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Lars LarsonLars got his start in radio at age 16 spinning records (remember 45s?) and reading news, sports and weather (twice an hour) on KTIL (The Mighty 1590) from a little cinderblock building on the edge of a cow pasture in Tillamook, Oregon (75 miles West of Portland, Oregon).

 

36 years later, he’s only moved 75 miles east to Portland and light years to “the Right”. Emmy and Peabody award winner Lars Larson brings nearly four decades of experience as a radio and television journalist to the microphone for six hours of the best talk radio in America. Six hours of daily prep keep The Lars Larson Show on top of the news and top-of-mind for listeners across the country.

 

Along the way, Lars has worked for more than a dozen radio stations and five television stations. Today, Lars holds down the fort from 12pm – 4pm on Radio Northwest flagship FM NEWS 101 KXL. His local talk show airs on seventeen stations in the Pacific Northwest (and earns him the biggest local talk radio audience in the region).

 

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Laws Mean Nothing To Murderers


Say a prayer for those wounded and killed in yesterday’s shooting at Clackamas Town Center. But you can also hope that the folks who write our laws don’t try to forbid legal, law abiding citizens from owning and using firearms. The most dangerous place in the world you can be is a “gun free zone”. The campus of Virginia tech was a gun free zone and a criminal murdered people there. The movie house in Aurora, Colorado was another gun free zone and people died there too. God Bless the police and the risks they take but when seconds count, the best cop is usually at least a few minutes away. Oregon’s virtually guaranteed to hear State Senator Ginny Burdick begin her tried and true best to disarm citizens at the coming legislative session. Crazy people have been a part of human societies for the whole of human history. Laws written on a piece of paper don’t stop them…can’t stop them. But ask yourself this as you walk into a “gun free” store. Have you ever heard of a nut carrying out a mass shooting at a police station, or a gun show? Some will say that this isn't the time to talk about matters like this but as far as I’m concerned, this is the very best time. 

What's the Punishment for This Crime?


What can you possibly do with two pint sized criminals who at ages 7 and 11 try to jack a car and commit armed robbery armed with a loaded gun?  Obviously the facts aren't all in yet.  Where they got the gun.  Were their parents even aware of what they were up to?  But the legal system seems stymied by the pair.  Can’t send them to juvenile hall although we might have to reconsider that rule.  Can’t shame them because even though I’m sure by now all their classmates at school know or will know soon who they are…the rest of the community will not.  Some will call for punishment of their parents and I wouldn't leave that off the list.  They threatened to take a life and had the means to do it. My disappointment: the courts will treat them as “victims” and that message won’t be lost on the kids.  Their privacy will be protected.  If kids saw that when you commit a crime the adults treat you with kid gloves…pun intended.  A night in lockup might have been the best thing for them.  Shaming from society is another. And don’t necessarily assume the parents are at fault.  We all know virtually perfect parents with offspring from hell…and well behaved kids who set a good example for how their parents should behave. Time to bring back the stocks in the public square. 

Time For Americans To Get The Lump Of Coal They Asked For...


Too many Americans are demanding a lump of coal in their Christmas stocking.  Last night, about 800 people showed up for a DEQ hearing…many if not most of them demanding that Oregon not allow exports of coal to customers in the East.  This kind of insanity is going to hurt the whole country.  Let’s consider the facts.  The globe is cooling, not warming which is why the climate NUTS changed the name of their boogie man from global warming to climate change.  The state of Oregon has already agreed to shut down the PGE coal electric plant at Boardman which makes cheap power to replace it with gold plated windmills and solar.  The United States has a 300 year supply of this wonderful fuel and the technology to burn it cleanly.  We have customers all over the pacific rim who want to buy coal from us and make jobs and taxes and a better balance of trade.  We already ship hundreds of millions of tons of coal safely through the region and stories of mountains of coal dust by the tracks are simply not true.  This crowd of fanatics opposing coal is the same bunch that has killed the timber industry, much of fishing, farming, mining and the kind of jobs that support families.  I only want to ask…do you really want to freeze to death in the dark without a job?

Get Out, Gutter Punks!


Downtown Portland gets more dangerous all the time.  How is that good for workers and the businesses that employ them?  The latest example you’ve been hearing about is an outright assault on food cart owners who were forced to arm themselves and fight back.  We’ve already seen city hall fail the public by allowing animal rights protestors to drive a fur business out of town.  And the Occupy Crowd brought violence, property damage, drug dealing and raw sewage to the streets near city hall…all with the blessing of Simpering Sam Adams.  People tell me they’re afraid to come to the city’s core because they’re forced to run a gauntlet of unwashed, pan handling, threatening bums who camp on the sidewalks.  And the Mayor’s answer?  He tells police hands off.  Food cart operators are robbed and vandalized…and the open season attitude …emboldens these young street thugs into a full on attack on law abiding citizens…in broad daylight.  Half a dozen of them sit in jail now and that’s a good thing.  All the fancy brick malls and high tech trains don’t make up for the kind of human urban sewage that city hall tolerates.

Costly Costas Comments


NBC needs to show Bob Costas the door.  Any politician who even breathes a word that suggests he doesn't respect the rights and dignity of any group of Americans, no matter how small, puts his future at extreme risk. Now imagine a man who suggests that an important civil right be stripped from ALL Americans. Imagine a man who proposes limitations on a right SO IMPORTANT that the Founders of America enshrined it in the Constitution of the United States!


I give you just such a man, Bob Costas, who during halftime of Sunday Night Football, suggested that if only Americans didn’t have guns, NFL player Jovan Belcher and his girlfriend would be alive.  Belcher murdered his girlfriend and then took his own life.  


Those of us who cherish our God given civil rights protected by a Constitution and elected officials who swear an oath to protect those rights, don't take threats like this lightly. People like me represent more than half the population of the country. People like Bob Costas, who command platforms from which to advocate elimination of our rights, constitute a threat to our freedoms. 


Imagine the reaction if he had suggested stripping or limiting the civil rights of American blacks, or Muslims, or homosexuals or the disabled. If Costas had done that, every part of the mainstream media would be raising a ruckus about it today. I’ve worked in TV and radio newsrooms for more than 35 years.  Most members of the media support the disdain espoused by President Obama who famously disparaged gun owners as Americans who bitterly cling to their rights.


I'll keep my gun rights and suggest that NBC pink slip anyone who uses the network to advocate stripping the Constitutional rights of Americans.

For Obama & The Debt...The Sky Is The Limit


Two developments come from the crazy tax negotiations in Washington DC should shock Americans. The President, who promised to cut the federal deficit in half, plans to have trillion dollar deficits for the rest of his second term in office. And now he’s asking for 1.6 trillion in new taxes…but there’s something worse. The Constitution puts the authority for the government to borrow money in the hands of Congress. President Obama’s treasury secretary is asking, today, to have that authority transferred to the White House.  America is right up against its debt ceiling of 16 trillion and Timothy Geitner wants there to be no limit at all. 18 months ago, our country hit that debt wall and was threatened with defaulting on its debt for the first time in history. Decisions to borrow and spend money should stay with the congress. But the same President who has told us he doesn't need the congress…because he can pass new law with the stroke of a pen in executive orders…the same President who has refused to enforce some laws because he decided they’re unconstitutional…now wants more authority.  America does not need a dictator…cannot allow a dictator…who threatens to bury us in so much debt we may never climb out of the hole he has put us in...
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