website. now, to mcm are very exciting day with some very important authors have called on one of our board members. and is a graduate of georgetown university in history, she has been a very successful businesswoman. she runs an institution called kitchen conservatory. you can go on our website. she s an example of a young woman who has made a success of the this after she graduated from college. so please welcome her to introduce our speakers. [applause] thank you. the way the program is going to work, we have a number of speakers who will each speak for 15 minutes, and then we will have 15 minutes of q&a. we hope that you prepare all kinds of interesting, short, brief questions so that we can hear from as many voices possible on the variety of topics that will be going on today. our first speaker is tad armstrong who holds degrees from the universities of illinois and texas. he currently practices law and rights of bed for the st. louis post-dispatch. he teaches constitu
where we can freely come together and gather and share ideas. lord, we thank you so much for phyllis, her vision, her faithfulness, her unrelenting work and for her unique insight into what makes this nation so excellent. we know that it s you. father, a thank you for each one of use of thank you for each one of these and people. we thank you for the time and pray that continues throughout the day. please bless each one of our speakers as they come out and impart wisdom. we pray that you would bless each one of these young people at that lead today to go out and change the nation, to protect those values that make it so great, to reflect you. we pray that each one of these and people would not grow weary but they would mount up on the wings like eagles. but pinky for the state and ask you to bless it might lead in jesus name. thank you. and we do appreciate the hospitality of the heritage foundation for some 200 students coming from about 100 different colleges. i hope y