Will Bill Ritter Really Pursue “Best Public Policy” and Veto Big Labor Bills?

by Ben DeGrow | 9:20 am, May 15, 2009

So Colorado Governor Bill Ritter has a couple tough decisions to make. That could pose a problem.
This morning the Denver Post’s John Ingold follows up on the political challenges posed to Ritter from the legislature placing Big Labor bills Senate Bill 180 and House Bill 1170 on his desk. The Governor sure is talking a [...]

We’re all criminals now

by The Constitutional Reporter | 9:14 am, May 15, 2009

Michael Krueger, staff writer of The Constitutional ReporterIt’s late. You are asleep in your bed dreaming of acing your finals. You awake from your slumber to get up and use the restroom. You flush the toilet and climb back into bed. You are just ab…

The Nobility of Capitalism

by Ari Armstrong | 9:12 am, May 15, 2009

Today the Denver Post published an attack on capitalism by Daniel W. Brickley of Littleton. Following is my reply:

Capitalism: The Only Moral System

I’ll untangle Brickley’s many confusions. Capitalism protects people’s right to live their own lives and interact voluntarily with others, by their own judgment, free from political controls. Capitalism means a system in which individuals rights to property and contract are consistently protected. In capitalism, the job of the government is to protect people from force and fraud.

To the degree that politicians interfere in the market, that is not capitalism, but its opposite. If “bribed governments” grant to some businesses political advantages to seize wealth by force or forcibly harm competitors, that is not “unregulated capitalism;” it is a market controlled to some degree by politicians.

Capitalism is regulated (made regular) first by a government that protects against force and fraud, and second by the independent judgment of individuals. If you don’t like a company’s products or services, don’t buy them! If you think you can do better, you are free to try. But this is not the sort of “regulation” that the enemies of capitalism have in mind. Instead, they call on politicians to control the economy and violate people’s rights.

Brickley is right about one thing: capitalism is incompatible with pure democracy. Capitalism protects individual rights. Pure democracy is mob rule, it is two wolves and a sheep voting on what’s for dinner, it is 51 percent of the population enslaving the other 49 percent.

Brickley calls capitalism, the only system compatible with the reasoning mind of man, a “religion,” and equates it with Soviet communism. This is pure projection. For the full justification of capitalism, see Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged.

Capitalism is marked by men of drive and genius developing the goods and services — the health care, the technology, the food, the housing, the cars — we need to thrive. Their motive is to produce life-enhancing products and exchange them voluntarily with others for their personal gain. No motive could be more noble.

As for nastiness, we need look no further than Brickley’s smear campaign against capitalism and capitalists.

Ari Armstrong
http://www.freecolorado.com/

The opapue Governor

by Amy Oliver | 7:59 am, May 15, 2009

COST learned that Governor Bill Ritter is not very transparent when it comes to bill signing.  Colorado Transparency Project Director Amy Oliver called State Representative BJ Nikkel to find out when the Governor would sign HB 1288 the Colorado Taxpayer Transparency Act.  Amy reported this morning on her blog:
The legislator [BJ Nikkel] known among her colleague as “Miss Transparency” [...]

Black is black, even if you insist it is red.

by David K. Williams, Jr. | 7:38 am, May 15, 2009

Denver Post columnist Susan Greene whines about a recently built scrape-off “McMansion” in her neighborhood that is now empty and in foreclosure. The column is captioned “Big house not worth the buildup.”

Graduation 2009: Pomp And Circumstance

by elpresidente | 12:32 am, May 15, 2009

For obvious reasons this time of year:

Colorado Democrats, Journalists Duped by Fraudulent Vet “Rick Duncan”

by Ben DeGrow | 9:57 pm, May 14, 2009

From 9News:

Sure, he stuttered on occasion. He said strange things from time to time. But Rick Duncan was passionate about veterans in the state of Colorado. He told anyone who wanted to listen that he had served in Iraq on three occasions. That gave him an unofficial license to talk to journalists, politicians, and civilians [...]

COST director gets recognized

by Amy Oliver | 3:56 pm, May 14, 2009

A big thanks to Face the State for recognizing the work of Colorado Transparency Project Director Amy Oliver and naming her “Hottest Radio Host” for their 2009 Legislative Superlatives.  For those who don’t know, Amy also hosts a radio show on News Talk 1310 KFKA in Greeley.  In this case, FTS cited Amy’s work on [...]

“Principled” And “Solutions-Driven,” US Senate Candidate Ryan Frazier Speaks Out

by elpresidente | 2:00 pm, May 14, 2009

Jon Caldara, Great American

by Jon Caldara | 1:46 pm, May 14, 2009

Just how messed up is the Colorado Legislature? So messed up that a leading Democrat on the Senate floor called me a “Great American.”  Being surrounded by Democrats all the time, I can see how Sen. Chris Romer could make the mistake. 
At the well of the senate he said, ”We have thoughtful libertarians [...]

Frazier Watch: Top Line

by Ari Armstrong | 1:30 pm, May 14, 2009

Those interested in Ryan Frazier’s campaign for U.S. Senate should note that Frazier recently appeared on ABC’s “Top Line” (via PPC). I like his calm demeanor on the show; it compliments his more fiery public speech at the April 15 Tea Party in Grand Junction.

Frazier took a brief moment to discuss his principles of fiscal responsibility and individual rights.

I can live with his answer on immigration: he said we should incentivize people to go home and then come back to work here legally.

I also like his message of “tolerance” toward gay couples, though I hasten to add that the proper attitude is not “tolerance” but open acceptance. (“Tolerance” implies putting up with something one has reason to dislike.) Tolerance here is a step forward for the GOP, however.

I’m not sure what Frazier means about expanding benefits to gay partners. If he’s talking about equalizing government treatment, that’s fine (though the problem is with the tax-funded benefits per se).

I think Frazier is doing what he needs to do: present himself as as a mature and reasonable guy ready to represent Colorado values of independence and liberty.

We need more government authority over our personal health care

by David K. Williams, Jr. | 12:07 pm, May 14, 2009

According to Forbes.com, their is a debate going on about whether or not Medicare should pay for “virtual colonoscopies” or not.

Medicare and Medicaid’s decision Tuesday not to pay for a less invasive colon
exam known as virtual colonoscopy has some experts applauding the move, while
others claiming it could cost patients’ lives.

I’m just glad that the decision to have a virtual colonoscopy isn’t being left in the hands of ignorant doctors and their stupid patients. As long as the decision is in the hands of bureaucrats, we can all rest easy.

Let’s put these guys in charge of health care!

by David K. Williams, Jr. | 11:57 am, May 14, 2009

From Reason.com

She’s got legs

Over two years, the city of New Orleans sent Mary Kieff some 226 parking tickets, with fines totaling nearly $20,000. Kieff insisted she hadn’t violated any laws. Finally, after a local TV station got involved, the city admitted that she should not have gotten the tickets. Kieff has a “ZZ Top” personalized license plate, and the city uses ZZ as the code for vehicles without license plates. City workers were entering that code in the wrong place, and the result was that she was getting every ticket issued to a vehicle without a license plate.

She said what? Pelosi accuses CIA of lying

by Rossputin | 11:25 am, May 14, 2009

Nancy Pelosi is getting caught in her own lies, and her desperation is showing.

In a press conference (click HERE for video) earlier today (Thursday), Pelosi accused the CIA of lying to the public about their briefings of Pelosi and other senior members of Congress.

The current Director of the CIA, (Democrat) Leon Panetta, and the Office of National Intelligence dispute Pelosi’s claims of ignorance:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/09/us/politics/09detain.html

Furthermore, it’s clear that Pelosi’s top national security aide was advised about the use of waterboarding, and it’s simply not credible that he would not have told her:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/08/AR2009050803967.html

Pelosi said of the CIA “They mislead us all the time.” Hmmmm…interesting words from the Speaker of the House. Nancy Pelosi is terrible in terms of what she stands for and supports, but she’s not an idiot. She must know that it’s extremely risky to strongly criticize the CIA in public (by which I do not mean that a black helicopter will take her away some night but rather the political risk involved.) The fact that she’s making such claims represents desperation as she sees herself being trapped by her own Clintonian rhetoric, such as saying that she was not briefed by the CIA at some given time when the situation was that her top aide was briefed and he then presumably briefed her.

A well-known maxim for success in life is “When you find yourself in a deep hole, stop digging.” Pelosi keeps digging, and House Republicans are happy to stand aside and let her, with Minority Leader John Boehner suggesting that Pelosi’s claims raise more questions than they answered. And then there’s this excellent quote from Senator Kit Bond (R-MO), as reported by Fox News: “I am afraid she has disremembered what she went through. We have had not only the records from the CIA but the contemporaries who were there with her had other views on it, so I am afraid that this is not a credible explanation.”

There are substantial benefits to Pelosi’s ongoing memory and judgment problems, particularly in it draining her political capital. Pelosi is certainly trying to distract the public from her problems by yesterday’s statement that she would get a socialized health care bill through Congress by August. Instead, the “what did she know and when did she know it” controversy will weaken her ability to make good on that promise, and her accusations against the CIA and Republicans in general will make her job that much harder.

Keep on spinning, Nancy.

Congress Shall Make No Law

by TJ Wihera | 10:31 am, May 14, 2009

Yesterday, Sarah Palin released a statement  expressing her support for Carrie Prejean and “blasting” those who have criticized her so vehemently. In her statement, Palin also said: I applaud Donald Trump for standing with Carrie during this time. And I respect Carrie for standing strong and staying true to herself, and for not letting those [...]

No Tax Funds for Religious Schools

by Ari Armstrong | 9:30 am, May 14, 2009

David Card, “president of Escuela de Guadalupe, an independent Catholic, dual-language school in northwest Denver,” made a series of astounding comments in an article for the Denver Post today.

Card argues that some religious schools “are effective in developing Colorado standards-based academic proficiency in subjects like math, reading and science, and in producing high school graduates.” No doubt. But then Card adds, “Clearly, the state has an interest in this.”

Clearly, Card has lost his faculties. The government’s job is to protect people’s rights, not dictate education policy for private schools. Many parents flee to private schools precisely to get away from political interference. Card would extend that interference to schools that are currently private.

Card argues that the state — i.e., politicians — should finance religious schools (presumably including his own). He pretends that politicians can force other Coloradans to finance only “non-sectarian efforts” by religious schools. The division is impossible. A religious school of necessity infuses its entire program with its ideological premises.

I left the following comments online:

“No person shall be required to attend or support any ministry or place of worship, religious sect or denomination against his consent.” — Colorado Constitution, Article II, Section 4

Forcing a person to finance a religious institution, against his will, violates his freedom of conscience and right to property. Moreover, no conscientious religious school would willingly accept the political interference that inevitably follows political funding.

Brian Wesbury on “Bad Logic” regarding financial markets and the economy

by Rossputin | 1:50 am, May 14, 2009

My friend Brian Wesbury had a particularly excellent comment on Monday:

Bad Logic
To view PDF of this article, Click Here
Brian S. Wesbury – Chief Economist, First Trust Advisors
Robert Stein, CFA – Senior Economist, First Trust Advisors
Date: 5/11/2009

Both Robert Kuttner, a long-time critic of free markets, and Richard Posner, a long-time supporter of free markets, recently made the same argument. Kuttner said “markets are not self-correcting. If they were, [then] Wall Street would not be lined up for trillions of dollars in government handouts.” Posner, in a recent WSJ Op-Ed said capitalism is “not inherently stable.” He argued that the seriousness of the downturn (he says it is the worst since the 1930s) is proven, “by the dizzying array of programs the government is deploying and the staggering amounts of money it is spending….”

This “if the government is spending lots of money, then the economy must really be bad and markets don’t work” argument has been made by many analysts in recent months. But just because it is being used does not mean it is right. In fact, these statements of logic are deeply flawed and mistaken.

If fire trucks came roaring up to your house, and the firemen started spraying water, breaking out windows and chopping holes in the roof, one would think the house was on fire. But, it doesn’t have to be. Activity is not proof.

With all due respect to Richard Posner, this is not the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. It reminds us more of the banking crisis of the 1980s and 1990s, when bank loans to farms, oil, and Latin America went bad all at once. On a mark-to-market basis, every money center bank was bankrupt in the early 1980s.

But, these bankrupt banks, and savings and loans, did not destroy the economy. Back in the 1980s the government gave banks time to work out their problem loans. Meanwhile, the Reagan tax cuts lifted growth and the economy eventually grew its way out of most of the problem. The RTC was finally put into place in the late 1980s to clean up the banks that just could not dig themselves out of their problems.

In other words, the Bush and Obama teams are doing things that the Reagan administration would have never done. Mark-to-market accounting rules have significantly increased the size of financial market problems and overestimated losses. Then, the extent of those losses were used by the government to justify a heavy hand of regulation and control. The stress tests were just another chapter in this saga. Government involvement begets more government involvement.

In response to all of this, we propose a different argument, using different logic. If the government had not involved itself so deeply in this crisis, then the US economy would most likely have avoided a recession altogether. Capitalism is not broken. In fact, allowing the market system to deal with the problems of the last few years would have been much better than having the government do it.

In our view, the government has committed arson and is now claiming that the building owners are liable for the amount it costs to put out the fire.

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Denver Event: “The Impact of Straying from Our Founding Principles”

by Rossputin | 1:32 am, May 14, 2009

Next Friday, May 22nd, nationally-renowned author, historian and commentator Bill Federer will give a talk and engage in a discussion with attendees on the topic “The Impact of Straying from Our Founding Principles” at the Glenmoor Country Club in Cherry Hills Village. (For directions, click HERE.)

Tickets are only $28, and the very small “profit” in that price will be donated to the Leadership Program of the Rockies (my donations to which I still consider to be some of the best investments I make.)

I want to encourage everyone who can attend this event to do so. It should be fascinating, and should provide important intellectual ammunition to those of us who are soldiers in the war to save and protect what liberty we have left.

Also, please pass this note around to anyone you think may be interested in attending.

Limited Seating Available – Please RSVP Today by e-mailing
Laura Leathers at lauraleighleathers@msn.com

Colorado’s Ryan Frazier: A New Face For GOP

by elpresidente | 5:18 pm, May 13, 2009

Whereas folks in the know have already taken notice of Aurora City Councilman Ryan Frazier’s ascent in Colorado politics, he is just beginning to catch the attention of those in DC:

Ryan Frazier is not a well-known entity in Washington political circles.

But that may change soon — and if it does, the Republican Party may have a new face to showcase in 2010 and beyond.

Frazier, a 31-year-old African-American city council member from Aurora, Colo., is running for the US Senate next year. He offers youth and diversity to a party that’s lacking in both these days.
. . .
“Principles mean something, principles help guide decisions. At the same time, you know, we need to apply, I think, Reagan’s 80-20 Rule,” he said.

Frazier talks gubernatorial appointments, illegal immigration, and gay marriage/domestic partnership benefits.

(Full video, interview around 3 minutes in):

The Weekly Standard has also taken a look at Frazier, and notes his address to the Tea Party in Grand Junction on April 15.

A Higher Standard of Journalism

by The Constitutional Reporter | 5:04 pm, May 13, 2009

The call of duty for journalists and bloggers should be one of higher standards…(First- a disclaimer. The Constitutional Reporter is not a shtick for Cleve Tidwell, and we do have other student stories soon to be published on the blogosphere. Promise…

Wednesday Wrap-Up

by Jon Caldara | 2:30 pm, May 13, 2009

***With Obama-care seemingly around the corner and an at-large clamoring for our health care system to more closely resemble the “free” Euro kind, Health Care Policy Center director Linda Gorman co-authored this piece to dissect the issue: when it comes to health care policy, do other countries have the answers?
***It seems like every time I [...]

Night Twister has Moved

by Night Twister | 1:00 pm, May 13, 2009

As many of you have likely noticed, my blog has been offline for about a week. The Blogivists site had some problems with spammers which finally took the site down. They’ve been working feverishly on getting the site back up again and restoring the content. I decided that it was finally time [...]

Breaking: Jeffco Teachers Union Calls for Impasse over Pay Dispute

by Ben DeGrow | 12:48 pm, May 13, 2009

Developing story… Last night the board of the Jefferson County Education Association (JCEA)( (Colorado’s largest local teachers union and an affiliate of the Colorado Education Association) voted to declare an impasse in negotiations over renewing the collective bargaining contract with Jeffco Public Schools for the 2009-10 school year. This morning JCEA notified the school district [...]

Reader Poll: Piñon Canyon Expansion

by RMR | 11:00 am, May 13, 2009

The proposed Army expansion into the Piñon Canyon area has become a hot issue lately. Rep. Mike Coffman has now joined with potential gubernatorial candidate Scott McInnis in supporting the Army’s attempt to invoke eminent domain to expand into the Piñon Canyon area. Proponents frame it as necessary for our nation’s security and functioning of the military while opponents feel it is an abuse of eminent domain rights.

What is your view on the subject?

Do you support or oppose the Army’s plan to expand into Piñon Canyon?(polls)

Antitrust Punishes Success

by Ari Armstrong | 9:03 am, May 13, 2009

Devlin Barrett of the Associated Press performs a useful service in reporting the Obama administration’s plans to expand antitrust enforcement. It would have been pleasant had Barrett bothered to quote a single critic.

The antitrust laws are a fraud. The premise behind them is that on a free market companies can reach unjust or unfair or economically damaging levels of economic success. But this is simply not the case. On a free market, customers can choose whether to buy a company’s product, and others can choose to enter competition.

Instead, it is political power that creates harmful monopolies — though such monopolies generally are exempt from antitrust enforcement.

Throughout the history of the laws, antitrust actions have been brought by less-successful competitors and governmental agents with an axe to grind to punish successful companies at the expense of consumers and economic health.

Companies targeted by antitrust action are characterized by skillful and efficient management and operations, economies of scale, and wildly successful products at competitive prices. Typical results of antitrust action are higher prices and less-useful products. (This is merely a summary; for details see The Abolition of Antitrust and The Causes and Consequences of Antitrust.)

As Barrett summarizes, the Obama administration claims “lax enforcement by the Bush administration contributed to the current economic troubles.” But nowhere in the article is any support offered for that view. The fact is that lax antitrust enforcement had absolutely nothing to do with the modern economic crisis, which was instead caused by federal encouragement of risky loans and investments. Increased antitrust enforcement will only dampen economic recovery.

Barrett suggests that two companies at high risk of antitrust action are Intel and Google — two companies that have been enormously successful because they provide enormously valuable goods and services. The idea that these companies should be politically punished because they are successful is grotesque. (I personally benefit enormously from both companies; for instance, I am using Intel processors and Google software to publish this blog post.)

Here is Barrett’s most chilling line: “[Assistant Attorney General Christine] Varney said the Obama administration would try to follow the historic lessons of The Great Depression in pursuing antitrust cases even in a troubled economy.”

The historic lessons of the Great Depression are that politicians hampered economic recovery by going on witch hunts against businesses and business leaders. The fact that the Obama administration sees the Great Depression as some sort of model is truly frightening.

Here is a telling passage from Amity Shlaes’s The Forgotten Man (page 344):

[Robert] Jackson… had collected a set of specific instructions from Roosevelt… to define and prosecute antitrust violations, and, especially, to go after individuals. Sometimes — when he knew the targets, or liked them — Roosevelt suggested that Jackson soften. And always, Roosevelt took care not to harm those with special power to harm him. Learning from Jackson of a possible action against motion picture combines, Roosevelt said, “Do you really need to sue these men?” and asked that they be brought in for a talk. But other times he egged Jackson on.

This typifies what antitrust actions are all about — arbitrary political power brought against the successful for the “crime” of success.

Rich retirees sponging off the poor via Medicare

by Brian Schwartz | 1:30 am, May 13, 2009

A fine segment on Medicare from John Stossel’s recent special, You Can’t Even Talk About It. Some great moments: AARP representative claiming information technology will “have to” bring costs down, even if it won’t. He also correctly identifies  that Medicare is a Bernie Madoff-like Ponzi Scheme.

Stossel talks more about it here on Fox news.

A knife in the heart of the EPA’s anti-free-market agenda

by Rossputin | 1:09 am, May 13, 2009

A recently released memo from the Office of Management and Budget commenting on the Environmental Protection Agency’s “proposed findings” is one of the most remarkable criticisms of a government agency that I’ve ever seen from another branch of government.

Read an article about the memo here, and click on a link within the article to see the memo itself. The memo is only 9 pages, and it’s a must-read for anyone who wants intellectual ammunition against the takeover of our entire economy by the left.

http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.Blogs&ContentRecord_id=3530046c-802a-23ad-401a-82f7edb11f26

Joe The Plumber at ATF?

by Ben DeGrow | 10:20 pm, May 12, 2009

A clear sign that I’m not talking enough to people around the office (or someone is just keeping secrets from me) … I learn that the Independence Institute is courting a famous speaker for our summertime Alcohol Tobacco & Firearms Party by reading a Bill Husted column in the Denver Post:

Institute boss Jon Caldara says [...]

How the Democratic Party Went from Thomas Jefferson to Karl Marx

by Mr. Bob | 5:09 pm, May 12, 2009

Read of the day.

#tcot #redco #hhrs #gop

RMA 2.0: Rocky Mtn Blogs Radio Show #26

by elpresidente | 10:51 am, May 12, 2009

**Every Tuesday–next show May 12, 8:30 pm.

The Blog Talk Radio version of the Rocky Mountain Alliance. A weekly discussion about politics–national, state, and local–featuring RMA members bloggers led by featured host and producer Joshua Sharf, with rotating co-host duties from Ben DeGrow of Mount Virtus, Randy Ketner of Night Twister, and Michael Alcorn of Best Destiny.

May 12 lineup–At 8:45, U.S. Senate candidate Ken Buck, and at 9:30, Colorado Secretary of State candidate Scott Gessler

May 5 lineup–Blogger Ken Marrero, of Tennessee’s Blue Collar Muse.

April 28 lineup–Walker Stapleton, candidate for Colorado State Treasurer.

April 21 lineup–Matt Arnold of Clear the Bench Colorado from 8:45-9:15pm to discuss judicial accountability and retention of judges on the Colorado Supreme Court in 2010.

April 14 lineup–Brian Campbell discusses the April 15 Tax Day Tea Party rally in Denver and the movement in general, and Kate Melvin dishes on the showdown between the Independence Institute and CU over their budget and administrator salaries.

April 7 lineup–In an excellent solo hosting gig, Ben DeGrow reviewed the heated Fort Collins City Council race with co-host Randy Ketner, spoke with J.J. Ament, who is considering a run for state treasurer, and discussed parental rights and homeschooling with Marya DeGrow of the Independence Institute.

March 31 lineup–Nancy Doty talks about a potential run for Secretary of State, and DU law professor Robert Hardaway on HB1299, the bill to replace the Electoral College with a National Popular Vote.

March 24 lineup–we review of the recent state GOP organizational meeting, where Dick Wadhams was reelected as state chair, and Leondray Gholston was elected vice chair after three rounds of voting with Boulder County GOP chair Scott Starin, and David K. Williams, co-founder of the Gadsden Society of Colorado.

March 17 lineup–State Senate Minority Leader Josh Penry was our first guest, followed by Nathan Chambers, candidate for Colorado Republican Party state vice chair.

March 10 lineup–From 8:45 to 9:15, Colorado Republican Party Chair Dick Wadhams and at 9:30 Hassan Daioleslam.

March 3 lineup–two candidates for Fort Collins City Council, Aislinn Kottwitz (District 3) and Andrew Boucher (District 5), and Tom Stone, who is challenging Dick Wadhams for state party chairmanship.

February 24 lineup–Evan Coyne Maloney of Indoctrinate U, whose film of the same name was shown at the inaugural Liberty on Film last Thursday, and Nadeem Esmail of the Fraser Institute, discussing the dangers of single-payer (socialized) medicine from first hand experience.

Indoctrinate U trailer:

Plus two special editions of RMA Radio–the Pork Roast/anti-stimulus rally edition from the steps of the state capitol, as well as extensive coverage of the Larimer County Lincoln Day dinner.

February 17 lineup–Denver-based political activist Chris Maj, also an affiliate of Ron Paul’s Campaign for Liberty, and a look back to today’s anti-stimulus/pig roast rally at the state capitol.

February 10 lineup–State Rep. Cory Gardner (R-63), probable candidate in the CD-4 GOP primary, and Leondray Gholston, Republican activist and candidate for state GOP vice-chair.

February 3 lineup–Daveed Gartenstein-Ross from the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and Mike Saccone of the Grand Junction Sentinel.

January 27–Guests included elections expert Jan Tyler and State Sen. Greg Brophy.

January 20–Guests included Todd Shepherd, Independence Institute, and Mark Hillman, Colorado Republican National Committeeman.

January 13–State Rep. Ellen Roberts, R-Durango (HD 59) and State Senator Mike Kopp, SD 22, R-Littleton.

January 6–CU Regent Tom Lucero, chairman of the successful Amendment 54 campaign and a candidate for CD 4 in 2010.

December 30–RMA took a look back at a dismal year in their 2008 year-in-review.

December 23–Joshua and fellow commentators (including yours truly) hosted Jim Pfaff of Americans for Prosperity Foundation and Opinion Times. Pfaff discussed the AFP Colorado report “Keeping Colorado Competitive” and bridging the Christian/libertarian gap.

On December 16 we hosted State Rep. Kevin Lundberg (District 49), and discussed the Salazar appointment as the Secretary of the Interior in the Obama cabinet.

The December 12 edition featured Aurora City Councilman Ryan Frazier.

Complete list of guests featured on RMA Radio can be found here.

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