The President has a short time to let people know that he is serious about getting spending under control.

Conservative talk radio works because there are lots of conservatives who are convinced that they are not getting the whole story from the regular media.

The reason that conservative talk radio works is because there is an audience for it.

The White House alone cannot hold its opponents accountable.

Small scale is critical to local life, to the ability of local people to control what happens where they live.

Politics aside, it will be hard for any new liberal radio network to outdo the professionalism of NPR.

In the past, children learned their values at home, reinforced by organizations such as the Boy Scouts and, of course, their church or synagogue, but in all too many families that is no longer the case.