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On a Friday morning in April, Dallas conservative talk radio host Mark Davis complained to his listeners about the crowded special election in North Texas’s Sixth Congressional District, which stretches southeast from downtown Fort Worth to past Corsicana. With 23 candidates—11 of them mostly like-minded Republicans—competing to take the seat vacated by the late congressman Ron Wright, even he, a politics obsessive, found it hard to keep up.

I usually listen to the very professional WBAP am talk radio, but yesterday I listened to the lesser professional KSKY wanting to hear their take on the elections on Tuesday, and the recent impeachment news. Well I tuned in at 7am, Dallas time and was shocked that the radio jock on KSKY used 90% of his 3 hour show to go on and on about his son falling off his skateboard. I find that to be very unprofessional and honestly boring!

Disgraceful. Embarrassing. A complete lack of grasp of the situation. Such were the observations about President Trump’s performance at the joint press conference with Vladimir Putin. Everyone is free to like or dislike the way Trump navigates the world, but I would suggest those descriptions are more suited to the swarm of wild overreaction. It has become a familiar rhythm for the President to do or say something, only to be attacked reflexively by his harshest opponents. But the Monday festival of totally wrongheaded analysis ensnared even the occasionally sympathetic. One could expect the bug-eyed calls for impeachment, and the...

One sentence stands out as a unifying principle in the aftermath of a bleak weekend in Charlottesville. After that, everything devolves into the pandering and posturing which are the daily din of the current age. So here’s that statement, and a Q and A flowing therefrom:The intentional vehicular murder of protesters Saturday was an act of domestic terrorism, seemingly motivated by supremacist hate. Such acts need to be identified as such by every American, starting with the President of the United States.There. Now the complexities:Q: If that’s so obvious, why didn’t President Trump dwell at length on the racist/supremacist/Nazi...

It is hard to know which is more disillusioning: an NFL quarterback stupid enough to insult an entire nation in a political hissy fit, or a multitude of constitutionally illiterate people who think it is a free speech issue. Let’s cover both. For a while there, San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick was a story featuring something for everyone to admire. His childhood was a product of admirable values from the beginning, from a birth mother who chose adoption over abortion to a white couple raising a mixed-race child in one of those environments that inspiringly proves that racial differences...

I noticed some buzz as the Texan of the Year nominations drifted in - that as some readers suggested Ted Cruz, there were skeptical reactions along the lines of "What has he really done?"...Really? This calls for a broader canvass of conservatives, so I'll start.Not all Texans need to agree with Cruz - shoot, not even all conservatives agree with him, and some Republicans hate his guts. But that's my point. Cruz has become the definition of the kind of bold conservatism that is energizing some and terrifying others....If we are known by our enemies, in Cruz's case,...and Republicans who...

I would like to think that Supreme Court justices are smarter than I am. At one level, they surely are. Their years of devotion to the practice and analysis of law involves countless pages of book-learning I will never undertake. Their brains must fairly bulge with minutiae I cannot grasp. But there is a difference between intelligence and wisdom. There are high school dropouts who have deep wells of astuteness about how to think, act and live in an enlightened way. And there are Ph.D.’s I would not let into my house. In one stunning moment Tuesday from the Supreme...

Initially I was a Cruz supporter, but as the campaign rolled on and I found out that Cruz is a trial lawyer, I was skeptical, but I still supported Cruz, because he said the right things. Still, though, saying the right things cannot hide your initial background, a trial lawyer=community activist. As in all elections, the choice is the lesser of two evils, and a businessman is a lesser evil than a trial lawyer.

This didn't take long, at least in the way that radio usually works: Mark Davis, whose talk show was taken off the air in early April after 18 years at WBAP/820 AM/96.7 FM and ultimately replaced, will return to the air June 4 with a 7-10 a.m. show on KSKY/660 AM, which can also be heard on 99.9 FM in Fort Worth, 95.5 FM in Arlington and 92.9 FM in Dallas (and 92.9 reaches the western part of DFW pretty well). John Peroyea, regional vice president of operations for KSKY owner Salem Communications Corp., said that the station will also...

Good Afternoon, Fellow Ditto Heads, No Rush Today, Mark Davis ON! Enjoy the mid day conversations. :)=^..^=

Geez, Mark Davis, get a job. You were booted off of WBAP for a reason. You suck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

AND NOW . . . amidst billowing clouds of fragrant, aromatic first- and second-hand premium cigar smoke. . . it is time for . . . that harmless, lovable little fuzz ball, the highly-trained broadcast specialist, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have, from behind the golden EIB microphone, firmly ensconced in the prestigious Attila-the-Hun chair at the Limbaugh Institute of Advanced Conservative Studies, serving humanity simply by showing up, and he’s not retiring until every American agrees with him, do NOT doubt him, with shrieks of joy at the mere mention of his name...

t was tempting to continue the Mark Davis update theme with this post, but that wouldn't really be fair to Ben Ferguson, who has been named permanent host of the 9-11 a.m. slot that Davis held for years on WBAP/820 AM. Ferguson has been filling that slot for the more than a month since Davis left the WBAP airwaves in an apparent contract dispute. Although the release announcing Ferguson's permanent gig doesn't say so explicitly, it's official: this is the end of the line for Davis and WBAP, where he worked for 18 years. Davis has noted that his issue...

would seem so, from this blog entry, which Davis posted this morning: The question has arisen, and here is the answer. My contract with WBAP's new owners, Cumulus, ended last week and we have been unable to reach an agreement on a renewal. I will be in all the other places I occupy-- Fox 4 and WFAA, and my column in the Dallas Morning News-- and I will be here in the blogosphere every day, often multiple times, with my thoughts on matters large and small. Keep a good thought for all my friends at BAP, and treat them with...

Today and tomorrow Mark Davis from Dallas/Forth Worth, TX, and WBAP AM. Posting for both today and tomorrow. Have a good and blessed weekend everyone! :)=^..^=

Just heard WBAP morning host, Mark Davis, say that only one US citizen parent is required for a person to be a Natural Born Citizen. That is just blatant misinformation, and Mark needs to be called on it. He went on to give the rest of his weird definition, but I was already so angry, I couldn't hear him. I went looking for a link to send him email, so that I could correct him. Here's a link to his show, if any of you feel the urge to do so: http://www.wbap.com/showdj.asp?DJID=1397

AND NOW . . . amidst billowing clouds of fragrant, aromatic first- and second-hand premium cigar smoke. . . it is time for . . . that harmless, lovable little fuzz ball, the highly-trained broadcast specialist, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have, from behind the golden EIB microphone, firmly ensconced in the prestigious Attila-the-Hun chair at the Limbaugh Institute of Advanced Conservative Studies, serving humanity simply by showing up, and he’s not retiring until every American agrees with him, do NOT doubt him, with shrieks of joy at the mere mention of his name...

Mark Davis subs...YAWN

AND NOW . . . amidst billowing clouds of fragrant, aromatic first- and second-hand premium cigar smoke. . . it is time for . . . that harmless, lovable little fuzz ball, the highly-trained broadcast specialist, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have, from behind the golden EIB microphone, firmly ensconced in the prestigious Attila-the-Hun chair at the Limbaugh Institute of Advanced Conservative Studies, serving humanity simply by showing up, and he’s not retiring until every American agrees with him, do NOT doubt him, with shrieks of joy at the mere mention of his name...

Early post because I have a rally to attend.