Just a Country Boy at Heart

A few years ago, I re-connected with a guy I hadn’t seen in about 50 years.  We’d been friends in junior high, but once my family moved, Gary and I wound up attending different high schools.  Which is pretty much like living on different planets. 

After he came across my stuff on the Internet, Gary contacted me and suggested getting together for lunch.  And so we did.  While reminiscing about the old days, I told him that I was still grateful that he’d taught me to play tennis.  He was surprised to hear that I still played.  But his surprise was nothing compared to mine when he said that he was grateful that I’d introduced him to good books and great music.  Quite honestly, I hadn’t realized I’d done that.  Unlike his teaching me tennis, it wasn’t something I’d set out to do.  But he assured me that I was the first person he’d ever known who read Steinbeck and Dickens, Salinger and Dostoyefsky, Hugo and Twain, Robert Benchley and S.J. Perelman, and who listened to classical music.  (more…)

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Tags: Arlen, Bach, Barber, beethoven, Berlin
Posted Apr 9th 2009 at 6:37 am in Entertainment | 10063854 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bprelutsky/2009/04/09/just-a-country-boy-at-heart/Just+a+Country+Boy+at+Heart2009-04-09+13%3A37%3A55Burt+Prelutsky

Does God Exist? Hitchens vs. Craig

I had the opportunity to see Christopher Hitchens debate Dr. William Lane Craig on the topic “Does God Exist?” at BIOLA University. The gymnasium was packed with 3,000 people, most of whom were Christians but some non-believers made a showing. Without the home court advantage, you might think Hitchens would be the Lion cast into Daniel’s Den. Surely the reciprocal of the secular university would happen; he’d get pies thrown at him, and he would be regularly booed, shouted down and mocked. Hardly.

Christopher Hitchens

Christopher Hitchens is a kind of celebrity, even among Christians because he is an interesting character. If anything, he was warmly embraced by a crowd who generally disagreed with him even as he hurled the worst insults at God, which we consider the holiest, highest being imaginable. This is the demonstration of class and restraint I’ve noticed from a conservative Christian culture that has a much better record of tolerance than the liberal non-Christian culture. (more…)

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Tags: Biola, Christopher Hitchens, debate, Does God Exist?, Hugh Hewitt
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Rules for Conservative Radicals

This week’s Washington Times column:

A digital war has broken out, and the conservative movement is losing. Read the comment sections of right-leaning blogs, news sites and social forums, and the evidence is there in ugly abundance. Internet hooligans are spewing their talking points to thwart the dissent of the newly-out-of-power.

We must not let that go unanswered.

Uninvited Democratic activists are on a mission to demoralize the enemy – us. They want to ensure that President Obama is not subject to the same coordinated, facts-be-damned, multimedia takedown they employed over eight long years to destroy the presidency – and the humanity – of George W. Bush. (more…)

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Tags: Bill Clinton, blogs, Breitbart.com, george w. bush, Hugh Hewitt
Posted Mar 29th 2009 at 5:25 pm in Featured Story | 91950278 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/abreitbart/2009/03/29/rules-for-conservative-radicals/Rules+for+Conservative+Radicals2009-03-30+00%3A25%3A56Andrew+Breitbart