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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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Mainstream Media Malarkey


I wonder about the priorities of the mainstream media every day.  This morning the big story is that an NFL football player told a comic that Gay players aren’t welcome in the locker room.  Not really surprising, is it?  I’ll bet an anonymous poll of straight players would find that they’re not any more enthusiastic about welcoming a homosexual than the cheerleaders would be about showering with linebackers.  TV and radio is giving it a lot of attention.  At the same time…the President’s choice for secretary of defense, Chuck Hagel, is undergoing confirmation in the Senate. Hagel once complained about a new ambassador who he said “was aggressively gay”. I’m willing to bet that none of the major media raise that one at all.  And which is more significant…the comments of a football player or the man who’s about to take over the most powerful military force on planet earth.

Diminishing Dames?


President Obama’s defense secretary rolls out new political correctness for the United States Military today. Women in combat.  Yesterday, when the news first broke, I got an earful from current service members and veterans. A few liked it.  But most of them pointed out the practical problems.  Women serve in the military right now but the physical standards are set much lower than for men.  That’s not a huge problem if the woman serves in some jobs. But the men point out that a fully loaded combat infantry soldier can tip the scales at 300 pounds.  They question if an average sized woman, similarly loaded up, can drag a wounded brother to safety, or climb over a wall.  and these aren’t the objections of grizzled old Vietnam or world war two vets.  it’s the younger guys who have respect for the women they serve with…but say that only women of extraordinary physical fitness can meet the minimums set for men.   While the women’s rights advocates are celebrating today, I would only ask them…is it a victory if you win new opportunities for women…only by setting telling those women they don’t have to actually show they’re equal in ability?

Hill Faces The Heat


Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was in the hot seat this morning, testifying before the Senate about the incident four months ago that led to the murders of four Americans, including the first U.S. Ambassador killed in 30 years.  She’s already blown up once this morning as Senators question her about why Americans were told a lie about a videotape, which led to spontaneous protests that led to the deaths.  That whole story…told by the President, Clinton, Ambassador Susan Rice and the rest of the Obama administration…was a lie and we know it now.  But the President was in the middle of a tight re-election campaign.  Now we know that it was a terrorist attack.  Now we know that the state department had months of warnings about the threats to the embassy in Libya.  And now…after hearing months of excuses about why Hillary can’t testify…travel, the flu, dehydration, bump on the head, clot on the brain, dog ate my homework.  Clinton is anxious to leave the state department behind and start running for President…she has 4 dead Americans in her rear view mirror that she just can’t seem to shake.

Inauguration Irony


Today, Americans turn their gaze to Washington D.C. for the inauguration of a President.  But for me, the far greater expression of American rights and freedoms happened on Saturday.  Thousands of people gathered on the steps of the state capitol in Salem…and in all fifty state capitols around America.  They exercised their rights to freedom of assembly, their right to petition the government for redress of grievances and their freedom of speech.  And all of that was in support of another right, the individual right to bear arms, contained in the constitution and reaffirmed by the Supreme Court.  We’ve heard a lot about that right in the past six weeks because of the collision of two major events.  The first of course was the murder of school children in Connecticut.  And the second is the efforts of one American to abridge those rights.  The irony is that the man being sworn in to a second term of office as president…is the one that threatens the rights of those who gathered in Salem on Saturday.  It was a pleasure to be invited to speak to that group…and especially gratifying to see that the group behaved itself perfectly…no adverse events…no trash left behind…and the lone counter protestor at the event was treated respectfully.  God Bless America.

Follow The Law? Dr. Death Doesn't Feel Like It


To a lot of Oregonians, he’s Governor John Kitzhaber.  He signs himself MD although I understand his medical license is not current.  But I always think of him as Dr. Death, since he keeps coming up with killer ideas for his state. Like Doctor Assisted Suicide.  Now he has another one that’s guaranteed to end in the murderous, painful death of innocent citizens.  Strangely enough Kitzhaber doesn't believe in the Death Penalty.  So he has refused to enforce the laws on the books that require the execution of convicted killers.  The doc apparently thinks his personal feelings trump state laws passed not once, but twice by Oregon voters.  And Now Kitzhaber wants the legislature to get rid of the death penalty altogether.  My friend, district attorney Josh Marquis, one of this country’s acknowledged experts on the death penalty points out that the best criminal research on hand, says every time you execute a killer, you save the lives of at least people who would have been murdered.  The death penalty deters.   The studies also say each dead bad guy could save as many as 20 murders.  But when it comes to a choice of saving lives…or saving the lives of killers and the governor’s feelings…we know which one is more important…don’t we?

Constitutional Scammer?


If you care about your rights and liberties, this President should scare you to death.  He claims to be a constitutional scholar, yet he famously described it as a document of negative liberties.  The only thing negative about it is that it tells the government what it CANT do to citizens. This is a President who believes that government can force citizens into things like health care, over their objections and punish them if they don’t comply.  And today, the President plans to announce restrictions on rights protected by the 2nd amendment to the constitution.  Now the constitution assumes that CONGRESS will write laws that set the limits on the time, place and manner of constitutional freedoms…stop you from shouting fire in a crowded theater, for example.  But this President says he doesn't need Congress…because the people’s representatives refuse to pass the laws he demands.  So he’s going to use executive orders…like the edicts of a dictator…to usurp the rights of the citizens he supposedly serves.  This President swore an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution…and he and his family are protected by guns…but he wants to deny that protection to you and me.  I hope that Texas congressman makes good on his promise to introduce articles of impeachment when Barack Obama crosses that constitutional line, today.
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