Prager H1: Experts come up with another great theory. No best friends for kids. Better to be friends with everyone. That way you get rid of bullying. Sounds practical, doesn’t it?… The would-be Times Square Bomber pleads guilty. Admits he wanted to kill and maim as many people as possible because, after all, he’s a soldier of Islam.
Prager H2: Dennis takes on the arguments in the Newsweek piece: The Case against Marriage. (You can see a distillation of Dennis’s defense of marriage at www.prageruniversity.com. Send it on to your friends, relatives, kids and grandkids who might have their doubts.) Callers weigh in with their agreements and objections.
Prager H3: Dennis talks to renowned scientist Gerald Schroeder. An applied theologian, he currently teaches at the College of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem. His new book is God According to God: A Scientist Discovers We’ve Been Wrong about God All Along.
Prager H2: President Obama might give a good speech, but at heart he’s an academic – utopian ideas are more real to him the effective policy. Hillary Clinton criticizes Arizona during her tour of South America… Oliver Stone’s new documentary, a celebration of Hugo Chavez, bombs — in Venezuela.
Prager H3: Dennis debates liberal thinker, Peter Beinart, contributor to Time Magazine and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation. His new book is The Icarus Syndrome: A History of American Hubris.
Prager H1: Dennis spent Fathers Day in New York with his sons and his father. He also attended a wedding and marveled at the weak arguments made in a recent issue of Newsweek against marriage… Portugal defeated N Korea 7-0 in the World Cup. Note to N Korean team: don’t go home… SC Justice, Antonin Scalia, gives a speech to high school students that Dennis might have given. Does he listen to the show?
Prager H1: Los Angeles Lakers win the NBA for the second consecutive year and a riot ensues. This is now an American tradition the President has handled the Gulf Oil Spill… Obama has a vision of a “Green Economy” and he wants to legislate it into existence. Too bad the real world doesn’t work that way… The former PM of Spain writes that as Israel goes, so goes the Western world.
Prager H2: Your father plays a key role in your happiness — or unhappiness. On the eve of Father’s Day, Dennis and callers explore this issue.
Prager H3: Per usual, callers set the agenda. Issues raised include: is it okay to change your order in a restaurant; why do so many Jews seem to get married in country clubs; should one continue to support a liberal organization if one has become conservative; was Christianity forced on blacks; can America recapture its values or have we drifted too far from them; why is clarity so important; do Republicans have a utopian vision of America.
