{"id":30283,"date":"2011-02-25T17:10:27","date_gmt":"2011-02-26T01:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=30283"},"modified":"2011-02-27T11:23:43","modified_gmt":"2011-02-27T19:23:43","slug":"this-lousy-country-of-ours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=30283","title":{"rendered":"This Lousy Country Of Ours"},"content":{"rendered":"

From DennisPrager.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Friday, February 25, 2011 Radio Show
\n20110225-01: What a Lousy Country We Live In
\nPrager H1: Diane Sawyer highlights this startling fact in her prime time newscast: the US doesn\u2019t provide paid maternity\/paternity leave for all its citizens. Sweden does. But we don\u2019t. Somehow this has become a human rights issue and the US is sadly deficient in Diane\u2019s enlightened view\u2026 Democratic Ohio Senator, Sherrod Brown, says that the ability for public service unions to given millions of dollars to elect the officials with whom the unions negotiate their contract is a moral issue. He\u2019s right. It\u2019s immoral.<\/p>\n

Friday, February 25, 2011 Radio Show
\n20110225-02: Happiness Hour: Easily Offended
\nPrager H2: If you\u2019re easily offended it\u2019s very hard to be happy. People are always hurting you. And, it\u2019s not easy to be happy around easily offended people.<\/p>\n

Friday, February 25, 2011 Radio Show
\n20110225-03: Open Lines
\nPrager H3: Per usual, callers set the agenda. Issues raised include: why does Dennis like Christians so much; what one question would Dennis want to ask an atheist; why did Dennis\u2019s parents name him Dennis; where does Dennis get his values.<\/p>\n

Thursday, February 24, 2011 Radio Show
\n20110224-01 It\u2019s All about Profit
\nPrager H1: Lawrence O\u2019Donnell of MSNBC asked the Leftist blogger who placed a crank call to Wisconsin governor, Scott Walker, why he thought the governor was so intent on reigning in the public service unions. The prankster\u2019s answer: personal profit for Walker and his friends. To the Left, Marx is alive and well\u2026 The dictator Kaddafi is prepared to fight to last Libyian\u2026 Dennis talks to Peter Glover, journalist specializing in energy issues, and co-author with Michael Economides, Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Houston of Energy and Climate Wars: How naive politicians, green ideologues, and media elites are undermining the truth about energy and climate.<\/p>\n

Thursday, February 24, 2011 Radio Show
\n20110224-02 No Mo\u2019 DOMA
\nPrager H2: President Obama has decided that he doesn\u2019t like DOMA, so his administration won\u2019t defend it. \u2026 We should be more afraid of people who pursue power than those who pursue money\u2026 Dennis concludes his discussion of historian David McCullough\u2019s 2005 speech at Hillsdale College on the Founding Fathers…<\/p>\n

Thursday, February 24, 2011 Radio Show
\n20110224-03 Stuntman
\nPrager H3: Dennis talks to Hal Needham, legendary stuntman and film director. His new autobiography is Stuntman!: My Car-Crashing, Plane-Jumping, Bone-Breaking, Death-Defying Hollywood Life. Needham worked with just about every major Hollywood star from the 60\u2019s through the 80\u2019s — John Wayne, Jimmy Stewart and others. He\u2019s most noted for his close association with Burt Reynolds and their wildly successful Smokey and the Bandit movies\u2026 Chris Matthews slanders Mike Huckabee, accusing the former governor of advocating ethnic cleansing of the West Bank.<\/p>\n

Wednesday, February 23, 2011 Radio Show
\nH1: Showdown
\nPrager H1: Kevin Wall sits in for Dennis. The Democrats and their public service union masters have placed a very big political bet on opposing Wisconsin\u2019s plan to scale back the union\u2019s pay and benefit plans. The labor showdown has now spread to Indiana and Ohio.<\/p>\n

Wednesday, February 23, 2011 Radio Show
\nH2: Laboring
\nPrager H2: Kevin Wall sits in for Dennis. Kevin continues his discussion of how organized labor is desperately trying to fend off the attempt by Republican governors in Wisconsin, Ohio and Indiana to reign in the public service unions\u2026 The Justice Department has withdrawn its defense of DOMA.<\/p>\n

Wednesday, February 23, 2011 Radio Show
\nH3: DOMA Done
\nPrager H3: Kevin Wall sits in for Dennis. The President has suddenly decided that the Defense of Marriage Act is indefensible\u2026<\/p>\n

Tuesday, February 22, 2011 Radio Show
\nH1: Four Americans Murdered by Pirates
\nPrager H1: Four Americans were murdered by Somali pirates. They were carrying Bibles. Is that why they were murdered? It\u2019s a good question, but no one is asking it\u2026 The dictator of Libya is not going down without a fight which he means he will, without compunction, kill many of his own people to stay in power\u2026 Indiana Democrats may run away from their state just like Wisconsin Democrats have done from theirs.<\/p>\n

Tuesday, February 22, 2011 Radio Show
\nH2: The Great Dictator
\nPrager H2: Dennis plays a few choice clips of Mohammar Kaddafi\u2019s TV speech to the Libyan people. Very inspirational — if you\u2019re a psychotic\u2026 San Francisco is considering a ban on circumcision. But, of course, they\u2019re pro-abortion\u2026. Wisconsin\u2019s governor and Republicans must stand firm against the public service unions.<\/p>\n

Tuesday, February 22, 2011 Radio Show
\nH3: Ultimate Issues Hour: The Evil of Communism
\nPrager H3: It\u2019s a moral scandal that Communism is not studied as the evil that it was. It murdered over 150 million people.<\/p>\n

Monday, February 21, 2011 Radio Show
\nH1: The Descent of the Unions
\nPrager H1: We love teachers; we have contempt for the teachers union\u2026 The Daily Mail in London reports that Gaddafi has fled Libya. If it\u2019s true, where did he go?.. Tavis Smiley makes Bill Maher look like a conservative\u2026<\/p>\n

Monday, February 21, 2011 Radio Show
\nH2: Big Cheese
\nPrager H2: The Democrats fit of pique in Wisconsin is the biggest domestic story of the year\u2026 Dennis talks to Charlie Sykes, radio talk show host in Milwaukee, about the circus going on in that state\u2026 Columbia University students protest the idea of an ROTC office on campus.<\/p>\n

Monday, February 21, 2011 Radio Show
\nH3: AARP
\nPrager H3: Dennis talks to Robert Samuelson, columnist for Newsweek and Washington Post, about the stranglehold AARP has on the federal budget\u2026 Dennis talks to Senator Scott Brown of Massachusetts.<\/p>\n

Like a good liberal, even a Center Left one, Megan McArdle of The Atlantic worries what the Republicans might do with such a precedent<\/a>. But the Republicans don\u2019t do this sort of thing, Megan. There is no equivalence.<\/p>\n

Here’s how it breaks down: <\/p>\n

Matthews Accuses Huckabee of Advocating Ethnic Cleansing<\/p>\n

Listen to first 27 seconds<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Note that Matthews begins by calling Huckabee “a whack” and “a lunatic.” But he’s only warming up.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the Most Inflammatory Report I Could Find about Huckabee and Israel<\/a><\/p>\n

AP report<\/a> of his visit to Israel. He doesn\u2019t believe Israel should give up settlements to appease Palestinians.<\/p>\n

This is how the Left operates: make a wild accusation, the more outrageous the better; don’t worry about backing it up because the media will always give you a pass even if it turns out to be an obvious lie. Next victim please…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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