Show 536 John Stossel discusses the state of US education and negative impact teachers' unions have on it. Aired on Fox Business network on February 18, 2010.
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Show 535 Book- Courage and Consequence My Life as a Conservative in the Fight
By Karl Rove. Michael Medved talks to author
Courage and Consequence is also the first intimate account from the highest level at the White House of one of the most headline-making presidencies of the modern age. Rove takes readers behind the scenes of:
Rove is candid about his mistakes in the West Wing and in his campaigns, and talks frankly about the heartbreak of his early family years. He spells out what it takes to win elections and how to govern successfully once a candidate has won. But Courage and Consequence is ultimately about the joy of a life committed to the conservative cause, a life spent in political combat and service to country, no matter the costs.
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Show 534 A new study discovers that those who describe themselves as “green” are less honest and charitable than others. The academics who conducted the study are shocked, but Dennis Prager isn’t.
Also, Dennis Prager talks to Ken Gormley, Professor of Constitutional Law at Duquesne University. His new book is Death of American Virtue: Clinton v. Starr. March 23, 2010
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Show 533 The John Stossel Show. The Road to Serfdom
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Show 532
Six Segments-
1 Ann Coulter talks to CPAC. 17 min
2. CNN interviews Ann Coulter about CPAC. 7 minutes
3. Ann talks about Wall Street.
4. Ann talks about John Edwards.
5. John Stossel talks about President Obama's first year.
6. John Stossel talks about Healthcare.
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Show 531 Prager University. Part 1 Several selections from Prager University. Audio MP3
Show Prager University. Several selections from Prager University. To see the video's of these visit youtube Prager University.
1. Introduction
2. Dennis Prager, best-selling author and nationally syndicated radio talk show host, makes the case that happiness is much more than a personal pursuit, it's a moral obligation.
3. Dennis discusses our core human nature. Are we basically good? How you answer this question says a lot about your world view. After attending this Prager U course, that view may change
4. Dennis Prager, discusses the significant difference between what we do (our actions) and our thoughts and intentions.
5. Is there a key that unlocks the door to personal happiness and goodness? Yes. And Dennis Prager knows what it is.
6. No one, not even the most devoted atheist, denies that the Bible is the most influential book ever written. So, what is the most important verse in this most important book?
7. Dennis Prager begins his discussion on male/female differences. The male preoccupation with the visual is the first topic raised.
8. What Would Make You Believe in God? Dennis Prager asks a fundamental question and comes up with an answer that may surprise both believers and non-believers.
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Show 530 Why Boys Fail: Saving Our Sons from an Educational System That's Leaving Them Behind by Richard Whitmire . Michael Medved talks to author.
Book Description- Boys are falling behind in school. The world has become more verbal; boys haven't. Even in their traditionally strong subjects of science and math, boys are hit at a young age with new educational approaches, stressing high-level reading and writing goals that they are developmentally unable to achieve. The gap between male and female achievement has reached the college level, where only 40 per cent of graduates next year will be male. This doesn't just mean fewer male doctors and lawyers, it also means fewer men in the careers that previously did not require post-high school degrees but do now. "Why Boys Fail" examines the roots and repercussions of this problem and spells out the educational, political, social and economic challenges we face as we work to end it.
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Show 529 Newt addresses what it will take to save America.
Title: Principled Bipartisanship starts at 2+2=4
Date: February 20, 2010
Location: CPAC, Washington D.C.
Length: 35 minutes
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Show 528
Segment 1 John Stossel talks about the latest Unemployment numbers. 8 minutes
Segment 2 Global Warming Cover up. 23 minutes.
Segment 3 Real Global Disaster
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Show 527 Lies Terror and the Rise of the Neo Communist Empire… and IQ Al Rasooli on Islam. From the Conscience of Kansas Radio Program with Paul A Ibbetson. 50 minutes.
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Some iTune Podcasts you might like as suggested by ACU.
American Conservative University Podcast. - I rate this a 10 out of 10. The ACU podcast is of course #1.
outloudopinion-audio of America’s top conservative columnists. – I rate this a 10 out of 10.
Focus on the Family: James Dobson on Marriage. Rating= 10 out of 10
Focus on the Family: James Dobson on Parenting. Rating= 10 out of 10
Between the covers on national review online- Poor audio quality. Good content. 8 out of 10
Cato Daily Podcasts. 7 out of 10
Cato Institute Event Podcast. 6 out of 10
Lew Rockwell Show- 6 out of 10. Libertarian. Short shows but well edited.
Mises Institute Media- unrated but always cerebral and great. Economics
Recommended Websites
Dennis Prager. For commercial free archived shows visit Pragertopia http://stores.dennisprager.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=DP&Category_Code=01010101 Cost is $6.95 per month. It’s the best entertainment/educational value out there.
Michael Medved https://www.michaelmedved.com/site to listen live for free or $4.95 per month to download all of his podcasts.
OutloudOpinion http://www.outloudopinion.com/index-new.php
The Ludwig von Mises Institute. The world center of the Austrian School of economics and libertarian political and social theory. Visit- http://mises.org/media.aspx
The Lew Rockwell show archives at http://www.lewrockwell.com/podcast/?p=archive
For Faith and Family archive of podcasts visit http://faithandfamily.com/fff/archive/section/radio/
For Cato Daily Podcasts Website visit http://www.cato.org/dailypodcast/podcast-archive.php
For the Cato Institute Event Podcast website visit http://www.cato.org/podcasts/
To download some of Hugh Hewitts shows visit his website at Hugh Hewitt http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/talkradio/Show.aspx?RadioShowID=5
Visit Newt Gingrichs site at http://newt.org/
Dr. Dobson's Focus on the Family podcast visit: http://listen.family.org/recentdaily/
Focus on the Family: James Dobson on Parenting http://feeds.feedburner.com/JamesDobsonOnParenting
Focus on the Family: James Dobson on Marriage http://odeo.com/channels/2101275-Focus-on-the-Family-James-Dobson-on-Marriage
Book TV http://www.booktv.org/programs_archive.aspx?SectionName=History
Show 526 Dennis Prager talks to Arthur Laffer, famed economist and founder and chairman of Laffer Associates, an economic research and consulting firm. His new book is Return to Prosperity: How America Can Regain Its Economic Superpower Status.
For a synopsis of this book see ACU Show 525.
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Show 525 Return to Prosperity: How America Can Regain Its Economic Superpower Status
by Arthur B. Laffer Ph.D., Stephen Moore. Michael Medved talks to the author.
Synopsis-"WE CAN'T TAX AND SPEND OUR WAY BACK TO THE GOOD TIMES."— Arthur B. Laffer and Stephen Moore
When Arthur B. Laffer spearheaded the theory of supply-side economics and became a member of President Reagan's Economic Policy Advisory Board, he took his place as an economic icon. More recently, he joined with Stephen Moore and Peter J. Tanous to write The End of Prosperity — a clarion call delineating what is wrong with current political approaches to America's present economic challenges. Steve Forbes himself described The End of Prosperity as "brilliantly insightful," saying "READ IT — AND ACT!"
Now Arthur Laffer and Stephen Moore follow the rousing success of The End of Prosperity with a book even more vital to America and Americans, delivering a plan that shows how our country can regain its lost prosperity. With the economy flat on its back, unemployment at a twenty-five-year high, and the housing default crisis still worsening, is this even possible? But America can once again become the land of economic opportunity, and this brilliant new book tells us exactly how.
While President George W. Bush and President Barack Obama may hail from different parties, their response to the crisis has been strikingly similar. The Bush-Obama plan is a failure that has produced nothing except a cascade of trillions of dollars of debt. Is the situation hopeless?
No, say Arthur Laffer and Stephen Moore resoundingly, the situation is not hopeless. A return to prosperity is still entirely possible...if the correct strategies are followed. In The End of Prosperity, the authors primarily discussed how lower taxes areessential to economic growth. Now, in Return to Prosperity, they detail the other essential components: putting government at all levels on a low-fat diet; emphasizing debt reduction and retirement; and bringing back the investor class in America, where every American can "own a piece of the rock."
In a time where most of the proposed solutions are fraught with peril, the argument provides a refreshing counterbalance. The Return to Prosperity is a prescription that gives America the fundamental tools it needs in order to set about recovery. This book is an urgently needed road map to renewed prosperity, and it is vital reading for anyone who worries that the current economy is faltering, with no clear plan articulated for recovery.
Biography
Arthur B. Laffer, Ph.D. is the founder and chairman of Laffer Associates, an economic research and consulting firm. A member of President Reagan's Economic Policy Advisory Board for both of his two terms, he invented the Laffer Curve and triggered a world-wide tax-cutting movement in the 1980s. Dr. Laffer received a B.A. in economics from Yale University and received a MBA and Ph.D. in economics from Stanford University.
Stephen Moore, an economist and policy analyst who founded and served as president of the Club for Growth from 1999 to 2004, is a member of the Editorial Board of The Wall Street Journal and a Senior Economics Writer at The Journal.
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Show 524 Ann Coulter on the Dennis Prager show Mark Larson guest hosts. 19 minutes
Segment 2- Dennis Prager talks to the author of After the Fall. Saving Capitalism. 25 minutes. Total show time 44 minutes.
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Show 523 John Stossel talks about the great novel, Atlas Shrugged, and it's continued popularity 50 years later. 43 minutes.
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Show 522 Dennis Prager talks to John Rosemond. The child psychologist writes a nationally syndicated column on parenting and has authored 14 books. His newest book is The Well-Behaved Child: Discipline that Really Works.
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Show 521 Atomic Iran: Countdown to Armageddon...How the West Can Be Saved. Michael Medved talks to author Mike Evans.
Book Description- During Dr. Mike Evans research for this book in Israel in late 2009, he was told by a high-level Israeli government official that should Iran achieve its nuclear ambitions, it would then have a nuclear umbrella which would allow it to accelerate terrorism throughout the Sunni Gulf oil states in an attempt to fulfill its vision of a world caliphate. An ensuing multi-trillion dollar nuclear arms race between the Sunni and Shia states in the region would drive the price of oil to never-before-seen levels for decades to come. The estimate given him was that oil prices could go as high as $200 per barrel. This would further decimate the world economy. With the ascension of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to the position of power in Iran, much has been said about the Mahdi. Al-Mahdi was the Twelfth Imam in the line of Ali, who disappeared down a well at the age of five. Refusing to believe that he was dead, his followers imbued him with timelessness. They declared him to be merely hidden, or in a state of occultation, and declared that on some future date he would suddenly reappear to reestablish an Islamic caliphate worldwide. The Twelver's eschatology, however, proved problematic; it espoused an apocalyptic upheaval in order for the Mahdi, or Hidden Imam, to ascend to his rightful place of leadership. These Twelvers championed the tenet that every individual, regardless of his religious belief, would one day bow to Islam or die. In Ahmadinejad's mind, an atomic bomb in Tel Aviv would usher in the Mahdi, and all the world's demise (Jews and Christians) would instantly be converted to Islam. Compared to Ahmadinejad and his Twlever band, al-Qaeda resembles Boy Scouts ushering little old ladies across busy streets. What does the world really think of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his Twelver beliefs? Are most people aware of his devotion to the Mahdi? Do most understand that he is an ardent Twelver, a dedicated disciple of the Twelfth Imam, who will do anything to insure that the world is made ready for the second coming of a false messiah even if it requires manufacturing his own apocalyptic event to insure a rush to Armageddon? When Dr. Evans met Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's spiritual advisor in New York City for a UN meeting in 2007, he declared that his leader would usher in the Mahdi the twelfth descendant of Mohammad through such an apocalyptic event within three years. President Obama seems incapable of fully accepting his culpability should he pursue talks with Iran's bloody regime. He was given a legitimate chance to support change for the good of the Iranian populace following the June, 2009 Iranian election. He had an opportunity to respond vigorously, yet he failed to do so in a timely manner. America's forty-fourth president has all but acquiesced to Iran's nuclear course. Even during the election process Mr. Obama signified that he was agreeable to a meeting with the regime: I would [talk to Iran's leaders without preconditions]. And the reason is this, that the notion that somehow not talking to countries is punishment to them -- which has been the guiding diplomatic principle of this [Bush] administration -- is ridiculous. The Iranians saw this as weakness on the part of the American presidential candidate. Since taking office, Mr. Obama has done nothing to counter that opinion. Ahmadinejad has declared the issue closed, not worthy of talks with the leader of The Great Satan. He has rebuffed the advances of a man who apparently wants to dance with Iran. Ahmadinejad feels he is in the driver's seat, and unless a backbone transplant is in the offing, Mr. Obama will likely acquiesce to whatever terms Ahmadinejad demands prior to any face-to-face talks with the American president. The countdown to Armageddon has begun.
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Show 520 Dennis Prager talks to David Aaronovitch, columnist for the London Times. His new book is Voodoo Histories. The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History. February 04, 2010 Radio Show
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Show 519 Crony Capitalism. John Stossel show on Fox Business Channel, Thurs 01-14-10.
43 minutes
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Show 518 Glen Beck at CPAC 2010. (Conservative Political Action Conference) 57 minutes.
Highly Recommended- see the video of this audio presentation at
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Glenn Beck - Weekdays at 5p & 2a ET on the Fox News Channel
Show 517 George Will speaking to CPAC 2010. An excellent speech. Funny, brilliant, a 9 out of 10. Thirty minutes long.
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Show 516 Crash Course The American Automobile Industrys Road from Glory to Disaster. Michael Medved talks to author Paul Ingrassia
From the publisher- ABOUT THIS BOOK This is the epic saga of the American automobile industry's rise and demise, a compelling story of hubris, denial, missed opportunities, and self-inflicted wounds that culminates with the president of the United States ushering two of Detroit's Big Three car companies—once proud symbols of prosperity—through bankruptcy. The cost to American taxpayers topped $100 billion—enough to buy every car and truck sold in America in the first half of 2009. With unprecedented access, Pulitzer Prize winner Paul Ingrassia takes us from factory floors to small-town dealerships to Detroit's boardrooms to the inner sanctums of the White House. He reveals why President Barack Obama personally decided to save Chrysler when many of his advisors opposed the idea. Ingrassia provides the dramatic story behind Obama's dismissal of General Motors CEO Rick Wagoner and the angry reaction from GM's board—the same people who had watched idly while the company plunged into penury.
In Crash Course, Ingrassia answers the big questions: Was Detroit's self-destruction inevitable? What were the key turning points? Why did Japanese automakers manage American workers better than the American companies themselves did? He also describes dysfunctional corporate cultures (even as GM's market share plunged, the company continued business as usual) and Detroit's perverse system of "inverse layoffs" (which allowed union members to invoke seniority to avoid work). Along the way we meet Detroit's frustrated reformers and witness the wrenching decisions that Ford executives had to make to avoid GM's fate.
Informed by Ingrassia's twenty-five years of experience covering the auto industry for The Wall Street Journal, and showing an appreciation for Detroit's profound influence on our country's society and culture, Crash Course is a uniquely American and deeply instructive story, one not to be missed.
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Show 515
Segment 1. CBS’s 60 Minutes show on Medicare fraud.
Segment 2 Glen Beck on Climate Change
Segment 3 Dennis Prager talks to Paul Ingrassia, Detroit bureau chief for the Wall Street Journal. His new book is Crash Course: The American Automobile Industry's Road from Glory to Disaster.
Show 514 Dennis Prager went to DC to speak to Congressional Republicans. He reflects on the event and replays his speech
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Show 513 John Stossel on Fox Business Channel, Thurs 01-21-09. "Green Jobs" and Energy Independence. 44 minutes.
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Show 512 Dennis Prager talks to Thomas Sowell, widely read syndicated columnist, best selling author and scholar in residence at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. His new book is Intellectuals and Society. The President’s State of the Union Speech is also a topic of discussion.
Thomas Sowell unmasks the intellectuals who exalt themselves by denigrating our society -- and are working to destroy it.
Intellectuals and Society by Thomas Sowell
There has probably never been an era in history when intellectuals have played a larger role in society – and yet few Americans know these immensely influential people who are doing so much to steer our nation off course. But now, the latest thought-provoking book from the renowned conservative thinker Thomas Sowell, offers you a unique introduction to the world of intellectuals. Intellectuals and Society introduces you to the thinkers of our society, many of them unknown to the general public, who mold our society and make an impact on people in every walk of life, both for the better and for the worse -- but usually for the worse. Sowell's vision, as expansive as ever, ranges over economics, politics, the media, academia, the law, and even war as he shows the momentous ways in which this small group of people wields a baneful influence upon our nation and Western civilization as a whole.
These intellectuals, Sowell says, are surrounded by a huge array of people and groups who disseminate their ideas: journalists, teachers, staffers to legislators, law clerks, and other members of the intelligentsia. Thus their influence on the course of society can be considerable, or even crucial. He shows how intellectuals have -- on issues ranging across the spectrum from housing policies to laws governing organ transplants -- sought to have decision- making discretion taken from those directly involved, who have personal knowledge and a personal stake, and transferred to third parties who have neither, and who pay no price for being wrong.
Sowell shows how intellectuals have filtered information in the media, in the schools, and in academia, to leave out things that threaten their vision of the world. Intellectuals' downplaying of objective reality and objective criteria, says Sowell, extends beyond social, scientific, or economic phenomena into art, music, and philosophy. Above all, he reveals how intellectuals exalt themselves by running America down and turning Americans against each other. Whether the subject is crime, economics, or other matters, intellectuals hold positions that are conspicuously different from those held by society -- while presenting themselves as intellectually and morally superior to ordinary folk.
Their vision of the world, Sowell explains, includes a role for themselves as a self-anointed vanguard, leading the ignorant masses toward a better world. They treat those whose ideas or vision are different as unworthy obstacles to progress, nuisances to be disregarded, circumvented, or discredited, rather than as people on the same moral and intellectual plane, whose arguments are to be engaged factually and logically. Sowell points out how college speech codes with subjective criteria and "re-education" provisions for those expressing "benighted" opinions emphasize how intellectuals demonize and marginalize their opponents.
Sowell shows how this vision that intellectuals have of themselves as the anointed is a major obstacle preventing examining their opinions in light of evidence and experience. He tears the cover off the ruthlessness with which the anointed assail their conservative opponents, in defiance of ever mounting evidence against their pet theories -- like the "root causes" of crime.
The wisdom and insight of Thomas Sowell:
How intellect is not wisdom, and what the difference is
One of the surprising privileges of intellectuals: the free granted to them to be scandalously asinine without harming their reputation
"Public intellectuals" like Bertrand Russell and Noam Chomsky who dabble -- often with disastrous results -- in fields other than the ones in which they made their name and reputation
Top-ranked intellectuals who have made utterly irresponsible statements and advocated hopelessly unrealistic and recklessly dangerous things
How many intellectuals and their followers are far more impressed than they should be by the fact that highly educated elites like themselves have far more knowledge than does the population at large
Central planning: just one of many ideas popular among intellectuals that depends on the underlying assumption that people with more knowledge should be guiding society
Why free markets, judicial restraint, and reliance on decisions and traditions growing out of the experiences of the many -- rather than the presumptions of an elite few -- are so important to those who do not share the social vision prevalent among intellectual elites
How the association of intellectuals with violence occurs too often to be dismissed as an aberration
How, on so many issues, intellectuals have tended to dismiss, rather than answer, the objections of those with opposing views
How saying that it is hard or impossible to discern what was meant by a law has often been a prelude to making decisions that ignore even the plainest meanings of laws in order to impose notions currently in vogue in elite circles as the law of the land
Bureaucracies: how they're often able to turn the visions of the intelligentsia into the law of the land, subject to little correction from those who know better or who suffer the consequences
Why teachers are universally held unaccountable for the consequences -- either to their students or to society in general -- of their disastrous educational theories
How the societal elites propped up by the intellectuals imposes few constraints on those intellectuals -- so long as they are propounding the prevailing vision of the anointed
Among Americans today, Sowell concludes, the steady encroachment of policies, practices, and laws based on ideas forced upon us by the intelligentsia has steadily narrowed the scope of the freedoms ordinary Americans have always had -- freedom to run their own lives, as well as to shape government policy. Intellectuals and Society unravels in clear, non-intellectual terms some of the puzzling phenomena in the world of the intellectuals -- analyzing the nature and role of intellectuals in society and exploring the ominous implications of that role for the direction in which the Leftist intelligentsia are taking our society and Western civilization in general.
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