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Levin’s Conservative ManifestoThis week ABC Radio Networks syndicated host Mark Levin released his new book, Liberty And Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto (Simon & Schuster Threshold Editions). A far cry from Levin’s last bestseller, a heartfelt tribute to his fallen canine friend entitled Rescuing Sprite, this time the talk host writes a no holds barred tome offering a “clarion call to conservative America and a new manifesto for the conservative movement for the 21st century.” Levin reports the book sold-out quickly online and in stores, with more than 400,000 copies in print or ordered within just two days of release. In his typically understated style, Levin calls Liberty And Tyranny, “a massive bestseller already!”
Through a series of essays, with titles addressing everything from faith and the Constitution to free markets and the welfare state, Levin prods and persuades readers toward his belief that, “conservatism is the anecdote to tyranny precisely because it’s principles are our founding principles.” Levin, who served as a top aid in the Reagan White House and also authored Men In Black: How The Supreme Court Is Destroying America, will likely rally the faithful and rattle the critics with his new book. In print and on-the-air, Levin tells it like it is from his considered point-of-view. Here are just a few excerpts from the pages of Liberty And Tyranny:
On change: The conservative believes that prudence must be exercised in assessing change. Change unconstrained by prudence produces unpredictable consequences, threatening ordered liberty
with chaos and ultimately despotism, and placing at risk the very principles the Conservative holds dear.
On the Constitution: The Framers recognized that the Constitution may require adjustment from time to time. Therefore, they provided two methods for proposing amendments, only one of which has been used in adopting all current amendments. It requires a supermajority of two-thirds of the members of both Houses of Congress to propose an amendment to the states for ratification, and three-fourths of the states to ratify the proposed amendment. In all, our Constitution has been amended only twenty-seven times -- the first ten of which, the Bill of Rights, were adopted shortly after the Constitution was ratified. Clearly the Framers did not intend the Constitution to be easily altered. It was to be a lasting contract that could be modified only by the considered judgment of a significant representation of the body politic.
On Hollywood activists: The actor thirsts for attention. But he lives in the world of make- believe. Once he achieves fame, he wishes for his fame to be used to achieve relevance.
On free markets: The free market is the most transformative of economic systems. It fosters creativity and inventiveness. It produces new industries, products, and services, as it improves upon existing ones. With millions of individuals freely engaged in an infinite number and variety of transactions each day, it is impossible to even conceive all the changes and plans for changes occurring in our economy at any given time. The free market creates more wealth and opportunities for more people than any other economic model. (continued on page 3)
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WTMJ/Milwaukee afternooner Jonathan Green spearheads the station’s 17th annual Teddy Bear Patrol campaign through April 24. Since 1993 the Journal News/Talker has collected over 80,000 new teddy bears for local law enforcement and fire officials to give to kids in crisis situations … Peter Kosann exits Connoisseur Media to focus on his new venture Compass Media Networks. CMN will soon syndicate Lars Larson, The Free Beer and Hot Wings Show and Download HDFX … Arbitron veteran Jay Guyther was among those furloughed this week as the ratings company implemented new cost containment controls decreed by President/CEO Michael Skarzynski … Coleman Insights will offer an April 1st webinar of its recent study, PPM Performance of Spoken Word Radio. More info at www.colemaninsights.com … Condolences to the friends and family of former Major League Baseball player and longtime Detroit Tigers broadcaster George Kell who died this week in Arkansas. He was 86.
ABC News Radio Entertainment correspondent David Blaustein spends a moment with television icon Lynda Carter. The former “Wonder Woman” is enjoying a new career performing as a lounge singer and is currently touring.
The Wall Street Journal This Morning adds WHJJ/Providence, WKJK/Louisville, WERC/Birmingham, KSSZ/Jefferson City, KEEL/Shreveport, WZAN/Portland and KROC/Rochester, MN … Premiere Radio Networks Jim Rome Show adds new affiliates KHTY/Bakersfield, WCOH/Newnan, GA, WFSM/Macon, WSLY/Troy, AL and KTTT/Omaha … FOX Sports Radio picks up new affiliates KNBR/San Francisco, WYGM/Orlando, WYGC/Gainesville, GA, WFSM/Macon, WKYW/Frankfurt, KY, WSLY/Troy, AL, WLOY/Rural Retreat, VA and WCOH/Newnan, GA … ABC News Radio begins a special weeklong series on Monday (3/30). Battle At The Border offers an in depth look at the continuing violence along the U.S.-Mexican border … Talks Shows USA’s Tom Gresham’s Gun Talk adds KFAQ/Tulsa and KLUP/San Antonio … Independently syndicated Animal Radio signs affiliate number 99 as KVOG/Agana, Guam adds the weekly pet-focused talk show ... WOSH/Appleton-Oshkosh adds Talk Radio Network’s Watchdog On Wall Street with Chris Markowski. The show also debuts its newly revamped website at www.watchdogonwallstreet.com.
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WTEM/Washington partners with AudioNow to offer the Red Zebra Sports station’s programming via mobile telephone. Any cell phone works with the service that’s available free to listeners by calling (888) 988-0980 … Sirius XM Radio launches its FM-5 satellite on June 29. Unlike other Sirius satellites the new bird will be placed in a fixed position in space … San Diego-based Internet Talk radio portal wsRadio will air a nightly one-hour program, NAB Show Buzz, from 6-7pm (PT), April 19-23 at www.wsRadio.com. Larry Jordan will host the program detailing events and news from the annual NAB Show in Las Vegas … Clear Channel Radio has opted-out of its fulltime simulcast of WLW/Cincinnati on XM Channel 173 … Former CBS Radio/Los Angeles Market Manager Dan Weiner resurfaces as a regional VP for FOX Interactive Media.
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On the auto industry: The current model of manufacturing American automobiles and organizing employees is unsustainable. So, too, is the government’s unrelenting interference in the auto industry’s management, labor relations, vehicle designs, etc. The Big Three must seek relief in bankruptcy, which will allow them to newly organize their businesses, including some of their more onerous operational and labor restrictions, and to become more responsive to modern conditions.
On the “New Deal” and today’s “Stimulus”: The fact is, the New Deal was, overall, a dismal failure. Yet today it serves as the modern liberals’ prototype for governance. In 2009, President Obama and Congress spent hundreds of billions of dollars on a new so-called stimulus bill. But it, like the New Deal, will only retard economic growth, create market dislocations, and add to the government’s existing massive debt.
On Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid: Despite dire warnings from the Congressional Budget Office, from the former comptroller general of the United States, and from the various trustees, that these programs are unsustainable and demand urgent attention, the pillaging of future generations not only continues, but the modern liberal proposes much more of it in the form of government-run “national health care” or “universal health care.”
On modern liberal environmental policies: Who would have thought that the flush toilet would become controversial? It is not only an everyday convenience, which would be enough, but critical to human health. No matter. In 1992 Congress passed the Energy Policy and Conservation Act, outlawing the 3.5 gallon toilet and replacing it with the 1.6 gallon toilet. The purpose was to reduce use of water. To this day, the mandated change requires users to flush the toilet more often, which hardly saves water. A government that is powerful enough to dictate the flow of water in a toilet is a very powerful government, indeed.
On immigration: No society can withstand the unconditional mass migration of aliens from every corner of the earth. The preservation of the nation’s territorial sovereignty, and the culture, languages, mores, traditions, and customs that make possible a harmonious community of citizens, dictates that citizenship be granted only by the consent of the governed -- not by the unilateral actions or demands of the alien -- and then only to aliens who will throw off their allegiance to their former nation and society and pledge their allegiance to America.
On conservatism’s future: The conservative must take heart from, and learn from, his nation’s history. America’s founding, the Civil War and World War II were epic and, at times, seemingly insurmountable wars of liberty against tyranny, which would have destroyed the civil society had they been lost. The challenge today is, in many ways more complicated, because the “soft tyranny” comes from within and utilizes the nation’s instrumentalities against itself. However, it’s a bloodless struggle and, therefore, should enlist all conservatives with the courage of their convictions.
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