(Denver Post, Feb. 27) So Facebook brought down the Egyptian regime. Until now, the only thing I knew it had brought down was my productivity – and that of many other Republicans old enough to know better, after we all stampeded there upo...
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Abraham Lincoln, born 202 years ago today, saved the Union and helped Americans closer to realizing the promise of our Declaration of Independence. From my long shelf of books about him, I especially recommend "Vindicating Lincoln" by Krannawitter, "...
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George MacDonald, the 19th-century Scots preacher and writer whom C. S. Lewis hailed as "my master," left us not only a shelf of wonderful sermons and novels, but also a little book of devotional verses, one for each day of the year, which he called ...
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(Denver Post, Jan. 23) The indignation was feverish. Teacher-union partisans trembled. Elaine Berman, a State Board of Education member from Denver, boycotted. Mary Johnson, an education consultant from Colorado Springs, raged. &ldq...
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Former Colorado Education Commissioner William Moloney and former Heritage Foundation education analyst Krista Kafer, both now serving as Centennial Institute Fellows, are featured on Issue Monday, Jan. 31 at 7pm at the CCU Beckman Center, with a bri...
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(Denver Post, Jan. 9) “Yesterday, upon the stair, I met a man who wasn’t there. He wasn’t there again today. I wish, I wish he’d go away.” The little poem from a century ago should haunt Colorado’...
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(Denver Post, Dec. 25) Senator John was a political man, a driven man, some would say a hard man. At dusk on Christmas Eve, he squinted from his office window through falling snow toward the Capitol, and grumbled to his assistant about the late...
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“A prison cell, in which one waits, hopes - and is completely dependent on the fact that the door of freedom has to be opened from the outside, is not a bad picture of Advent."
Those words of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a Christian prisoner and...
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Today's Denver Post played the land-use story out of Adams County from a sympathetic angle favoring woebegone developer John Renne, prominently quoted as saying: "It will definitely hinder my ability to create jobs on the property." ...
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('76 Editor) My column yesterday, two posts below this one, didn't have room for several important quotes from sources I talked to. I will add them here. First, as a valuable reference, don't miss Isaac Smith's comprehensive bibliog...
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