My Dear Listener:
I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for responding to my invitation to “sign up” with what I call the Prager Rational Guard (aka “Dennis’s Menaces”).
I apologize for not getting back to you much sooner. Aside from not having a staff to handle mail, as you may know, I had two surgeries this past summer to finally solve my sciatica problem (and a third surgery on a finger that had developed a staph infection!). I was in quite a bit of pain for the first six months of 2010, and while I somehow did the radio show, wrote my weekly column, and travelled to all my lectures (while being wheeled through airports), I could not do much more than that.
As you presumably know, I regard the upcoming election not merely as an important election but as a referendum on America’s future.
I think that the most important action you can take in the coming days is to support any of the Republican candidates for Governor, the Senate, and House listed below. This list is by no means comprehensive, but it includes men and women who are committed to making our government smaller and, as a result, our country stronger.
By clicking on the links below (hold down the Control key and then left click buttons) you can make donations and support these candidates in a variety of ways. No contribution of money or time is too small. Even a $5 or $10 contribution to a candidate (or to several candidates) matters. Those small amounts multiplied by large numbers of contributors will make an impact. But please do act now as the election is less than two weeks away. Thank you for getting involved in these critical races.
Senate:
Sharron Angle (NV) http://sharronangle.com/
Ken Buck (CO) http://buckforcolorado.com/
Richard Burr (NC) http://burrforsenate.com/
Cam Cavasso (HI) http://camcavasso.com/meet-
Carly Fiorina (CA) http://www.carlyforca.com/
Jon Kyl (AZ) http://kyl.senate.gov/
Joe Miller (AK) https://joemiller.us/goal/
Pat Toomey http://www.toomeyforsenate.
David Vitter (LA) http://www.davidvitter.com/
House:
Michelle Bachman (MN) http://www.michelebachmann.com
Joseph Cao (LA) http://www.caoforcongress.com/
Ken Calvert (CA) http://www.calvertforcongress.
Charlie Dent (PA) http://www.dentforcongress.
Charles Djou (HI) http://www.djou.com/
David Dreier (CA) http://dreier.house.gov/index.
Nan Hayworth (NY) http://nanhayworth.com/
Jim Gerlach (PA) http://www.
Leonard Lance (NJ) http://www.lanceforcongress.
Ruth McClung (AZ) http://www.ruth4az.com/
Star Parker (CA) http://www.
Erik Paulsen (MN) http://paulsenforcongress.com/
Mike Prendergrast (FL) http://www.pickprendergast.
Dave Reichert (WA) http://www.davereichert.com/
Jean Schmidt (OH) http://www.jeanschmidt.com/
Tim Scott (SC) http://www.votetimscott.com/
Dr. Rob Steele (MI) http://www.
Lee Terry (NE) http://www.leeterry.com/
Van Tran (CA) http://www.joinvantran.com/
John Willoughby (HI) http://www.
Joe Wilson (SC) http://www.
Don Young (AK) http://www.donyoung2010.com/
Governor:
Tom Emmer (MN) http://www.emmerforgovernor.
Each of us has a role in trying to reassert the core American values – what I have labeled the American Trinity: E Pluribus Unum, In God We Trust, and Liberty. My role has been to offer clarity and intellectual ammunition in this battle. I think this is very important because ultimately this is a war of ideas. For that reason I have also started Prager University on the Internet (www.prageru.com). If you have not visited Prager University, I ask you to do so and to forward the links to the five-minute video courses to as many people as possible. We have even dubbed two courses into Spanish.
I would like to be in touch with you first and foremost to help you get these ideas out both to those who share our values, but who cannot fully articulate them, and to those who do not.
I am attaching five recent columns:
For the Left, Opponents Cannot Have Decent Motives -- The Ground Zero Example
Same-Sex Marriage and the Insignificance of Men and Women
Black Murders Eight Whites; Media Blames Whites
ABC, NPR and PBS Hosts Equate Christian and Muslim Violence
I am asking you:
1. To forward any of these and other of my articles – and Prager University courses -- to as many people as possible.
2. To donate time and money to Republican candidates.
3. To join a Prager Listener Group in your area. (In the unlikely event that there isn’t one in your area, please consider starting one.) Meeting fellow listeners is a very positive experience socially as well as politically, and you know the importance I attach to making new friends. In addition, many of these groups are highly creative. For example, some have made their own July Fourth Seders.
4. To go to my website and click on “Winning in November” (on the very top right of the page, to the right of my picture). There is no money involved, solely an attempt by my radio colleagues and myself to gather a million or more signatures to one or more of the pledges.
I am deeply grateful for your responding to my request to join with me in fighting for our country’s core values. Your doing so gives me strength to continue my work.
With warmest wishes,
Dennis
