Prager H2: Democrats say they are concerned about cutting our deficit, but fight Republicans at every turn when Republicans suggest cuts… The daughter of Iranian dissident is murdered by government security forces during her father’s funereal… College is too easy. This isn’t any favor to the students… How does someone graduate high school and use a phrase like “they isn’t”?
Prager H1: Jill Abramson has taken over as the editor of the NY Times. In the Times press release she comments that while growing up “the Times substituted for religion.” It’s a very telling remark. The Times is the Bible of the liberal world… College commencement speeches have become a cliché – follow your passion and so on… Dennis talks to Mark Seal, contributing editor to Vanity Fair. His new book is The Man in the Rockefeller Suit: The Astonishing Rise and Spectacular Fall of a Serial Imposter.
Prager H3: Dennis talks to Elliot Abrams, senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, about the Israeli/Palestinian crisis… NYC halts its signature homeless program. Why? Because it created perverse incentives that people quickly took advantage of… College now is all about giving students “choices.” And, they almost always choose badly. Whoops there goes another $200K.
Prager H2: In the last twenty years we have desexualized the work place. Have we reached the right balance? Or have we gone too far? What can you say to a co-worker without getting called in front of the human resources?
Prager H1: The Syrian regime brutally tortured a 13 year-old “rebel” boy to death. His father posted pictures of his broken and shattered son on-line. Now the father has disappeared…A gay male teen is voted Prom Queen at his high school in Virginia. This is not about gay rights. This is about obliterating sexual distinctions.
Prager H3: In the eighth installment in his series explaining key Bible concepts, Dennis discusses the importance of separation. Among the important separations noted in the Bible are Man/God, Man/Animal, Man/Woman, and Sacred/Profane.
Prager H2: Attendance at Dodger games has plummeted. Credit bad management… More and more oil has been discovered in the USA. But environmentalist and the NY Times will do anything to stop it… Maureen Dowd, quoting the NY Times Paris correspondent, calls DSK’s attack on a housekeeper in New York France’s “Anita Hill moment.” The Left still hasn’t given up slandering Clarence Thomas.
Prager H1: In an interview in the Wall Street Journal this weekend, Pulitzer Prize winning playwright, and life-long liberal, David Mamet, credits Dennis with helping to turn him to conservatism… A new work of government-subsidized artistic genius can be found in Tucson… Germany is abandoning nuclear power. The powerful Green Party there is the big winner, but the nation will ultimately be the big loser.
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.
