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'Save us from the voters,' politicians plead

Sunday, 29 May 2011 09:10 by John Andrews
To: Justice Anthony Kennedy **From: Coloradans for Benevolent Despotism **Re: Enough with the Uppity Teabaggers ** (Denver Post, May 29) Tony, can we use first names? You have your dignity to think of, U.S. Supreme Court and all that – but we h... [More]

Tornadoes, apocalypse, and global warming

Sunday, 29 May 2011 03:21 by Jay Ambrose
(Centennial Fellow) You can, on the one hand, listen to Bill McKibben, who says the raging Midwest and Southern tornadoes are still another sign of global warming doom. Or you can listen to Harold Camping, who recently announced the world would go ka... [More]
Categories:   Climate
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Study: Colorado tax hike would cost 119,000 jobs

Saturday, 28 May 2011 10:36 by Admin
An in-depth analysis by a nationally known economist shows that a tax increase proposed by State Sen. Rollie Heath (D-Boulder) that is aiming for the 2011 ballot would reduce 119,000 jobs over the five years the higher rates on sales a... [More]

Anti-TABOR lawsuit is cynical slap at voters

Friday, 27 May 2011 03:04 by Mark Hillman
(Centennial Fellow) Because those doggone Coloradans just won’t vote to increase taxes often enough, a cadre of folks who just can’t bear to see state government spend less is asking a federal judge to do something voters won’t &nda... [More]
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Categories:   Taxes & spending
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The Left's lies on GOP Medicare reform

Wednesday, 25 May 2011 11:55 by Jay Ambrose
(Centennial Fellow) Some Democrats and their left-wing supporters are telling grotesque lies about a Republican Medicare reform plan, sinking so low in one instance, so pathetically, immorally, disgustingly low, as to try to convince the nation throu... [More]

Raise debt ceiling, live to regret it, warned Armstrong in '78

Monday, 23 May 2011 15:46 by John Andrews
Could it be the past is prologue in terms of a political price to pay for letting the national debt grow endlessly?  With high stakes electorally as fiscally in the upcoming battle over raising the debt ceiling, hop in my time machine ... [More]

2012 Election: It's Still the Economy, Stupid

Sunday, 22 May 2011 10:24 by Bill Moloney
(Centennial Fellow) The President has scored a stunning foreign policy triumph.  The country rejoices.  Praise for the President’s leadership and the prowess of those soldiers he sent in harm’s way is bi-partisan and near univer... [More]
Categories:   Obama | Politics
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What screwed up the world? - Centennial seminar asks

Friday, 20 May 2011 15:23 by Admin
A dozen scholars and commentators convened as guests of the Centennial Institute on May 17 for a luncheon seminar on Benjamin Wiker's survey of modern intellectual history, Ten Books That Screwed Up the World.  After Wiker, formerly a professor ... [More]
Categories:   History | Ideas & ideology
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Obama's vision and its irreversible legacy

Friday, 20 May 2011 15:21 by Mark Hillman
(Centennial Fellow) Say this for President Barack Obama: he doesn't lack for vision.As a candidate, Obama spoke of "chang(ing) the trajectory of America" in a way that no president has since Ronald Reagan. Obama's vision is, of course, antithetical t... [More]
Categories:   Obama
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Memo to China: There's greatness in our simplicity

Thursday, 19 May 2011 02:56 by Karthik Venkatraj
(Centennial Intern) "The American people, they're very simple people," said Wang Qishan, Vice Premier of China, according to recent news accounts.  Was there a note of condescension in this, coming from a high official of the ancient and se... [More]
Categories:   America | China
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