Prager H2: The Titanic sank because all the water-tight compartments were damaged and filled with water. If one or two had not been breached, the ship would have stayed afloat. To stay happy, to stay afloat, as it were, you need to compartmentalize your problems. Don’t allow problems to spill over to all aspects of your life. A Best of Prager Hour. Originally broadcast on January 09, 2009.
Prager H1: Two top Libyan officials have deserted Kaddafi’s sinking ship. Dennis has ambivalence about arming the Libyan rebels, especially if we know that Al Qaeda has insinuated itself into the rebel force.Dennis talks to Nadia Al-Sakkaf, editor of the Yemen Times, and Felice Friedson, the editor of the The Media Line, a Middle East News agency about the turmoil in Yemen specifically and the Mideast generally.
Prager H2: Dennis continues his conversation with Nadia Al-Sakkaf and Felice Friedson from Hour 1 and then analyzes what it means in light of contemporary Islamic thought.
Prager H3: The unions want to reverse the new Wisconsin law restricting their bargaining rights in the courts. If they have to defame a judge to get what they want, so be it. The President gave a major energy speech. He wants to reduce our dependence on foreign energy. So, why doesn’t he push more oil development in the US?… A killer whale who killed one of his trainers returns to Sea World in Orlando. And the audience cheered the whale.
Prager H1: The President wants us to cut our dependence on foreign oil by a third in 10 years. He thinks it’s great if Brazil drills for oil, but not the US. Does this make sense to anyone?… If everybody got the exact same education would incomes be equal? That’s the liberal view. But there’s no evidence that this would be true. Character and commitment to hard work are much more determinative.
Prager H2: What do husbands hide from their wives and what do wives hide from their husbands – actions and/or feelings. Callers confess. Best of Prager Hour. Originally broadcast on July 8, 2009.
Prager H3: Dennis talks to his good friend and fellow talk show host, Bill Bennett. His new book is The Fight of Our Lives: Knowing the Enemy, Speaking the Truth, and Choosing to Win the War Against Radical Islam. President Obama mocks “drill, baby, drill.” His Georgetown University audience laughs at the reference. But why is it funny?
Prager H2: Dennis returns to the President’s Libya speech last night. Callers weigh in with their impressions.. The President makes a point about the allies sharing the load. But even the NY Times acknowledges that this is a fiction.
Prager H3: Last week Dennis focused on the parents point of view – what a parent most wants from a child can shape the way that parent raises that child. This week, he focuses on some practical lessons. One example: love is not enough to raise a good kid.
Prager H1: President Obama gave a fine speech last night to justify our intervention in Libya. Ironically, it could have been given by GW. Dennis talks to Les Standiford and Joe Matthews. They’ve have written a riveting book on the most famous abduction case since the Lindberg kidnapping. Bringing Adam Home: The Abduction That Changed America.
Prager H1: There were protests, complete with riots, in London. What were they protesting so passionately? Budget cuts. When you give people things, it’s very tough to take them away. The Green Party in Germany made big gains in Germany over the weekend. The Greens are left of the Left. The issue is nuclear power. Germany has been scared out of its wits by what happened in Japan. Dennis talks to Gwyneth Cravens, former editor of Harper’s Magazine and New Yorker Magazine about the latest from Japan’s nuclear power crisis. Her important book is Power to Save the World: The Truth about Nuclear Energy
Prager H2: VP Biden’ staff locked a reporter in a closet. This is being treated as a big joke. Think it would have been a big joke if it had been Dick Cheney’s staff?. Dennis talks to Michael Young, opinion page editor of the Daily Star, English language paper in Beirut, Lebanon, about the protests in Syria. Dennis talks to Michael Oren, Ambassador of Israel to the US, about the consequences to Israel of the upheavals in Syria, Egypt and Libya.
