Tomorrow morning on The Rick Moran Show, I’ll be interviewing Douglas Hanson in the 7:30 AM central hour. Doug has recently returned from the Caucasus (Georgia) and is an expert on terrorism. We’ll discuss Russia’s role in the GWOT as well as the sad state that Russian democracy has reached under President Putin.

The show airs from 7:00 AM - 9:00 AM Central on WAR Radio.

We’ll also look at how the Israeli-Islamist war is going and how Lebanese democracy has been set back by the conflict.

To access the stream, click on the “Listen Live” button in the left sidebar. Java script must be enabled. It usually takes about 20 seconds for the stream to come on line.

Coming up during the 3:00 PM Central hour, Ric Ottaiano will have the newest blogging sensation on a special edition of Release the Hounds.

Eugene, the new 17-year old Pajamas Media Special Correspondent from Haifa who has become known as “the Bunker Blogger” for his posts from a bomb shelter will be on live with Ric in just a few minutes.

You can access the stream by clicking on the “Listen Live” button on the left sidebar or you can go to the WAR Radio site.

You can call into the show during the broadcast at 1-888-407-1776.

The fast moving situation in the Middle East will take up most of The Rick Moran Show today. I’ll have news and analysis concentrating on the following topics.

1. General news updates

2. An analysis of the situation in Lebanon

3. An analysis of the situation in Gaza

4. An overview of what the Iranians and Syrians are up to

We’ll take your calls all morning at 1-888-407-1776

JOIN ME FROM 7:00 AM - 9:00 AM CENTRAL TIME.

You can access the stream by clicking on the “Listen Live” button in the left sidebar.

Because of continuing technical difficulties with our new server, The Rick Moran Show will not be aired this morning as planned.

These problems are becoming enormously frustrating. We were supposed to relaunch yesterday but in trying to initialize the stream, we discovered a host of issues that we believed we would have resolved by this morning. This has not been the case, hence the delay.

WAR Radio expects to be up and running sometime today. In the meantime, please join me tomorrow morning for the inaugural edition of The Rick Moran Show.

The launch of WAR Radio yesterday was a stupendous success.

Unfortunately, too much of a good thing is sometimes hazardous; our server crashed a couple of times by mid-afternoon and by the end of the day, Boss Kender decided to take the stream off line.

In our wildest imaginings, we never envisioned the kind of traffic we were pulling by mid-day – a holiday when we thought most people would be out and about, enjoying time with their families. Given the traffic we experienced yesterday, Kender realized that there was no way we would be able to handle the normal weekday load, hence the decision to wait until the weekend to continue broadcasting after we install our brand new, state of the art server that should be able to take anything we throw at her.

“The Rick Moran Show,” scheduled to begin today, will therefore be delayed until next Monday, 7/10. We apologize for any inconvenience or disappointment.

WAR Radio is up and streaming!

We’re still ironing out a few bugs and annoyances, but this is to be expected given the fact that something like this hasn’t been tried before. We ask for your patience and understanding over the first few days of operation as we try and iron out issues like calls from listeners, recorded interviews, and a server that can handle a limited number of streams (until we get our new one later this week).

In fact, if you have problems accessing the stream, I ask that you not give up on us. By the end of the week, our server capacity will be able to handle anything. But at the moment, it may be a hit or miss proposition. In any event, watch this space or visit our WAR Radio site.

Less than 24 hours from now, yours truly will be on the air as Wideawakes Radio (WAR Radio) begins streaming.

I can’t tell you how excited I am at the possibilities this concept has for me, for my readers, and for conservatives in general. At the moment, we’re trying to iron out some bugs in the stream as well as get everything prepared for the launch. But by tomorrow morning, the 230th anniversary of our nation’s founding, WAR will be here.

The plan tomorrow is to follow a loose schedule with hosts jumping in and out all day previewing their shows and introducing themselves to listeners. I will be on from 8:30 AM to around 10:00 AM Central time. I will be reading and discussing the Declaration of Independence – what the times were like when it was written as well as some thoughts on American exceptionalism and how that idea has been disowned by the left in recent years.

Not just the left of course. The Supreme Court has made a hash of American exceptionalism by interpreting the law not so much according to the Constitution as much as how their rulings will play in the salons of Europe. This takes the Declaration’s admonition of having “a decent respect to the opinions of mankind” to its outer limits as the Court subsumes American exceptionalism in order to advance theories of government that are both foreign and unwelcome.

It should be an interesting time and I hope you join me.

On July 5, “The Rick Moran Show” will premier at its regular time of 7:00 – 9:00 AM Central. Hopefully by then, we’ll have a way for you to stream the show using Internet Explorer. At the moment, the button on the left sidebar for accessing the stream only works in Firefox.

Ain’t the internet radio business interesting?

For a full rundown on hosts and times, go to the WAR Radio site.

NOTE: THE STREAMING BUTTON DOES INDEED WORK IN INTERNET EXPLORER NOW. HOORAY!

Do you smell that?

What does it smell like to you? W.A.R. is in the air and it’s coming in exactly one month.

WIDE AWAKES RADIO is a new media venture that will feature prominent conservative bloggers in a no holds barred format that will be both enlightening and enormously entertaining.

If you like red meat analysis when talking about bread and butter issues, you are going to want to turn on the stream and keep it there all day long. Here’s an eye-popping promo for the network:

Yours truly will premier The Rick Moran Show on Wednesday, July 5 at 8:00 AM EDT. The show will air every weekday, Monday through Friday, from 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM EDT. We’ll have news, reaction to events, interviews with the famous and not so famous, a little goofiness, and a few rants interspersed here and there.

If you like this blog, you’ll love The Rick Moran Show. And if you don’t like this blog, you’ll still like The Rick Moran Show If you like this blog sometimes but not others, you will adore The Rick Moran Show all the time.

I guess that covers almost everybody…

In all seriousness, if you’re a blogger, you will not want to miss my show. I’ll be reading and discussing blog posts – both right and left – as well discussing news and views that will make you think.

For you non bloggers, there will be plenty to interest you. We’ll be talking about culture, sports, science, technology, history, books, and anything and everything that interests me. I don’t know how I’m going to fit it all into two hours but we’re also going to be taking your calls on whatever the topic of the day happens to be.

The lineup of hosts for W.A.R. is really quite impressive:

Pamela of Atlas Shrugs
Jim of Gateway Pundit
Emperor Misha of Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler
Jay of Stop the ACLU
Jack Idema
Cao of Cao’s Blog
Kit and Heidi of Euphoric Reality
Gribbit of Gribbit’s World
Buckley F. Williams of The Nose on your Face
Ric Ottiano of Release the Hounds
Jake of Freedom Folks
Glenn Blagg and Cracker will present Total Kaos (and trust me; it will be)
MsUnderestimated
GM Roper
Reel Teen
Wild Bill and The Passionate American Show

And last but not least, our fearless leader and Father Confessor, Kender of Kender’s Musings. The wild Scotsman will attempt to ride herd on this unruly bunch and tuck us in at night to make sure we all get our shut eye. So actually, Kender will be both a Father Confessor and a Mother Superior at one and the same time.

Nice work if you can get it.

Watch this site for more news, promos, links, and hints when we firm up the schedules and formats. But make sure you mark your calendar because starting on July 5th…

WE GO TO W.A.R.