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2008 Freedom21 Conference Speakers


Cathie Adams

Cathie Adams is President of Texas Eagle Forum. She is a regular participant in United Nations meetings around the world and provides reports to Eagle Forum and to Sovereignty International.

She is a strong advocate of the principles of freedom applied especially in the areas of family and education. She knows first-hand how the international community works its "consensus" into public policy in America.


Chuck Baldwin

Chuck Baldwin is a citizen of the United States of America just like you and me. The difference is that he is not an elected politician offering the same old political answers. Chuck Baldwin has talked the talk and walked the walk. He doesn’t have a history of flip-flops and he does not test the wind every time he takes a position. Refreshing isn’t it? Have you ever thought what you would do if you were elected President of the United States? Chuck has done just that and he is providing the right answers to the important questions.

Chuck Baldwin was born in La Porte, Indiana on May 3, 1952. He is married to the former Miss Connie Kay Cole. Chuck and Connie were married on June 2, 1973 after meeting in college. They have three cherished and wonderful children and all three are married with families of their own. Chuck graduated from La Porte High School in 1971 and attended Midwestern Baptist College in Pontiac, Michigan for two years. After he and Connie married and upon graduation they moved to Lynchburg, Virginia where he enrolled in Liberty Bible Institute at Liberty University. Since he earned his Bachelor and Master Degrees in Theology, Chuck has received two honorary Doctorate Degrees.

Chuck is a founder and minister at the Crossroad Baptist Church in Pensacola, FL. Under his leadership the Church was recognized by President Ronald Reagan. Many conservative political and values leaders have spoken in his church including Patrick J. Buchannan, Pueblo Intelligence Officer Lt. Commander Steve Harris, Congressman Joe Scarborough and Ambassador Alan Keys to name just a few.

Chuck Baldwin is also a radio talk show host and an accomplished author. He moderates a daily, a one hour long call-in show where he addresses current event topics from a conservative point of view. The program is considered to be the most influential voice in the Florida Panhandle for conservative principles. Thousands of citizens are informed and rally to a call to action on issues that are so important to our nation’s future. Chuck is also a newspaper and internet columnist whose articles and political commentaries are carried by a host of internet sites, newspapers, and news magazines.

He has had the honor of meeting with former Presidents Ronald Reagan and George Bush, Sr. and Governors Bob Martinez, Fob James, Jr. and Jeb Bush. He has also been officially recognized by the Escambia County Florida Sheriff’s Department as an Honorary Deputy Sheriff. He received the “National Medal of Patriotism” award from the American Police Hall of Fame and is a volunteer chaplain at the State Prison in Century, Florida.


Randy Brogdon

Senator Randy Brogdon was elected to his first term in the Oklahoma Senate in 2002. In 2003, the Oklahoma Conservative Political Action Committee (OCPAC) named him "Legislative New Comer of the Year." In 2004, and again in 2005, OCPAC selected him as "Legislator of the Year." Senator Brogdon had the highest conservative voting record in the Senate and once again had a near perfect voting record. For the 2005-2006 legislative session, he was elected to a leadership position by his caucus to serve as Senate Republican Whip. His legislative service has included being the champion of attempts to bring critically needed Tax reform to Oklahoma, including the introduction of the Oklahoma Taxpayers' Bill of Rights (TABOR). He sits on the Committees of Business and Labor, Transportation, Appropriations Subcommittee on Education, Energy and Environment, Retirement and Group Health, and Veterans and Military Affairs.

Senator Brogdon was born in Ardmore and raised in Tulsa. He attended Tulsa Public Schools and Oklahoma State University School of Technology, studying Air Conditioning at the Okmulgee campus in the early 1970's. Senator Brogdon has been married to his high school sweetheart Donna for 34 years. They have two grown sons.


Dan Byfield

Dan Byfield - serves as president of the American Land Foundation, a private non-profit organization dedicated to the protection and preservation of constitutional principles, free enterprise, property rights and liberty. Dan also serves as president of Liberty Matters. With the assistance of the Farm Credit Bank of Texas in 1994, Dan created the American Land Foundation. Dan is the writer and producer of two television video productions documenting the effects of environmental laws on individual freedoms and uses of land in this country. They are "Who Owns the Land?

When the Environment Collides With the Constitution" and "Standing Ground: People, Property and Power." Both have been shown on national cable and educational television, including PBS, receiving a communications award for effectiveness. Dan is a graduate of the University of Texas with a journalism degree, specializing in public relations and has a law degree from South Texas College of Law in Houston.


Margaret Byfield

Margaret Byfield - was raised on Pine Creek Ranch, a large cattle operation located in central Nevada. It was there that she was introduced to widespread property rights injustice, as her family battled against the U.S. Forest Service in what became the landmark case, Hage v. United States.

From Nevada, Margaret moved to Idaho's Treasure Valley to be formally educated at Albertson's College of Idaho, receiving a Bachelor of Arts in English and Music in 1989.

In 1996, Byfield helped launch Liberty Matters. She serves as Vice President.

Margaret also serves as Executive Director of Stewards of the Range, where she helped to formulated the organization's mission and programs. She began the operation of Stewards out of her Boise home.


Michael Chapman

Michael Chapman is a member of the Board of Directors of EdWatch, the premier "Education Watchdog" in America. He is also founder of American Heritage Research. He uses his extensive collection of rare founding-era books to reveal widespread bias and censorship within America's history curriculum. He has conducted research for state legislators as well as U.S. Congressmen. Michael has spoken at various conferences. He has conducted teacher in-service-training on world-view bias in four states, and has been co-speaker with Minnesota State Senator Bachmann.


Dr. Michael Coffman

Dr. Michael Coffman is a nationally recognized expert on environmental issues, and the United Nations. He is the author of The Birth of World Government and Saviors of the Earth?, as well as numerous columns, and booklets. He appeared in Phyllis Schlafly's video "Global Governance," and is CEO of Sovereignty International.

He is the creator of the widely-used "Biosphere Maps" that vividly illustrate the impact of the Wildlands project. These maps were displayed during the Senate debate about the U.N. Convention on Biological Diversity, and were instrumental in forcing the Majority leader to withdraw the Treaty from further consideration.

Michael's presentations are precise, authoritative, easy to follow, and provide invaluable information for those who need facts and documentation to convince their elected officials. See his presentation on the Endangered Species Act, and on Taking Liberty.


Dr. Jerome Corsi

Dr. Jerome Corsi received a Ph.D. from Harvard University in Political Science in 1972. He has written many books and articles, including co-authoring the #1 New York Times best seller, Unfit for Command – Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry (Regnery Publishing Inc., 2004) with swift boat veteran John O’Neill.

Dr. Corsi is an expert on political violence and terrorism. In 1981, he received a Top Secret clearance from the Agency for International Development, where he assisted in providing anti-terrorism training to embassy personnel. Over the past twenty years, Dr. Corsi has developed financial services companies with a leading expertise in the sales of insurance and securities products and services in the bank marketplace, both nationally and internationally.

In March 2005, he published Atomic Iran. How the Terrorist Regime Bought the Bomb and American Politicians (WND Books, an Imprint of Cumberland House Publishing, 2005). A paperback version of this book was published in 2006.

In October 2005, Dr. Corsi published a book dealing with the politics of oil, entitled Black Gold Stranglehold: The Myth of Scarcity and the Politics of Oil (WND Books, an Imprint of Cumberland House Publishing, 2005), with co-author Craig R. Smith, CEO of Swiss America Trading Corporation.

In May 2006, Dr. Corsi published Rebuilding America: A Prescription for Creating Strong Families, Building the Wealth of Working People, and Ending Welfare (WND/Cumberland), with co-author J. Kenneth Blackwell, who is running as the Republican gubernatorial candidate in Ohio’s 2006 November election.

In July 2006, Dr. Corsi published with co-author Jim Gilchrist, the founder of The Minuteman Project, a World Net Daily book entitled Minutemen: The Battle to Secure America’s Borders (World Ahead Publishing).

In October 2006, Dr. Corsi published with co-author Michael Evans a book entitled Showdown with Nuclear Iran: Radical Islam’s Messianic Mission to Destroy Israel and Cripple the United States (Nelson Current, a division of Thomas Nelson, Inc.). This book also appeared on the New York Times Bestseller list immediately after publication.

Dr. Corsi’s most recent book was published by World Net Daily Books, entitled The Late Great USA: The Coming Merger with Mexico and Canada. Publication date was July 4, 2007. This book became Dr. Corsi’s third New York Times Bestseller in July 2007.

Showdown with Nuclear Iran and The Late Great USA are Dr. Corsi’s second and third NY Times best sellers.

Dr. Corsi is a staff reporter for WorldNetDaily.com. His commentary columns currently appear on WorldNetDaily.com and occasionally on other sites including NewsWithViews.com and HumanEventsonLine.com.

lives with his family in New Jersey, where he is a full-time writer.


Tom DeWeese

Tom DeWeese is one of the nation's leading advocates of individual liberty, free enterprise, private property rights, personal privacy, back-to-basics education and American sovereignty and independence.

A native of Ohio, he's been a candidate for the Ohio Legislature, served as editor of two newspapers, and has owned several businesses since the age of 23. In 1989 Tom led the only privately-funded election-observation team to the Panamanian elections. In 2006 Tom was invited to Cambridge University to debate the issue of the United Nations before the Cambridge Union, a 200 year old debating society. Today he serves as Founder and President of the American Policy Center and editor of The DeWeese Report. Tom also heads up an Internet news site called Freedom21.com.

For 40 years Tom DeWeese has been a businessman, grassroots activist, writer and publisher. As such, he has always advocated a firm belief in man's need to keep moving forward while protecting our Constitutionally-guaranteed rights.


Beverly Eakman

Beverly Eakman is the author of five books on education policy. Her areas of expertise are the psychologizing of schools at the expense of academics and traditional values, and threats to individual privacy rights from predictive computer technology. The latter covers political profiling; data-mining and –laundering; computer cross-matching, monitoring and tracking; and, finally, microchip implants that provide not only physical location through global positioning satellite (GPS) technology, but facilitate links to other personal data-files. Mrs. Eakman was the first writer to alert the public concerning development of a viable human chip ID that included a tracking device. By 2002, the first such devices were being marketed, under names like “the Babysitter,” “the Constant Companion,” “the Invisible Bodyguard,” and “the Micro-Manager.” In a 2002 piece for Chronicles magazine, she predicted that the next step would be military ID’s in preparation for a national ID chip that provides links to computerized databases. A front-page news story in August 2006 in the Washington Post’s “Examiner” confirmed that prediction.

Mrs. Eakman began her career as an educator during the volatile 1960s and 70s, teaching students ranging from “remedial” to “gifted.” In the early 1970s, she wrote an English grammar study guide for Vietnamese immigrants and a unique spelling curriculum for middle school remedial students. Both were picked up by a district in California. In 1987, she wrote a political science text for high schoolers, The Strategy of Defense, that was used in Colorado and Texas.

Dissatisfied with the classroom environment, Mrs. Eakman left academia for the scientific realm. She became a technical writer and quickly rose to become editor-in-chief of NASA’s newspaper. One of her feature articles, “David the Bubble Baby” was picked up by the mainstream press and later made into a film starring John Travolta.

Mrs. Eakman moved on to other challenges, including a brief stint again as a teacher in the NASA area of Houston, where in 1979 she was offered a position heading a high school creative writing program and debate team. Again, she came away disappointed, as supposedly advanced 11th-graders could scarcely write a coherent paragraph, much less pursue the kind of research that once characterized debate programs nationwide. Upon returning to her native Washington, DC, she ventured into speechwriting and wound up penning presentations for numerous high-profile officials, from ambassadors to a former Chief Justice of the United States (the late Warren E. Burger). She also ghosted several magazine articles. In 1988, she was hired away from the Bicentennial Commission on the U.S. Constitution to become speechwriter for the director of the Voice of America.


Connie Fogal

Connie Fogal - Leader of the Canadian Action Party - grew up in Saskatchewan. Taught in Saskatoon, Regina, and Toronto public school systems and University of BC Centre for Continuing Education. Called to the British Columbia Bar in 1980. Practiced law as a sole practitioner in criminal and family law. In the area of constitutional law, she spearheaded three lawsuits by citizens through the Canadian courts on constitutional issues: challenging the Multilateral Agreement on Investments (MAI), challenging the expropriation of Nanoose Bay by the Federal government to submit to the US military; challenging the erection of a fence to prevent protest against an FTAA meeting in Quebec City in1998.

Widow, mother and grandmother. Descendant of grandparent prairie pioneers to Saskatchewan with roots from Ontario and Quebec. Her maternal grandfather was active in shaping the province of Saskatchewan under Tommy Douglas. Defender of nationhood, sovereignty, and liberty. Opponent of the North American Union (NAU) of Canada, USA, and Mexico. Opponent of the Security and Prosperity Partnership Agreement among Canada, U.S.A, and Mexico. Passionate defender of our right to choose to have universal programs serving the interest of the Canadian public. Opponent of the current unelected, unaccountable, unrepresentative military, corporate financial rule which has control of the nations of Canada, USA and Mexico and who exploit our human and natural resources leaving less and less for the public trust.

Opponent of the powerful forces who are actively destroying Canada's universal health care system, dismantling our social programs and social safety system, restricting access to education, destroying family farms, stealing our energy and water, eliminating jobs, reducing our standard of living and generally impoverishing Canadians, all of which are directly due to international agreements, including the WTO, NAFTA and the Security and Prosperity Partnership Agreement (SPP).


Steve Hempfling

Steve Hempfling was born in Ohio and raised on a farm, and learned about individual rights and the U.S. Constitution from his father who was active at preserving freedom. His father was in a coalition trying to stop "unbacked" paper currency from being issued during the John F. Kennedy Presidency. Steve Hempfling has a degree in electronic engineering and has worked at Texas Instruments and in the "Silicon Valley," located in California. In 1985, he helped found Free Enterprise Society along with Verl Speer and George Hill. He put his money where his mouth was and challenged the IRS to prove it had a law to require Americans to file income tax returns. That was 27 years ago. Today, Steve Hempfling is the current Director of Free Enterprise Society.


William Jasper

William Jasper, Senior Editor of The New American magazine, is an internationally recognized authority on the United Nations, the European Union, terrorism and other subjects. Over the past three decades he has written thousands of path-breaking articles and appeared on hundreds of radio and television programs.

Mr. Jasper joined the staff of the John Birch Society in 1976 as a researcher and soon became a contributing editor to the Society's magazines, American Opinion and The Review of The News. He has been a writer and editor for The New American magazine since its inception in 1985.

Mr. Jasper grew up in the Pacific Northwest and is a graduate of the University of Idaho. He is renowned as an investigative journalist and analyst on a wide array of topics. During the 1970s and 1980s, Mr. Jasper carried out undercover activities inside many communist organizations and terrorist support groups. He has appeared on numerous national and local radio and television programs, including C-SPAN, FOX News, The History Channel, PBS and NPR. The History Channel featured Mr. Jasper as the main expert in its 2006 program on the Oklahoma City Bombing.

For many years William Jasper has served as an accredited reporter at the United Nations headquarters in New York and has attended many international U.N. summits, including the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, the U.N. 50th Anniversary Founding celebration in San Francisco, and the U.N. summit on the International Criminal Court in Rome. He is the author of two outstanding books on the U.N. , The United Nations Exposed and Global Tyranny -- Step by Step: The United Nations and the Emerging New World Order.


Karen Johnson

Senator Karen Johnson is a Republican legislator from Mesa, Arizona. She is a former legislative liason, Maricopa County Sheriff’s office. She is Chairman of the Family services committee, a member of the Finance Committee, Appropriations Committee, K-12 Education, and co-chairman of the Joint legislative committee on Children and Family services.

Karen has served the former Chairman of the Senate Family Services Committee (2005-2006), Chairman of the Rules Committee, Chairman of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Health & Welfare, Chairman, District 30, Assistant to Governor Evan Mecham, Office Manager for Supervisor Tom Freestone, Assistant to David Schweikert - Majority Whip, AZ State Legislature, Legislative Liaison - Criminal Justice & Law Enforcement, AZ State Campaign Director for Pat Buchanan 1995-1996.

Karen has been consistently rated "#1 Friend of the Taxpayer," always a strong proponent of 2nd amendment rights, rated A+ by NRA, protecting the right of parents to determine how and where their children are educated, standing firm for the precious right to life, awarded "Friend of the Family" - Arizona Family Project, received "Freestone Community Action Award” – Marc Center, and named "Outstanding Legislator" By the Arizona Republican Assembly.

She has been married to Jerry Johnson for 23 years and has 11 children and 28 grand-children.


Kathleen Marquardt

Kathleen Marquardt is the Vice President of the American Policy Center and founder of Putting People First, and author of the best-selling book, “Animal Scam, The Beastly Abuse of Human Rights."





Mark Morano

Marc Morano was a reporter and producer for Rush Limbaugh's television show from 1992-1996. According to his CNSNews bio "He holds the distinction of being the first journalist in history to have his video camera seized by the Clinton White House while on assignment."

Marc Morano, is the Communications Director for the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works dealing with environmental issues ranging from climate change to endangered species legislation. Former Senior Staff Writer for CNSNews, and is previously known as Rush Limbaugh’s “Man in Washington” as reporter and producer for the Rush Limbaugh Television Show, as well as correspondent and producer for American Investigator, the nationally syndicated TV newsmagazine, Marc's reporting has made national news with appearances and coverage on The O'Reilly Factor, Special Report w/ Brit Hume, USA Today, The Washington Times, The Wall Street Journal, the American Spectator and Human Events, as well as online with National Review, Newsmax.com, WorldnetDaily, and the Drudge Report. He has also appeared on Politically Incorrect, NBC and ABC News and the McLaughlin Group. He has also reported for a wide variety of radio programs, including the Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Oliver North Shows. Mr. Morano has both White House and Capitol Hill press credentials.


Larry Pratt

Larry Pratt is the Executive Director for Gun Owners of America, a national gun lobby with over 300,000 members. Pratt was awarded a B.A. in Political Science from American University. He has appeared numerous national radio and TV programs such as NBC's Today show, CBS' Good Morning America, CNN's Crossfire and Larry King Live, Fox's Hannity & Colmes, MSNBC's Phil Donahue show and many others. Pratt is the author of Armed People Victorious (1990), Safeguarding Liberty: The Constitution and Citizen Militias (1995), and On the Firing Line: Essays in the Defense of Liberty (2001).


Stephen Pratt

Stephen Pratt grew up on a backwoods ranch in the State of Washington. His family was still using draft horses until he was about twelve years old. Steve graduated from Brigham Young University with a master's degree in education. He did further post-graduate studies at the University of California at Berkley in the 1960s. He taught full-time in the public school system for six years and then taught for one year in a private school. Seven years were spent with the National Center for Constitutional Studies under the direction of renowned historian, W. Cleon Skousen, where Pratt devoted his time to research and teaching in many locations in the United States and two foreign countries.

With his wife, Belva Gae, they are the parents of four children and reside on a sixty-acre "ranch" at Cove Fort, Utah. Stephen Pratt is an accomplished craftsman and for the past 20-plus years, has earned a living with his hands in a family business called Pratt Wagon works, where he, with his son Ben, build historic wagons, printing presses and other old-fashioned reproductions.


Allen Quist

Allen Quist is Professor of Political Science at Bethany Lutheran College in Mankato, Minnesota. He is a widely recognized writer and speaker in Minnesota and throughout the United States. Allen Quist is author of five books, the most recent being America's Schools: The Battleground for Freedom. Quist authored the best-selling book, FedEd: The New Federal Curriculum and How It's Enforced, which has sold 17,000 copies. He explains the federal No Child Left Behind legislation and programs such as International Baccalaureate, he describes the math and reading wars,and he discusses the effects of international agreements on our schools. Quist writes about the preservation of America's sovereignty, our commitment to self-evident truth and unalienable rights, and our resolve to pass this liberty on to the next generation.

Prof. Quist served three terms in the Minnesota House of Representatives from 1983 to 1988. In the Minnesota House, he served as Chair of the Social Services Subcommittee and also served on the House Education Committee. Prof. Quist played an influential role in legalizing home schools in Minnesota. He was the Republican-endorsed candidate for Minnesota Governor in 1994, and was one of seven delegates elected from Minnesota to the White House Conference on Families in 1980.


Sam Rohrer

Representative Samuel E. Rohrer is a State Representative from the 128th district in Berks County. He serves on the Education, Appropriations, Labor Relations, Game and Fisheries, and Policy Committees. Representative Rohrer is a long time advocate of parental rights and a leader in education reform.

Representative Rohrer spent his formative years working on the family farm in rural Ohio. After graduating from high school, he studied management at Bob Jones University. He spent his summers working construction jobs to pay for his education. It was during these years that he learned to fully appreciate the blessings of family and the rewards of hard work and persistence. He believes that education is one of the most important investments a parent makes in their child's life. His issue work includes tort reform in health care, and the need for fiscal discipline in spending. He leads the fight for free enterprise and individual initiatives. He believes that our Constitution is the bedrock for making all the critical legislative decisions and other issues of public policy.

Elected to the House in 1992, Sam Rohrer is a champion of family values. He and his wife, Ruth Ann, met at college and were married in 1977. Today, they are the proud parents of six children.


Phyllis Schlafly

Phyllis Schlafly is a founder of Eagle Forum. She has been a national leader of the conservative movement since the publication of her best-selling 1964 book, A Choice Not An Echo. She has been a leader of the pro-family movement since 1972, when she started her national volunteer organization now called Eagle Forum. In a ten-year battle, Mrs. Schlafly led the pro-family movement to victory over the principal legislative goal of the radical feminists, called the Equal Rights Amendment. An articulate and successful opponent of the radical feminist movement, she appears in debate on college campuses more frequently than any other conservative. She was named one of the 100 most important women of the 20th century by the Ladies' Home Journal.

Mrs. Schlafly's monthly newsletter called The Phyllis Schlafly Report is now in its 38th year. Her syndicated column appears in 100 newspapers, her radio commentaries are heard daily on 460 stations, and her radio talk show on education called "Phyllis Schlafly Live" is heard weekly on 45 stations. Both can be heard on the internet.


Michael Shaw

Michael Shaw is a founder of Freedom Advocates, formerly Freedom 21 Santa Cruz. He was a participant in the first Local Agenda 21 initiative in Santa Cruz, California. He saw the flaws in the initiative, and decided to try to counter the impact of sustainable development in his community. The organization he helped to create has become a leader in developing strategies for local organizations. He developed the Freedom 21 Platform and Action Plan, and the powerful booklet, Understanding Sustainable Development - Agenda 21 - A Guide for Public Officials.


David Stall

David Stall is a professional city manager with three decades of public service and a broad knowledge of local government and skill. A native of California, David has made Texas his home since 1975. Seven years ago he, and his wife Linda, settled in the small rural community of Fayetteville.

Three years ago David and his wife Linda attended a Trans-Texas Corridor Public Hearing in Columbus, Texas. They were shocked at a plan devised by the Governor, approved by the Legislature, and quickly set into motion by the Texas Department of Transportation. They were equally disturbed that the public knew so little about the massive Trans-Texas Corridor and its potential impact on all Texans. Two days later they formed an organization Linda dubbed CorridorWatch and within 24-hours CorridorWatch.org appeared on the Internet.

Since then David and his wife have been working to increase public awareness and understanding of the Trans-Texas Corridor. With CorridorWatch they provide a statewide network of communication for citizens and local government officials with shared concerns and they provide resources to identify and address a wide range of potential economic, social, political and environmental impacts.

Using the power of the Internet this grassroots organization has rapidly attracted thousands of members from 199 counties across Texas.


Amanda Teegarden

Amanda Teegarden is co-founder of Operation Information and Oklahomans For School Accountability, grassroots conservative research organizations. She has visited and written about the public hearings in Texas on the TTC-35, the Kansas City Smartport Offices, the Kansas City Mexiplex; attended the North America Works II Conference ("Building the Security and Prosperity Partnership") held in Kansas City, MO. She and other Oklahoma citizens have formed OK-SAFE, a coalition joining the national Conservative Caucus.


Jim Worthing

Jim Worthing is an outstand musician whose most recent album features patriotic songs, including his own "Soul of Liberty." He was lead singer with the Cumberland Boys for ten years, featured at Opry Land. He has appeard at the Grand Ole Opry, and virtually every other important country music venue. He performed at the 2008 C-PAC conference in Washington, DC, and is in demand by churches everywhere to perform his distinctively styled gospel music. Visit his website to learn more, and to listen to his music.



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