Vicky.............IMHO, our moral high ground in terms of weighing in on what other countries should do was just one more victim of the Iraq War. After our actions there what right do we have to tell EITHER Israel or Iraq that, if they happen to perceive the other as a threat, they should not take action? (well, I guess that a case could be made that, since we give Israel so much $$$$$ every year, we perhaps should have SOME say in what they do)

Pastorial...........exactly. I have always wanted to ask Prager if he thinks that people be members of TWO different religions. If not, the fact that many people he would consider part of the leftist "religion" are at, say, Catholic Mass EVERY single Sunday would seem to blow his absurd contention that their "relgion" is leftism out of the water

Enrique....I didn't hear any of today's show but believe that I did hear him pitching a b$%ch about the germs associated with reusable bags in the recent past. Isn't it funny how, if someone he presumes is from "the left" brings up some type of health issue , it's "hysteria"....but, if someone from a point of view he agrees with (ie that reusable bags are a "leftist" plot) mentions some type of health issue it's FAR from hysteria...it's absolute gospel.

Vicky.....wow this conversation really took off. Anyway, I have no problem at all with your comment that "some people on either the left or right apply their political views in a religious fashion". Seems pretty fair and level headed to me....but.....it is, of course, CONSIDERABLY different than Prager's line that prompted my initial post....that everyone needs to know that "leftism is a religion". Just one more in a never ending line of absurd, WAY over the top comments by Prager.

And by the way, would Prager PLEASE stop the absurd remarks that liberalism/leftism is a "religion". It's a political philosophy. If libs think, for example, that the upper tax rate should be raised to 39%, that is NOT a religious belief. Just as it is NOT a religious belief if conservatives do not believe that the tax rate should be raised. If Prager wants to believe that God suddenly appeared and handed some tablets with laws to someone, more power to him. That's part of his religion.....but if I feel that companies shouldn't be allowed to dump crud into our waterways, disagree with me all you want but do NOT say "Oh, see...that's YOUR religion".

...these companies doesn't sound particularly irrational to me

Riquochet..............I beg to differ with you. I doubt that Prager has ever said or implied that ANY facet of religion is irrational. Now, if Prgaer had said "some irrational, ultra-religious boneheads fear a little red guy with a pitchfork, while irrational leftists fear tobacco companies", you'd have a valid point but, the way I interpret his words, he is comparing religious beliefs favorably to what he considers "leftist" beliefs. The fact that he would even compare a fear of teh devil with a "fear" of tobacco companies says a lot. The latter consist of businesses who have done their level best over the years to get people hooked on a product that they (tobacco companies) KNOW will kill a HUGE number of the population. Fearing/hating

Enrique....you do realize that , if someone takes the "happy meal" line seriously and posts it as one of the talking points on the Fox News website, we're going to have to listen to Prager repeat it for the next 10 years. That being said, it was a very good line.

Pastorial.....methinks that it's some type of compliment because we all know that, according to Prager, it's only "the left' that resorts to derogatory name calling.

Prager tries to "help people understand our differences"? Well, that's a unique way of putting it. The truth is that, if someone on the left would accuse conservatives of HALF of the stuff that Prager regularly accuses "the left" of, Prager would be the first one to complain that conservatives were being "demonized"