Prager 20110719 – 3 Ultimate Issues Hour: Do People Want to Be Good?
Prager H3: People want to be thought of as good; they assume they are good, but do they really want to be good? Maybe they do, but how high a priority is it?
Prager H3: People want to be thought of as good; they assume they are good, but do they really want to be good? Maybe they do, but how high a priority is it?
Prager H2: Casino owner, Steve Wynn, a lifelong Democrat, tells his shareholders that economy won’t recover until our “socialist” President is out of office… Dennis talks to Bruce Weber, NY Times reporter. His new book is As They See ‘Em: A Fan’s Travels in the Land of Umpires.
Prager H1: Dennis talks to Jonah Goldberg, editor of National Review and columnist for the Los Angeles Times, about the debt crisis. The President claims he’s not an ideologue. He just wants to compromise. Sounds good and the media buys it, but where’s the evidence?.. Borders Bookstore has gone belly up. There are few book stores left. This makes Dennis very uneasy.
Prager H3: Dennis interviews his father on his birthday, number 93.
Prager H2: An Iowa congressman’s family is saved by the fact that he had a gun in his home and someone (his son-in-law) used it… Dennis talks to Timur Kuran, Duke University professor of economics and political science. His new book is The Long Divergence: How Islamic Law Held Back the Middle East… Dennis returns to the debt issue.
Prager H1: The Los Angeles freeways were actually free this weekend. Work on a major overpass closed down the 405 freeway, the busiest one in the world, and people stayed off the roads, a truly novel experience for Angelenos… Casey Anthony is free, but is she really? Where does she go?… Does the President have a deficit reduction plan? If so, has anyone seen it?.. A CNN analyst admits that Obama wanted to be a “transformational” chief executive, but the Tea Party stopped him. She means it as a criticism of the Tea Party.
Prager H3: Per usual, callers set the agenda. Issues raised include: if not physically attracted to a possible mate should you pursue relationship; will Dennis be remembered decades from now: does “love your neighbor” apply to parents.
Prager H2: If you are, then you have very little chance of happiness. You need to recognize your moods and control them. A Best of Prager Hour. Originally broadcast on February 2, 2007.
Prager H1: Governor Brown signs a law that mandates contributions of gays, lesbians, bisexuals and the transgendered be taught to school children from kindergarten through high school… Radical feminism trumps justice on college campuses… Dennis talks to Daniel Henninger of the Wall Street Journal about the European fate of America if we stay on our current spending path.
