Dennis Prager from Creators Syndicate

Romney Understands America for 05/15/2012

Tue, 15 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

On Saturday, Mitt Romney delivered a speech to the 6,000 Liberty College graduates.

It was an important speech, not only because it seems to have closed the gap between Romney and evangelical Christians but also because it spelled out major themes in Mitt Romney's understanding of America.

Romney: "You know who you are. And you know whom you will serve. Not all colleges inst ...

Updated: Tue May 15, 2012

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Conservatives and Gays for 05/08/2012

Tue, 08 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

In addition to labeling conservatives and Republicans "anti-woman" (for opposing government-mandated free contraception), "anti-black" and "anti-Hispanic" (for advocating photo identification for voting), and "anti-science" (for skepticism regarding the belief that man-made carbon emissions will destroy much of the planet), Democrats now regularly label R ...

Updated: Tue May 08, 2012

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November Is a Plebiscite On the American Revolution for 05/01/2012

Tue, 01 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Election Day 2012 will not be a presidential election. It will be a plebiscite.

Americans will not only be voting for a president (and a House and a third of the Senate). They will be participating in a plebiscite on the definition of America.

If Americans re-elect the Democrat, Barack Obama, they will have announced that America should be like Western European countries — g ...

Updated: Tue May 01, 2012

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Why America is Still the Best Hope for 04/24/2012

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Does it break some unwritten rule for a columnist to bring his readers' attention to his own book? If so, I ask your indulgence.

But, after nearly a thousand columns and twelve years since my last book, I hope readers will forgive me for noting that today, April 24, 2012, HarperCollins is publishing the culmination of a lifetime of thinking and years of the most challenging writing of my ...

Updated: Tue Apr 24, 2012

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Why Would a Pro-Castro Sentiment Only Offend Cubans? for 04/17/2012

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700

As all baseball fans and many other Americans know, the manager of the Miami Marlins, Ozzie Guillen, told Time magazine that he loves Fidel Castro.

The news focus has been on Guillen's remarks — for which he has profusely apologized — and whether the Marlins were right to suspend him for five games.

More important, however, have been the reactions to Guillen's comment. ...

Updated: Tue Apr 17, 2012

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Still the Least Racist Country in the World for 04/10/2012

Tue, 10 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700

In light of the tragic killing of black teenager Trayvon Martin — and the manufactured hysteria surrounding it — one thing needs to be stated as clearly and as often as possible: The United States is the least racist and least xenophobic country in the world. Foreigners of every race, ethnicity, and religion know this. Most Americans suspect this. Most black Americans and the entire ...

Updated: Tue Apr 10, 2012

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They Don't Know Us for 04/03/2012

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Apparently, many liberals were disappointed in the administrationâ€™s performance before the Supreme Court. They felt that the governmentâ€™s lawyer, Solicitor General Donald Verrilli, did not respond effectively to the challenges of some of the conservative justices.

The editor of Commentary, John Podhoretz, offered an explanation on his magazineâ€™s blog. â€œAmerican liberals,â€ he wr ...

Updated: Tue Apr 03, 2012

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Are the "Less Fortunate" Less Fortunate? for 03/27/2012

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700

In his front-page-of-the-business-section "Economic Scene" column in The New York Times last week, Eduardo Porter wrote, "The United States does less than other rich countries to transfer income from the affluent to the less fortunate."

Think about that sentence for a moment. It ends oddly. Logic dictates that it should have said, "transfer income from the afflue ...

Updated: Tue Mar 27, 2012

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The Real Reason the NAACP Went to Geneva for 03/20/2012

Tue, 20 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the NAACP, has gone to the United Nations — specifically the U.N. Human Rights Council — for, in the words of USA Today, "help battling what the organization views as forces attempting to push back voting rights."

Those "forces" are laws being passed by various states that require a photo ID f ...

Updated: Tue Mar 20, 2012

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Who Is Happy? for 03/13/2012

Tue, 13 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700

After 25 years of lecturing on happiness, writing a book on the subject ("Happiness Is a Serious Problem") and devoting an hour of my radio show every week for the last 13 years to happiness, here are some conclusions about who is happy.

People who control themselves.

Happiness is dependent on self-discipline. We are the biggest obstacles to our own happiness. I ...

Updated: Tue Mar 13, 2012

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Many Muslims Are Making Many Atheists for 03/06/2012

Tue, 06 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Here in Sydney, Australia, where I've been lecturing for a week, I may have had one Australian-born waitress or waiter and one Australian-born taxi driver. As is my wont, I ask all of them where they were born and, whenever possible, have some discussion about their native country.

I say "whenever possible" because, unlike in the United States —where taxi drivers, whether ...

Updated: Tue Mar 06, 2012

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What You're Paying for Your Child to Learn at College for 02/28/2012

Tue, 28 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

As high school seniors throughout America will be receiving acceptance letters to colleges within the next month, it would be nice for parents to meditate on what they're getting for the $20,000 to 50,000 they'll pay each year.

—The United States is no better than any other country, and in many areas, it's worse than many. On the world stage, America is an imperialist country, and ...

Updated: Tue Feb 28, 2012

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If You're Ever Murdered, Here's an Idea for 02/21/2012

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

I'd like to offer a simple proposal that, if enacted, could generate a great deal of a most precious resource: moral clarity.

It concerns the death penalty.

Opponents of capital punishment for murderers argue that the state has no right to take a murderer's life. Apparently, one fact that abolitionists forget or overlook is that the state is acting on behalf of the murdered person ...

Updated: Tue Feb 21, 2012

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Chris Christie on Israel -- and What It Means to Be a Leader for 02/14/2012

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie addressed the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) last week. In the few words reported by the Weekly Standard magazine, he said just about everything one needs to know about Israel; about America and Israel; and about American political leadership:

"America should stand by its friends and its democratic allies, even, and sometimes espe ...

Updated: Tue Feb 14, 2012

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They Have Islamist Fanatics, We Have Secularist Fanatics for 01/31/2012

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

The Muslim world is threatened by religious fanaticism. The Western world is threatened by secular fanaticism.

Both seek to dominate society and to use state power to do so. Both seek to eliminate the Other — for Islamic fanatics, that means non-Muslim religions and secularism; for secular fanatics, it means Christianity and virtually any public invoking of God. The Islamists impos ...

Updated: Tue Jan 31, 2012

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Evangelicals and Romney: Should Theology Matter? for 01/24/2012

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

As an American, a Republican, and a fiscal and social conservative — and though I have endorsed no Republican candidate — there is one thing that would disturb me greatly if Mitt Romney were not the Republican nominee: if Romney's Mormon faith were a factor in his defeat.

Many evangelical leaders have said that if Romney is the Republican presidential candidate, they would no ...

Updated: Tue Jan 24, 2012

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Ron Paul and America's Alleged Racism for 01/17/2012

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

In the Republican presidential candidates' debate on Jan. 7, Congressman Ron Paul said: "I'm the only one up here ... that understands true racism in this country is in the judicial system."

He said this racism has to do with "enforcing the drug laws" and then added: "They (blacks) get the death penalty way disproportionately."

Two groups immediately ...

Updated: Tue Jan 17, 2012

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Leftism Makes You Meaner for 01/10/2012

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Only a fool believes that all those with whom he differs are bad people. Moreover, just about all of us live the reality — often within our own family — of knowing good and loving people with whom we strongly differ on political, religious, social and economic issues.

That said, I have come to believe that the more committed one is to leftism, the more likely one is to become ...

Updated: Tue Jan 10, 2012

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Why Thomas Friedman Abetted Anti-Semitism for 12/20/2011

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

After a lifetime of studying the left, I have concluded that leftism is a form of moral poison. It causes otherwise decent and kind people who take it into their systems to say and/or do cruel and sometimes evil things.

While not specifically about the left, a major new scholarly book, "Pathological Altruism" (Oxford University Press), explores this phenomenon of people wanting ...

Updated: Tue Dec 20, 2011

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Adultery, Character and Politics -- My Responses for 12/13/2011

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Because the issue is so important, I have decided to respond to critics of my last column on adultery, politics and character.

As any reader of my columns or books knows, I am a religious conservative, and my primary concern is morality. By morality, I mean issues of good and evil. I am also concerned with the issue of sin, but sin and evil are not identical. All evil is sin, but not all ...

Updated: Tue Dec 13, 2011

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