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The Twin Cities’ newest conservative talk show host has an idea for managing the thousands of protesters coming to the Republican National Convention in St. Paul in September: machine guns.

Chris Baker, formerly a talk radio host in Houston, took over the morning spot on KTLK in early March. On Friday, he took issue with the [...]

Partisan Pique: In a Star Tribune letter to the editor entitled “Tainted by politics,” Andy Brehm on Wednesday chided columnist Nick Coleman for his essay on Paul Wellstone’s death saying he took “political cheap shots at the Minnesota senator who shares his last name.” But Brehm, who called the columnist’s “snide partisan attacks [...] inappropriate [...]

Imagine Clear Channel banning music from its stations for political reasons. Not hard to do since the radio conglomerate distributed a list of singles it suggested not be played at its stations, including John Lennon’s signature song, in the weeks following the 9/11 attacks in 2001. Now, according to Fox News, the company has sent [...]

Our own private Limbaugh: KTLK’s Jason Lewis is one of the few conservatives in the media to defend Michele Bachmann’s Feb. 9 claim of knowledge of plans by Iran to partition Iraq. Asking “why is this a story,” the radio talkshow host blasts Strib reporter Eric Black, who first blogged on the still-unsubstantiated claim, as [...]