Prager H3: Looking back, we can see how battles turned out. Sometimes, with hindsight, victory seemed assured. But our soldiers who went into those battles had no idea what their fate would be. That’s courage… We need to do more to celebrate our victories in Iraq.
Prager H2: Lee Habeeb, sitting in for Dennis, talks about his favorite war films. He also discusses the power of story-telling with former Reagan speech writer, Anthony Dolan.
Prager H1: On this Memorial Day, Dennis’ good friend, Lee Habeeb, guest hosts. Lee tells the story of Major Dick Winters, the commander of the legendary Band of Brothers combat unit.
Prager H3: Callers set the agenda, per usual, this usual. Issues raised include: what did President Obama mean when he referred to the 1967 borders of Israel; does it matter if art stirs emotions – good or bad – as it long it stirs emotion.
Prager H2: Dennis opens the lines to callers. Issues raised include: how do you stay happy when your wife is seriously ill; did the Founding Fathers blow it by placing happiness above other values in the Declaration of Independence; how are emotions related to happiness; how do you deal with chronically unhappy people.
Prager H1: Dennis talks to John Fund, columnist for the Wall Street Journal, about why a Democrat won a traditionally Republican seat in 26th Congressional in New York… Not only do you conservatives hate gays, Muslims and immigrants (former head of DNC), you’re also anti-woman (the current head of the DNC)!.. Mayor Michael Bloomberg “passionately” speaks out for same sex marriage. He makes the usual and totally fallacious equation between racial prejudice and support for the traditional definition of marriage.
Prager H3: A Saudi surgeon lives in a women’s shelter for protection in Saudi Arabia. Her issue: she wants to choose her husband. Her family wants to choose her husband for her… Dennis talks to Adam Carolla, host of the most popular daily podcast on the Internet. His new book, now in paperback is, In Fifty Years We’ll All Be Chicks: . . . And Other Complaints from an Angry Middle-Aged White Guy.
Prager H2: Dennis sees a picture of Martha Stewart and comments that at 70 she really looks terrific. It’s a blessing of modern life that women are looking good longer… Cars are now getting greenhouse gas ratings. Is it silly? Yeah. Is it stupid? Yeah… Dennis talks to Richard Miniter, award-winning investigative journalist and author New York Times bestsellers: Losing Bin Laden. His new book is Mastermind: The Many Faces of the 9/11 Architect, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed.
Prager H1: erals like Neal Gabler accuse conservatives of being “stony hearted.” Do conservatives love their mothers less than liberals? Like clean air less than liberals? Is their any limits to the government’s compassion?.. Marriage rates are down. USAToday, of course, attributes this to economics. But what about religious couples? Are they marrying less? Doesn’t seem like it. So, maybe the issue isn’t economics, maybe it’s values.
Prager H3: Al Gore tells graduating students that Global Warming is the big one. Islamic terror? Small potatoes. How about human evil? Second place. A school in Oakland is now teaching gender diversity to its fourth graders. What does “gender diversity” even mean? Do they still teach reading and math? When do they have time? This makes a nice companion to the story about two Canadians parents who are raising their child without a gender. Lucky kid.
Prager H2: Two sex scandals have dominated the news over the last few weeks: Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the French head of the IMF forcing himself on a hotel maid and Arnold Schwarzenegger extra-marital affair and subsequent love child. Dennis looks for lessons.
Prager H1: The Democrats won a congressional seat in NY yesterday. This has been taken as a repudiation of the Republicans Medicare reform plans. If it is, the country is in big trouble… Tim Pawlenty has said, in Iowa, that he’s willing to take on ethanol subsidies. That’s gutsy… Dennis talks to Bryan Caplan, Professor of Economics at George Mason University. His new book is Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids: Why Being a Great Parent is Less Work and More Fun Than You Think.
