Prager 20130220 – 2 Monogamous Hobby
Feb 20, 2013
Prager H2: Do hobbies keep men from having affairs? Dennis thinks they help. Callers weigh in on both sides of the question.
Prager H2: Do hobbies keep men from having affairs? Dennis thinks they help. Callers weigh in on both sides of the question.
Prager H1: Dennis talks to Elliot Abrams, a senior fellow for Middle Eastern studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. His new book is Tested by Zion: The Bush Administration and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict… A pickle company changes the name of its midget pickles because someone complains…
Prager H3: Glass is the mirror of the body, writing is mirror of the mind; what is the mirror of our character? A Best of Prager Hour. Originally broadcast on October 13, 2009.
Prager H2: The environmentalist movement has another “victory” they can be proud of. They have blocked the growing of genetically modified rice in the Third World. Millions of children have died during this ban. The Greens could care less… Raphael Correa, a protégé of Hugo Chavez, has won his second election in Ecuador, condemning this charming country to another four years of misery. He was college educated in the U.S.
Prager H1: Here’s another example of what passes as art in the modern world: a twenty-eight foot sculpture of a dog peeing on the side of a major art museum… Dennis talks to John Lott, former chief economist at the United States Sentencing Commission and Fox News contributor. His new book is At the Brink: Will Obama Push Us Over the Edge?… A leading UK Islamist urges his followers to take welfare and use it for jihad. He should know. He gets more from the UK taxpayer than the average taxpayer makes…
Prager H3: Dennis plays a classic segment from the show 18 months ago about the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Prager H2: Dennis talks to Amity Shlaes, columnist for Bloomberg View and director of the Four Percent Growth Project at the George W. Bush Presidential Center. Her new book is Coolidge… What is polyamory? And why does Scientific American think the subject is worth of a featured article?
Prager H1: Once American kids knew the day George Washington (Feb 22)was born and the day Abraham Lincoln was born (Feb 12). Their birthdays used to be national holidays. Now we have Presidents Day and we are poorer for it… A country music star commits suicide. If money and fame brought happiness, she would be alive… One of the best arguments for capital punishment is that once a murderer is executed he is forgotten…
Prager H3: Per usual, callers set the agenda. Issues raised include: When hasn’t the world been morally confused? What was Dennis’ mindset before he graduated college? Has Dennis thought about grooming his replacement? What does Dennis think about the Jewish practice of not seeing the bride before the wedding?