Tune in tomorrow for the special New Years edition of the show!
We'll be doing our year-end Week In Review, plus your chance to criticize the show - our politics, the way we do the show, our voices, whatever.
Plus a special visitor!
Tune in tomorrow, noon-3 Central, on AM1280 The Patriot or on the Web!
From Hugh Hewitt's book Blog: Understanding the Information Reformation That's Changing Your World:
Blogging has been demonstrating for two years its destructive energy, and is beginning to show its building potential as well, as demonstrated by the Northern Alliance of Blogs in Minnesota, which has coalesced, matured, founded a radio show, attracted sponsors, hosted events, and boosted candidates and events.
I wonder if we could get this Hewitt guy to come on the NARN for an interview...
Yesterday, while speaking with Jim Hake of Spirit of America, we challenged the listening public to put the Northern Alliance's pledge total over $11,000, or we'd pre-empt an hour of Michael Savage.
Well, thanks to all you Savage Rerun fans out there, we made the goal with a solid half-hour to spare!
There are still three days to go in the challenge, and we'd love to catch Little Green Footballs - so please, please send a buck or two to the Spirit of America, via the Northern Alliance donation page.
Last minute Christmas shopping? How about Ann Coulter's latest tome How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must): The World According to Ann Coulter?
Be sure to catch the NARN tomorrow as we interview Ann Coulter (1pm CDT), Jim Hake from Spirit of America (1:30pm CDT), and, best of all, Mark Stutrud founder of St. Paul's own, Summit Brewing Company (2pm CDT).
Steven Vincent, author of In The Red Zone, an excellent book about Iraq, and guest on the NARN just a few short weeks ago, has joined the blogosphere with the aptly titled blog, In the Red Zone.
Read more on some of the Army's procurement problems that we talked about on Hugh's show last night in this piece at OpinionJournal:
When commanders first identified the need for more armored vehicles, in August 2003, production was at 30 per month; it's now up to 450 a month and the plants making armor are running at full capacity.
That's remarkable considering the modern bureaucratic burden that has built up for procurement, especially after the $400-hammer wars of the 1980s. This isn't 1944, when B-29s were flying off the assembly lines of factories dedicated to supplying war needs. Today, anyone who's tried to sell so much as a paper clip to the Pentagon will tell you what a time-consuming mess the system is. Forget to dot one "i" and your company runs the risk of ending up like Halliburton, target of lawsuits and reviled in the press as a corporate predator.
Check out the whole story here.
And it's now been set to song.
Here are a couple of links to items we discussed last night on Hugh's show:
Victor Davis Hanson's article "How Far We’ve Come"
Ralphie's Rocket Launch
The NARN will be filling in for Hugh Hewitt tonight on his national show.
We'll be talking with the usual Tuesday crew - Frank Gaffney and K-Lo, as well as lots of time for call-ins.
Tune in!
UPDATE: We'll also be taking the reins on Thursday, hoping that in our age when congestion reigns the freeways, the rains of December don't delay our travels.
Read much more about the U.N.'s Oil for Food scandal, Kofi Annan, Norm Coleman, and the Star Tribune editorial board at Captain's Quarters and Power Line.