Month: November 2012

Recommended Music: BSG Season 2 Soundtrack

I don’t know about you, but I am taking a much needed break from my political driving and I am going to pursue some of my other passions. Tonight it is music! I am the son and grandson of some very gifted musicians. My grandfather was a violinist for the Dallas Symphony in the 50’s. My mom is a very accomplished pianist and has  directed choirs and taught music to more young people than I can name. I grew up listening to (among other things) classical music. John Williams has been a staple of my musical diet since I...

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Mitt Romney Isn’t The Answer

I’m sitting here on my couch, my kid in bed, my wife out shopping and I find myself wrestling with tonight’s electoral outcome. Mitt Romney has lost. We have four more years of Barack Obama as our president. He will likely have two, maybe three Supreme Court appointments. He will continue his assault on religious liberty. There will be no repeal of Obamacare. We will continue to spend with abandon and drive ourselves into the debt hole. We now get to see what “more flexibility” means with regard to Russia. There will be no justice for the dead in...

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The last undecided voter in America?

  If you follow me on Facebook, you might have seen the picture with Amy, Hugh Hewitt, and me ten days ago, during the Battleground Talkers Tour stop in Columbus.   That picture started a conversation yesterday at church with another Facebook friend, who might well be the last undecided voter in the state of Ohio, if not in the entire country. She asked who was in the picture with us, and where she could listen to Hugh. Then we started talking about the election. She still didn’t know who she was going to vote for, and I pressed...

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CLA Radio 11/09/12: Steel Slide

  The upcoming ConservativeLA Radio show (on Duane FM in the Hughniverse, Friday, 11/2, 7:00 Pacific/10:00 Eastern) pertains to songs by, about or otherwise concerned with guitar-like instruments played using an object on or in the left hand (with right-handed players). Hawaiian steel, pedal steel, dobro, lap steel, slide guitar. E. T. C. Be there. Oh, and PS: There is a new Obama-free intro featuring the Doors, Spike Jones, a trailer from a country music musical movie, and the always awesome The Army You Have. Not enough to convince you? Well, there’s this spoiler set list: Waylon Jennings: Rainy...

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