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Dr. Laura Schlessinger contends that President Obama should reject the Nobel Peace Prize — and what the prize has come to mean. The popular talk show host opened her program Friday by telling her 9 million listeners that she believes the Nobel committee has become an anti-American organization that has sought to use its awards to influence world opinion and American policy to its own ends. She noted that in 1994, one of the three recipients to whom it awarded the Peace Prize was Yasser Arafat, for his “efforts to promote peace in the Middle East"

Subject: Why Jerks Exist Date: 2009-08-28 Why Jerks Exist Dr. Laura, I teach high school and am getting ready for another year. I have had the pleasure of listening to you over the summer, and have been a listener for over ten years. I do my fair share of step-parenting to many kids that seek my advice. There are days I'm hosting my own version of the Dr. Laura show when kids come in at lunch time or after school to discuss dating and parent dilemmas. I have a particular niche with high school girls with a poor or no...

he first week of April had me visiting many of the major national television programs to talk about my new book, "In Praise of Stay-at-Home Moms." One typical concern various interviewers shared was the problem of taking care of children at home by a parent when there’s been a divorce, which generally results in day care and a working custodial parent . . . usually the mother. I respond by pointing out two concepts I believe are “truths.” One, that the quality of love and attention of a parent is superior to that of hired help (nanny, day-care worker, baby...

The Pasadena Independent, owned by Beacon Media in Monrovia, California, has published an apparent slanderous article by Terry Miller, staff photographer, in its April 15 issue on radio talk show host Dr. Laura Schlessinger's visit to the City of Arcadia to celebrate the city as a family friendly place to live. Schlessinger was the keynote speaker at the City of Arcadia's Community Breakfast, which was reportedly sold out. Hiding behind comments by "anonymous" persons who attended the event who Miller failed to identify, we read that Schlessinger (erroneously) believes "that gay people are biological errors," that her views are "caustic...

Many Americans doubt the morality of atheists. According to a 2007 Gallup poll, a majority of Americans say that they would not vote for an otherwise qualified atheist as president, meaning a nonbeliever would have a harder time getting elected than a Muslim, a homosexual, or a Jew. Many would go further and agree with conservative commentator Laura Schlessinger that morality requires a belief in God—otherwise, all we have is our selfish desires. In The Ten Commandments, she approvingly quotes Dostoyevsky: "Where there is no God, all is permitted." The opposing view, held by a small minority of secularists, such...

Sarah Palin and Motherhood September 2, 2008 on 1:35 pm | In Children, Election, Sarah Palin, Working Women Email This Post Email This Post I am extremely disappointed in the choice of Sarah Palin as the Vice Presidential candidate of the Republican Party. I will still vote for Senator McCain, because I am very concerned about having a fundamental leftist, especially one who is a marvelous orator, as President. ...... I’m stunned - couldn’t the Republican Party find one competent female with adult children to run for Vice President with McCain? I realize his advisors probably didn’t want a “mature”...

Telethon Breaks Records, Troops to Receive Largest Care Package Delivery in History Written by Melanie Morgan    Friday, 27 June 2008 The telethon exceeded my wildest expectations. I thought that if we were really lucky, really good, caught some major breaks -we might raise $400,000- tops. Instead, the final tally on the electronic tote board was $1,055,719. In reality, the total far exceeds the final number. The response was so overwhelming that our website could not keep up with the orders. When all is said and done, I am guessing that Move America Forward will have collected about  1.2...

Dr. Laura is taking an enormous amount of heat from feminists over her comments concerning the Eliot Spitzer/Silda Spitzer situation. For example, in the Salon Broadsheet blog post Dr. Laura to Silda: It's all your fault!, feminist blogger Kate Harding writes: "Conservative radio host Laura Schlessinger has offered us a new theory on Silda Wall Spitzer: She drove her husband to cheat in the first place. "In the last week, she has been on Hannity & Colmes, Larry King Live and the Today show, offering opinions like this: "'And when the wife does not focus in on the needs and...

Dr. Laura Schlesinger has a penchant for inane and knee-jerk moralizing. But last week even she outdid herself, as she blamed Elliot Spitzer's long-suffering wife, Silda, for her husband's unfaithfulness with a prostitute. Speaking on the Today show, Dr. Laura opined: "When the wife does not focus in on the needs and the feelings sexually, personally, to make him feel like a man, to make him feel like a success, to make him feel like our hero, he's very susceptible to the charm of some other woman making him feel what he needs. These days, women don't spend a lot...

Hillary has changed her speech patterns a lot throughout the years. There has been her curious Southern drawl and well as her scary cackle. Every time I hear her on TV, she sounds like a different person. Mrs. Clinton was on TV the other day with a new voice. This time I could have sworn she was copying Dr. Laura's speech patterns! Dr. Laura is one of this few media women who is highly respected -- especially by other women. Perhaps Mrs. Clinton thinks that if she can sound like her, she will also gain similar respect? Has anyone else...

Dr. Laura Schlessinger has never been one to shrink from controversy, and she leaped headlong into one on Monday when she said that if a husband cheats, his wife may share some of the blame. “When the wife does not focus in on the needs and the feelings, sexually, personally, to make him feel like a man, to make him feel like a success, to make him feel like her hero, he’s very susceptible to the charm of some other woman making him feel what he needs,” the popular psychologist and radio personality said. More commonly known as just “Dr....

Green Stone Media, the feminist-founded radio network ("Talk that women really want to hear") is defunct. Typical liberal behavior: Assuming everyone wants to hear (and agree with) your message — and no accountability when your ideas fail. "Talk that women really DON'T want" was driven out by low ratings, as women didn't care for their messages. Does that mean women don't want to listen to other women? No. The surprise in the article is that large numbers of women are turning to conservative talk, and conservative female talk hosts are thriving. Carrie Lukas at The New York Post offered the...

WASHINGTON, July 30, 2007 – Radio talk-show host Laura Schlessinger is used to millions of people listening to her. Today, however, it was her turn to listen, as Defense Department officials acknowledged her support of America’s servicemembers. Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England (left) presents radio personality Laura Schlessinger (right) with the Office of the Secretary of Defense Medal for Exceptional Public Service on July 30, 2007, at the Pentagon. Schlessinger was recognized for her efforts to raise public awareness of, and funding for, troop-support group “Operation Family Fund.” Photo by Cherie Thurlby  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. Deputy...

The soldier son of talk radio relationship counselor Laura Schlessinger is under investigation for a graphic personal Web page that one Army official has called "repulsive." The MySpace page, publicly available until Friday when it disappeared from the Internet, included cartoon depictions of rape, murder, torture and child molestation; photographs of soldiers with guns in their mouths; a photograph of a bound and blindfolded detainee captioned "My Sweet Little Habib"; accounts of illicit drug use; and a blog entry headlined by a series of obscenities and racial epithets. The site is credited to and includes many photographs of Deryk Schlessinger,...

SALT LAKE CITY -- Radio relationship guru Laura Schlessinger, in Salt Lake City on Friday to speak to Army families at Fort Douglas, said she was tired of hearing the complaints of lonely and overwhelmed military wives whose husbands are deployed. "He could come back without arms, legs or eyeballs, and you're (whining)?" Schlessinger asked before taking the stage at the base theater to host her daily program on ethics, morals and values. "You're not dodging bullets, so I don't want to hear any whining -- that's my message to them." Schlessinger boasted that she once talked a young woman...

...No intelligent, rational, decent person is for war. But if my father and your fathers didn’t go off to fight World War II, I would have been incinerated in a German concentration camp oven...

Dr. Laura Urges Listeners to Support Caravan & Rally   Subject: Participate in "These Colors Don't Run" National Caravan Date: 2007-02-26 To the American People The following message is from Marine Mom, Deborah Johns. Her son, SGT William Johns of the U.S. Marines, is currently serving his 3rd tour of duty in Iraq. I am sick and tired. Sick and tired of how some in this country are turning their backs on our troops at a time when they need our support the most! This is why I am taking action to speak up, and in particular, why I am...

This book is excellent. It speaks to thoughts, feelings, facts I've long had strong similar to identical convictions about. Excerpts from Dr Laura's Foreword: " . . . sold more than one million copies of [I] The Proper Care And Feeding of Husbands [/I]" . . . "I expected a huge, ugly backlash. . . . the general public--especially the men--was incredibly receptive. What touched me the most was the sad, pained, resigned letters I received from so many nice men who were suffering deeply. These men explained that while they were deeply in love with their wives, those wives...

How to redeem a bad childhood -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: April 11, 2006 1:00 a.m. Eastern Editor's note: The following is adapted from the "post script" of Dr. Laura Schlessinger's newest book, "Bad Childhood – Good Life," available from the WorldNetDaily Book Service. © 2006 Laura C. Schlessinger Upon hitting the save prompt on my computer after finishing the last line of my newest book, "Bad Childhood – Good Life," I became choked up. That's never happened after completing any of my prior eight adult books. I believe I got so emotional because of three factors: I was deeply moved by the...

Beginning Monday, January 9th, our afternoon programming line up will alter slightly as we strive to keep you Michigan’s best informed radio audience. We are pleased to announce that the Mitch Albom Show will continue to anchor afternoon drive from a new time 5-7 p.m. This enables WJR to continue the 10 year tradition of bringing the Mitch Albom Show to you LIVE in the afternoon. This also will allow Mitch the time to address other demands of his career while continuing a show that we at WJR and Mitch are both proud of. In addition, Mitch will also continue...

Ranked by the Clare Booth Luce Policy Institute. To purchase the Clare Booth Luce Policy Institute's 2006 Great American Conservative Women Calendar. Order today and guarantee delivery by Christmas. 1. Ann Coulter The author of four New York Times best-selling books, a television and radio commentator, attorney, Human Events legal affairs correspondent, nationally syndicated columnist, and the most popular campus speaker in the country.

NEW YORK, Dec. 10 (UPI) -- Talkers magazine reports conservative hosts Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity are the most popular radio hosts in the United States. More than 13.75 million people listen to Limbaugh per week while Hannity draws more then 12.5 million weekly listeners, Talkers reported. Michael Savage is third with more than 8 million listeners a week. There is tie for fourth place between shock jock Howard Stern -- soon due to move to Sirius Satellite Radio -- and Dr. Laura Schlessinger with more than 7.75 million weekly listeners, the New York Daily News reported Saturday. Laura Ingraham...

LOS ANGELES, November 7, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Top celebrities released strong endorsements for the YES on 73 campaign today during the final push for Prop 73, the "Parents' Right to Know" initiative on California's special election ballot next Tuesday, November 8th. Ben Stein, Dr. Laura Schlessinger, Patrick Warburton, Laura Ingraham, and Patricia Heaton are all running radio spots in California encouraging support for Prop 73. If passed, Proposition 73 will prevent an abortion from being performed on a minor girl until 48 hours after her parent or guardian is notified. Patricia Heaton says, "As a parent, I can't think of...

Syndicated radio host Dr. Laura Schlessinger will make her stage debut in a new one-woman theatrical event entitled "Dr. Laura: In My NEVER To Be Humble Opinion." There will be two performances at the Lobero Theatre in Santa Barbara, Calif., August 19 and 20, with engagements in Northern California and Texas later this year. In "Dr. Laura: In My NEVER To Be Humble Opinion," radio's No. 1 relationship-and-family-values talk show host will provide an intimate look into her mind and character, revealing personal secrets that she has never before shared with the public. Act One is a tour-de-force performance piece...

Back in March, I received an e-mail from a stranger. He identified himself as Dr. Laura Schlessinger’s producer. He explained that they were planning for her to do a one-woman stage show. Although the second act would consist entirely of Dr. Laura’s answering written questions from the audience, they wanted a funny script for the opening act. Would I be interested in having a meeting? Sure, I’m game for just about anything that doesn’t involve heavy lifting or getting on an airplane. So it was that a couple of weeks later, I drove up the coast to Schlessinger’s home in...

When Ted Koppel, host of ABC's "Nightline" program, announced last year he'd recite the names of 721 fallen soldiers on Memorial Day, a firestorm of controversy erupted. Conservative groups protested, a major television station owner boycotted the show and a fierce debate raged for days about Koppel's motives. Sinclair Broadcasting of Baltimore yanked the program that evening from all of its ABC stations, saying it was a partisan attempt to boost John Kerry's sagging poll numbers, by highlighting the toll of Bush's decision to invade Iraq. It's a whole different ballgame this year,

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - Tough talking radio host Dr. Laura Schlessinger's 19-year-old son will join the U.S. Special Forces later this year - an endeavor that could take him to the Middle East. Schlessinger, famous for doling out conservative advice on her nationally syndicated call-in show, told about 300 people at a 425th Civil Affairs Battalion event on Saturday that she wasn't too worried about her son, Deryk Bishop.

Dr. Laura's Son to Join Special Forces SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - Dr. Laura Schlessinger, famous for doling out advice on her nationally syndicated call-in radio talk show, shared a little of her own personal life with U.S. Army reservists. Schlessinger told some 300 people at a 425th Civil Affairs Battalion event on Saturday that her son, 19-year-old Deryk Bishop, will join the U.S. Special Forces later this year - a mission that could take him to the Middle East. Bishop, who enlisted last year, joined his mother on stage to explain his reasons for signing up. He told the crowd...

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (AP) - Dr. Laura Schlessinger, famous for doling out advice on her nationally syndicated call-in radio talk show, shared a little of her own personal life with U.S. Army reservists. Schlessinger told some 300 people at a 425th Civil Affairs Battalion event on Saturday that her son, 19-year-old Deryk Bishop, will join the U.S. Special Forces later this year - a mission that could take him to the Middle East. Bishop, who enlisted last year, joined his mother on stage to explain his reasons for signing up. He told the crowd at the Calvary Chapel that he...

Las Vegas, Nev. and Washington D.C., January 05, 2005 -- XM Satellite Radio (NASDAQ: XMSR), the country's number-one satellite radio service with more than 3.2 million subscribers, today announced that Dr. Laura Schlessinger, one of America's most-listened-to radio personalities, will be joining the XM lineup in February. In addition, political talk radio personality G. Gordon Liddy will launch an all-new show on XM in February. "XM is proud to be the satellite radio home for Dr. Laura's popular radio call-in program. One of the highest rated programs on local radio, with more than 12 million listeners, will now have a...

Tell Congress "NO Money For Mental Health Screening Of Kids!" (actual title) As many of you know—Dr. Laura doesn't lose any sleep over the little disagreements people have with each other. But when it comes to things that are harmful to children—Dr. Laura doesn't play around. So Dr. Laura asks each and every one of you to step up because it’s time for us take on the President of the United States! Did you know there is a presidential initiative called The “New Freedom Commission on Mental Health” and they have issued a report recommending forced mental health screening for...

Hi, I'm new here, I heard Dr Laura was quite discusted with Kerrys' comments. During the week of Sept 20th - 24th, I heard Dr. Laura say this:

Profiting from rape Posted: October 18, 2004 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com Hollywood is about to release its tribute to the man who launched the "sexual revolution." The film is called "Kinsey," a name mostly associated with shattering our archaic ideas about sex and popularizing the notion that values were really just old-fashioned "hang-ups." The truth is that Alfred Kinsey was not a legitimate researcher. He was not some kind of pioneer and scholar in the area of human sexuality. He was not a heroic figure who transformed society for the better. He was a monster. He protected pedophiles...

Deryk Schlessinger enlisted in the Army Branch of the United States Military on Tuesday, September 21, 2004. He qualified for Special Forces and HALO training and will begin service with the next scheduled Special Forces Training Class in January of 2005. His dad and I are very proud of his decision and support him 100%.

Statement by Dr. Laura Regarding The Dr. Laura Schlessinger Foundation Closing "It is with equal pride and regret that I share the decision of the Board of Directors to close the Dr. Laura Schlessinger Foundation on December 31 of this year. As you can imagine, we reached this decision most reluctantly after months of soul searching. Because it was you – my listeners and sponsors – who so lovingly participated in the distribution of My StuffTM Bags to 250,000 children in crisis over the past six years, I want you to hear this news directly from me. You have been...

In the face of enormous opposition, California Senate President Pro Tem John Burton (D-San Francisco) has decided to withdraw a bill which would have granted custodial parents an almost unlimited right to move children far way from their noncustodial parents. The bill, SB 730, would have abrogated the California Supreme Court's recent LaMusga move-away decision. In that decision, the Court affirmed custodial parents' presumptive right to move but ruled that courts have the power to restrain moves which run counter to children's best interests. Opposition to the bill and unrestricted move-aways was led by the Alliance for Children Concerned About...

People often ask me if, after 29 years of broadcasting I am ever surprised by anything I hear. Sadly, the answer is no … and yes. No, I am no longer surprised at the insensitivity, cruelty, selfishness, cowardice, moral vacuousness or bad judgment that people exhibit. What does surprise me, however, is how common and everyday it is all becoming, and how there is little awareness by folks that their behaviors are wrong, bad, immoral or outrageous, and that there is little outrage or negative judgment from family, friends and society in general. This is not a good development. One...

Even though we have been hearing endlessly about the success this spring of half a dozen bitter Bush-bashing best-sellers, there's another far-less-publicized little book that has done extraordinarily well. Without the benefit of enraged "exclusive" interviews on Sixty Minutes or screeching headlines in the New York Times, Dr. Laura Schlessinger's The Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands continues to sell amazingly well. Currently, there are over 800,000 copies in print, and it has become the most successful book about male-female relationships in years. The last book that was as popular was a short instructional manual called The Rules about how...

As I wrote almost a dozen years ago in my first bestseller, "Ten Stupid Things Women Do To Mess Up Their Lives," the ultimate baseness and immorality of a culture depends on what women will themselves do and tolerate from their men. Since the 1960s, the so-called liberation of women has proven itself to be a liberation from just about everything that could possibly be of value for a women and for the society she influences by her choice in a man and her commitment to raising the next generation of citizens. The first battle cries of feminism had to...

THIS IS GOING to come as a nasty shock to those who know me, and to those who are sure they do, but I think Dr. Laura Schlessinger might be on to something. The blunt and conservative talk radio phenomenon has churned out yet another book, and even its title is designed to irritate: The Proper Care & Feeding of Husbands (Harper-Collins, $24.95). Feminists can be counted on to pull their hair out in handfuls at what this title suggests. And men are going to feel more like the family pet than the lord of the realm. Dr. Laura doesn't...

The man who should have been governor Posted: April 6, 20041:00 a.m. Eastern © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com It is generally true that people vote the party of the family they grew up in. That makes sense. As a child they are influenced by the point-of-view in which they are immersed. I grew up in a family that voted Democratic. I find myself voting Republican. I'm not being rebellious. I am being drawn to the people who largely seem to be focused on the ultimate values that matter. I knew that Arnold Schwarzenegger would be elected governor of California because he is a popular...

<p>Sarcastic, witty, opinionated, to the point and, of course, full of advice. That's the Dr. Laura Schlessinger that 9 million listeners around the nation know and love - and sometimes love to hate. After 25 years of dispensing advice over the radio, Dr. Laura has her act down.</p>

It's pretty funny to watch liberals when their political correctness gets twisted in several different directions. One example is the cultural phenomenon of thug rappers. Liberals really don't want to take them on, especially if they become commercially successful titans of cool. Take the thug rapper known as "50 Cent," whose music glorifies sex, drugs and getting shot, which he knows something about, having survived a nine-bullet fusillade in 2000 in his previous career as a crack and heroin dealer. Despite that streak of vicious and violent drug dealing, he's a spokesman for Reebok tennis shoes. It was laughable watching...

(CNSNews.com) - Rap musician 50 Cent used several anti-homosexual gay slurs in an April interview with Playboy magazine, but even so, a homosexual advocacy group has restrained its criticism of him -- even inviting him to "get to know the LGBT community." The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) offered a relatively mild response to words uttered by rapper 50 Cent, in marked contrast to GLAAD's relentless attack on a conservative radio talk-show host several years ago. That talk show host - Dr. Laura Schlessinger - never said the words that 50 Cent did. "I ain't into faggots," 50...

The black rapper 50 Cent used several anti-gay slurs in an April interview with Playboy magazine, but even so, a homosexual advocacy group has restrained its criticism of him -- even inviting him to "get to know the LGBT community." The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) offered a relatively mild response to words uttered by rapper 50 Cent, in marked contrast to GLAAD's relentless attack on a conservative radio talk-show host several years ago. That talk show host - Dr. Laura Schlessinger - never said the words that 50 Cent did. "I ain't into faggots," 50 Cent told...

Why men are being attacked Posted: March 5, 20041:00 a.m. Eastern © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com Since the release of my newest book, "The Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands," I have sensed a veritable revolution – and relief – by women who have been oppressed, devalued, intimidated and totally stressed out by ... their husbands? No. Their boyfriends, shack-ups, pick-ups? No! Women now realize that everything heterosexual, feminine, masculine, motherly, womanly and longed for in a committed relationship has been under viscous attack by the National Organization of (I don't know what kind of) Women-types. When interviewed about my book, I am typically...

Limbaugh, Dr. Laura and love Posted: March 2, 20041:00 a.m. Eastern © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com So now I know the power of Rush Limbaugh. I don't just know about it – I mean I have actually felt it. Two weeks ago, as I was diligently working in my office at the Heritage Foundation, the reception area outside my door was suddenly a flurry of hyper activity and excitement. Several folks were trying to cram through my doorway at once, all chattering something about Rush Limbaugh. Adding to the delightful madness was the ringing of my phone and the simultaneous "dinging" of incoming e-mail....

Help for your marriage! Posted: February 17, 20041:00 a.m. Eastern © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com The letters are enough to make a grown woman cry. I'm referring to the many stories sent by men across the country to Dr.Laura Schlessinger that are included in her newly released book, "The Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands." Several weeks ago, I decided to write a column about Dr. Laura's book because I deeply value her wonderful work on behalf of families. As I have written before, the basic unit of every single civil society – the family, starting with marriage – is in grave peril due...

When I was a little girl about 5 or 6 years old, my mother instructed me in the proper response to anyone hitting me. She said, "Never, never hit anyone first; but, if they hit you first, hit them back immediately and twice as hard!" Today, at 57, I have had a stint on talk radio preachin', teachin', and naggin' for a span of about 30 years – and that is precisely the advice I have been giving children and suggesting to their parents that they do the same. I have even recommended martial arts for the timid as well...

Schools making sissies out of our kids Posted: February 13, 20041:00 a.m. Eastern © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com When I was a little girl about 5 or 6 years old, my mother instructed me in the proper response to anyone hitting me. She said, "Never, never hit anyone first; but, if they hit you first, hit them back immediately and twice as hard!" Today, at 57, I have had a stint on talk radio preachin', teachin', and naggin' for a span of about 30 years – and that is precisely the advice I have been giving children and suggesting to their parents that they...