Per usual, callers set the agenda. Issues raised include: Do you find that pet-owners don’t want to argue; as a Jew, how do you process the existence Jesus and the spread of Christianity; should there be a period of time that gay men are not allowed to be Catholic priests?

How are you going to make this a happy Christmas? Callers have answers and a few concerns.

Dennis sat next to a Saudi national on his flight home from Florida. The Saudi had a better appreciation and understanding of America than the editors of the NY Times… We didn’t earn our citizenship, contends a NYTimes columnist, so who are we deny entry to the US to anyone?… How exactly do the Democrats demonstrate their concern for border security? The President’s advisor Stephen Miller challenges Wolf Blitzer.