Prager H2: Dennis continues his discussion of the court in the UK banning a Christian couple from raising foster children. Consumer Reports says that the Chevy Volt is a dud. Dennis is not optimistic about a rosy outcome for the Arab Middle East.When conservatives hold strong convictions, they win.
Prager H3: Dennis examines an important, but rarely cited verse in the Bible – do not favor the poor in judgment (Leviticus 19:15). This is the fifth in Dennis’s series explaining the relevance of the Bible.
Prager H1: Dennis congratulates the winner of last night’s Academy Award for Best Picture, The King’s Speech, a movie which he thoroughly enjoyed. Will Hollywood make more movies like this or more silly, special effects movies?… Why aren’t police evicting protestors from the state capital in Wisconsin?… David Letterman is the paradigm liberal. When he hears the facts, as does during an interview with Rand Paul, he’s flummoxed.
Prager H2: Dennis and Hugh Hewitt, his talk show colleague, discussed religion last night at a public event. Dennis summarizes. Arizona is considering legislation which would allow students over 21 and professors to carry concealed weapons. The professors are aghast.
Prager H3: DDennis is not sanguine about the chances for democracy sprouting forth any time soon in the Arab Middle East. Gaza is a good case in point. Since they were elected, Hamas has closed down bars, movie theatres, imposed speech and dress codes. And not held any new elections. Dennis talks to Michael Ledeen, senior scholar at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, about the latest from Iran and the Middle East.
Prager H1: Diane Sawyer highlights this startling fact in her prime time newscast: the US doesn’t provide paid maternity/paternity leave for all its citizens. Sweden does. But we don’t. Somehow this has become a human rights issue and the US is sadly deficient in Diane’s enlightened view. Democratic Ohio Senator, Sherrod Brown, says that the ability for public service unions to given millions of dollars to elect the officials with whom the unions negotiate their contract is a moral issue. He’s right. It’s immoral.
Prager H2: If you’re easily offended it’s very hard to be happy. People are always hurting you. And, it’s not easy to be happy around easily offended people.
Prager H3: Per usual, callers set the agenda. Issues raised include: why does Dennis like Christians so much; what one question would Dennis want to ask an atheist; why did Dennis’s parents name him Dennis; where does Dennis get his values.
Prager H1: Lawrence O’Donnell of MSNBC asked the Leftist blogger who placed a crank call to Wisconsin governor, Scott Walker, why he thought the governor was so intent on reigning in the public service unions. The prankster’s answer: personal profit for Walker and his friends. To the Left, Marx is alive and well. The dictator Kaddafi is prepared to fight to last Libyian. Dennis talks to Peter Glover, journalist specializing in energy issues, and co-author with Michael Economides, Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Houston of Energy and Climate Wars: How naive politicians, green ideologues, and media elites are undermining the truth about energy and climate.
Prager H2: President Obama has decided that he doesn’t like DOMA, so his administration won’t defend it. . We should be more afraid of people who pursue power than those who pursue money. Dennis concludes his discussion of historian David McCullough’s 2005 speech at Hillsdale College on the Founding Fathers…
Prager H3: Dennis talks to Hal Needham, legendary stuntman and film director. His new autobiography is
Stuntman!: My Car-Crashing, Plane-Jumping, Bone-Breaking, Death-Defying Hollywood Life.
Needham worked with just about every major Hollywood star from the 60’s through the 80’s — John Wayne, Jimmy Stewart and others. He’s most noted for his close association with Burt Reynolds and their wildly successful Smokey and the Bandit movies. Chris Matthews slanders Mike Huckabee, accusing the former governor of advocating ethnic cleansing of the West Bank.
Prager H1: Kevin Wall sits in for Dennis. The Democrats and their public service union masters have placed a very big political bet on opposing Wisconsin’s plan to scale back the union’s pay and benefit plans. The labor showdown has now spread to Indiana and Ohio.
