Prager H2: Happiness Hour: Father and Happiness
Jun 18, 2010
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 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.
Prager H1: The myth that Big Business controls Big Government has been shattered by the BP Oil Spill crisis. BP puts $20B in the collection plate and begs Big Government for forgiveness. So, who has the real power?… In NY a judge gives voters six votes to redress “racial imbalance” of local city council. The Obama Administration has managed to alienate two of our closest allies – the UK and Israel.
Prager H2: Dennis talks to Robert Reilly, senior fellow at the American Foreign Policy Council and a member of the board of the Middle East Media Research Institute. His new book is The Closing of the Muslim Mind: How Intellectual Suicide Created the Modern Islamist. In Denmark if you publicly criticize Islam you’ve committed a hate crime and will be prosecuted. Why is the Left more angry at the CEO of BP than the thugs who head Iran and Venezuela?
Prager H3: Dennis talks to Rebecca Mead, staff writer at The New Yorker and author of One Perfect Day: The Selling of the American Wedding. A Best of Prager Hour, originally broadcast on June 7, 2007.
Prager H1: President Obama addressed the nation last night. His message was essentially this: those bastards at BP will pay (and Democrats will decide who deserves the money). How can an American President compel a private company to turn over billions of dollars?… The President also trots out the old gag that if can “if we can put a man on the moon.” we can create a “green” economy and get off our “addiction” to oil.
Prager H2: Dennis debuts his latest Prager University Course – The Case for Marriage. Callers weigh in with the reasons why do and do not want to tie the knot.
Prager H3: The Administration has essentially extorted $20B from BP. This is a serious blow to free enterprise. Winston Churchill has lost his cigar. The French are making a radical change in their welfare systems, moving retirement age to 62 from 60. Riots are expected. Dennis talks again to Jonathan Alter, senior editor at Newsweek and political analyst for NBC. His new book is The Promise: President Obama, Year One.
Prager H3: Most of the evil done in the world is done not by evil people, but by good people aiding and abetting very bad ideas. It’s not enough to do wish to do good. You need wisdom.