Monday, March 28, 2011 Radio Show
20110328 -01 Riots in London
Prager H1: There were protests, complete with riots, in London. What were they protesting so passionately? Budget cuts. When you give people things, it’s very tough to take them away… The Green Party in Germany made big gains in Germany over the weekend. The Greens are left of the Left. The issue is nuclear power. Germany has been scared out of its wits by what happened in Japan… Dennis talks to Gwyneth Cravens, former editor of Harper’s Magazine and New Yorker Magazine about the latest from Japan’s nuclear power crisis. Her important book is Power to Save the World: The Truth about Nuclear Energy
Monday, March 28, 2011 Radio Show
20110328 – 02 Locked in a Closet
Prager H2: VP Biden’ staff locked a reporter in a closet. This is being treated as a big joke. Think it would have been a big joke if it had been Dick Cheney’s staff?… Dennis talks to Michael Young, opinion page editor of the Daily Star, English language paper in Beirut, Lebanon, about the protests in Syria… Dennis talks to Michael Oren, Ambassador of Israel to the US, about the consequences to Israel of the upheavals in Syria, Egypt and Libya.
Monday, March 28, 2011 Radio Show
20110328 – 03 Thinking Transgender
Prager H3: The Maryland legislature is on the verge of passing a bill that will allow the transgendered to come to work in a dress… Dennis returns to the topic of the London riots this weekend over budget cuts… Dennis talks to Grace Turner, President of the Galen Institute. Her new book is Why ObamaCare is Wrong for America: How the New Health Care Law Drives Up Costs, Puts Government in Charge of Your Decisions, and Threatens Your Constitutional Rights.
