EDMOND (April 26, 2017) –Melanie Phillips, a renowned British journalist, broadcaster and author, will visit Oklahoma City on Sunday, May 7. She will deliver a lecture, free and open to the public, at 6 p.m. at Armstrong Auditorium, on the campus of Herbert W. Armstrong in northern Edmond.

Phillips is speaking in cities throughout America, giving her incisive perspective on turbulent global conditions. During her lecture at Armstrong, she will focus on the Arab-Israel impasse, which is under additional pressure because of recent developments in Palestinian politics and United Nations actions. She is widely regarded for her insights on social, political and geopolitical affairs.

Phillips’ weekly column, which currently appears in the Times of London, has been published over the years in the Guardian, Observer, Sunday Times and Daily Mail. She also writes for the Jerusalem Post and Jewish Chronicle, is a regular panelist on BBC Radio’s The Moral Maze, and speaks on public platforms throughout the English-speaking world.

Her best-selling book Londonistan, about the British establishment’s capitulation to Islamist aggression, was published in 2006. She followed this in 2010 with The World Turned Upside Down: the Global Battle Over God, Truth and Power. Her latest book is a personal and political memoir titled Guardian Angel.

The public lecture will be sponsored by the Philadelphia Trumpet newsmagazine, which is published from offices on the Armstrong College campus and has bureaus in Britain, Israel, Canada and Australia. The Trumpet staff has admired Phillips’ work for many years and is pleased to be able to present a forum for the local public to hear her speak.

For directions to Armstrong Auditorium, visit armstrongauditorium.org. Follow Phillips’ work at melaniephillips.com, on Twitter at @MelanieLatest or on Facebook at www.facebook.com/MelanieLatest . #melanieLatest

As President Obama’s time left in office draws to a close, it’s clear that he’s grasping at any and all opportunities to leave a legacy. He has either refused to work with or negotiate with lawmakers in the present Congress or failed to encourage a previously split-party Congress to find compromise. With his loss of a Democrat-led Senate, the president has now shown that when met with opposition to his policies, his arrogant answer will be to bypass Congress and act alone. That temper tantrum-like behavior, “my way or the highway” attitude and disrespect for the role of the legislative branch has been noticeably present in his intended action and perspective on immigration policy.

Last November, the president announced that he would grant legal status to approximately five million illegal immigrants. This unilateral executive action included the planned expansion of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals—a program established by the Administration in 2012— as well as the creation and implementation of a new program called the Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents. Both programs from the Administration aim to prevent the deportation of certain illegal residents, grant legal status to those individuals and allow them to acquire and be eligible for work permits.

Predictably, there was a loud outcry against the president’s plan to unilaterally change immigration policy without any input whatsoever from Congress. It came not only from the American people, but also from lawmakers who reminded the president that changes to immigration law must start in the legislative branch. Shortly thereafter, then-Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott led a 26-state coalition, including Oklahoma, to challenge the constitutionality of the president’s action through a federal District Court lawsuit.

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The January 22nd Tulsa March For Life will begin with a Mass offered by Bishop Edward J. Slattery at Holy Family Cathedral at 5:30 p.m. The March itself, for pro-life citizens of all faiths, will begin at 6:30 p.m. from 8th Street and Boulder Avenue in downtown Tulsa, proceeding to Centennial Green, where the principal speaker will be veteran pro-life legislative leader Rebecca Hamilton.

Brandi Ball, NewsOn6.com

Former presidential candidate Rick Santorum will be in Tulsa today to support area Republican leaders in a show of unity behind Tulsa Mayor Dewey Bartlett, the party’s county chair said.

Santorum, along with U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe, U.S. Congressman Jim Bridenstine and 24 state legislators, will speak at a media-only event at the Tulsa Press Club Thursday evening.

It will be Inhofe’s first public appearance since recent heart surgery.

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