Prager H1: As cigarette smoking goes down among teens, smoking marijuana goes up. Would you rather your child smoke a cigarette or smoke a joint?

Prager H2: Dennis talks to Joel Kotkin, professor of urban studies at Chapman University about the Arnold Schwarzenegger administration. Kotkin calls it a near complete failure. New York State contains massive amounts of natural gas buried in shale rock, but liberal politicians won’t let energy companies get to it. Dennis talks to Pia Orrenius, senior economist at the Federal Reserve Bank and Madeline Zavodny, professor of economics at Agnes Scott College. Their new book is Beside the Golden Door: U.S. Immigration Reform in a New Era of Globalization.

Prager H3: Shoppers are using bar code apps on their smart phones to a get a better price of an item on the Internet or at another store. Is there an ethical problem here? How will brick and mortar stores survive?