http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/dennisprager/ en-us Tue, 22 Dec 2009 22:34:24 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413333/posts Tuesday, December 22, 2009 "Democrats Ensure America Will No Longer Be the Last Best Hope of Earth" by Dennis Prager SNIPPET: "As the passage of the bill that will start the process of nationalizing health care in America becomes almost inevitable, so, too, the process of undoing America's standing as The Last Best Hope of Earth will have begun." SNIPPET: "Just as the left has waged war on America's Judeo-Christian roots, it has waged war on individual liberty and responsibility." SNIPPET: "Barack Obama, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi are right about one thing -- they are indeed making history. But... TOWNHALL.com - Column by Dennis Prager http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413333/posts#comment Tue, 22 Dec 2009 22:34:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2390424/posts Doctor Shortage by Dick Morris Joseph Stubbs, president of the American College of Physicians — the second-largest doctors’ group in the country — confirms that “the supply of doctors just won’t be there” for the 30 million new patients President Barack Obama wants to cover. Noting that the doctor shortage is “already a catastrophic crisis,” Stubbs noted that underserved areas in the U.S. currently need almost 17,000 new primary care physicians even before Obama’s proposals are enacted. In the meantime, according to Bloomberg News, a 2009 survey by Merritt Hawkins & Associates, a recruiting and research firm in Irving, Texas,... The Hill http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2390424/posts#comment Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:34:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2352668/posts Dennis Prager just announced that Larry Elder will be on his show. Coming right up. Click link to listen. KRLA 870 AM Los Angeles http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2352668/posts#comment Thu, 1 Oct 2009 18:04:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2344861/posts You’d think that a man who made such a big deal about a Muslim Congressman getting sworn into Congress using a Koran would be the last person to spend Judaism’s most important holiday with an extremist Muslim–the last person to use the day as an exercise in moral equivalency and interfaith multi-culti crap. DebbieSchlussel.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2344861/posts#comment Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:54:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2344840/posts Dennis's mother, Hilda, passed away this weekend. Blessed with good health her entire life, she had been struggling with health issues for the past few months. Recently, things took a turn for the worse and the end came quickly. DennisPrager.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2344840/posts#comment Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:16:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2340317/posts One principle that all those on the left hold is that taxes constitute more than an economic issue; they are, first and foremost, a moral one. Economists on the left may argue for higher taxes on economic grounds but they and we know that at bottom, higher taxes, especially "taxing the rich," is what they believe morality demands. Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2340317/posts#comment Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:37:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2337487/posts At the end of his show today, Dennis Prager announced that Larry Elder would be sitting in for him this coming Monday, September 14. Dennis's show is carried on the Salem Radio Network. His live feed is 9:00AM - 12:00PM Pacific Time / 12:00PM - 3:00PM Eastern Time - opposite Rush. Dennis's flagship station is KRLA in LA. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2337487/posts#comment Fri, 11 Sep 2009 19:11:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2329267/posts Those of us who oppose a massive increase in the role the national government plays in health care ("ObamaCare") do so because we fear the immense and unsustainable national debt it would incur and because we are certain that medical care in America would deteriorate. But there is a bigger reason most of us oppose it: We believe that the bigger the government becomes, the smaller the individual citizen becomes. Here are five reasons why bigger government makes less impressive people. 1. People who are able to take care of themselves and do so are generally better than people who... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2329267/posts#comment Tue, 1 Sep 2009 11:38:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2313221/posts Living in liberal Los Angeles, I am surrounded by people -- and bumper stickers -- I do not agree with. One of the more popular liberal bumper stickers of the last decade tells us "Dissent is Patriotic." Now, as it happens, it is impossible to truly disagree with that phrase, not because it is self-evidently true, but because it is self-evidently meaningless. As are most left-wing bumper stickers. For example, another popular liberal bumper sticker proclaims, "War Is not the Answer." It, too, is completely meaningless. If the question is, "What is the square root of 8?" war is not... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2313221/posts#comment Tue, 11 Aug 2009 11:54:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2302836/posts 1. President Barack Obama repeatedly tells us that one reason national health care is needed is that we can no longer afford to pay for Medicare and Medicaid. But if Medicare and Medicaid are fiscally insolvent and gradually bankrupting our society, why is a government takeover of medical care for the rest of society a good idea? What large-scale government program has not eventually spiraled out of control, let alone stayed within its projected budget? Why should anyone believe that nationalizing health care would create the first major government program to "pay for itself," let alone get smaller rather than... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2302836/posts#comment Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:17:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2297290/posts There is only one good thing about the Obama administration's attempts to nationalize most health care and to begin to control Americans' energy consumption through cap-and-trade: clarity about the left. These attempts are enabling more and more Americans to understand the thinking and therefore the danger of the left. The left has its first president -- with the possible exception of Franklin Delano Roosevelt -- and for the first time controls the Democratic Party and both houses of Congress. In the name of compassion for the sick and the poor and in the name of preventing worldwide environmental catastrophe, it... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2297290/posts#comment Tue, 21 Jul 2009 10:59:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2292148/posts "Why have you come to Honduras?" That is the question posed to me by Hondurans, surprised that anyone from the outside world, let alone from the media, cares enough to now visit their small country (population 8 million), a country that they themselves consider relatively insignificant. The question is a valid one. The U.S. State Department has issued a travel alert (through July 29) warning Americans against coming here. There are very few outsiders here now. The plane from Houston to San Pedro Sula, Honduras' second largest city, was almost empty, and the few passengers were nearly all Hondurans. The... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2292148/posts#comment Tue, 14 Jul 2009 12:39:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2263016/posts This week, President Barack Obama is scheduled to give a major address in Cairo to the Muslim world. He is likely to reiterate what he has stated previously to Muslim audiences, that America has no battle with Islam, deeply respects Islam and the Muslim world, and apologizes for any anti-Muslim sentiment that any Americans may express.Here is what an honest address would sound like: "Thank you for the honor of addressing the Egyptian people and the wider Muslim world. "I am here primarily to dispel some of the erroneous beliefs many Muslims have about America and to thereby reassure you... Townhall http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2263016/posts#comment Tue, 2 Jun 2009 16:58:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2249229/posts Outside of politics, sports, and popular entertainment, how many living Germans, or French, or Austrians, or even Brits can you name? Even well-informed people who love art and literature and who follow developments in science and medicine would be hard pressed to come up with many, more often any, names. In terms of greatness in literature, art, music, the sciences, philosophy, and medical breakthroughs, Europe has virtually fallen off the radar screen. This is particularly meaningful given how different the answer would have been had you asked anyone the same question between just 80 and 120 years ago — and... Jewish World Review http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2249229/posts#comment Tue, 12 May 2009 14:29:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2246984/posts Dennis Prager is on. Clarence Thomas is his guest. PragerRadio.Com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2246984/posts#comment Fri, 8 May 2009 16:09:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2244605/posts Dennis Prager show. He's presently discussing the current lack of discipline in the school system and how it hurts the students. http://dennisprager.townhall.com/ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2244605/posts#comment Tue, 5 May 2009 16:51:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2240212/posts Any human being with a functioning conscience or a decent heart loathes torture. Its exercise has been a blight on humanity. With this in mind, those who oppose what the Bush administration did to some terror suspects may be justified. But in order to ascertain whether they are, they need to respond to some questions: 1. Given how much you rightly hate torture, why did you oppose the removal of Saddam Hussein, whose prisons engaged in far more hideous tortures, on thousands of times more people, than America did -- all of whom, moreover, were individuals and families who either... FrontPageMagazine.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2240212/posts#comment Wed, 29 Apr 2009 08:12:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2239489/posts Any human being with a functioning conscience or a decent heart loathes torture. Its exercise has been a blight on humanity. With this in mind, those who oppose what the Bush administration did to some terror suspects may be justified. But in order to ascertain whether they are, they need to respond to some questions: 1. Given how much you rightly hate torture, why did you oppose the removal of Saddam Hussein, whose prisons engaged in far more hideous tortures, on thousands of times more people, than America did -- all of whom, moreover, were individuals and families who either... townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2239489/posts#comment Tue, 28 Apr 2009 13:20:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2235317/posts Greg Hengler gives us the Larry King matchup between Townhall’s Dennis Prager and Perez Hilton from last night. In boxing terms, this intellectual debate would be akin to Joe Louis vs Manny Pacquiao’s public-relations guy. It’s no contest. My friend Dennis talks about philosophy, history, and biology, while Perez mostly whines about his feelings. Perez’ corner should have thrown in the towel in the first minute. And yet … does Dennis really score any points here? Dennis brings up several analogies, but only one of them really has any relation to the issue, and that’s the e-Harmony case. Civil litigation... HOTAIR.COM http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2235317/posts#comment Wed, 22 Apr 2009 17:11:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2234694/posts One of the reasons for the ascendance of the English-speaking world has been that the English language is almost alone among major languages in having the word "earn." Those of us whose native language is English assume that the phrase "to earn a living" is universal. It isn't. It is almost unique to English. Few languages have the ability to say this. In the Romance languages, for example - a list that includes such major languages as Spanish, French, and Italian — the word used when saying someone "earns" money, is "ganar" in Spanish, "gagner" in French. The word literally... Jewish World Review http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2234694/posts#comment Tue, 21 Apr 2009 22:47:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2231059/posts When Judaism demanded that all sexual activity be channeled into marriage, it changed the world. The Torah's prohibition of non-marital sex quite simply made the creation of Western civilization possible. Societies that did not place boundaries around sexuality were stymied in their development. The subsequent dominance of the Western world can largely be attributed to the sexual revolution initiated by Judaism and later carried forward by Christianity. This revolution consisted of forcing the sexual genie into the marital bottle. It ensured that sex no longer dominated society, heightened male-female love and sexuality (and thereby almost alone created the possibility of... catholiceducation.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2231059/posts#comment Fri, 17 Apr 2009 00:09:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2229327/posts Last week, seven members of the Congressional Black Caucus...returned from a visit to Cuba where they met with the dictators of Cuba, Fidel and Raul Castro. They were quite impressed with Fidel Castro... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2229327/posts#comment Wed, 15 Apr 2009 02:44:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2224203/posts Obama: The first 100 days From the very beginning, President Barack Obama's journey to the Oval Office has been a series of both historical and controversial events. The first 100 days of his Presidency will give the world stage a glimpse of what's to come from this new generation of leadership. AM 870 KRLA and our show hosts have been watching closely, and now, they're ready to give you their critique. Join KRLA's Mike Gallagher, Hugh Hewitt, and Dennis Prager as they critique the first 100 days of President Barack Obama's term as President of the United States... KRLA 870 AM - Los Angeles http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2224203/posts#comment Tue, 7 Apr 2009 17:47:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2223981/posts The basic bargain is sound: countries with nuclear weapons will move toward disarmament, countries without nuclear weapons will not acquire them.” -- President Barack Obama, Prague, April 6, 2009 As far as nuclear weapons are concerned, the President of the United States wants America to disarm: “Countries with nuclear weapons will move toward disarmament.” It is hard to imagine a more destructive goal. A nuclear disarmed America would lead to massive and widespread killing, more genocide, and very possibly the nuclear holocaust worldwide nuclear disarmament is meant to prevent. There is nothing moral, let alone realistic, about this goal. Here... Townhall.net http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2223981/posts#comment Tue, 7 Apr 2009 11:47:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2213240/posts Why is it that when people want to describe particularly evil individuals or regimes, they use the terms "Nazi" or "Fascist" but almost never "Communist?" Given the amount the human suffering Communists have caused - 70 million killed in China, 20-30 million in the former Soviet Union, and almost one-third of all Cambodians; the decimation of Tibetan and Chinese culture; totalitarian enslavement of North Koreans, Chinese, Vietnamese, and Russians; a generation deprived of human rights in Cuba; and much more -- why is "Communist" so much less a term of revulsion than "Nazi?" There are Mao Restaurants in major cities... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2213240/posts#comment Tue, 24 Mar 2009 05:30:58 GMT