Prager H1: Nina Totenberg excused herself for using the phrase “Christmas Party.” This is a perfect expression of the secularization of America. Dennis announces a new feature for next year: “Wisdom from the Bible” will be the subject of twenty Ultimate Issues Hours next year.
Prager H2: The NYT comes to a surprising conclusion: it doesn’t really make that much difference what college you go to. It’s all about the student — a hard-working, ambitious student does well no matter where they get their higher education. Columbia physicist, Brian Greene, has some very wise answers about the nature of intelligence. When he gets into his multiple universe theories, he sounds strangely silly, however. The idea of a designer (God) who designs an ordered universe, that’s absurd. But multiple universes where apples go up instead of down when they “fall” from a tree, that makes perfect sense?
Prager H3: Dennis talks to Steve Stewart-Williams, lecturer in evolutionary psychology at Swansea University. Darwin, God and the Meaning of Life: How Evolutionary Theory Undermines Everything You Thought You Knew.
Prager H1: The FCC has created new government rules for the Internet. It goes by the nice sounding name of “Net Neutrality.” But it’s not nice. It’s government intrusion into an area that doesn’t need it. But it’s worse than that. Dennis talks to John Fund about how this “crisis” has been created by a cabal of activist groups. The Left needs a crisis even if there isn’t one.
Prager H2: Mr. Wikileaks, Julian Assange, who is under investigation by Swedish authorities for certain sexual improprieties, says that he’s not promiscuous; he just really likes women. What does he really mean?
Prager H1: Dennis ponders what has happened to the phrase “Merry Christmas”. A caller then shared her experience singing in the Blacksburg Master Chorale, whose annual performance of Handel’s “Messiah”, held at a church, must be called a “Holiday Concert”. Dennis then concluded people most often say they are offended, rather than simply in disagreement, as a way to shut up their opposition.
Prager H2: Dennis reviewed the repercussions of repealing “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell”. A caller posed the question of whether or not Christians in the military would be allowed to share their views on homosexuality if gays are allowed to openly share their sexuality.
Prager H3: Dennis discussed the health of the Lockerbie bomber, who continues to live past his 3 month diagnosis from prostate cancer. While Scotland initially refused to release him, it was actually Britain who gave in to international threats over the bomber’s release. Dennis was then joined by author and filmmaker Bjorn Lomborg, who discussed his views on global warming and the excessive amount of tax payer money spent on it, as seen in his film/book Cool It.
Prager H2: It’s time to stop blaming your parents for your unhappiness.
