Dennis Prager from Creators Syndicate

Secular Europe or Religious America? A Response to the Times' Roger Cohen for 12/18/2007

Tue, 18 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0800

Last week, New York Times columnist Roger Cohen wrote a column titled "Secular Europe's Merits," in which he explained why he prefers the secularism of Europe to the religiosity of America.

To his credit (other New York Times columnists do not generally agree to debate anything they write — Paul Krugman, for example, has refused to discuss his new book on liberalism with ...

Updated: Tue Dec 18, 2007

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Will Smith, Hitler and Diminishing Value of Truth for 01/01/2008

Tue, 01 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800

On Dec. 22, the Scottish newspaper The Daily Record published an article summarizing an interview its reporter Siobhan Synnot had with the superstar actor Will Smith. Near the end of the highly laudatory piece, the reporter wrote: "Remarkably, Will believes everyone is basically good" and immediately cited the actor saying: "Even Hitler didn't wake up going, 'Let me do the most e ...

Updated: Tue Jan 01, 2008

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Sen. Obama's Calls for Unity Are Not What They Seem for 01/08/2008

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800

We are repeatedly told by the news media that there is a deep, almost palpable, yearning among Americans for unity. And Sen. Barack Obama's repeated and eloquent claims to being able to unite Americans are a major reason for his present, and very possibly eventual, success in his quest for his party's nomination for president of the United States.

I do not doubt Mr. Obama's sincerity. Th ...

Updated: Tue Jan 08, 2008

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Gov. Corzine and I May Have Different Hearts for 01/15/2008

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800

New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine, in explaining his state's abolition of the death penalty, announced that he knew "from my heart and from my soul" that no murderer should be put to death.

As it happens, I know from my heart and from my soul that not putting any murderer to death is a cosmic injustice; it cheapens the worth of human life and greatly diminishes the revulsion society ...

Updated: Tue Jan 15, 2008

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The Case for Rudy Giuliani for 01/22/2008

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800

To the extent that I understand how most Republicans think, it would seem that former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani comes closer to the Republican ideal than any of the other viable Republican candidates. They are all good and decent men who would be better for America than either of the Democratic front-runners. But it is difficult to see, from a conservative- and Republican-values perspective, ...

Updated: Tue Jan 22, 2008

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A Response to "What You Have To Believe To Be a Republican Today" for 01/29/2008

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800

For four years, a list of alleged Republican positions — "What You Have To Believe To Be a Republican Today" — has been circulating on the Internet and forwarded in countless e-mails. In this presidential election year, it is important to respond to these charges. If people want to vote for a Democratic president, they should not do so based on falsehoods about Republicans ...

Updated: Tue Jan 29, 2008

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Memo to Both Parties: Vote for Who's Best, not for Who's "Electable" for 02/05/2008

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Many, perhaps even most, Democrats and Republicans are conflicted as to whom to vote for in the primaries.

Among Democrats, Barack Obama has enormous appeal — even to most erstwhile Hillary Clinton supporters. He seems to evoke the John F. Kennedy enthusiasm that Democrats have been seeking for over a generation. He is young, vibrant, charismatic and very smart. And he is on the Le ...

Updated: Tue Feb 05, 2008

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Some Thoughts on Love for 02/12/2008

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800

With Valentine's Day approaching, some thoughts on love.

1. The love relationship between a man and a woman is unique. There is no love like it for two primary reasons: First, it is the love of equals — all other love relationships (except same-sex friends) are between unequals. Second, it is sexual.

2. Because it is the only love relationship between equals (again except fo ...

Updated: Tue Feb 12, 2008

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Five Questions about Shootings at Universities for 02/19/2008

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Question 1: Why are murderers always counted in the victims tally?

The day after the mass murder of students at Northern Illinois University (NIU), the headline in the closest major newspaper, the Chicago Tribune, was: "6 Dead in NIU Shooting."

"6 dead" included the murderer. Why wasn't the headline "5 killed at NIU"?

It is nothing less than mo ...

Updated: Tue Feb 19, 2008

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Before Sending Your Child to a College, Ask these Questions for 03/04/2008

Tue, 04 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Before you take out a second mortgage or otherwise deplete your savings in order to pay for your child's college education, you might want to ask the colleges to which your child is applying some questions.

1. Can one obtain a Bachelor of Arts degree at your college without having read a single Shakespeare play, one Federalist Paper or one book of the Bible?

If so, why attend such ...

Updated: Tue Mar 04, 2008

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Why Are So Many Women Depressed? Part I for 03/11/2008

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700

It is widely reported that women suffer depression at twice the rate of men. Apparently, more women are clinically depressed than ever before.

On the assumption that these assessments are true, the question anyone interested in the subject — which means anyone who cares about any woman — is, why?

As one who regularly talks to women, and about men and women, on my radio ...

Updated: Tue Mar 11, 2008

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Who is Barack Obama? for 03/18/2008

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Who is Barack Obama? The truth is that neither Sen. Obama's supporters nor opponents can answer that question. We know he is bright, eloquent and charismatic. But if he were elected president of the United States, he would be the least known man to be elected in modern American history, perhaps in all of American history.

That is why the remarks and views of those closest to Sen. Obama t ...

Updated: Tue Mar 18, 2008

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Why Do Palestinians Get Much More Attention than Tibetans? for 03/25/2008

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700

The long-suffering Tibetans have been in the news. This happens perhaps once or twice a decade. In a more moral world, however, public opinion would be far more preoccupied with Tibetans than with Palestinians, would be as harsh on China as it is on Israel, and would be as fawning on Israel as it now is on China.

But, alas, the world is, as it has always been, a largely mean-spirited and ...

Updated: Tue Mar 25, 2008

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If Jeremiah Wright is a Prophet, Isaiah Wasn't for 04/01/2008

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Were the controversial comments made by the Rev. Jeremiah Wright "prophetic"? That is the claim made by a large number of black and white clergy, by the head of the United Church of Christ and by many other defenders of Rev. Wright.

As summarized by the religion editor of the Kansas City Star (March 29, 2008):

"Scholars and black clergy say Wright … simply reflects ...

Updated: Tue Apr 01, 2008

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It's a Bad World for 04/08/2008

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Here are some news items from just this past week:

In Tibet, according to an Associated Press report, "police opened fire on hundreds of Buddhist monks and lay people who had marched on local government offices to demand the release of two monks detained for possessing photographs of the Dalai Lama, Tibet's exiled Buddhist leader." At least eight died.

In Iraq, the mass ...

Updated: Tue Apr 08, 2008

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How Liberals Lost a Liberal for 04/15/2008

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700

The Democratic Party's preoccupation with the question of when America will leave Iraq rather than with how America will win in Iraq reminds me of how and why this nearly lifelong liberal and Democrat became identified as a conservative and Republican activist.

I have identified as liberal all my life. How could I not? I was raised a Jew in New York City, where I did graduate work in the ...

Updated: Tue Apr 15, 2008

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Time Fights Carbon Emissions; Military Fights Evil for 04/22/2008

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700

The state of the liberal mind is on display on this week's cover of Time magazine.

The already notorious cover takes the iconic photograph of U.S. Marines planting the American flag on Iwo Jima and substitutes a tree for the flag. Why Time's editors did this explains much about contemporary liberalism.

The first thing it explains is that liberals, not to mention the left as a whol ...

Updated: Tue Apr 22, 2008

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PBS, Bill Moyers and the Rev. Wright for 04/29/2008

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700

When Air America, the left-wing talk radio network, began, I predicted that it would not succeed. One of the main reasons I gave was that liberals already had their views expressed in the mainstream news media — the major networks, PBS and NPR (National Public Radio), and just about every major city newspaper. Therefore, the need liberals have for liberal talk radio is nowhere near the ne ...

Updated: Tue Apr 29, 2008

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Michael Moore, Frank Rich, Jeremiah Wright and John Hagee for 05/06/2008

Tue, 06 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700

It is with no pleasure that I put in writing what I have long believed: Though many individual liberals have only goodwill toward black Americans, the liberal world since the late 1960s (i.e., after the major civil rights legislation of the mid-1960s) has done incalculable damage to black America and to race relations in this country. Whether out of guilt or because of its own racist views (i.e ...

Updated: Tue May 06, 2008

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If On the Wrong Track, Why Go Left? for 05/13/2008

Tue, 13 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Today's most widely accepted political belief is that because an unprecedentedly high percentage of Americans — 81 percent — believe the country is headed in the wrong direction, the Republicans are headed for a major defeat this coming November.

If this is the case, it can only be because the American voter translates "headed in the wrong direction" as "becaus ...

Updated: Tue May 13, 2008

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