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Tea Party's next test is leverage with GOP

Wednesday, 10 March 2010 09:01 by David Huntwork
In less than a year well over a thousand independent groups have sprung up around the nation to organize and demonstrate against the attempted government takeover of entire industries, high taxes, crippling debt, and the agenda of President Barack Ob... [More]
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Primer on America's political ills & steps to a cure

Saturday, 20 February 2010 03:33 by John Andrews
('76 Editor) Two important articles published recently, along with a classic from the early Reagan years, remind us how deep and grave are the pathologies threatening American self-government -- and map out the fundamental change of thinking we must ... [More]

Why won't GOP call jihad by name?

Tuesday, 12 January 2010 06:42 by John Andrews
David Petteys of Act for America, Denver chapter, and Michael Del Rosso of the Claremont Institute recently compared notes on the strange reluctance of Republicans running for office to identify our jihadist enemy in plain language.  Here is the... [More]

Listen Tonight * Governor Candidates 2010

Thursday, 17 December 2009 07:28 by John Andrews
('76 Editor) Tune in tonight, Thursday, Dec. 17 at 7pm on 710 KNUS in Denver and streaming at 710knus.com, when Centennial Institute presents the Republican finalists for Governor of Colorado, Scott McInnis vs Dan Maes. Recorded at Centennial's cand... [More]

Senate underdogs spin polling their way

Sunday, 13 December 2009 15:47 by John Andrews
('76 Editor) The emails from two US Senate candidates arrived the same day. First it was Republican Tom Wiens boasting of a new poll that shows he would top both Democrats, Sen. Michael Bennet and former Speaker Andrew Romanoff, if the 2010 election ... [More]

McInnis's platform problem

Sunday, 6 December 2009 03:33 by John Andrews
(Denver Post, Dec. 6) All that is covered shall be revealed, promises the Good Book.  It’s the perfect motto for America’s open society.  Secrets are fools’ gold.  Leaks will out.  Thanks to a leaker at East Angl... [More]

Absent core principles, GOP would be a Tower of Babel

Wednesday, 25 November 2009 15:24 by Lafayette Paoli
('76 Contributor) All the recent talk about the need to build the GOP up into a permanent philosophical “Big Tent” to accommodate both liberals and conservatives in the wake of the Congressional election in District 23 in New York State e... [More]
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On fast-changing landscape, a tale of three Novembers

Thursday, 19 November 2009 07:00 by Bill Moloney
(Centennial Fellow) What sets America apart from other countries is the extraordinary reservoir of idealism that has been a constant in our  national life from the  very beginning.  The national narrative-a.k.a.  The American Drea... [More]
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You better know a lot to get our vote, forum audience warns

Thursday, 12 November 2009 09:58 by John Andrews
('76 Editor) Again at the Senate candidates forum on Tuesday, as happened at the gubernatorial forum last week, CCU’s big audience of students, faculty, and friends posed far more questions than we had time for.  Here is a full transcript.... [More]

How AP & two bloggers rated the Senate forum

Wednesday, 11 November 2009 09:53 by John Andrews
Workmanlike, but not quite the Lincoln-Douglas debates... this was theme in three accounts of last night's Centennial Institute candidate forum.  Kristen Wyatt of AP noted the rivals' sameness.  Blogger Don Johnson was underw... [More]