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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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Portland's Pricey Potties


Mind if we talk about sometime that stinks?  By that I mean Portland’s Patented Public Toilet…brainchild of former city commissioner Randy Leonard.  Now mind you, when I say it stinks I should mention that it gets cleaned plenty…to the tune of 14-hundred dollars a month.  And there are a bunch of them, so the taxpayers are paying about 90-thousand dollars a year for that service.  But when you’re camping on downtown streets, sponging for spare change, waiting for your next drug customer or fix…the call of nature can lead to nasty results.  Willamette week reporter aaron mesh has the whole sordid septic story in this week’s edition.  It details how the program was intended to be self funding because the city owns the patent to the public toilet.  At least one person who regularly deals with patents tells me the thing isn’t worth much…because its nothing unique…and that’s what it takes to be a patented toilet. Leonard assumed the city could sell its unique idea to other cities and recoup the 600-thousand dollars in public water bureau money it cost…but so far no takers.  Not a problem for leonard now…he’s off enjoying his two public pensions in retirement…and you and I are stuck with the bill

Ron! A Voice For Oregon Miners!


The mining industry is under attack in Oregon, and we've been trying to help the miners of the state get the word out about the importance of mining in the state.

But I keep running into the same problem. No one can put the importance of mining into simple terms that normal folks understand, and do it with passion. 

But today, I think we may have found the man who can be the mouthpiece for these chosen few...

His name is Ron, and he joined me today. What do you think? 

The Speech Police...


Is the IRS going to serve as President Obama’s “speech police”? A powerful government agency targeting groups for their political beliefs.  


John Boehner asked this morning “who’s going to jail for this”. It wasn't just a rogue office in one city, but many IRS offices around the country. IRS demanded extra proof of tea party groups.  


Today we learned that a group of Democrat Party Senators, including Oregon’s Jeff Merkley and comedian Al Franken, sent a letter during the election run up, demanding that the IRS give extra scrutiny to political groups…and I don’t think they meant Media Matters.  


The President’s half brother, Abongo Obama runs a shady charity that has built a Madrassa. It claimed tax exempt status it didn't have for a couple of years. Then Lois Lerner, the woman who is at the center of the Tea Party Investigation scandal, managed to secure tax exempt status for Abongo Obama in less than a month.  Remember this is the same agency that will play enforcer on ObamaCare when it kicks in January 1.  


As for the President…he’s playing Sgt Schultz…he knows nothing.  


Absolutely nothing... 

McConell: IRS Scandal "Blatant, Thuggish Abuse Of Power"


We're learning more today about the scandal at the IRS. Here's the latest from the AP:

A government watchdog is blaming ineffective management at the Internal Revenue Service for allowing agents to improperly target tea party groups for extra scrutiny when they applied for tax exempt status. In an upcoming report, the Treasury inspector general for tax administration says lax management allowed the practice to go on for 18 months. The Associated Press obtained a copy of the report ahead of its release. The IRS on Friday apologized for targeting tea party as well as other conservative groups. The report said that when asked by investigators, IRS supervisors said the criteria they used to decide which groups they examined were not influenced by people or organizations outside the IRS.

In addition to this information, Senator Mitch McConnell blasted the IRS, calling their targeting on conservative organizations a "blatant and thuggish abuse of power."

Senator McConnell joined me today on the show, and he was on fire!

Illegal Government Gun Show


If you get together with a group of people to buy/sell/trade guns, and you have more than 25 guns present and available for transfer, this falls under gun show rules and there is a requirement that background checks be run, and that and FFL licensed dealer be present.

This weekend, Cease Fire Oregon had a gun buyback in Portland. There were more than 25 guns present and available for transfer, but there was no FFL licensed dealer present, and there were no background checks being performed. 

A citizen journalist confronted the people running the buyback, the Mayor of Portland, and others about the fact that they were committing a class A misdemeanor. Their argument is that since the guns were being destroyed, they were not being transferred. According to the state statute, that is not the case.

Our legal expert Bruce McCain joined me on the program today, and he agrees that it was technically illegal to run the buyback the way that they did...

Keep Your Eyes on Cleveland


The whole country is watching what’s happening in Cleveland with the rescue of three women, kidnapped, raped and beaten…and Oregon should be watching too.  The Buckeye state does something that Oregon doesn’t. It protects unborn babies.  And the rescued women say one of them was raped…then beaten till five of her unborn babies died.  In Ohio that’s aggravated murder.  In Oregon it’s….nothing.  If a pregnant woman in Oregon is beaten till her baby dies it’s an assault on the woman…but the death of the baby isn’t murder.  I know we’re stuck with Dr Death as Governor.  The Governor likes doctor assisted suicide and abortion…killing the defenseless.  But he’s dead set against the death penalty…killing the guilty.  If you can make sense of that I’m betting you voted for Doc Death and the Bungler of Benghazi.  But I guess in a very twisted, weird, Democrat Party way it makes sense.  Unborn babies don’t vote. But I’ll bet if they did, they’d vote pro-life…and I think Oregon should too.  Let’s put the death penalty in the law to protect victims of the kind of crimes Cleveland found out about this week.
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