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Color us red in 2012?

Sunday, 28 August 2011 10:37 by John Andrews
(Denver Post, Aug. 28) I wish Tom Tancredo was Governor of Colorado.  I wish Scott McInnis was.  Heck, I wish the ill-starred Dan Maes was governor.  Any Republican, any conservative, rather than the limousine liberal Democrat we&rsquo... [More]
Categories:   Colorado | Politics | Republicans
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Head On TV: Hang onto Your Wallet

Tuesday, 23 August 2011 15:27 by John Andrews
Coloradans had better brace to fend off the same bad idea as President Obama wants to impose nationally: higher taxes, warns John Andrews in the August round of Head On TV debates. No, replies Susan Barnes-Gelt, the idea is a good one and indeed does... [More]
Categories:   Head On TV
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Fracking poses no threat, none, to public health

Tuesday, 23 August 2011 15:06 by Jay Ambrose
(Centennial Fellow) The misinformation was so great in a recent guest op-ed in the Denver Post that it could not have been manufactured by one person alone. It took a consumer group organizer, a member of the Sierra Club and a trouper from George Sor... [More]

Unasked questions in syrupy series on Islam

Sunday, 21 August 2011 10:23 by John Andrews
Are many Muslims devoted to a doctrine called jihad, which commands violence against infidels, and another doctrine called sharia, which forbids obedience to the U.S. constitution or any other civil government?  Do many Muslims interpret the Kor... [More]
Categories:   Islam | Jihad | Terrorism | Sharia
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Immigration favoritism mocks the rule of law

Sunday, 21 August 2011 10:22 by Peg Brady
Again the Obama administration announced that bureaucrats may decide when they will ignore laws.  This instance involves illegal immigrants.  But that’s not the point.  The true problem is inconsistent, arbitrary application of g... [More]
Categories:   immigration | Obama
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Where the buck stops

Tuesday, 16 August 2011 12:44 by John Andrews
(Washington Times, Aug. 12) Perhaps the most telling remark during the whole of the debt-ceiling negotiations came on Aug. 7 from White House consultant David Axelrod. Appearing on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” Axelrod echoed a growing c... [More]
Categories:   Deficits & debt | Tea Party
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Despite pundits' scorn, Tea Party won big

Tuesday, 16 August 2011 12:39 by Bill Moloney
(Nantucket)The 18th century English political sage Edmund Burke wrote that the vigor of any society can be measured by the “balance between its impulses of innocence and decadence”.  He further noted that when that balance tilts deci... [More]
Categories:   Deficits & debt | Tea Party
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Mortgage miscreants nailed in 'Reckless Endangerment'

Tuesday, 16 August 2011 12:26 by Joe Gschwendtner
('76 Contributor) Authors Gretchen Morgenson and Joshua Rosner have done the country great service with their book, Reckless Endangerment, recently noted at # 1 on the New York Times hardcover business reading list. If you anguish and puzzle as I do ... [More]

Tea Party on a winning streak

Wednesday, 10 August 2011 05:55 by John Andrews
(The Daily Caller, Aug. 9) Terrorists, are we?  How banal the left’s invective has become.  Fiscal responsibility is no doubt a terrifying prospect to the irresponsible spenders and entitlement addicts.  But really: In their horr... [More]

Media coverage of Summit was national & then some

Tuesday, 9 August 2011 09:51 by Admin
Centennial Institute tips our hat to Jim Czupor and Marta Sipecki of InterPro Group public relations firm in Denver, who served expertly as press secretaries for Western Conservative Summit 2011, July 29-31 in Denver.  (They previously handled t... [More]