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Obama or Romney? We'll soon know

Friday, 28 September 2012 12:29 by Admin
Forty days from the presidential election, conservative Republican John Andrews and liberal Democrat Susan Barnes-Gelt went up on Colorado Public Television with another round of Head On mini-debates over the politics of 2012, especially the race for... [More]
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The American Dream

Thursday, 27 September 2012 17:27 by Krista Kafer
What do the words “American Dream” call to mind? A home with a car in the driveway (perhaps another in the garage), a couple of kids and a golden retriever? A job you like, that pays well, and employs your talents? Or is something less ta... [More]
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Left & right agree for once: Colorado taxed enough already

Thursday, 27 September 2012 03:18 by Admin
  It's something new and notable in Colorado politics: An unapologetic liberal and an unwavering conservative agreeing in spite of themselves that tax increases for metro-Denver municipalities and school districts on the November ballot are an o... [More]

Think again: America must revive 'peace through strength'

Thursday, 27 September 2012 03:11 by Melanie Sturn
('76 Contributor) American revolutionary Patrick Henry famously declared, “Give me liberty or give me death!” This month, furious mobs throughout the Islamic world decree death, a sentence they imposed on four Americans in Libya, includin... [More]

Ten reasons why those legislative races are important

Monday, 24 September 2012 15:00 by John Andrews
(Denver Post, Sept. 25) “It’s sucking Colorado dry,” a Republican state senator lamented the other day.  He wasn’t talking about the demand on our rivers from Arizona and Nebraska.  He meant the massive out... [More]
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I voted for Michael Dukakis

Sunday, 23 September 2012 11:32 by Krista Kafer
It was my first election and I was a registered Democrat. As a young, single woman attending college in Boulder, Colorado, no one was surprised that my choice for president was the Governor of Massachusetts, Michael Dukakis. To be honest, I was a bit... [More]
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Why elections matter: More from a worried businessman

Tuesday, 18 September 2012 14:19 by Buz Koelbel
('76 Contributor) How fragile, very fragile, is our democracy, our free market economic system, and our country.  For the first time ever, I am concerned that America's best days are behind it.  The Supreme Court decision on Obamacare... [More]

Election asks Americans to decide if freedom is passe'

Tuesday, 18 September 2012 14:03 by Bill Moloney
  (Boston)  If a traveler would discern in a single place in a single day the origin and meaning of these United States of America, no better setting could be found than this city’s justly famed Freedom Trail.  Along the winding ... [More]

Sex is no big deal? Don't you believe it

Tuesday, 18 September 2012 13:04 by Kelli Klaus
(CCU Student) One of the touchiest, most tip-toed-around issues today is the choice of abstinence until marriage. As the world becomes more tolerant and even encouraging of promiscuous behavior, many Christians are hard-pressed to remain strong in th... [More]

Bumbling negoriator-in-chief exposed in Woodward book

Tuesday, 18 September 2012 12:51 by Jay Ambrose
Bob Woodward has been telling on presidents since he and Carl Bernstein teamed up to reveal the Watergate misdeeds of President Richard Nixon in the mid-1970s, and he's at it again. This time, it's President Barack Obama who is feeling the sting, not... [More]