Prager H2: The Shirley Sherrod video controversy – the black woman accused of being bigoted toward a white farmer – has made everybody involved in it look bad, including the White House. It also reveals, ironically, the liberal obsession with race. Dennis builds on the theme he started to develop last hour: why do liberals despise conservatives.
Callers weigh in with their theories.
Prager H3: Dennis talks to Nick Bunker, formerly a reporter with the Financial Times. His new book is Making Haste from Babylon: The Mayflower Pilgrims and Their World: A New History. What is the difference between an illegal immigrant and a gatecrasher?
Prager H1: The goal of the Greeks, French and other Europeans is to retire at fifty. Dennis poses the question to his listeners. Do they want to retire? If so when? And if they have retired, are they happy they did?
Prager H2: Is there a point at which the age difference between couples is too great? 10 years, 15 years, 20 years or more? Traditionally this would only go in one direction, but now it may apply to older women marrying much younger men.
Prager H3: Dennis talks to Tara Ross, the author of Enlightened Democracy: The Case for the Electoral College, on the stealth attempt to destroy the electoral college. Harvard is doing away with final exams, a sad example of falling standards. Alan Grayson, Florida Democrat, accuses Republicans of wanting to starve children.
Prager H1: Dennis talks to Carly Fiorina, the Republican candidate for Senator of California. George Will points out that if Carly Fiorina doesn’t beat Barbara Boxer, then the state has truly fallen into the deep blue sea. Dennis also talks to Robert Samuelson, columnist for Newsweek and Washington Post, about the future of ObamaCare. Samuelson sees the future in Massachusetts, already a health care failure.
Prager H2: Dennis talks to Stephen Schwartz of The Weekly Standard about who is behind the Mosque at Ground Zero. The people who are financing this massive project have strong ties to various terrorist-supporting organizations. Young people have no faith that they’ll receive social security benefits. So, why do young people support the party that won’t allow meaningful reform of the system, reform that would allow them to manage their own retirement money?
Prager H3: Those who are religious tend to believe there are no good people or very few. Ironically, the secular tend to believe that no one is bad. And then are many who say that no one is good or bad.
Prager H3: Europe is finally catching on that a welfare state is unsustainable. Meanwhile, the left in this country is still pushing for a welfare state. WHY?! Callers weigh in, including an interesting from a young female in Cleveland.
Prager H1: President Obama, being a man of the left, is anti-business. Business is now starting to awaken to that fact. Dennis wonders why big business didn’t see this coming, because the President has now decided to wage class warfare on business.
Prager H2: The term “racist” has been overused by the left as a means to dismiss legitimate opposition to President Obama’s policies. The NAACP attack on the Tea Parties was the straw that broke the camel’s back. Dennis proposes that the days when charges of racism intimidate people have come to an end.
Prager H1: Dennis talks to Daniel Henninger, columnist for the Wall Street Journal, about the recess appointment of Donald Berwick. The Harvard professor will be in charge of ObamaCare with a budget and bureaucracy greater than the Defense Department. But he won’t be vetted by the Senate, keeping his socialist views from the public. ObamaCare and the Financial Reform Bill comprise 5000 pages of new legislation, creating hundreds of new government agencies and thousands of new government bureaucrats.
