Posts Tagged ‘Dennis Prager’
The power of apathy
Abby Johnson reminded us of the brutal murder of Kitty Genovese in Queens, New York. Returning home late at night, Ms. Genovese was attacked by a stranger. Her cries for help went unheeded by neighbors.
The attacker left her in the bushes, only to return 30 minutes later to rape and finish her off.
A New York Times story said countless people heard her cries. No one offered to help. No one called the police. The woman died.
Read MoreThe source of morality
One side wants the other side dead
The conflict in the Middle East never ends. Liberal elites suggest a moral equivalence in the two sides of the Israel/Palestinian conflict.
Don’t be fooled, says Dennis Prager, a Jew, who has studied the issue since his graduate studies at Columbia University’s Middle East Institute in the School of International Affairs.
Islam vs. the world
World War III rages.
The latest casualties come from Nairobi, Kenya where some 62 men, women, and children were butchered.
Over in Pakistan, 19 more were blown up on a bus by the same aggressor.
Over in Iraq, eight people including women and children were blown into pieces at a Sunni commercial center. For the last week alone, Islam extremists killed 511 people around the world and critically injured another 573. Sixty-two of these deaths came at the hands of suicide Jihad attacks. The Muslim instigators of these suicide attacks are assured of going to heaven, according to Muslim Jihadist theology.
These attacks take place every day in every corner of the world. Out of political correctness, the world does not label this unrelenting carnage for what it is, a war. Since the attacks touch large swaths of the world, it seems accurate to label it World War III …
The difference between Iraq and Syria is as huge as the difference between Bush and Obama
“So Obama is wrong for wanting to help stop the slaughter of women and children via chemical weapons while Bush got us in two wars on the possibility that Saddam may have chemical weapons. I fail to follow the logic you and many other bashers that seem to take such delight in name calling our commander in chief.
If you are like most of your fellow Obama haters, you were all for the war Bush pushed us into.”
This was the recent comment of a faithful, if contrarian, Quiner’s Diner reader. I thank him for sharing it …
Read MoreHappiness is a serious problem
“You are as happy as you decide to be.”
Read MoreWho would you save, the stranger or the dog?
You’re faced with a choice: to save a drowning stranger or your beloved pet dog. You only have time to save one? Who do you save?
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