Dennis Prager from Creators Syndicate

A Society that Venerates Lawyers More than Doctors for 11/03/2009

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Those of us who are not true believers in expanded government are certain of the following:

If the 1,990-page House Health Care Bill becomes law, the average American will receive worse health care, American physicians will decline in status and income, American medical innovation will dramatically slow down and pharmaceutical discoveries will decline in number and quality. And, of cours ...

Updated: Tue Nov 03, 2009

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Intimidated Americans Claim Not To Know Hasan's Motives for 11/10/2009

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

One reads and hears with increasing disbelief and anger that we don't know the motive or motives of Nidal Malik Hasan, the Army major who fired over 100 shots at his fellow American soldiers in order to murder and maim as many as possible. Hasan ended up allegedly murdering 13 people, but government and Army spokesmen and the mainstream media claim they just can't figure out why he did this. Th ...

Updated: Tue Nov 10, 2009

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The Silver Lining of the Left in Power for 11/17/2009

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

There may be a major silver lining for conservatives and for America's future thanks to the foreign and domestic policies of President Obama and the Democrat-controlled House and Senate: For the first time in their lives, millions of Americans are coming to understand the left.

It is difficult to overstate how important this is. For decades, the left has largely controlled the news media ...

Updated: Tue Nov 17, 2009

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A Troubled Thanksgiving 2009 for 11/24/2009

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

I have always loved Thanksgiving. It is my favorite national holiday. It reminds Americans how fortunate we are to be Americans. And it unites Americans around gratitude, the greatest human trait. Gratitude is the mother of both goodness and happiness. The ungrateful cannot be either happy or good.

So, it is with a heavy heart that I write that my mood on this Thanksgiving will not be th ...

Updated: Tue Nov 24, 2009

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Left Destroys More than It Creates for 12/01/2009

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Watching the left attempting to undo the greatness of American medicine and dismantle the unprecedentedly powerful American economic engine built almost entirely on non-governmental entrepreneurial effort, I realize once again that the left is far better at destroying than building.

I first realized this as I watched the left — and here I sadly include the whole organized left from ...

Updated: Tue Dec 01, 2009

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How a New York Times Columnist Hurts Fellow Blacks for 12/08/2009

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800

If you had hope that the election of a black president might improve black-white relations in America, reading the column by Charles M. Blow in Saturday's New York Times will effectively crush it.

Mr. Blow, who is black, wrote of his despair that the election of Barack Obama will achieve anything positive for blacks or for black-white relations.

In fact, according to Mr. Blow, and ...

Updated: Tue Dec 08, 2009

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Have We Stopped Trying to Make Good People? for 12/15/2009

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800

The most important question any society must answer is: How will we make good people?

That is the question Judeo-Christian values have grappled with. There are many and profound theological and practical differences between Judaism and Christianity. But in the American incarnation of Judeo-Christian values — and America is really the one civilization that developed an amalgamation ...

Updated: Tue Dec 15, 2009

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Democrats Ensure America Will No Longer Be the Last Best Hope of Earth for 12/22/2009

Tue, 22 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800

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.

That description of America was not, as more than a few Americans on the left believe, made by some right-wing chauvinist. It was made by President Abraham Lincoln in an ...

Updated: Tue Dec 22, 2009

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Thank You to These Businesses and Products for 12/29/2009

Tue, 29 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Since I began radio broadcasting 27 years ago, I have tried to come up with ideas for New Year's resolutions for myself and my listeners. Virtually each time, I have advocated one resolution in particular: For every couple of letters of complaint or oral complaints we communicate about someone or about some company, we should write a letter or make a call to commend someone or some company.

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Updated: Tue Dec 29, 2009

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Controlling When You Relieve Yourself, Not Body Scan, Invades Privacy for 01/05/2010

Tue, 05 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800

If the government prohibits airline passengers from getting out of their seats during the last hour of a flight, I hereby announce that I will get out of my seat either to escort someone who needs to use the lavatory or because I do. I understand that I may be arrested, but I am willing to make this a cause celebre.

Aside from a genetic incapacity to be directed by irration ...

Updated: Tue Jan 05, 2010

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Reid Punished by Liberal Preoccupation with Private Comments for 01/12/2010

Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800

I think that Harry Reid is a left-wing ideologue who is doing serious harm to a great country.

I think that Harry Reid would charge any Republican colleague with racism and ask for that person's resignation if he or she said what Reid is reported to have said about Barack Obama's color and accent.

I think that every liberal Democrat deserves to be hoisted on his own petard and stu ...

Updated: Tue Jan 12, 2010

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Is America Still Making Men? for 01/19/2010

Tue, 19 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Every society has to answer a few basic questions in order to succeed and even in order to survive. One of them is, "How do we make good men?"

The reason for the importance of this question is simple: Males untutored about how to control their natures will likely do much harm. Conversely, males who are taught to how to control themselves and to channel their drives in positive ...

Updated: Tue Jan 19, 2010

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An Open Letter to Charles Johnson for 01/26/2010

Tue, 26 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800

On Sunday, The New York Times Magazine featured an article on Charles Johnson, whose website — littlegreenfootballs — had for years been very popular among conservatives and among all those who believed that Islamic terror and Islamic religious totalitarianism were the greatest expressions of contemporary evil. The reason for the article was that Mr. Johnson has made a 180-degre ...

Updated: Tue Jan 26, 2010

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What I Said to the Republican Members of Congress for 02/02/2010

Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

This past weekend, after President Obama addressed the annual retreat of Republican Members of the House, I, along with my Salem Radio colleague Hugh Hewitt, and John Fund of the Wall Street Journal, were also invited to address them.

This is an abridged and edited version of my remarks.

Thank you for this honor.

I have never been as proud to be a Republican as I have this ...

Updated: Tue Feb 02, 2010

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Frank Rich and the State of Liberal Commentary for 02/09/2010

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

If one had to read one columnist to appreciate the state of contemporary left-wing commentary, my nomination would be Frank Rich of the Sunday New York Times.

No well-known leftist columnist better exemplifies the worst aspects of today's left. Virtually every piece is filled with anger, filled with ad hominem responses to arguments, filled with insults of opponents and at the same time ...

Updated: Tue Feb 09, 2010

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The Doritos Ad Was Not Funny for 02/16/2010

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

By far, the most popular ad shown during the latest Super Bowl (trademarked name "Super Bowl" not used with the expressed written consent of the National Football League) was the Doritos "House Rules" ad. Tens of millions of Americans saw it as hilarious.

That is unfortunate. Anyone aware of the manifold social pathologies the ad depicted did not find much to laugh ab ...

Updated: Tue Feb 16, 2010

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Government, Yes! God and Parents, No! for 02/23/2010

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

One of the major differences between the right and the left concerns the question of authority: To whom do we owe obedience and who is the ultimate moral authority?

For the right, the primary moral authority is God (or, for secular conservatives, Judeo-Christian values), followed by parents. Of course, government must also play a role, but it is ultimately accountable to God and it shoul ...

Updated: Tue Feb 23, 2010

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John, Chuck, Kathleen, and ... Mr. President for 03/02/2010

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800

There was something particularly annoying — even harmful to society — during the health care summit held last week between President Obama and leading members of the House and Senate.

It was the president's calling all the congressmen and senators by their first names.

It is easy to appreciate just how demeaning this was of each House member and senator: Just imagine i ...

Updated: Tue Mar 02, 2010

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Why Democrats Don't Care about $9.7 Trillion Debt for 03/09/2010

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800

As reported by The Washington Post, "President Obama's proposed budget would add more than $9.7 trillion to the national debt over the next decade, congressional budget analysts said Friday."

CNN adds, "Of that amount, an estimated $5.6 trillion will be in interest alone."

The Post continues: "The CBO (Congressional Budget Office) and the White House (are) ...

Updated: Tue Mar 09, 2010

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The Bigger the Government, the Less You Are Needed for 03/16/2010

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Among the things left and right, religious and secular, agree on is that one of the few real needs human beings have is to be needed.

When we are not needed, life feels pointless.

The need to be needed is universal. Men need it; women need it. The sexes may feel needed in different ways, but the depth of the need is the same. Many women feel particularly alive when needed by their ...

Updated: Tue Mar 16, 2010

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