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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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New Year. Same Obama.


The President got what he wanted. Higher taxes on the rich. Enough money to run the federal government for about five days.  We still have a federal deficit north of a trillion dollars, and the new taxes will pay about five percent of that…if the bill didn't also contain about 30 billion dollars a year in new spending. And there’s the real problem.  Spending.  

The Congressional budget office says that this new plan adds about 300 billion dollars in new spending over the next ten years. And the President has promised…cross his heart…to cut spending sometime in the next few months or years. Of course, he promised four years ago to cut the deficit in half.  Back then it was a trillion dollars a year.  It’s still a trillion dollars.  Social security and Medicare are still insolvent.  And the President has given raises out to federal employees by executive order.  Hollywood gets new bigger tax breaks. So does NASCAR. And Rum from Puerto Rico. And two wheeled electric vehicles. And Asparagus farmers. 

Oh, and by the way...When the President claims he didn't raise your taxes…check your January 15th paycheck. Social security taxes on all workers go up two percent…so if your family has income of 50-thousand a year, that’s a thousand in higher taxes.  If his lips move…he’s lying.

10 Years...30 Years...What's The Difference?


Oregon’s lawmakers bought a real pig in a poke with this deal.  Governor Kitzhaber comes out and asks for authority to strike a ten year deal for “tax certainty” by Nike.  Before anyone has a chance to think about it, a special session of the legislature passes the thing.  Now I like Nike and I hope they stay here forever and create lots of new jobs.  But they’re a worldwide company and frankly that doesn’t seem likely.  Then we find out that its not a ten year deal for Nike…but a thirty year deal.  and we find out  it’s not just one company…the governor now has the right to pick winners and losers for tax certainty and the deals can run out to as much as forty years.  The law seems to forbid making promises that must be kept by future legislatures and decisions by voters.  And I fully expect that governor retread will ask the legislature to approve a sales tax for Oregon, because goodness knows the government just doesn’t have enough of your paycheck yet.  You wonder if there’s a Santa Claus?  Yep…and he lives in the Pearl and commutes to Salem every day.

The Best New Reality Show: The Oregon Government


You gotta love the government.  Hundreds of thousands of laws regulate everything you and I do every minute of every day.  Then the President decides that illegal aliens, who steal jobs and social services from taxpayers, should be given a pass on those laws.  He can’t get the congress to do it so, wahlah…he signs an executive order.  Now they’re legal.  But Oregon couldn’t figure out what to do with these illegals when they walk into DMV asking for a drivers license.  So some offices refused and others did it anyway.  Last Friday the DMV announced it would ALL refuse licenses to Obama’s Illegal’s.  This week, DMV changed its tiny collective mind and announced….well, that they’re still talking about it.  Oregon Government ought to have its own reality show.  “Honey Boo Boo” and “Buck Wild” have nothing on Doctor Death and the Legislative Misfits.

Help Them Help Your Kids!


We've heard a lot about the value of life this week and how it can end in an instant.  So lets take a look at policies the leaders of Oregon embrace.  Hundreds of criminals released from the Multnomah county jail because of crowding while a perfectly good jail, worth sixty million, sits empty.  The governor supports abortion on demand but refuses to allow state law to put convicted killers to death.  Oregon embraces death through doctor assisted suicide…supported loudly by Doctor Death himself, Governor Kitzhaber.  When I read this morning that Belgium is considering euthanasia for children, I wondered, how long till Oregon follows suit.  After all, we let kids use marijuana.  And now we’re debating the proposal by state representative Dennis Richardson to arm teachers. Why is there a debate. You trust teachers with the lives of your kids doing a bunch of things that could hurt or kill them if done wrong.  Why not trust them with a gun to guard the lives of your kids.  Notice the pattern here. The President has put “crazy Joe” Biden in charge of figuring out how to keep crazy people from getting guns. O-K And if you trust Obama and company to set the rules for protecting schools…I’d suggest you first consult the late U.S. Ambassador to Libya, Chris Stevens.  Ask him how well they protected his life.

Wacky Weed Causes Wreck


We've been sharing the road with Pot smokers for some time.  But now that Marijuana has been legalized in Washington State, I guarantee there will be more.  Last night in my Vancouver Neighborhood, one of those pot heads hit and killed a pedestrian.  Ordinarily the dead man would be at fault, because he walked out into traffic and not at a crosswalk.  But the police say that because the driver of the car was high on marijuana, he’s legally at fault.  They think this is the first Pot related fatality since legalization.  Here’s the way I figure it.  People smoke the drug, but now that it’s legal more will join them.  And it’s going to be harder to prosecute marijuana intoxication.  With a breathalyzer you can measure blood alcohol closely.  But Pot stays in your blood for days and when cases come to court, you’re going to see defense attorneys argue that the smoker wasn’t tokin’ the day he drove.  So people heading out to party will quickly figure out that inhaling means less chance of prosecution than imbibing.  And all that stuff about pot heads being safer drivers…try telling that to the man killed by Scotty Rowles last night.

Zones of Violence


Jesus Christ once advised his disciples to buy swords even if they had to sell something to do it.  Jesus understood the need for self defense from bad guys.  Our society seems to have forgotten on that lesson.  Let’s consider some facts.  Crazy people do insane things and that’s been true throughout human history.  Last week, one crazy person murdered people at a shopping mall.  Later in the week, another crazy person murdered children and teachers in Connecticut.  Both shootings stopped when men with guns showed up.  At the Mall, a private citizen named Nick Meli pulled out a pistol and the killer stopped shooting, ran off and took his own life.  In Newtown, the killer slaughtered with impunity until he could hear sirens outside and then ended his own miserable life.  All you have to ask is…what would have happened if the men and women with guns were already inside the school or the mall when the killer showed up.  It’s not a cure all. And by the way…the mall shooter stole his gun and the school shooter had a gun that’s illegal to buy in that state.  Those laws didn't work.  Both places were “gun free zones”.  When the insane decide to kill, their target of choice is always a “gun free zone”.  If you want safety, zones and bans are not the answer.
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