Prager 20141007 – 03 Ultimate Issues Hour: Moral Clarity
Oct 7, 2014
Prager H3: How do you achieve moral clarity? How do you figure out what’s right from wrong?
Prager H3: How do you achieve moral clarity? How do you figure out what’s right from wrong?
Prager H2: Dennis talks to a caller who is an illegal immigrant, but who understands why America must control its borders… George Will has been disinvited from Scripps College. He’s too conservative. But a convicted cop-killer will give the commencement address at Goddard College… New study reveals serious issues with marijuana use… Dennis talks to Heather Macdonald, senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, about what the media didn’t ask about Ferguson, MO.
Prager H1: State after state has voted to uphold the traditional definition of marriage. Court after court has reversed this democratic decision. Dennis reviews the consequences of the latest Supreme Court non-decision on this issue… The Divinity School at Harvard has made all its bathrooms all-gender and created a new all-gender symbol.
Prager H3: The town of Ferguson continues to simmer. Protestors want the police officer involved in the shooting charged with murder and convicted or they’ll “burn the state down.”… Dennis talks to Alan Dershowitz, Harvard Law Professor. His new book is Terror Tunnels: The Case for Israel’s Just War against Hamas.
Prager H2: Campaigning just got harder for Democrats who have been trying to run away from the President’s policies. The President’s comment that his “policies are on the ballot” nationalized the election… The Supreme Court refuses to hear an appeal by states who voted to preserve the traditional definition of marriage, but had that definition overturned by lower courts… Ben Affleck was on the Bill Maher Show. The subject was Islam. Affleck did not distinguish himself…
Prager H1: Dennis describes his Yom Kippur experience… Should Major League baseball games be cancelled if they conflict with the Jewish High Holidays?
Prager H3: Per usual, callers set the agenda. Issues raised include: how do you answer people who believe God killed innocent people during Passover; is the Republican Party doing enough to change their negative racial image; should a cigar smoked in front of kids be a concern; how do you answer those who can’t differentiate between radical Islam and Islam.
Prager H2: Feeling that the world owes you something is a major impediment to a happier life. But are we raising a generation who carry that belief? If so, what will be the consequences?
Prager H1: The country is in the grip of fear of Ebola. From all we know there is no reason to be concerned about an epidemic at this time. But it makes for great TV, so expect cable news and the networks to squeeze every possible ratings point of out of it… Leon Panetta urged the President not to leave Iraq. He feared the consequences if we did…