Prager H2: Dennis talks to Robert Reilly, senior fellow at the American Foreign Policy Council and a member of the board of the Middle East Media Research Institute. His new book is The Closing of the Muslim Mind: How Intellectual Suicide Created the Modern Islamist. In Denmark if you publicly criticize Islam you’ve committed a hate crime and will be prosecuted. Why is the Left more angry at the CEO of BP than the thugs who head Iran and Venezuela?

Prager H1: President Obama addressed the nation last night. His message was essentially this: those bastards at BP will pay (and Democrats will decide who deserves the money). How can an American President compel a private company to turn over billions of dollars?… The President also trots out the old gag that if can “if we can put a man on the moon.” we can create a “green” economy and get off our “addiction” to oil.

Prager H2: Dennis debuts his latest Prager University Course – The Case for Marriage. Callers weigh in with the reasons why do and do not want to tie the knot.

Prager H3: The Administration has essentially extorted $20B from BP. This is a serious blow to free enterprise. Winston Churchill has lost his cigar. The French are making a radical change in their welfare systems, moving retirement age to 62 from 60. Riots are expected. Dennis talks again to Jonathan Alter, senior editor at Newsweek and political analyst for NBC. His new book is The Promise: President Obama, Year One.

Prager H1: The President has been criticized for comparing the Gulf Oil Spill to 9/11. This criticism is not fair. He never made a one-to-one comparison. But criticizing him for demonizing BP is fair. Driving this oil company to bankruptcy and suspending all offshore drilling will not help us; it will hurt us. Nor will we be helped by the utopian wish to “move us off oil.” Our economy depends on petroleum and will for a long time. That’s reality. Hallmark Cards caves in to a silly complaint by NAACP. More BP: Obama wants the British company to pay wages for all the workers who lose income because of his off-shore drilling ban.

Prager H2: The President’s six month ban on all off shore drilling will make a bad situation much worse. And who will pay for all the lost jobs and income? BP, of course. Sounds more like a solution Hugo Chavez would come up than an American president. Dennis talks to Gordon Grice, essayist, who has written for The New Yorker, Harper’s, and Discover and other magazines. His new book is Deadly Kingdom: The Book of Dangerous Animals. Honduras won! They stood by their principles and prevailed. Joe Lieberman wants to know who we’re fighting.

Prager H3: Most of the evil done in the world is done not by evil people, but by good people aiding and abetting very bad ideas. It’s not enough to do wish to do good. You need wisdom.

Prager H1: Dennis had back surgery on Friday. He speaks about what he went through before choosing surgery and how he feels now. Senator Barbara Boxer believes that Global Warming will be leading cause of conflict in the next twenty years. According to Boxer, this preoccupies “returning veterans.” Dennis explains how Global Warming could, indeed, lead to a world wide conflagration.

Prager H2: Prince Charles upholds Islam as the sacred text of the environmental movement. Let us all pray for long life for the Queen. When her son takes over, it will be the end of the monarchy. Dennis talks to Ayaan Hirsi Ali, resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and former member of the Dutch parliament. Her new book is Nomad: From Islam to America: A Personal Journey through the Clash of Civilizations.

Prager H3: Dennis talks to Jonathan Alter, senior editor at Newsweek and political analyst for NBC. His new book is The Promise: President Obama, Year One. France and Germany’s big banks made big bets on the weak economies of the EU. Nicholas Sarkozy wants to reform France’s welfare system. Good luck, Nick. There’s almost no chance of success. The head of the Palestinian Authority is in favor the Gaza blockade. Only “peace activists” want Hamas strengthened.