http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/prager/ en-us Fri, 25 Dec 2009 16:58:58 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2414995/posts Well, here it is, my annual Top 10 favorite Dennis Prager articles of the year. Indeed Dennis had a lot to write about this year. It was so hard narrowing down his 46 pieces of 2009 down to just ten favorites, there are actually two &#x93;honorable mentions&#x94; at the end of this post. (Prager, in my opinion, is so intelligent, eloquent, and morally well-foiunded, that in all honesty, virtually all of his pieces deserve honorable mention.) Enjoy, and feel free to comment. Feb. 17, 2009 The Madoff Bill Feb. 24, 2009 From California to the Boy Scouts: Left Destroys More... Vocal Minority < Dennis Prager http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2414995/posts#comment Fri, 25 Dec 2009 16:58:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2404113/posts &#x22;I cannot think of anything, domestically, that would do more harm to our country and to the people of our country, and to future generations, than the health care bill thats being promoted right now. Nobody in this country wants this defeated more than I do.&#x22; -U.S. Senate Republican Whip Jon Kyl The Arizona Senator made the statement on the heels of this: Tea Party Support ( http://teapartysupport.com ) and the Social Security Institute ( http://socialsecurityinstitute.com ) joined forces yesterday to blast out a million-and-a-half email messages asking people to demand that Republican Senators stop assisting Harry Reid to ram... Flopping Aces http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2404113/posts#comment Wed, 9 Dec 2009 23:28:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2399617/posts &#x93;Rite Jew&#x94; Dennis Prager has been a longtime critic of the Left&#x92;s child-like hysteria when it comes to scientific issues. Here&#x92;s a short clip from Tuesday&#x92;s show (the 1st) discussing ClimateGate: [Edited for long silences, commercial breaks, and extraneous moments of talking] Vocal Minority http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2399617/posts#comment Thu, 3 Dec 2009 20:45:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2390424/posts Doctor Shortage by Dick Morris Joseph Stubbs, president of the American College of Physicians &#x97; the second-largest doctors&#x92; group in the country &#x97; confirms that &#x93;the supply of doctors just won&#x92;t be there&#x94; for the 30 million new patients President Barack Obama wants to cover. Noting that the doctor shortage is &#x93;already a catastrophic crisis,&#x94; Stubbs noted that underserved areas in the U.S. currently need almost 17,000 new primary care physicians even before Obama&#x92;s proposals are enacted. In the meantime, according to Bloomberg News, a 2009 survey by Merritt Hawkins &#x26; 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-chat/2384066/posts Dennis interviewing Ann this hour (now). 710 KNUS http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2384066/posts#comment Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:10:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2380108/posts Listening to Dennis Prager&#x27;s show this morning. Congressman David Dreier reported to Dennis that the Fort Hood killer said during a lecture with fellow doctors at Walter Reed that infidels should be beheaded. Dreyer said he got this from a news report. I cannot find it on Google. Some of the doctors commented that this guy was going to kill someone. Not clear if the incident was reported, but obviously, if true, they did nothing but transfer him to Fort Hood. Dreyer is not on the program now, but Dennis is still talking about it. The Dennis Prager Show via 1460am KZNT in Colorado Springs http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2380108/posts#comment Fri, 6 Nov 2009 17:33:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2344861/posts You&#x92;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&#x92;s most important holiday with an extremist Muslim&#x96;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&#x27;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/2339342/posts http://www.krla870.com Great news! Larry Elder is sitting in for Dennis Prager today. KRLA http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2339342/posts#comment Mon, 14 Sep 2009 16:14:24 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 (&#x22;ObamaCare&#x22;) 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 &#x22;Dissent is Patriotic.&#x22; 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, &#x22;War Is not the Answer.&#x22; It, too, is completely meaningless. If the question is, &#x22;What is the square root of 8?&#x22; 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/2307779/posts Readers on the left will be shocked, if not incredulous, to learn that neither I nor any conservative I know realized why the president asked Vice President Joseph Biden to join him, Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., and Cambridge police Sgt. James Crowley for their fabled &#x22;beer summit&#x22; at the White House. I had simply assumed that the president invited Biden in order to lessen any tension by having someone with no connection to the case join the meeting. Likewise, another conservative, the producer of my radio show, Allen Estrin, assumed that the vice president was in the area... FrontPageMagazine.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2307779/posts#comment Tue, 4 Aug 2009 12:22:42 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 &#x22;pay for itself,&#x22; 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/2292148/posts &#x22;Why have you come to Honduras?&#x22; 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&#x27; 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-bloggers/2289619/posts Here is audio of Dick Morris and Dennis Prager talking about President Obama&#x27;s dream of changing American into a European-stlye Socialist State. Morris points out that in Europe, they essentially see work as an &#x22;interruption in a life of leisure.&#x22; No one should work more than 35 hours a week and everyone should get 8 weeks of vacation. Morris calls Obama a socialist because he wants to bring the level of government control of the economy to a level that is equal to the European socialist nations such as France and Germany. . . . . (Watch Video) Freedom's Lighthouse http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2289619/posts#comment Fri, 10 Jul 2009 13:43:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2277451/posts To object to being called sir or ma&#x27;am by anyone, especially a member of the military and especially a high ranking member of the military is to betray an ignorance of the military and a tone deafness to civility that is appalling in anyone, especially a member of the United States Senate . Second, and both more revealing and more instructive, is to understand how inconceivable it would be for a male senator to make such comments. Neither a Democrat nor Republican could imagine a male senator interrupting the testimony of a brigadier general to admonish him publicly, &#x22;You know,... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2277451/posts#comment Tue, 23 Jun 2009 12:44:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2273235/posts &#x22;The administration has remained as quiet as possible during the Iranian election season and in the days of street protests since Friday&#x27;s vote.&#x22; -- Washington Post , Monday June 15, 2009 &#x22;We&#x27;re going to withhold comment. &#x85; I mean we&#x27;re just waiting to see.&#x22; -- Vice-President Joe Biden &#x22;We are monitoring the situation as it unfolds in Iran but we, like the rest of the world, are waiting and watching to see what the Iranian people decide.&#x22; -- Secretary of State Hillary Clinton &#x22;Most countries appeared to be taking a wait-and-see approach, including the European Union and China, Germany, Italy... Townhall http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2273235/posts#comment Wed, 17 Jun 2009 01:01:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2267856/posts It appears that President Barack Obama decided not to incorporate any of the points on American-Muslim relations I included in my last column, a speech I suggested he give in Cairo to the Muslim world. Nevertheless the president made some courageous points, and an honest appraisal of his speech needs to note them. For example, telling an audience in Cairo and presumably hundreds of millions of Muslims elsewhere that America&#x27;s &#x22;bond is unbreakable&#x22; with Israel was courageous and important. So the speech was not bad. But it was sad. It was extremely sad that it was necessary for anyone, let... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2267856/posts#comment Tue, 9 Jun 2009 11:39:07 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 &#x97; 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&#x27;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/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/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 &#x22;earn.&#x22; Those of us whose native language is English assume that the phrase &#x22;to earn a living&#x22; is universal. It isn&#x27;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 &#x97; the word used when saying someone &#x22;earns&#x22; money, is &#x22;ganar&#x22; in Spanish, &#x22;gagner&#x22; 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&#x27;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/2223981/posts The basic bargain is sound: countries with nuclear weapons will move toward disarmament, countries without nuclear weapons will not acquire them.&#x94; -- President Barack Obama, Prague, April 6, 2009 As far as nuclear weapons are concerned, the President of the United States wants America to disarm: &#x93;Countries with nuclear weapons will move toward disarmament.&#x94; 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