. He resides with his wife and two children in Bartlesville, Oklahoma.

Katherine Kersten

Katherine Kersten

Senior Policy Fellow — Center of the American Experiment

Katherine Kersten, a writer and attorney, is a Senior Policy Fellow at Center of the American Experiment. She served as a Metro columnist for the Star Tribune (Minneapolis) from 2005 to 2008, and as a...

Katherine Kersten, a writer and attorney, is a Senior Policy Fellow at Center of the American Experiment. She served as a Metro columnist for the Star Tribune (Minneapolis) from 2005 to 2008, and as an opinion columnist for the paper for 15years between 1996 and 2013. She was a founding director of the Center, and served as its chair from 1996 to 1998. Ms. Kersten has written on cultural and policy issues for a variety of publications, including the Wall Street Journal, the Weekly Standard, Christianity Today, Policy Review, American Enterprise, and First Things. For two years, she served as a regular commentator for National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered.” She has also appeared on numerous radio and television shows, both nationally and locally, and has been featured on FOX News and MSNBC, as well as NPR’s “Talk of the Nation;” the Canadian Broadcasting Company’s “As It Happens;” NBC’s “A Closer Look with Faith Daniels” and “Public Eye with Bryant Gumbel.” Ms. Kersten has been named a Friend of the Humanities by the Minnesota Humanities Commission, and a Distinguished Alumna of the Program of Liberal Studies of the University of Notre Dame. In 2003, she received the University of Notre Dame Alumni Association’s Family Exemplar Award. Married to attorney Mark Johnson, Ms. Kersten is the mother of four adult children.

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