Dennis talks to Texas Governor Rick Perry about his latest book, On My Honor: Why the American Values of the Boy Scouts Are Worth Fighting for.

Dennis talks to Mike Rowe, host of Discovery Channel's popular series DIRTY JOBS.

He echoes Tom Sowell: his new ideas are old.

Dennis talks to Professor Kishore Mahbubani, of the National University of Singapore, has had a distinguished career in diplomacy and writing. In 2005, Foreign Policy magazine ranked him as one of the top 100 public intellectuals in the world. His latest book is The New Asian Hemisphere: The Irresistible Shift of Global Power to the East.

Dennis's rule proves accurate here: passion equals excellence. This Gold Star mother shames the Berkeley City Council.

What are the reasons? No one seems to know. Dennis offers some answers during the Ultimate Issues Hour.

They the wave is coming and its building... with good reason. What exists behind the rhetoric?

Michelle Obama made these comments to a crowd in Milwaukee yesterday. I guess her life has been pretty depressing til now.

WSJ details wiretap debacle in the House. Shameful and maybe far worse.

Dennis talks to Fred Kaplan who writes the "War Stories" column in Slate and has written for the New York Times, the New Yorker, the Washington Post, the Atlantic Monthly, and other publications. He has worked as a foreign policy aide on Capitol Hill, and spent decades as a Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter in Washington and Moscow. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife, NPR journalist Brooke Gladstone. His latest book is Daydream Believers: How a Few Grand Ideas Wrecked American Power.

The City of Brotherly Love has no love for the Scouts. Here's a recap of the sordid story we reported last month.

Nicholas Sarkozy wants French students to learn about the Holocaust. He also speaks in favor of religious instruction. French intellectuals are "shocked, shocked."

Movement to make it mandatory in CA.

Dennis talks to Jim DeMint, U.S. Senator from South Carolina. His latest book is Why We Whisper: Restoring Our Right to Say It's Wrong.

This was the feature story on page one of the NYT on Sunday. The piece describes how young Egyptian men are drifting toward "traditional" Islam because their ambitions are thwarted by a corrupt government and a mummified economy, but it's really about their inability to get women. This is the latest excuse for becoming a terrorist.