Month: February 2015

CLA Radio 02/27/15: High School (1970-1974)

Songs of my yute, on Duane FM in the Hughniverse, Friday, 02/27/15, 7:00 Pacific/10:00 Eastern. Spotify set list here. Hope you can stop by and listen, and join us in chat! Set list: Black Sabbath: Black Sabbath Mothers of Invention: Holiday in Berlin, Full-Blown T. Rex: Slider Johnny Winter: Johnny B. Goode Captain Beefheart: Clear Spot Joe Cocker: Let’s Go Get Stoned Humble Pie: Stone Cold Fever Allman Brothers: Statesboro Blues Little Feat: Truck Stop Girl Tom Waits: Ol’ 55 Jethro Tull: A New Day Yesterday Emerson Lake & Palmer: Promenade 2 Yes: Siberian Khatru David Bowie: Andy Warhol...

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CLA Radio 02/20/15: Oboe

Yes, oboe. Stop whining. No, I’m serious. Be quiet. It’s my show. Sheesh. The next ConservativeLA Radio show (on Duane FM in the Hughniverse, Friday, 02/20/15, 7:00 Pacific/10:00 Eastern) will feature material that includes and/or features Oboe. You try programming that, hotshot. You’d be throwing in bassoons and French horns, hoping nobody noticed. Don’t think I won’t turn this car around. I have my eye on you. This is all @talkradio200‘s fault, for the theme at least (and for many suggestions regarding the orchestral material in the show), although he will hate hate hate the Zappa material. All will...

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God and Limited Government

Part of making a coherent case for constitutional government involves sifting through parades of burning straw men.   When Nick Gillespie published a piece at Reason magazine, a magazine that sometimes fails to live up to its name, about Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal’s call for America to turn back to God, I could see the straw men from a mile away. Gillespie asserts that Jindal wants to mix politics and religion and that has to be bad. Now he doesn’t lose as many points as a leftist would because he didn’t pull out the First Amendment canard. But he’s got...

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CLA Radio 02/13/15: New Retro Wrecks

The next ConservativeLA Radio show (on Duane FM in the Hughniverse, Friday, 02/13/15, 7:00 Pacific/10:00 Eastern) will be a two-part show. The first hour will consist of what I’ll call New Retro–newer artists who, for the most part, harken back to old school Country and the like. With the exception of Big Sandy & The Fly-Rite Trio (a favorite of David Burge AKA Iowahawkblog), the bands come from these two articles by Nicholas Pell: 10 Country Artists You Should Be Listening To 10 More Country Artists You Need to Listen To The second hour will be songs about wrecks...

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Expert at West Point Think Tank Warns of the “Violent Far-Right”

  West Point has a fine and storied tradition: President Thomas Jefferson signed legislation establishing the military academy in 1802.    The same Thomas Jefferson who often repeated the John Bradshaw quote: Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. And the same Thomas Jefferson who wrote: When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty. West Point created the Combating Terrorism Center after the events of 9/11, in an effort to prepare cadets for the new and dangerous environment of suicidal enemies and thwart future attacks. Sounds good and noble, and in the context of West Point should be well-founded. However, Dr. Arie Perliger,...

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