Where to go for decent radio?

When the situation in Iraq started getting serious, I abandon NPR. I had some problems with their one-sided coverage prior, but not so much to drive me away. Indeed, I listened for about a dozen years. News, classical, jazz, Car Talk, What do you know, the whole nine yards. As the foriegn policy news began to become more important, my ability to over-look NPR's slant fell off the table. Part of this is because I am socially liberal, but in economics and foriegn policy, I am recognizably conservative. So, I turned to local AM talk radio. As long as Iraq remained the big story and most of the talk was about the war, I was happy with talk radio. As the talk returns to social issues and the war now only a small part of the talk, I can't stand the talk radio. Rusty Humphries is the most offensive, but Micheal Savage and Sean Hannity are driving me to search for alternatives as well. Humphries, aside from being blind to any reflection what so ever, hasn't the slightest idea what Hegel's dialectic is, and seems to think its all a trick. Ack. He has no idea that conservatives have be able to use Hegel without going through Marx to profitably say something useful. Humphries seems to think that liberals invented the term "neocon" as an attack term, probabaly because, as he says, it might suggest "neo-nazi" in the mind of the listener. Apparently Norman Podhoretz does not exist in Humphries world. Nor Irving Kristol, Gertrude Himmelfarb, or a host of other first generation neocons. Such an embrace of ignorance of Hegel, the history of an important strain on the right, and a host of other topics prevents me from even listening. My social liberalism is a problem on all of these shows, and my statism (moderate though it may be) prevents me from regarding the rabid anti-tax ravings of these fellows as anything but loopy.

I have tried to return to NPR, but found the very first story so slanted - the voting public's rejection of gun control candidates must be an NRA plot - that I quickly abandon that. Fortunatly fate smiled happily on me. James Lileks mentioned his own preference for Hugh Hewitt as an alternative to the "rant-a-thons". Always loved Lileks and happy to follow his lead re Hewitt. Fortunatly I live in a time when streaming LA radio is just as easy as listening to broadcast radio. Listened to a complete show today, and found it a very happy listen. Sensible, intelligent, and not demonstrating any propensity drive me to throw objects at the speakers. Ultimatly I will probabaly have to find another show or two to fill those days I am at home and desirous of talk and commentary (ie when I am awake and not at work).

Update: Humphries has the bizzare idea that posting his ideas on neo-cons is a good idea. See them at NewMax.com.