Category Archives: Politics

Jan Perry Interview

Jan Perry represents the ninth district on the Los Angeles City Council. She plans to run for mayor in 2013. We talk by phone Friday morning. Here’s a transcript of the parts of the interview I find most interesting: Luke: … Continue reading

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What About A Right To Privacy In Your Phone Calls?

On his radio show Monday, Dennis Prager says: “Mel Gibson is a troubled man. I have more pity to him than hate. I don’t think he is a danger to the country. “I think there’s a larger issue than what … Continue reading

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NASA Chief: Next Frontier Better Relations With Muslim World

From Fox News: NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said in a recent interview that his “foremost” mission as the head of America’s space exploration agency is to improve relations with the Muslim world. Though international diplomacy would seem well outside NASA’s … Continue reading

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Ten Commandments For Liberal Jews

Click here to watch last night’s entire Torah discussion with Rabbi Rabbs. Rabbi Rabbs says: The Ten Commandments for Liberal Jews: 1. You shall take offense to Christians and loudly proclaim Christianity goes against Judaism, while you shall have no … Continue reading

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Dennis Prager: Who Lost Turkey?

Over the past five years, Turkey, which has the second biggest army in NATO, has moved from an ally of the West to an ally of Iran. I guess Turkey, along with more and more of the world, is aligning … Continue reading

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Dennis Prager: California is America’s Greece

On his radio show today, Dennis says: “To airline employees, if you do unionize, you will likely become a worse person. Your attention will change from what is good for my employer and for my passenger to what is good … Continue reading

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Serious Relationships

I was watching season three of the TV show “24” and I was struck by how often Kim Bauer and her boyfriend kept saying they were in a “serious” relationship. Something goes off in my head when I hear people … Continue reading

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What Is Social Justice?

On Friday, Dennis Prager received a call on his radio show from a woman wanting to know his definition of “social justice”. Dennis: “Social justice is overwhelmingly used by the Left when they don’t want to use the word ‘justice’ … Continue reading

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Mr President

Did you notice how during the healthcare summit yesterday all the politicians called Barack Obama “Mr. President” but Barack called all the other politicians by their first names? On his radio show yesterday, Dennis Prager said he knows many politicians … Continue reading

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Divine Providence

Joe emails: Once could point to the past year in American politics as a better proof of the existence of God than the ontological proof. Upon inauguration, Obama was in a high earth orbit. The press was as smitten as … Continue reading

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