Dennis Prager from Creators Syndicate

How Liberals Lost a Liberal for 04/15/2008

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700

The Democratic Party's preoccupation with the question of when America will leave Iraq rather than with how America will win in Iraq reminds me of how and why this nearly lifelong liberal and Democrat became identified as a conservative and Republican activist.

I have identified as liberal all my life. How could I not? I was raised a Jew in New York City, where I did graduate work in the ...

Updated: Tue Apr 15, 2008

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Time Fights Carbon Emissions; Military Fights Evil for 04/22/2008

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700

The state of the liberal mind is on display on this week's cover of Time magazine.

The already notorious cover takes the iconic photograph of U.S. Marines planting the American flag on Iwo Jima and substitutes a tree for the flag. Why Time's editors did this explains much about contemporary liberalism.

The first thing it explains is that liberals, not to mention the left as a whol ...

Updated: Tue Apr 22, 2008

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PBS, Bill Moyers and the Rev. Wright for 04/29/2008

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700

When Air America, the left-wing talk radio network, began, I predicted that it would not succeed. One of the main reasons I gave was that liberals already had their views expressed in the mainstream news media — the major networks, PBS and NPR (National Public Radio), and just about every major city newspaper. Therefore, the need liberals have for liberal talk radio is nowhere near the ne ...

Updated: Tue Apr 29, 2008

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Michael Moore, Frank Rich, Jeremiah Wright and John Hagee for 05/06/2008

Tue, 06 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700

It is with no pleasure that I put in writing what I have long believed: Though many individual liberals have only goodwill toward black Americans, the liberal world since the late 1960s (i.e., after the major civil rights legislation of the mid-1960s) has done incalculable damage to black America and to race relations in this country. Whether out of guilt or because of its own racist views (i.e ...

Updated: Tue May 06, 2008

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If On the Wrong Track, Why Go Left? for 05/13/2008

Tue, 13 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Today's most widely accepted political belief is that because an unprecedentedly high percentage of Americans — 81 percent — believe the country is headed in the wrong direction, the Republicans are headed for a major defeat this coming November.

If this is the case, it can only be because the American voter translates "headed in the wrong direction" as "becaus ...

Updated: Tue May 13, 2008

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California Decision Will Radically Change Society for 05/20/2008

Tue, 20 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Americans seem mesmerized by the word "change." And, by golly, they sure got it last week from the California Supreme Court. It is difficult to imagine a single social change greater than redefining marriage from opposite sex to include members of the same sex.

Nothing imaginable — leftward or rightward — would constitute as radical a change in the way society is st ...

Updated: Tue May 20, 2008

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God, the Holocaust and a Pastor for 05/27/2008

Tue, 27 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Comments about God and the Holocaust made in a sermon 10 years ago by a leading evangelical pastor, John Hagee, have received a great deal of attention. They have led to Sen. John McCain severing ties with the pastor, whose support the presumptive Republican presidential nominee had originally solicited.

Pastor Hagee, a major supporter of the Jewish people and Israel, citing verses from ...

Updated: Tue May 27, 2008

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Liberalism and Victimhood for 06/03/2008

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700

If you want to understand the negative impact of feminism on women (and men) and, by extension, the destructive effects of liberal teachers, Democratic politics and liberal news media on African-Americans, here is Katie Couric last week on the CBS Evening News:

"A new study on teens and sexual harassment should give every parent pause.

"Most teenage girls report they've ...

Updated: Tue Jun 03, 2008

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When I Was a Boy, America Was a Better Place for 06/10/2008

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700

The day the O.J. Simpson verdict was announced, I said to my then-teenage son, "David, please forgive me. I am handing over to you a worse America than my father handed over to me."

Unfortunately, I still feel this way.

With the important exception of racial discrimination — which was already dying a natural death when I was young — it is difficult to come up ...

Updated: Tue Jun 10, 2008

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When Young People Get Excited for 06/17/2008

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700

We regularly hear about Barack Obama's appeal to youth, about how he has been able to excite and mobilize a generation of young people to become politically involved, his rare ability to excite young people, and about how many new voters will register (and vote Democrat) as a result.

All this seems to be true. The question, however, is whether it is a good thing for the country and not j ...

Updated: Tue Jun 17, 2008

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Why Are So Many Women Depressed? for 06/24/2008

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700

It is widely reported that women suffer depression at twice the rate of men. Apparently, more women are clinically depressed than ever before. On the assumption that these assessments are true, the question anyone interested in the subject — which means anyone who cares about any woman — asks is, why?

In a recent column I offered one explanation — the impossibly high ex ...

Updated: Tue Jun 24, 2008

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Why I Support John McCain for 07/01/2008

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Last week, a conservative magazine reported that I would not vote for John McCain for president. The magazine based its claim on a column I had written in May 2007 about why I could not support John McCain for the Republican presidential nomination.

The magazine was wrong. Though I did not support Sen. McCain in the Republican primaries, the moment he became the presumptive Republican ca ...

Updated: Tue Jul 01, 2008

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Why a Black Artist Replaced the National Anthem for 07/08/2008

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Last week in Denver, almost all the values of the post-1960s left were exhibited in one act.

It happened on the Denver mayor's most important day — the one in which he was to deliver his annual State of the City Address. The day was to begin with the singing of the National Anthem by the black jazz singer Rene Marie. But Ms. Marie had, by her own admission, long had other plans. In ...

Updated: Tue Jul 08, 2008

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False Equation: Opposing Same-Sex Marriage and Opposing Interracial Marriage for 07/15/2008

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700

The most effective of all morality-based arguments for same-sex marriage, the one that persuades more people than any other argument, is the one that equates opposition to same-sex marriage with the old opposition to interracial marriage.

The argument, repeated so often that it sounds incontestable, is this: Just as parts of American society once had immoral laws that forbade whites and ...

Updated: Tue Jul 15, 2008

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Will Israel Attack Iran? for 07/22/2008

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700

It is difficult to imagine Israel attacking Iran.

It is, however, more difficult to imagine Israel not attacking Iran.

Consider three questions:

First, does Iran mean what it says about destroying Israel? When its leaders repeatedly call for Israel's annihilation, after referring to it as a cancer and using other rhetoric not heard on a national level since the Nazi regime' ...

Updated: Tue Jul 22, 2008

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Barack Obama's Naive Berlin Speech for 07/29/2008

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700

To better understand Sen. Barack Obama, his speech before 200,000 Germans in Berlin is one good place to start. As we shall see, however, it does not leave one secure as to the senator's understanding of history, of America's role in the world, and what to do about evil, among other important issues.

Obama: "At the height of the Cold War, my father decided, like so many others in th ...

Updated: Tue Jul 29, 2008

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Barack Obama's Naive Berlin Speech -- Part Two for 08/05/2008

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Sen. Barack Obama's recent speech in Berlin may have been a hit with American journalists. That, however, is due to most journalists' politics, not to the profundity of Obama's remarks. They were neither profound nor stirring. Indeed, a careful study of the speech should lead an impartial observer to be concerned about Obama's grasp of the world. I started my analysis last week; I conclude this ...

Updated: Tue Aug 05, 2008

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Why I Am Not a Liberal for 08/12/2008

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700

The following is a list of beliefs that I hold. Nearly every one of them was a liberal position until the late 1960s. Not one of them is now.

Such a list is vitally important in order to clarify exactly what positions divide left from right, blue from red, liberal from conservative.

I believe in American exceptionalism, meaning that (a) America has done more than any international ...

Updated: Tue Aug 12, 2008

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If There Is No God for 08/19/2008

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700

We are constantly reminded about the destructive consequences of religion — intolerance, hatred, division, inquisitions, persecutions of "heretics," holy wars. Though far from the whole story, they are, nevertheless, true. There have been many awful consequences of religion.

What one almost never hears described are the deleterious consequences of secularism — the t ...

Updated: Tue Aug 19, 2008

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On Shooting Taggers: Why Conservatives and Liberals Differ for 08/26/2008

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Earlier this month Andrew Sullivan, a well-known writer, once in the center, now on the left, nominated me for what is apparently his lowest badge of distinction for defending citizens who shoot to wound graffiti vandals, or "taggers," while committing their vandalism.

Under the heading, "Malkin Award Nominee," Sullivan provides a quote from my radio show:

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Updated: Tue Aug 26, 2008

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