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

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.

We are talking about Christianizing America. We are talking about the Gospel in a political context.

But the threat posed by the radical Islamists represents an unusual conflict, unlike any experienced by our nation before: we face an enemy that is not a state.

They want everybody to vote. I don't want everybody to vote. Elections are not won by a majority of people, they never have been from the beginning of our country and they are not now.

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

Advertisers are very wary of ideological media.