I’m walking on Pico Blvd Friday afternoon when a stream of urine appears in front of me. I trace the stream to its source — it is a black boy, about nine years of age, pissing out from the bus stop.
The sheer comedy of the moment seizes me and I look the kid in the eye and give him a goofy grin.
Immediately, the boy and his friend start accusing me of being gay.
Ashamed and frightened, I hurry on my way.
I must learn to control my reactions when I encounter people urinating in public.
D. emails: “Sunny Jim, those young lads weren’t “accusing” you of anything. They were simply stating an obvious fact. You’re a bloody ponce. A poof. A fair-dinkum abomination to your mum and me.”
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From DennisPrager.com: “Bob Herbert of the New York Times writes that blacks have to take responsibility for the deterioration of the black family. Coming from a liberal like Herbert, this is quite an admission…”
The report, titled “ Call for Change,” begins by saying that “the nation’s young black males are in a state of crisis” and describes their condition as “a national catastrophe.” It tells us that black males remain far behind their schoolmates in academic achievement and that they drop out of school at nearly twice the rate of whites.
Black children — boys and girls — are three times more likely to live in single-parent households than white children and twice as likely to live in a home where no parent has full-time or year-round employment.
In 2008, black males were imprisoned at a rate six-and-a-half times higher than white males.
…Cultural change comes hard, and takes a long time, but nothing short of a profound cultural change is essential. Let the message go out that walking down the aisle carries with it great responsibilities but can also be great fun, and watching your kid graduate with honors is a blast.
Black children can’t wait for Washington to get its act together. They don’t have time to wait for the economy to improve. They need mom and dad and the larger community to act now, to do the right thing without delay.
This is not a fight only for blacks. All allies are welcome. But the cultural imperative lies overwhelmingly with the black community itself.
On his radio show Nov. 17, Dennis Prager said: “Bob Herbert is reliably liberal. Society causes a lot of problems for blacks. We need government intervention.”
“I’ve said [that black life in the inner city is a tragedy] because I care deeply for Americans of every color but most whites don’t talk about this because they are afraid of being called racist. If you are absolutely certain that you are not something, you don’t fear being called it. I am absolutely certain that I don’t have a racist bone in my body.”
“How can a majority of black men without a high school diploma spend time in prison but there is no relationship between a policeman’s work in inner cities and race? Only a liberal who wishes away reality [could believe that]. It is a sad fact, a catastrophic fact, that black males disproportionately commit violent crime.”
“The moment you learn that the government won’t help you, you learn to help yourself. He laments it. He is a liberal. He laments that government won’t rescue black life from this catastrophe. No one will do what you need to do for yourself.”
“Government has tried to help black life all of my life. And it has failed horribly. My anger is at the left-liberal idea that government can help people when they should help themselves.”
Dennis plays a sound clip of a young black woman talking about Barack Obama: “I never thought this day would ever happen. I won’t have to worry about putting gas in my car. I won’t have to worry about paying my mortgage. If I help him, he’ll help me.”
Dennis: “That’s the Democratic message.”
“People will awaken to the fact that they have to help themselves and can’t rely on the state.”
On his radio show today, Dennis Prager said: “Tone is very important. The thing that I am told the most by people who listen to this show is the tone. Just not yelling at people was a major advantage of this program.”
Dennis interviews Philippe Karsenty, vice mayor of the city of Neuilly, France and documentary film-maker.
Karsenty says: “France was a communist country that used to work. Now it is a communist country that doesn’t work any more.”
According to a poll, most French youth want to work for the government bureaucracy.
“When people in the USSR used to watch the news on TV, they knew it was lies. When people in France watch the news, they think it is real news. That’s insane. The devastating effect on the people is that you are brainwashing them.”
Dennis: “If there were an equivalent in France to talk radio in America, promoting conservative entrepreneurial private enterprise liberty values?”
Karsenty: “We can not translate these words in French. One hundred percent of the French media is owned or controlled by the state. All the French newspapers receive subsidies from the state. There is no Dennis Prager in France.”
Dennis: “The greatest unknown story in our lifetime is the lack of diversity in the media in the Western world.”
Karsenty: “The minute I land in America, I just feel the freedom. I feel like everything is possible. The second I land in Paris, I feel that everything is small and state controlled and you better not say the wrong thing.”
Thursday, November 18, 2010 Radio Show
H1: Upper Class Twit of the Year
Prager H1: Senator Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia wishes the federal government would just make Fox News and MSNBC go away. He doesn’t like them… Dennis talks to Aaron Master, Director of User Experience at SoundHound, Dennis’s favorite cell phone app…
Thursday, November 18, 2010 Radio Show
H2: Byzantine
Prager H2: It’s time to simplify our Byzantine tax code… Dennis talks to Philippe Karsenty, vice mayor of the city of Neuilly, France and documentary film-maker. Karsenty bemoans the lack of freedom of the press in Europe… Dennis also talks to Peter Wehner, senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. His new book is City of Man: Religion and Politics in a New Era.
According to every liberal editorial page in America (and virtually every editorial page abroad), according to President Obama, the United Nations and every other liberal institution, and according to Jews on the left, the major impediment to peace in the Middle East is Israel’s continuing construction of settlements in Jerusalem and the West Bank.
You have to say at least one thing on behalf of those on the left: They are consistent. In conflicts between a decent society and an indecent society, you can almost always count on the left to blame the decent society. The U.S. was wrong in overthrowing the mass murderer Saddam Hussein. The U.S. was wrong in fighting North Vietnam’s Stalinist tyrant, Ho Chi Minh. The U.S. was wrong in backing the Nicaraguan opposition to the Communist Sandinistas. Israel was wrong in its war against the murderous, Israel-denying, Jew-hating, Islamist totalitarian Hamas. And Israel is wrong today in its conflict with the Palestinians.
Actually, you can say one more thing: The left regularly confuses wishful thinking with reality. You see, I, too, wish that Israeli settlement construction — usually no more than apartment construction within existing Jewish communities within or right outside of Jerusalem — were the obstacle to peace between Israel and the Palestinians. But not being on the left, I am cursed with not assuming that what I would like to believe is reality.
If only these apartments were the problem. What a great day it would be for all of us who yearn to see the Jewish state accepted by its Palestinian and other Arab neighbors.
But, alas, this is make-believe. As Charles Krauthammer asked in a column he wrote a year ago, “Is the peace process moribund because a teacher in the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem is making an addition to her house to accommodate new grandchildren?”
Wednesday, November 17, 2010 Radio Show
H1: Medal of Honor
Prager H1: The Medal of Honor was awarded to staff sergeant, Salvatore A. Giunta, now 25, of Hiawatha, Iowa. His actions are inspiring; the death of his comrades, a tragic loss… Republican have agreed to ban all earmarks. Democrats, who want to keep them, are squirming… The controversy over the TSA body scanners continues to grow. Dennis defends the new scanners. His callers aren’t so sure.
Wednesday, November 17, 2010 Radio Show
H2: Male/Female Hour: Reading a Woman’s Mind
Prager H2: Is it possible? Should men be able to do it? But can women read men’s minds any better men read theirs? Dennis offers his theories; callers weigh in. A Best of Prager Hour. Originally broadcast on July 16, 2008.
Wednesday, November 17, 2010 Radio Show
H3: George Gilder
Prager H3: Dennis talks to one of the most original thinkers in the country, best selling author and co-founder of The Discovery Institute, George Gilder. His latest piece in the Wall Street Journal concerns the coming “Green Economy” calamity in California.. Callers weigh in…
Tuesday, November 16, 2010 Radio Show
H1: Poor Salesmanship
Prager H1: Bob Herbert of the New York Times writes that blacks have to take responsibility for the deterioration of the black family. Coming from a liberal like Herbert, this is quite an admission… Dennis talks to Mark Steyn, nationally syndicated columnist. His latest book (2009) is Lights Out: Islam, Free Speech and The Twilight Of The West.
Tuesday, November 16, 2010 Radio Show
H2: Happiness Hour: Nature versus Nurture
Prager H2: Dennis talks to Michael Fumento, renowned science writer, on the latest scare: full body scans at airports. Callers weigh in with their fears.
Tuesday, November 16, 2010 Radio Show
H3: Open Lines
Prager H3: Dennis deconstructs comments made by evolutionary biologist and leading atheist, Richard Dawkins, on the Bill Maher Show last month.
Monday, November 15, 2010 Radio Show
H1: Speaking Truth to Youth
Prager H1: Dennis talked to students at El Camino College in Southern California yesterday. He received a standing “O” at the end of his remarks. Dennis explains why… 1300 people have already joined Dennis’s Facebook page “Urge Sears to Honor Thanksgiving.”…If world opinion is so important to the Left, why aren’t they concerned that the world has rejected Obamanomics?
Monday, November 15, 2010 Radio Show
H2: Misplaced Compassion
Prager H2: Western governments have given billions of dollars in aid to African governments. Most of it has been wasted, looted or worse. Of course, Dennis has known this to be true for a long time, but coming from a very liberal Canadian paper, The Toronto Globe-Mail, means that maybe even the Left is getting it. Naw, they’ll never get it… Dennis talks to June Carbone, Professor of Law at University of Missouri at Kansas City. Her new book is Red Families v. Blue Families: Legal Polarization and the Creation of Culture.
Monday, November 15, 2010 Radio Show
H3: Who Pays Income Tax
Prager H3: 1% of the earners pay 37% of all income taxes, but for Bill Maher, Michael Moore and Nora Ephron, it’s not enough… States have trillions of dollars in public sector union pension obligations… The President’s trip to Asia was a dud, or worse… Earmarks have to go. Republicans can’t be perceived as being for them… Are young people leaving churches because they’re too conservative? Or is this just a liberal fantasy?
Wednesday, November 17, 2010 | Posted by: Allen Estrin at 2:10 PM
Dennis talks to George Gilder. Nobody understands technology or capitalism better than this man, one of the most original thinkers in the world today. His latest piece in the Wall Street Journal about the future of California should give us all pause. Joel Kotkin writes a supporting piece in Forbes today. Gilder’s latest book, a must read and the best non-fiction book I read in 2009 is The Israel Test.
Wednesday, November 17, 2010 | Posted by: Allen Estrin at 12:24 PM
All too rare. Here’s more detail of what happened on the battlefield from the Wall Street Journal. We weep for the brave men lost and for the great lives not led.
Tuesday, November 16, 2010 | Posted by: Allen Estrin at 12:47 PM
The liberal NY Times columnist blames the breakdown of the black family, as he should and to his credit, on black culture. He even acknowledges that the government can’t fix the problem. But he can’t begin to assess why it took place. If he did, he couldn’t stay on the Left.
Monday, November 15, 2010 | Posted by: Allen Estrin at 2:37 PM
What did he accomplish? Answer seems to be nothing… or worse. If world opinion means so much to the Left, are they worried that world opinion doesn’t support Obamanomics?
Monday, November 15, 2010 | Posted by: Allen Estrin at 12:57 PM
Of course, we’ve known this to be true for a long time, but coming from a very liberal Canadian paper means that maybe even the Left is getting it… Naw, they’ll never get it.
Monday, November 15, 2010 | Posted by: Allen Estrin at 12:35 PM
Dennis talks to June Carbone, Professor of Law at University of Missouri at Kansas City. Her new book is Red Families v. Blue Families: Legal Polarization and the Creation of Culture <
I do a lot of work for seminary students. I like seminary students. They seem so blissfully unaware of the inherent contradiction in paying somebody to help them cheat in courses that are largely about walking in the light of God and providing an ethical model for others to follow. I have been commissioned to write many a passionate condemnation of America’s moral decay as exemplified by abortion, gay marriage, or the teaching of evolution. All in all, we may presume that clerical authorities see these as a greater threat than the plagiarism committed by the future frocked.
With respect to America’s nurses, fear not. Our lives are in capable hands—just hands that can’t write a lick. Nursing students account for one of my company’s biggest customer bases. I’ve written case-management plans, reports on nursing ethics, and essays on why nurse practitioners are lighting the way to the future of medicine. I’ve even written pharmaceutical-treatment courses, for patients who I hope were hypothetical.
"This guy knows all the gossip, the ins and outs, the lashon hara of the Orthodox world. He’s an [expert] in... all the inner workings of the Orthodox world." (Rabbi Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff)
