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Click here for today's podcastThe day after: London attacked again, the UK attacked again, Europe attacked again. By white supremacists? No. By right-wing militias? No. By Muslims? Yes.When are we, as members of Western Civilization going to get our heads out of our a**es and admit that Islam is at war with us? Apparently not anytime soon, given the legions of little mind-numbed young idiots at the Ariana Grande/Katy Perry/Justin Bieber/Black Eyed Peas/et al concert in Manchester. Hey dumbasses, it doesn't matter if you love everyone in the world, most of them hate you, and will kill you the first...

Those kicka$$ rockers from Madison Rising are trying to reach 5 million views on their Star Spangled Banner video. Will you help? If you haven’t heard their rendition before, it’s a giant pile of awesomesauce. Support these fantastic conservative rockers! They’re at just over 3 million right now – so please watch and then share with others! starspangledbannerchallenge.com

Named for Founding Father James Madison, they’re a “libertarian … pro-American … pro-constitution” rock band. Where other bands sing about ex-girlfriends and drunken nights, Madison Rising sings about Occupy Wall Street, the Second Amendment and liberal media bias. Lead singer David Bray described the band as a “war drum for patriotism”: a constant and uninterrupted pro-American message. “There are a lot of country acts that are out there that’ll say they’re all about the USA, and then in the next song they’re talking about bar fights and drinking beer in a bar,” explained Bray in an interview with The Daily...

As I've said before, kids don't surf the Heritage Foundation website, they don't listen to Beck or Hannity, and they don't watch Fox News. They listen to rap and "death metal", watch movies and reality TV, play video games and daydream they're LeBron James. If they get any "news" at all (and I seriously doubt the kid who calls Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker 'that dude' is a news consumer), it comes from Jon Stewart and Steven Colbert. Pop culture is the way we're going to have to reach them. We've got to deliver our message in an envelope they'll actually...

It seems to me that there’s money to be made for some young, enterprising, conservative musician. There aren’t really any conservative indie/alternative bands, but there are plenty of conservatives who like that kind of music. Can you imagine how they’d rally around a band who was outwardly conservative. And if Rush Limbaugh told his listeners about that band? They’d be millionaires overnight. Same, though less so, for a liberal country band. By the nature of the art form, there are more liberal musicians, in general, than conservative. But country still doesn’t have too many successful liberal acts (minus the Dixie...