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Tuesday, May 24, 2016
Today on Point of View, Penna Dexter is your host. Her first guest is Dr. Lucian Spataro who serves as president and CEO of the of the Joe Foss Institute: a non profit organization that serves Veterans and students in schools across the country. He tells us more about The Civics Education Initiative which seeks to promote civics education and prepare students to be informed and engaged citizens. Also on the show today is Star Parker, founder and president of the Center for Urban Renewal and Education. She tells us more about Zubik v. Burwell, more popularly known as Obamacare v. Little Sisters of the Poor, is about the Obamacare mandate requiring employers and private insurance plans to provide cost-free coverage for contraceptives, sterilization and abortion-inducing drugs. In the last hour, we hear from Robert Knight, Senior Fellow for the American Civil Rights Union; he tells us more about The Left and Free Speech. We will also revisit the issue of the bathroom bill which is still having resounding impact on our culture.
Today on Point of View, Penna Dexter is your host. Her first guest is Dr. Lucian Spataro who serves as president and CEO of the of the Joe Foss Institute: a non profit organization that serves Veterans and students in schools across the country. He tells us more about The Civics Education Initiative which seeks to promote civics education and prepare students to be informed and engaged citizens. Also on the show today is Star Parker, founder and president of the Center for Urban Renewal and Education. She tells us more about Zubik v. Burwell, more popularly known as Obamacare v. Little Sisters of the Poor, is about the Obamacare mandate requiring employers and private insurance plans to provide cost-free coverage for contraceptives, sterilization and abortion-inducing drugs. In the last hour, we hear from Robert Knight, Senior Fellow for the American Civil Rights Union; he tells us more about The Left and Free Speech. We will also revisit the issue of the bathroom bill which is still having resounding impact on our culture.

HOST

Penna Dexter

Penna Dexter

Co-Host — Point of View

Point of View Co-Host, Penna Dexter frequently sits in as guest host for Kerby Anderson. Her weekly commentaries air on the Bott Radio Network. Penna’s heart is in educating and encouraging Christian...

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Dr. Lucian Spataro

Dr. Lucian Spataro

President and CEO — The Civics Education Initiative

Dr. Lucian Spataro Jr. is a noted researcher, educator and author with more than 30 years of experience working in both education and the private sector. With experience as an educator and administrat...

Dr. Lucian Spataro Jr. is a noted researcher, educator and author with more than 30 years of experience working in both education and the private sector. With experience as an educator and administrator, both in the United States and internationally, he served as Academic Director and Professor at the University of Arizona in Tucson and Vice Rector of Academic Affairs for the Universidad del Noroeste in Sonora, Mexico. Dr. Spataro’s educational credentials also include a tenure as Chief Operating Officer for Education 2020, an educational software and service provider, and serving as President & CEO of TesseracT, which at the time was the largest for-profit education company in the United States. More recently he served as President of FlipSwitch, a national educational software provider. He led the nonprofit Joe Foss Institute from 2011 – 2014 as President & CEO, and currently sits on the Board of Directors for both the Joe Foss Institute and the Civics Proficiency Institute, an affiliate of the Joe Foss Institute.

Star Parker

Star Parker

Founder|President — The Center for Urban Renewal and Education (CURE)

Star Parker is one of the names on the short list mentioned when anyone speaks of national black conservative leaders.Star Parker is the founder and president of The Center for Urban Renewal and Educa...

Star Parker is one of the names on the short list mentioned when anyone speaks of national black conservative leaders.Star Parker is the founder and president of The Center for Urban Renewal and Education, a public policy think tank that promotes market-based solutions to fight poverty. Before involvement in social activism, Star had seven years of first-hand experience in the grip of welfare dependency. After consulting on federal Welfare Reform in the mid-90s, she founded UrbanCure to bring new ideas to policy discussions on how to transition America's poor from government dependency. Star has a bachelor's degree in Marketing and International Business from Woodbury University and has received numerous awards and commendations for her work on public policy issues. She regularly consults with both federal and state legislators on market-based strategies to fight poverty; she has spoken on more than 190 colleges and universities about anti-poverty initiatives; has authored several books; and is a nationally syndicated columnist with Creators Syndicate. Many of national acclaim would agree that Star Parker has established herself as a thoughtful and energetic leader in Washington D.C and her UrbanCure advisory board includes folks of note such as Generals John Ashcroft and Ed Meese; Doctors Ben Carson, Robert P. George, George Gilder, Marvin Olasky and Walter E. Williams.

Robert Knight

Robert Knight

Senior Fellow — American Civil Rights Union

Robert Knight is a Senior Fellow for the American Civil Rights Union and a regular weekly columnist for The Washington Times, Townhall.com, OneNewsNow.com and Barbwire.com, and is frequently published...

Robert Knight is a Senior Fellow for the American Civil Rights Union and a regular weekly columnist for The Washington Times, Townhall.com, OneNewsNow.com and Barbwire.com, and is frequently published by AmericanThinker.com, DailyCaller.com and others. He was a journalist for 15 years, including seven as an editor and writer at the Los Angeles Times. He has B.S. and M.S. degrees in Political Science from American University, and was a Media Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He has held senior positions at the Culture & Family Institute at Concerned Women for America, the Family Research Council, the Heritage Foundation, Coral Ridge Ministries, and the Media Research Center. He wrote and directed the documentary videos Hidden Truth: What You Deserve to Know about Abortion, and The Children of Table 34, about sex researcher Alfred Kinsey. A draftsman of the federal Defense of Marriage Act, he is the author of The Age of Consent: The Rise of Relativism and the Corruption of Popular Culture, Fighting for America’s Soul, Radical Rulers, The Truth about Marriage, and several other books. He has debated the marriage issue on college campuses, including Cornell, the University of California Berkeley, Virginia Tech, Kent State, North Carolina State, the University of South Carolina and many others, and has testified before Congress and state legislatures. He has written articles for the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Human Events, FrontPage.com, WorldNetDaily.com and many others, and appeared on The O'Reilly Factor, Hannity & Colmes, National Public Radio, the BBC; Irish National Radio; CBS Evening News; NBC Nightly News; ABC's World News Tonight, CNN, Oprah and many others. He and his wife Barbara, who have grown children and a grandchild, live in northern Virginia.

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