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Tuesday, February 23, 2016
On the show today, Kerby welcomes in-studio lawyer and author, Jim Gash and Henry T. Jim is the author of the book, Divine Collision: An African Boy, an American Lawyer, and Their Remarkable Battle for Freedom. Together they will tell us about their journey from two different continents to their joint battle for freedom. In the second hour, we talk convention of states and joining this discussion in-studio is Dr. Merrill Matthews who is a resident scholar with the Institute for Policy Innovation and Michael Farris, Chancellor of Patrick Henry College and Chairman of the Home School Legal Defense Association joins in by phone.
On the show today, Kerby welcomes in-studio lawyer and author, Jim Gash and Henry T. Jim is the author of the book, Divine Collision: An African Boy, an American Lawyer, and Their Remarkable Battle for Freedom. Together they will tell us about their journey from two different continents to their joint battle for freedom. In the second hour, we talk convention of states and joining this discussion in-studio is Dr. Merrill Matthews who is a resident scholar with the Institute for Policy Innovation and Michael Farris, Chancellor of Patrick Henry College and Chairman of the Home School Legal Defense Association joins in by phone.

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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...

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Jim Gash

Jim Gash

Attorney | Author — field_542d8190101fc

Jim Gash lives in Malibu, California and is a Professor of Law and Director of Pepperdine's Global Justice Program. He serves as Specialist Adviser to the Ugandan High Court and assists the Ugandan go...

Jim Gash lives in Malibu, California and is a Professor of Law and Director of Pepperdine's Global Justice Program. He serves as Specialist Adviser to the Ugandan High Court and assists the Ugandan government in a variety of capacities on projects relating to improving Uganda's judicial process. In March of 2013, Professor Gash became the first American ever to argue a case in the Ugandan Court of Appeals. In recognition of his ongoing work in Uganda, he received the 2013 Warren Christopher Award, which is presented to California's International Lawyer of the Year.

Dr. Merrill Matthews

Dr. Merrill Matthews

Resident Scholar — 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.co...

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 at Dallas

Michael Farris

Michael Farris

Chancellor — Patrick Henry College

Michael Farris is the Chancellor of Patrick Henry College and Chairman of the Home School Legal Defense Association. He was the founding president of each organization. Farris graduated from Wester...

Michael Farris is the Chancellor of Patrick Henry College and Chairman of the Home School Legal Defense Association. He was the founding president of each organization. Farris graduated from Western Washington State College, magna cum laude, with Bachelors in Political Science, followed by a Juris Doctorate from Gonzaga University (with honors). At Gonzaga, Farris was the Articles Editor of the Law Review, and was the winner of the Linden Cup Moot Court Competition. Recently, Farris earned an LL.M. in Public International Law from the University of London. Farris has specialized in constitutional appellate litigation. In that capacity Farris has argued as lead counsel before the Supreme Court of the United States, eight federal circuit courts of appeals, and in the state Supreme Courts and appellate courts of thirteen states. Additionally, Farris is the author of numerous amicus briefs before the United States Supreme Court. Farris has been a fixture on Capitol Hill for over 30 years, having testified before Congress on numerous occasions in both the House and Senate. Farris was the Co-Chairman of the Coalition for the Free Exercise of Religion that successfully lobbied Congress for the passage of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. He has been a leading advocate for the sovereignty of the United States with his successful opposition to various United Nations treaties which seek to control the domestic policy of the United States.

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