Prager H3: Per usual, callers set the agenda. Issues raised include: how does someone convince himself to shoot up a movie theatre; does age bring maturity; how does one deal with a cancer diagnosis; have kids lost any sense of community.
Prager H2: In a light of the Aurora murders, Dennis asks the obvious question. How does one maintain one’s happiness in the face of so much pain and tragedy in life?
Prager H1: A lone gunman shot and killed 12 people in an Aurora, CO movie theatre last night. Dennis comments…. Dennis talks to Steve Kelly, host of KNUS-Denver morning show. His son was at the theatre where the mass murder took place.
Prager H3: There has been an epidemic of mobs of black teens robbing and trashing stores, the latest in Florida and Oregon. These incidents have received very little news coverage. This is a classic case of the “broken windows” theory. Stop it now or it will get much worse… Dennis talks to Arthur Herman, scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. His new book is Freedom’s Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II.
Prager H2: Jonah Goldberg, editor of National Review Online and columnist for the Los Angeles Times, comes into the studio for a chat with Dennis. His new book is The Tyranny of Cliches: How Liberals Cheat in the War of Ideas. Jonah is also on the faculty of Prager University. His current course “Is the Right More Ideological than the Left?”
Prager H1: The thug who runs Syria, the son of a thug, is in real trouble. A bomb attack killed part of his inner circle… A red haired man with a fake US ID may be responsible for the terror attack in Bulgaria that murdered five Israelis and two Bulgarians… The events in Syria and the events in Bulgaria are connected. Dennis explains how.
Prager H3: Dennis talks to Rich Trzupek, a veteran environmental consultant and senior advisor to the Heartland Institute. His book, an Encounter pamphlet, is How the EPA’s Green Tyranny is Stifling America.
Prager H2: Dennis dialogues with Los Angeles talk show host Heidi Harris about men’s preoccupation with the visual. Heidi argues that women are excited by the visual, too.
Prager H1: Dennis employs a forest and trees analogy to describe the upcoming Presidential race. Those who see the forest take a large view of America; those who see the trees see individual policies. We badly need “tree people,” but it’s the “forest people” who win elections… The newly appointed CEO of Yahoo, a job that requires full commitment of its chief executive, is having a baby in four months. Can she be a business woman, a wife and mother?
