Month: July 2014

Book Review: “Assault and Flattery”

In the modern era, the Democrat Party and the American Left have claimed to be the champions of “women’s rights.” We are told that the Republican Party and the American Right are misogynists who are actively engaged in a “war on women.” We are constantly hearing the Left engaging in histrionics to convince women that Republicans hate women. But as a new book explains, the real war on women is being waged by the American Left. Katie Pavlich, news editor at Townhall Magazine and contributor at FOX News, has authored Assault and Flattery: The Truth About the Left and Their...

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CLA Radio 07/25/14: Blues

The next ConservativeLA Radio show (on Duane FM in the Hughniverse, Friday night, 07/25/14, 7:00 Pacific/10:00 Eastern) will be all about the Blues. Hope you can stop by, listen to the show, and join us in chat! Spoiler set list: B.B. King: Every Day I Have the Blues Mamie Smith: Crazy Blues Mississippi John Hurt: I’m Satisfied R.L. Burnside: Goin’ Down South Robert Johnson: Preachin’ Blues (Up Jumped the Devil) Howlin’ Wolf: Smokestack Lightnin’ Seasick Steve: Down on the Farm Peetie Wheatstraw: Drinking Man Blues Taj Mahal: Lovin’ in My Baby’s Eyes Allman Brothers: Stormy Monday Jimmy Reed: Honest I Do Big Joe Williams: Don’t...

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Herman Cain on the post-civil rights struggle

CBS News asked noted figures in the arts, business and politics about their experience in today’s civil rights movement, or about figures who inspired them in their activism. Herman Cain, businessman, former Republican presidential candidate   Is there something that you’d like to share about your personal connection to civil rights issues? It took more than 200 years for this nation to add a punctuation to the civil rights inherent in the Declaration of Independence that “all men are created equal.” This would normally imply all rights, all access, and all opportunities, but for too long, too many men...

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Mr. Hewitt Is All Wet on the Border Crisis

Yesterday, nationally-syndicated radio host Hugh Hewitt wrote a piece “Make the Border Kids Americans,” for Politico.   Hewitt outlined a solution to the massive Obama-manufactured humanitarian crisis at what used to be our southern border. The title “Make the Border Kids Americans” in and of itself should be cringe-inducing. Yes, folks, it’s exactly what you feared: amnesty. From paragraph three: Right now the country ought to act to end the humanitarian crisis of tens of thousands of what are, in effect, orphans and strangers in our land. The very young among them should find “forever families” right here, right now. They...

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CLA Radio 07/18/14: Shuffle

The next ConservativeLA Radio show (on Duane FM in the Hughniverse, Friday night, 07/18/14, 7:00 Pacific/10:00 Eastern) will consist of a random perusal of one of my MP3 directories. These are songs I used to play on my virtual radio show on Twitter (that predated CLAR). Hope you can stop by, listen to the show, and join us in chat! Spoiler set list: Warren Zevon: Life’ll Kill Ya (Life’ll Kill Ya) Bessie Smith: Gimme a Pig Foot Emmylou Harris: Sweet Dreams (Elite Hotel) Emmylou Harris: Wrecking Ball (Wrecking Ball) Alison Kraus & Union Station: This Sad Song (Lonely Runs Both Ways) Louis Armstrong: I Got...

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