Month: July 2013

Racial Grievance-Monger in Chief

It’s always a great day when the President of the United States shoehorns himself into a local law enforcement issue in order to gin up racial resentment.   It was bad enough back in March of 2012 when Obama said, “If I had a son … he’d look a lot like Trayvon.” Now, he has waded in even further by claiming that 35 years ago, Trayvon could have been him. That is a complete crock: Barack Obama, far from being a child of the civil rights struggle who had to “work twice as hard to get ahead because of...

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CLA Radio 07/26/13: More Twang!

The next ConservativeLA Radio show (on Duane FM in the Hughniverse, Friday, 07/26, 7:00 Pacific/10:00 Eastern) will be Twangtastic! (Don’t worry, the next new show will be about Detroit, so there will be a lot more Motown and suchlike then.) And yes, I will be playing “North To Alaska” in honor of the upcoming Generalissimo/Ed Morrissey cruise (which I will not be joining, alas). Hope you can stop by, listen to the show, and join us in chat… Spoiler set list: Hank Thompson: A Six Pack To Go Buddy Miller: It Hurts Me Marty Robbins: El Paso Hank Williams:...

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CLA Radio 07/19/13: Twang, Dang It! (rerun)

The next ConservativeLA Radio show (on Duane FM in the Hughniverse, Friday, 07/19, 7:00 Pacific/10:00 Eastern) will be all about The Twang (a rerun of the 2/22/13 show). Hope you can stop by, listen to the show, and join us in chat… Spoiler set list: Dave Dudley: Six Days On The Road Audio: CMT promo for early ’90s Dwight Yoakam concerts Dwight Yoakam: A Thousand Miles From Nowhere Junior Brown: Broke Down South Of Dallas Steve Earle And The Del McCoury Band: Texas Eagle Audio: Promo for 2012 Merle Haggard/Marty Stuart concert Buddy & Julie Miller: You’re Running Wild...

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Shame is Good

  “Have you no shame?” These were the words addressed to Sen Joe McCarthy during his infamous anti-communist Senate hearings.   Subsequently, regardless of the merits of his allegations, Sen McCarthy was driven out of the public square and his concerns about communist infiltration of our government were dropped from the public consciousness. For all of human history, shame has been one of the most powerful emotions for driving normative behaviors. Shame has been used by Presidents, Priests and Parents to control soldiers, children and mobs. Authors as diverse as Shakespeare, Hugo, and Dostoyevsky have used shame as the central...

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A New Name for the Tea Party

  Documented in a recent article at The Blaze, bestselling author Brad Thor made this suggestion – “It’s Time for Tea Party to Consider a New Name.”    It’s about the importance of marketing – how conservatives should get on board and use some of the tactics of the left such as Saul Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals.”   http://youtu.be/rUc4lkAcaGs   The Tea Party actually represents most Americans, but having been demonized by the ‘main-stream media,’ the ‘drive-by press,’ the ‘lapdogs of Big Government,’ most people don’t know this. A rebranding is called for – a new name, a second chance...

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