Prager H3: Those who are religious tend to believe there are no good people or very few. Ironically, the secular tend to believe that no one is bad. And then are many who say that no one is good or bad.
Prager H2: Dennis talks to Stephen Schwartz of The Weekly Standard about who is behind the Mosque at Ground Zero. The people who are financing this massive project have strong ties to various terrorist-supporting organizations. Young people have no faith that they’ll receive social security benefits. So, why do young people support the party that won’t allow meaningful reform of the system, reform that would allow them to manage their own retirement money?
Prager H1: Dennis talks to Carly Fiorina, the Republican candidate for Senator of California. George Will points out that if Carly Fiorina doesn’t beat Barbara Boxer, then the state has truly fallen into the deep blue sea. Dennis also talks to Robert Samuelson, columnist for Newsweek and Washington Post, about the future of ObamaCare. Samuelson sees the future in Massachusetts, already a health care failure.
Prager H2: The term “racist” has been overused by the left as a means to dismiss legitimate opposition to President Obama’s policies. The NAACP attack on the Tea Parties was the straw that broke the camel’s back. Dennis proposes that the days when charges of racism intimidate people have come to an end.
Prager H1: President Obama, being a man of the left, is anti-business. Business is now starting to awaken to that fact. Dennis wonders why big business didn’t see this coming, because the President has now decided to wage class warfare on business.
Prager H3: Europe is finally catching on that a welfare state is unsustainable. Meanwhile, the left in this country is still pushing for a welfare state. WHY?! Callers weigh in, including an interesting from a young female in Cleveland.
Prager H1: Dennis talks to Daniel Henninger, columnist for the Wall Street Journal, about the recess appointment of Donald Berwick. The Harvard professor will be in charge of ObamaCare with a budget and bureaucracy greater than the Defense Department. But he won’t be vetted by the Senate, keeping his socialist views from the public. ObamaCare and the Financial Reform Bill comprise 5000 pages of new legislation, creating hundreds of new government agencies and thousands of new government bureaucrats.
Prager H2: It’s now seemingly de rigueur that parents tell their children “you can be anything you want to be.” But this is a recipe for future unhappiness. It’s just not true. The sooner we recognize our obvious limitations (we all have them), the better.
Prager H3: Per usual, callers set the agenda. Issues raised include: why do so many Jews not support Israel; what is a husband supposed to do if his wife refuses him sex; should parents pay kids for grades.
Prager H1: The hope was that by electing a black president, blacks would finally get past their obsession that America is racist. But that hope has been dashed. The NAACP’s latest pronouncement that the Tea Party is riddled with racism is the latest proof. Callers, especially black callers, weigh in.
Prager H2: Donald Berwick, the man the President has appointed to run ObamaCare, is a socialist. It’s not a close call. He believes (and Daniel Henninger of the Wall Street Journal has the quotes to prove it) that technocrats know better than you do how to manage your health care. Karl Rove writes a column based on a question Dennis posed to him during an interview earlier this week. Talk about luck or, specifically, bad luck, how about being born in N. Korea? Across the border freedom and opportunity; in your country, operations are performed without anesthesia. Dennis talks to Matt Ridley, science writer, about his new book, The Rational Optimist.
Prager H3: Dennis talks to Thomas French, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist. His new book is Zoo Story: Life in the Garden of Captives. Dennis deals with callers on the philosophical issue of security and freedom using the zoo as an analogy.
