The road to hell is paved with good intentions. Today you’re a good person if you think you’re a good person. It’s that easy. Good intentions are a short cut to virtue… The Washington football team fines its coach $100K for calling Jan 6 committee a sham… NYC has a full program of drag queen shows for its grammar schools…
Per usual, callers set the agenda. Issues raised include: you were wrong about the Bill in Washington on transgender kids; graduated Cal State and a professor played Prager U videos: coming to terms with how the unvaccinated have been treated; when you travel to do you book your hotels or did you just wing it; what are the best Prager U videos to start my 15 year old daughter on?
Can you actually pursue happiness? Many say no. But Dennis says yes. Pursuing happiness should not be confused with doing what you want.
The January 6 Congressional show trial aired last night. That there is not one true Republican on the committee should immediately discredit the entire proceeding… One more time: truth is not a leftwing value… Inflation is at 40 year high. It’s a punishing tax on the poor and the middle class. And the Democrats are responsible for it.
Dennis talks to Douglas MacKinnon, former speechwriter for Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush. His new book is The 56: Liberty Lessons From Those Who Risked All to Sign The Declaration of Independence… Parents will do anything to keep the love of their children, including compromising their values.
Last night Dennis debated the question, are people basically good? Now he asks a different question. Why do so many people believe that people are basically good? Dennis has theories. So do callers.
Left and Right live in different worlds. Here’s a new example. The most common question Ezra Klein, NYT left-leaning columnist, says he gets at speeches and on his podcast is “should I have children in a world that’s burning up from global warming?” This is only a question for those on the Left.
Dennis questions whether having pride in one’s sexuality is a proper thing to feel… he takes no pride in being male. Five Tampa Bay Rays players declined to wear LGBTQ Pride-themed jerseys over the weekend. The players opted out of wearing the rainbow-accented uniforms citing religious beliefs.
Men are taught to control to their nature, but women are not taught to control their nature. If you could do it over again, would you have raised your daughters differently. Callers have stories.
The US is, once again, alone in the fight against the Left. When Dennis says the US, he means US conservatives. Slowly, liberals might be coming on board… Woke SF DA recalled. Tells you how bad it must be in San Francisco for this to happen… Dennis talks to Robert Spencer, Direct of Jihad Watch and a Shillman scholar at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. His new book is The Critical Qur’an: Explained from Key Islamic Commentaries and Contemporary Historical Research.
No issue has a greater influence on determining your social and political views than whether you view human nature as innately good or not. Why do people believe that people are innately good? This notion is simply not true. Human nature is not innately good. It is not, though, innately bad. People are born more or less neutral. And it is incumbent upon parents, teachers, and yes, society, to turn children into good adults. It doesn’t happen on its own.
Dennis is joined by Ilya Shapiro, who was at the center of a prolonged debate over cancel culture and campus intolerance and resigned from his Georgetown Law Center position Monday shortly after being reinstated from a lengthy leave. “Georgetown is not a place that values intellectual diversity, freedom of speech, tolerance, respect, good faith,” Ilya’s updated book is Supreme Disorder: Judicial Nominations and the Politics of America’s Highest Court.
